Yeah, I'm sure you're right.

Yeah, I'm sure you're right.

Yeah, I'm sure you're right.

Good evening, everyone.

Good evening to all.

I don't.

I'm a do you like we're doing school.

If you can hear me in the back.

Raise your hands.

All right, good.

All right, uh,

want to welcome everyone to the March 10th.

Board meeting for the regional transit board of directors.

I will have our clerk do the roll call and then read the Metro cable replace statement.

But thank you for coming today.

Director Burr.

President.

Director Budge.

Yeah, director Dickinson.

Here.

Director Hume.

Here.

Director Kennedy.

It's absent.

Director Maple.

Here.

Director Warba.

Here.

Director Schaefer.

It's absent.

Director Sona.

Here.

Director Sing Allen.

Here.

Director

Sona.

We have a quorum of nine 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 universe cable systems.

The recording will also be video streamed at Metro 14 live dot sack county dot gov.

Today's meeting replays Saturday March 15th at 2 p.m.

And Monday March 17th at 2 p.m. on Metro cable channel 14.

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 in the rear of the room and provide it to myself for 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 no written public comment received for today's meeting.

Thank you so much.

Director Maple, would you leave us in the pledge of allegiance please?

Be my honor.

Please.

Thank you.

All right.

So Lou and pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which they stand.

Under God and it is a liberty and justice for all.

Thank you very much.

We will now move to our consent calendar.

Is there any public comment on the consent calendar item 2.2? Hell no, Colonel.

Hello, board.

You know me. I'm back.

This item caught my attention when I read the papers on it.

It originally was 400,000.

Now it's 1.2.00.000.

So I understand there were a lot of issues that were found when they started digging.

But I believe all the stuff that they're found should have been on public record so that you may not have been so surprised.

Which could have cut down the cost.

I think it was just flabbergasted when I saw that the increase was 800,000 from 400,000.

So it was 1.2.00.000.

I don't know if there's a different process to figure out what's going to be under something you're digging in.

I think it's an issue that I thought which should be brought to the board that it was a lot of money.

Thank you.

And I'm sure we will look into that.

Thank you very much. Any other public comment?

None.

We'll move to our directors. Any comments on the on the consent calendar?

Yes.

Thank you.

I'd just like to call out item 2.4. Please.

I'm sure we need to have that title read into the record or anything.

Yes. Are you pulling it from the consent?

No, I just want to make a comment.

Oh, OK. Do you want me to read that up?

I don't know. I sure I will. OK.

2.4 resolution 202503019. Authorizing saccharitis general manager CEO to concur and paratrans and inks.

Requests to become a direct recipient of federal 5307 funding provided under 49 USC 5307 as required under federal circular 9050.1A.

And I'm not sorry. I'm sorry for her. She had to read.

It's a great thing to get on the record and make sure that there is voice put to those words.

And I think it's a great thing to do.

And I think it's a great thing to do.

In the space that they've adopted since we we took back our our own ADA service.

So it's a great day. And I just wanted to acknowledge that and say thank you.

I'll go ahead and read it resolution 202503021 approving an exclusive negotiation agreement for electric vehicle charging public private partnership with luminous sun beam development holdings LLC for 16 sacri tea park and ride lots.

And my request would be that in the future on these competitively bid items, you don't just tell us in the staff report that in this case, there were three forms and the your recommending highest scoring firm, but you also give us the scoring matrix as backup to that sort of a little bit of show your math.

And that would that would be helpful in case we want to dig a little bit deeper.

And with that, thank you, Mr. Chair and if there aren't other comments, I'll move this the consent calendar.

Second.

Are there any other comments?

All right, it has been moved in second all in favor say aye.

Opposed of staying.

Let the record show we are unanimous.

Okay, we will move to item number three.

Okay, item number 3.1. We have violeta caldera with world relief Sacramento here to give a presentation.

Please.

Welcome.

Thank you so much.

Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Violeta caldera. I'm with world relief. We are a local nonprofit.

We are international, but one of our biggest national offices is here in Sacramento. And I'd just love to tell you a little bit more about refugee resettlement in this region.

I might take me a second to figure out how to use this clicker, but I hope I'll do that soon.

Perfect. Okay.

All right, so a little bit about us. We've existed since 1944 as have most of the major resettlement agencies here in the United States.

We've wanted in response to the crisis that happened during World War II of refugees fleeing World War II. World relief Sacramento was established in 1989.

