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Something like being important.

I pledge allegiance.

You're not in states of America.

To republic, who wishes to have one nation, and it is all with the green justice for our off.

All right.

Are there any questions from the public regarding directors?

Is this the time for public comment?

No, we'll do the consent calendar first. We have consent calendar items 2.1 to 2.8, and there is no public comment.

I see that now. It's good.

Okay. Then we will then ask directors for any comments.

At this point in time on the consent calendar.

They are motion.

Oh, comments. Director Dickens.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is on item 2.4.

And my question was related to.

And it's in all caps gasoline fueled vehicles. Is there no.

Who.

Alternative fuel vehicles that are available in this class or is it just the state contract isn't.

Is there any.

Is there any.

Is there any.

Alternative fuel vehicles or.

Is something else entirely can somebody expand on that?

Blanca, bus operations. It's a non revenue vehicles for our maintenance.

Right now in the contract that we don't have any specific language for.

Only only gasoline right now are in the contract.

So, that would be anything that we can look at in the future.

But right now the items are listed as only gasoline.

So, make sure I'm.

This being procure under a state grant.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Purchasing.

Which gives us the price.

Yes.

Correct.

So, that's what we're going to do.

We're going to do that in their specs.

They didn't specify any option for alternative fuel or they did or.

They didn't.

No.

Okay.

So, so we if we buy through the state contract.

We don't have any.

Any ability to.

Effect what there's.

Their specs are.

Or do we.

No. Right.

No, we don't.

We don't.

Okay.

So, that's what we're going to do.

We're going to do that.

We're going to do that.

So, that's what we're going to do.

So, that's what we're going to do.

Next time you're going to buy.

Non revenue service vehicles.

But seems to me it's always something we should be pushing.

Or at least they get the option.

Okay.

We will do that.

Okay.

Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Other directors.

Second.

Second.

Second.

Second, the consent calendar has been moved in seconded.

Without any further questions, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

Obstain.

consent calendar moves.

Move.

So, let's move to item three.

Public addresses board on matters not on the agenda.

Well, I made.

Okay.

We have two comments.

We have Troy Wilkinson and Michelle Baker.

Troy Wilkinson.

Yes, sir.

Hi, everyone.

My name is Troy Wilkinson.

I'm here as a member of strong satown and organization focused on

improving livability for all in Sacramento.

I wanted to just come and introduce myself to you all because

there's my first meeting.

It's very nice to see you all get to know you as the directors of

RT.

I appreciate director Dickinson's question on electrified

some of the vehicle purchases.

But I also just wanted to offer anecdotal experience about

riding on RT.

The feeling that it's kind of unclear as far as the amount of

staffing that happens on RT trains.

I see a lot of times.

No one there to check tickets.

In fact, most of the time, no one's there to check tickets.

There's plenty of time.

No one's there to check tickets.

There's plenty of kind of.

Not so sanitary things happening around stations,

people feeling unsafe.

And my spouse feeling unsafe.

As well as people urinating on station platforms.

No one there to catch it.

I don't know what happens.

Further work to improve that would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mr. Wilson, you're talking specifically light rail and not buses.

Light rails, yeah.

Which line?

For just all of these comments, or particularly?

Generally, which lines do you ride that you find these comments to be?

So my spouse rides the blue line to Sacramento City College.

And at that, her station, she has to come home pretty late because her class ends at

nine.

And so a lot of times there's no one there.

Sometimes there's people who are making her feel unsafe, et cetera.

Then there's also the yellow line, the gold line.

And then I pretty recently recall going to go from Sassanrae station back to the central

valley area.

And someone was urinated on the platform.

So thank you, Mr. Chair for indulging me.

Have you written on the new cars, the little floor cars?

And those are cleaner, for sure, than the previous.

They better be.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There, you know, oftentimes there's trash still there.

And I'm curious how frequently that gets picked up.

But aside from that, those are an improvement.

Thank you for your comments.

Yeah.

No problem.

Thank you, Mr. Wilson.

Next speaker please.

Michelle Baker.

Good afternoon, everyone.

My name is Michelle Baker.

Actually, a passenger of RT.

This is my first meeting that I have attended since last year.

So my thing is that the issue that I want to address regarding the flex is his suggestion.

I think that with the flex, I think they should create a monthly pass for all the riders

to take flex.

It just makes it a little bit easier for us.

And you know, because sometimes some of us don't always have the money to pay for it.

So with a monthly pass, just like using the actual bus pass, monthly bus pass, I think

the flex should have a monthly pass, you know, to make things, to make it easier for

us who can't pay out of pocket.

All right.

That was all that I have to say.

I can't think of anything else right now, but that's all I wanted to say.

Thank you.

Same day rights.

Same day rights.

Oh yeah.

And they should do same day rights to decipher what they