And today we're currently active in nine countries and we have offices in 17 US cities, US cities, and we serve the most vulnerable.

World relief Sacramento does have multiple branches, but the branch that World Relief Sacramento focuses on is specifically refugees immigrants and displaced people.

And most of what we do is specifically with refugees, which is a very confusing term for those that aren't in this work. So I'm happy today to also define that term for you.

There are nine counties in California that are considered impacted counties. So that means that they are receiving the highest numbers of refugee arrivals throughout the state.

And they are also privy to special support from the state of California and special funding stream specifically for agencies and for populations that are here.

There are six agencies currently. We are one of the largest and besides us is opening doors al-Misba, Lauffamam family community development, international rescue committee, and the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services.

In Sacramento, we've seen 34,000 refugees resettled just by our agency alone. That's not including the other five since 1989. We are the number one city in the United States for the number of resettled refugees. And we are one of the top most integrated cities in the United States.

So just to give you a snapshot of the most recent numbers in FY 24, which is our fiscal year calendar beginning in October 2023 to October 2024 collectively across all agencies. We resettled 5,250 refugees and to just kind of drive the point home. These are specifically refugees. This does not cover all other types of newcomer statuses.

In FY 2025, we only have arrivals noted through quarter one, which is something that I'll be able to tell you a little bit more about and why we only have arrivals for this first quarter.

And the total for the Sacramento region was 1,715. In the last few weeks of January, which was the beginning of quarter two, there was a push for accepting as many refugees as possible into this city.

So the number is actually a little bit higher than what we have reported, but the numbers for world relief are the absolute most recent.

And the most important thing that I really want to talk about today is our client map. So refugees newcomers, a psy leads. These are the populations that are some of the most vulnerable and dependent on public transportation in our county.

And so as you see the majority of refugees that are resettled are really focused on the art and arcade and car Michael area.

And this is where they will be doing work to reintegrate into this community. This is where they will be trying to figure out how to get their kids to schools, which are very often overflowed and outside of their immediate neighborhood. This is most likely where they're trying to find employment services.

Meet with case workers attend their ESL classes.

And the primary populations that we specifically serve are Afghan refugees, SIVs. These are special immigrant visa holders. These are individuals from Afghanistan that worked with the US forces.

Individuals that are coming from the former Soviet Union as part of a family reunification program. As well as humanitarian parolees. These are individuals coming from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela.

But about 90% of the work that we're doing is going to be with Afghan refugees and SIV holders as well as refugees from the former Soviet Union.

And so this is kind of what breaks down the refugee process and really sets it apart from all other types of immigrant and newcomer processes.

When you're seeing the word refugee in just common rhetoric, either on the media or on social media, it is a catch all phrase. But is that actually a very specific legal process that begins overseas and sometimes takes years to go through.

So the very first thing is an agency referral from the United Nations. Then you're going through several stages of interviews, checks, biometric security checks.

You're getting checked out by the Department of State, by the FBI. You go through a cultural orientation and a pre medical screening. And only after that entire process, once you are approved and deemed a refugee, then you travel to the United States. Your flight is booked by IOM, which is the migration committee.

And that is when you arrive in the United States and you immediately begin work with an assigned agency such as ours.

The post-arrival process is where our agency takes over. So those are 90 intensive days where we pick up a family to the from the airport. We provide them with initial housing. We enroll them in all social services.

And then we continue to work with them and refer them to ongoing services. And anyone who comes through this process is eligible for some type of support for about five years. So that includes employment support, health health care navigation support.

And those are other programs that we could have either through our agency or agency similar to ours.

So there are nine stability factors that a family will rely on to really integrate into a new country and specifically into our community. And this is where the transportation piece really takes takes hold. And so those are housing, language, employment, community connections, transportation, health and mental health legal status.

School of Youth and Parenting and finances. One refugees arrive. They are given a very specific allocation from the federal government. Usually that entire allocation is used up within their first one to two months with initial move and costs and initial furniture costs.

After that, they really don't have a high level of financial support, which is why they are highly reliant on on public transportation to get them to their English classes to get them to their employment services, job interviews, and most importantly to get their kids to school.

Because Sacramento is the number one city for refugees, our local school districts are heavily impacted, which means that families are usually overflowed to schools that are far away from their local, from just their local apartment complex and are usually taking their kids across a few different transportation types from a bus to a train, maybe to another bus in order to get their child to school.

So this was our impact totally in 2024. So just to make a point that we're not only serving those that have most recently arrived, but it really takes that full five years for a family to fully integrate into United States.

So learn the language to get their first job, to get their better job, and for their kids to get assimilated into school.

So all together through all of our combined programs with clients that have been here from zero to five years, we served 6000 clients altogether.

And so initial resettlement now has this big cross-doubt sign on it, which is one of the points that I'm also leading up to.

This is a program that was just halted by the federal government. There is actually a full stop work order. And as of about a week and a half, it was fully eliminated.

This program no longer exists, which means there are no refugees arriving through this entryway as of the past few weeks, except for SIVs, which are the special immigrant visa holders from Iraq, Afghanistan, who are having to buy their own tickets.

And then arrive here with zero agency support. It is up to them to walk in, find an agency on their own, and figure out how to get integrated.

That also means that there are now zero federal funds that are helping with these most recent arrivals, just to go back to what I spoke about earlier.

That was part of that 5,000 that arrived last year, as well as close to 2000 that arrived just a few months ago.

There is now very limited support both financially as direct financial assistance, as well as through manpower as the federal funding cuts also impacted the amount of people that do this work.

This sector has experienced significant layoffs over the past month, and this hits all agencies across the United States, and especially the six that are local to the Sacramento region.

So now refugees don't don't have federal assistance, but they also lack other assistance such as a case worker or recitalment associates that are able to drive them to appointments, try them to school enrollment, as well as funds for things like Ubers for families.

We do however have a few other programs that still exist. One of our biggest is economic empowerment, which we work very closely with through Sacramento County.

We do have a direct partnership with SETA, and we work with them in their refugee self-sufficiency programs, as well as their family self-sufficiency programs and their match group programs to help clients become self-sufficient and unreliant on government funds as fast as possible.

This includes intensive case management, which is for families that need an extra level support such as single moms or families with zero English competency health and wellness navigation, which is mental health support, as well as health care navigation.

Education and group services such as ESL and finally immigration legal services.

And that's it for my presentation. Does anyone have any questions.

Thank you for that presentation. We'll go to the directors first and I'll director Dickinson.

Thanks for the presentation. I'm just curious, given the termination of the initial resettlement program, what your sources of support financial support for world relief are at this stage to support the other services that you referred to.

And still a few programs that are up and running. The biggest one for us was that initial resettlement. It really was 70 to 80% of a lot of the funding we were receiving, but we still have programs such as through SETA.

We also have state programs like CalAIM and then ORR, which is the Office of Refugee Resettlement still funds a few other programs such as preferred communities, which is a 90 day more hands off case management program, as well as the match ground program, which encourages families to not enroll.

And any type of cash assistance program in order to help them find a job as fast as possible.

That's still primarily federal funding for the. That's that that is now a good mix of both federal County and state, as well as we have some private donors such as churches that work very closely with us as well.

What's that number going to look like in your estimate?

That's a little tricky to say because those families are fully on their own. They're figuring out their own flights. They are getting here fully on their own and then they're just walking into agencies such as ours.

Prior, we worked hand in hand with the Department of State, so they would tell us in advance about all the arrivals. So there's no way for us to predict those numbers.

We don't have any kind of estimate that you're working on that'll help you plan for what service levels.

We know that it will be a very limited amount. There's not a lot of families that are able to afford something like that.

So it won't be a high number of arrivals. Our biggest focus is just to serve the families that are already here.

And have you gone through staff reductions as a result.

Yes, our agency.

We have a lot of work that has our staff cut by 65% and those numbers are reflected across all the agencies.

Thank you.

The questions.

Yes, Director Brewer.

So I'm looking at your partnerships that you have with Sacramento, food bank and family services and al Mizba.

What are those partnerships looking like as more people will be coming in, but less federal assistance will be coming in.

What is that looking like?

That really goes agency to agency.

Those six agencies that I spoke of, they each have their own individual contract with the Department of State.

Sacramento, food bank and family services have chosen to now eliminate their R&P program.

And what happens is going to really be determined on each individual agency, what type of private support they have, what type of state and county contracts they have.

But we all provide very similar services within our own federal contracts.

Thank you.

Vice chair, saying Alan.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So I want to bring this back to this body, Sakharji.

And this presentation.

To what extent are the clients aware of the services that RT provides.

So they go through an initial or they went through in the initial R&P program.

They went through a cultural orientation, a big piece of which was transportation services.

How to utilize Sakhar tea.

What's rough now is because R&P is eliminated.

We are looking for ways to provide that cultural orientation without the program through which it was provided.

So we are still now figuring out how we're going to be able to conduct that orientation without the program existing.

Thank you.

Additional questions from directors.

Thank you for raising that because I overlooked them.

But what could Sakharji, my regional transit do if anything to help the people you're working with have mobility and accessibility.

That's a really fantastic question.

The biggest need is just to keep refugees in mind.

They do have limited some refugees, a good portion will have limited English speaking abilities limited tech literacy.

And so they will have a lot of difficulty finding out about transportation.

Also when they initially resettled and they did go through that cultural orientation.

So a lot of that information was taken in while they were under extreme dress and their initial resettlement process.

So there's sometimes having to be relearning happening on an ongoing basis to be aware of the services that exist as well as how to access them.

So something that could be very beneficial for us is just an ongoing dialogue so we can show you where refugee families are living.

So we can also see that there are a lot of people who are not able to get their kids to school and they're able to get their kids to school and then have reasonable amount of time to attend English classes and seek employment.

Rick, I have one.

So, I think that's a very important question.

Over the last couple of years, as you all have been doing job fairs, you've been providing translation services in case people have limited English skills. Is that continuing?

Yes, we did and we actually wanted to know some communities to actually talk it.

If they if they meet the minimum qualifications, we're actually trying to.

I know.

Such a serious thing.

Here on March 19th that we're doing in partnership with set up.

So if that is something that the board is interested in to see our newcomer families to meet them to even table at that event, we are doing that together in partnership with set in next week.

Yeah, my question more of a comment is ensuring that the clients, the refugees are aware of the kids right free program for school.

That's just an invaluable service and the more people know the better.

We can really expand those routes and make sure that those needs are met.

We've built on that.

It would appear based on the circumstances that if we continue our dialogue and stay in touch with each other, we can look at other ways to partner with you in order to not only help the kids with the ride free program, but also to help the parents who are going to have to find work on their own, try to make sure their kids get to and from.

We should be able to help in some way or form some form of a partnership that provides transportation for them, take that burden off of them.

Other questions comment.

Thank you so much.

Very, very thorough presentation.

We appreciate it.

Thank you.

Okay, we will go to questions from the.

Okay, for.

Public addresses the board on matters not on the agenda. We have Jeffrey Tartigia.

Well, I was this is Jeff Tartigia.

And then you can come to a meeting you can actually physically see.

Better than just what's on the agenda.

It's appreciated.

Other things.

Please soon hold something dealing with the low floor and bring some operators in there to know what's going on.

As I've turned around and had various interactions with operations.

I was about how long we going to have the five minute delay at sack validation.

And I was in pleasantly informed that that's the time that gold line is going to be leaving.

Well, there's other issues through there of getting out to Folsom as well because not quite long enough to make the change over to do the things to keep everything to 15 minutes.

I had to do a few other issues.

I commented about last Tuesday where things do we're not moving at 719.

And so they suddenly took off.

So I had to do a feeling alternate way to maneuver around to get publicly moved that day.

And I said to refute in refute refute in refute.

And I said to refute in refute refute in refute and I said to refute

and I said to refute in refute and I said to refute in refute and

I said to refute in refute and I said to refute in refute.

But I doss out vacancies in extra Status which is obviously for two and three

in extra Status which is like to refute in extra Status which is like the

minutes in extraata.

But I doss out Vat Miller and the other cases thatällen Eightha

makes it much easier to travel if you know the bus is actually coming.

RTGO is having a better rival time. We're staying within the 30-minute window

most of the time and I appreciate that. I also appreciate, like Jeff said,

that the information is flowing well. People can access the tracker app.

They have the RTGO app. They have the alert which will give them access to the website

which is very, very helpful. That tells us when buses are canceled

and it will also tell us how many and which ones. So I am very happy about all that.

I am thankful that the board is very responsive to the public comments

and issues that have come up over the last couple of years.

I would like to say thank you very much for listening to the public and making changes that have been very important.

Can we give her additional time for that?

I think it's a great opportunity to have a conversation with the board.

I think it's a great opportunity to have a conversation with the board.

I think it's a great opportunity to have a conversation with the board.

I would like to see a second of the right as you need help out.

I also want that money to be used for.

I think it should go to half the housing, half the RT myself.

No matter what it is, it's a self-tax or property tax.

I don't know the dollar amount would be on each.

I also want to put the trolley in from West Sack.

I'm supposed to be a trolley car from the baseball field to the Sacramento.

I don't know when it's going to come in at Beber or we have the money to pay our share of it.

I heard plans RT's are supposed to go to Elk Grove and the airport.

That's going to take a lot of money. I don't know if we have that kind of money.

Thank you.

Any other comments from the public?

That is all I have for public comment.

We will move to item 5.1 under new business.

5.1, motion appointing one board member to the Capitol corridor.

Joint powers authority.

Due to a scheduling conflict, director Meple is requested to have a new appointment to replace her member position on the CCJPA board.

My understanding was there was one board member who was willing to step up.

Okay, it's director.

Director Dickinson willing to give him a round of applause please.

Is there any any other board director that would like to be voted in at this point in time?

I don't know if I need to be voted in the last.

I'd like to have two representatives.

Okay, all right, that's done.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The official motion has been made and seconded. All in favor say aye.

Opposed?

abstain?

Congratulations, sir. And thank you so much.

That is good.

All right, with that, we will move to item 6.1. General managers report.

Thank you. Good evening, chair.

Genie's board and members of the public. Thank you for joining us this evening.

And I think one board member who is not here today will be extremely happy when they hear from your Robert about a plus.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

First, some exciting news.

Two weeks ago, we held those rails, die reostation ground breaking ceremony.

Why it may have started to run at the end of the place conference.

Thank you.

Next question.

and the humorous, degradaries and the inductees attended,

including Congress, women, Doris, Marthusbury and the senator, Ashby.

Thanks to Chair and also thanks to our directors, who attended that,

by alphabetical order, first director Dixon, then director Helm,

then director Kennedy and director Maverick.

Director Maverick, don't bring me a putty in the last,

by alphabetical order.

The four directors attended, in addition to Chair Ginny's.

And the station was years in the works, and we're very thankful that we have been able to

secure the necessary grant funding to build the station,

which is 43 million dollars.

Three years ago, we really didn't have any idea how we're going to get that 43 million dollars,

but we were able to quickly put those money together.

And when completed, the new station will provide a crucial transaction for the growing,

global district and the Mirrano-Berlich housing community.

The whole hundreds of affordable housing units are being built.

And the continuing with place conferences, just over a week ago,

the party was happy to host the celebration of the completion of the Florent Road beautification project

at our Florent live real station.

Partling with the city of Sacramento, the social,

social, the social control, the trust the truth museum,

cow trains, and the Florent Road partnership we received

for larger than life art chairs to enrich our station.

The public art installation adds to the appear of the Florent railway station

as the community hub and enhances the experience for everyone.

Beyond the station, additional bench or installed at our bus stops along with the corridor,

which are invaluable resources for our riders and making transit more comfortable and accessible.

So again, thanks to Chair Jennings and Director Maple for hosting and representing Sakai Tea at the ceremony.

Next one.

As I shared previously, earlier last year, Sakai Tea and the ATU-256

were launched, our partners moving forward mentorship program.

The goal of this program is to create and strengthen a safer and more partitive or environment.

And the relationship with our unit partners are extremely important.

As you might notice, earlier today, one of the major trans agencies in the state just went to the ATU, just went to strike.

And 1500 unit members walked out of the work from the beginning of this A.M.

and which caused some kind of very challenging situation.

And these mentorship programs help positioning operators for future success and to build a long career here at Sakai Tea.

At the beginning of the month, this month, 12 Sakai employees representing different units and trainers attended the three-day mentors in motion, 2025 conference in Montreal, California.

The event brought together representatives from seven states, 15 local ATU units and 19 trans agencies.

This is the beginning of this wonderful partnership program.

And ATU, president, our local ATU president, the questiony, very graciously called me to express her gratitude on behalf of her members.

She represented over 800 or close to 1000 members.

And appreciate our support for the program participation.

We have, you know, trope attendees there, which is probably the largest attendee, you know, the trip for the people.

We're very excited about the opportunity to train and develop union members through professional development, scale trainings and partnership initiatives.

Speaking of partnerships, I would like to share that Sakai Tea partnered with Sacramento housing lines during the annual housing California conference last week here in Sacramento.

And we provided transportation for attendees to explore, explore innovative affordable housing and transit oriented developments and construction were recently just completed.

This community tours offered a first-hand look at housing solutions, shaping our region and highlighting the connections between transit and accessible leaving.

And with the Nova for the Lex round of affordable housing sustainable communities set to be released later this month, Sakai is strengthening these partnerships to better secure ground funding.

So, you know, both I just talked about a partnership partnership is extremely important for us and we put that very high priority, just like, you know, we have a pair of transit in CEO Tiffany is here and along with the CFO from PI and that is a partnership to right and we just approved that directive funding recipient.

You appreciate the partnership.

Then a little bit of viral modernization update as we shared, Sakai has updated our for some gold line weekday service schedule.

With the official launch of 15 minute service to for some in January, Sakai tea encountered some challenges that impact overall service reliability and we heard from, you know, our community partners and some concerns and we worked with our community partners very hard to try to address those concerns.

Some of the factors are fact that the reliability included the power loss during the the season because the winter season always a little tough and the weather and the tight scheduling and the system constraints all along the gold line to better ensure a more reliable schedule.

So, we have just our schedule to improve service reliability and maintain most weekday trips operating at 15 minute, frankly, say to and from for some area station station multiple stations.

I want to specifically think directly and a robot for spending in long time and efforts to guide and help staff and community partners and news media to address for some communities concerns and improve our safety and reliability.

We have a picture there and we we kind of tried to write this train to see what's going on.

But the train cleanliness was so good when we go through those stations and the train itself inside itself.

Additionally, we have shared with the board our actions to mitigate noise complaints, risk by a handful of residents with the residents in the fabulous 40 net areas and the cup stations because our new trends and they feel you have a little more high volume.

We spent in almost of effort to try to address that right now, you know, I'm very happy to to report that issue almost addressed we even had the group meeting with the community partners, but more than a dozen sort of community reps or here in this known at the end of the last calendar year December 30 or 31st.

Spend like two hours to work with them, probably more than 200 emails back and forth.

And you know, we really want to you know, think the community leader, Narey, Burstin and others who have been patient with us as we have worked toward assertion and staff, you know, our VP of operation and VP of for.

For safety and security, Lisa and Blanca, they spent the first to first time they went to those stations probably more than 2000 times to actually see that by themselves and talk to the community reps over there.

So lots of effort went into that and the results are very good.

Because a lot just for that area is for the entire community, you know, in the along with our library of three lines.

A lot of community partnership is actually with channel 24 in the library station and 24th street.

They built a wonderful art facility with about 2000, 2000 people capacity, the 2000 people can visit that facility and they're going to have like 140 events each year.

And you know, thanks to director Sarah who you know, you know, let us and guide us to have you know, face to face, you know meetings with them.

And we actually had a meeting in our facility two weeks ago and try to find out, you know, how we can help them in a way, you know, to promote the business.

And originally, you know, they, you know, we tried to say if we can charge a surplus, 150 cents for ticket and they tried to the best, it looks like for some regulation, they could not be able to do that, charge the surplus for a ticket.

But we're going to try to help them maybe when they did the major the business events, we may, you know, add like a one more trip at 11.45 pm to help them to get you know, the visitors out to rent your code over to for some through the coastline.

So thanks your director, Sarah and director maple and council member, you know, black bomb for attending the event and helping you to to mitigate this type of situation.

And the channel 24 they are very, very appreciative, even though we cannot meet the day event, I had a call over the weekend, you know, they told me they result and they said they really appreciate and they want to help to secure more local funding.

And just like Robert said, you know, how we're going to look in for the 2026 cells or property tax or whatever we're going to have meeting with the smart, the community advocacy group Stephen Cohen tomorrow to discuss how we're going to, you know, to to to further down the road to work with them.

And we're actually a year ago with team up with them and others, they have done lots of community outreach, I don't know if you know that you're a rubber and you been appreciated if you can join us outreach events.

Okay. Let me move on. We won't know that guy, you know.

So I just want to show this photo with Jeff and you know, without.

You know, one of the best transit ambassadors, yeah, uh, and as we get up for our next cohort of circuit is transit academy, which we launched later this spring, Jeff worked with our marketing team to help film a testimony video he was doing that at that time.

I passed by just had a picture with him.

So, so this transit academy is a free six class course, we have done this each year in the last many years and the course designed to educate and engage residents, business and community leaders about our planning process and how public transit ships our communities.

In the coming weeks, we will open application process. So please stay tuned or check our website at secrity.com every year, close to 50.

You know, Coca, it's about 40 something. Okay, 40 again.

So, we have a really, uh, in collaboration with our member agencies, secretary is embarking new comprehensive operational analysis deep dive in our best routing and the frequency.

So, therefore, we'll take approximately one year to complete and includes updates to secretary short range transit plan and long range transit plan.

And some of our board members like you know, director, budge and others, you have gone this cycle multiple times in the past.

So, uh, uh, stockholder engagement will be underway song, including presentations to local advocacy groups, as well as formation of both technical advisory community and public stakeholder group staff will be in your community soon, ask input, please be on the local.

So, uh, in our rating report and know, you know, some of our community partners asked us to, you know, include most information into our rating report, which we published and we include some major project updates and strategic plan updates, uh, well, you know,

the chart is overall quarterly performance goes, which shows 95.5% of score out of the 100, but there are, you know, areas, uh, we studied to improve and we will try to work with our community partners to, you know, to further improve those areas, which, you know, uh, it's important for our community.

So, Mr. Joe, this concludes my report. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Great. Great report. Very well presented and now we will move to the directors for questions or comments regarding the general manager's report.

Actually, chair, we do have a public comment on the general manager's report.

And so that was really great. Also, having the security come down and it was very impressive and all the myths that we hear coming out of Folsom.

You just kept swatting away, swatting away, swatting away. So we're working on a plan to get it on our agenda to further outreach on how we can communicate to our area that this is such a great option to commute down.

So I'm working on getting on the agenda. So thank you again for all your time.

Other directors. I just want to make a comment on the floen road beautification project.

Had the opportunity to be out there all day long and it was just incredible, but not just at the station was great.

It was the project extends up and down to one road and you can see the effect that is having on the community.

The beautification and art work that's there art and public places.

And these are really impressive chairs and the benches that they've done and the whole neighborhood is starting to take apart and being a part of keeping it clean and keeping it something that they can be proud in.

So I just wanted to acknowledge the great work that staff has done in making that happen and all of the community partners that we worked with in order to keep that beautification going. So great job on that.

Okay, now let's go to our community.

We have Jeffrey Tartigia.

Well, let's see. Oh, I'm in started out of the picture.

I'll come over here a little further.

And we'll say is yes, the academy should be here in July and it's limited to 40 people. So sign up soon.

So please, what needs to be the focus is related to getting the source of transportation.

I was supposed to a couple of weeks ago meet with Henry about how in San Francisco, the funding came from, should we say, property taxes.

I'm hoping that both procurement and safety will examine that I brought up a few other things for the light rail vehicle about for the east should we say vehicle travel that person with the stroller cannot hang on a baby.

Fold up a stroller and push the button. These are the things that need to be examined for the low floor right rail vehicles.

We still have the problems of the button control both inside and out and how on the inside you know whether the ramp is deploying or not.

There's other things going on there. I hope you guys see what the new little devices work for dealing with the fair boxes.

I've got heard today that we have replacements or the broken fair boxes because that's been an issue that I've asked this group about.

Thank you, sir.

And we have Dan Allison.

Good evening, Dan.

Thank you.

I wanted to talk about that comprehensive operational analysis item that Henry talked about.

We're very excited about that process moving forward.

And we want to participate in it and we'll commit to being a participant in it.

And it's an advocacy organizations may also want to participate.

But I know that we do we're excited about the process about the documents that will come out of it and the planning. Thank you.

And next we have Helena Connell.

Thank you very much for that comprehensive report. There are a lot of different aspects of the report that I'm going to have questions about but I will address them to the staff.

So I did not have any difficulty getting on the train.

There were other people willing to help but that was not necessary because the driver had opened the train, opened the doors and released the ramps which was extremely helpful.

And when I had to disembark, I was able to reach a button to be able to get out.

And I didn't have any issues because there wasn't anyone coming into the train at the time.

So I just wanted to let you know about that.

And I like the next stop news, the audio visual one.

It is very much more accessible than just the paper one.

I know staff has been working on communicating and using different platforms to get information out. So thank you very much.

Thank you.

Next we have Robert Copeland.

Okay, I'm going to talk about the dospils light rail station.

I wasn't going to be completed the latest estimates. That's one question.

Two, you have problems with a false light rail.

Was it on four scene problems or did you see them ahead of time?

Also, my third question is when you had a tour with the segment housing lines, what part of the segment did you go visit?

You have too many questions. I can't ask.

Now you have 35 seconds to.

I'm going to have great.

Others.

Okay, Antifini Scott with pair transit ink just turned in a card.

Good evening. I wasn't going to speak, but I just wanted to say thank you to Henry obviously for tonight for partnership.

But the other thing that came up, there's been a lot of discussion about the light rail trains.

So I just wanted to bring up that one of the ways pair transit partnering is we've been sending out our travel trainers.

And we've been doing a lot of work with the other people.

But we've been doing a lot of work with the other people.

But we've been doing a lot of work with the other people.

And we've been doing a lot of work with the other people.

And we've been doing a lot of work with the other people.

And we've been doing a lot of work with the other people.

And we've been doing a lot of work with the other people.

And we have a work with the other purpose.

And we've been doing a lot of work with the other people.

And we've been doing a lot of work with the other people.

And we've been doing a lot of work with the other people,

but he's theador in my way.

Well, the other purpose of the one day.

for much more mobility. So anything we can do to help partner, we're here to do it. Thank you.

And that's all I have for public comment. Okay, let's move to item number seven,

the report's ideas and questions from directors and communication. You have 7.1 and 7.2.

Yes, we have 7.1, the Capitol corridor, joint powers authority meeting summary of February 19th.

Thanks, Chair. First of all, I'd like to apologize to everyone on the board for being so late.

My last meeting went very late. I have a meeting after this one that will take me till 8.30 to 9.

So it's been a very, very, very busy day today. So getting onto the Capitol corridor authority met on

February 19th. I have the pleasure reporting that the board feels that the impact of the federal

government, since we don't get very much funding from the federal government will be minimal.

There's some where the where ridership is way up for 2024. 70% of the revenue came from single

fair rides. And so they've gotten really popular. We're going to be moving back from back to 30

trains a day. So another just some really exciting things to report here. Also, single fairs

are going down. So if you're going from San Jose to Santa Clara, Great America, it will go from

8.50 to 5 bucks. If you're going from Sacramento to Davis, it'll go from $9 to $6.

So and then if you're going to Martinez to Jacque-Landes Square, it'll go from $14.13.50, which

isn't much, but nonetheless, across the board, all the fairs are going down. The multi, the 10

ride fairs go from $57 to $40. The 10 ride fair for Sacramento. Davis goes from 60 to 40, 30% discount.

30% reduction. So things are looking up. So that's my report. Thank you. We'll hold questions

in comments until at the end. 7.2. 7.2, the Mobility Advisory Council Meeting Seminary of February

2020- 2025. And it's just a written report that was included in the packet. Great. Great. Okay. I'll

take questions from the directors in reference to item 7.1 or 7.2. Director Mabel.

Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to one thing. Director Sheer preferred the great report. Those

some really exciting things to come out of the Capitol Court or JPA. Just a couple of weeks ago,

myself, along with Representative of the City of Davis and from the County of Vuelo and CCJPA,

the Capitol Court are sorry, trying not to use less acronyms. Joint powers authority,

all met at the Davis, light rail, or the Davis Amtrak station and really talked about the

needed Americans with Disability Act or ADA improvements that are needed for that station and

how we can all collectively work together. So I think those are things that we can be looking

down the pipeline for in terms of important projects. And I think it really ties in with some of the

the work that Director Sheer for mentioned. Thank you. Other directors?

Here's Eric Nunn, seeing Nunn. Any public comment on these two items? There's no public comment.

No more public comment. Well, I am sad and to say because I got a we got a A plus over here.

And Helen, you didn't give us a grade, but it's not too late if you want to yell it out.

You know, most and true. Okay. We got A plus and a most improved. That means we're still working hard.

And I just want to acknowledge the incredible staff that we have here that does wonderful work and

makes, you know, makes the general manager look exceptionally well. So they do a good job and

I just want to acknowledge them because they do a lot of work. They listen to everything you say

when you come here and then they develop a plan and put it into place in order to correct it.

And so I always want to acknowledge them and give them a round of applause if I can.

And we appreciate each one of you for coming out and talking to us and telling us,

you're the eyes and ears on the street that tell us how well we're doing and what we need to do

better. And that's our whole goal is to make sure we do better and serve this, the communities that

we that we serve and just make sure that, you know, we're doing everything we can to help them.

So this meeting and all the business of this meeting has been done. Is that correct? Yeah.

So with that, we are here by our journey.

So very specific.

I don't know. An ice cold chair. I go, I remember seeing the situation.

It's not, and she says no, I don't understand.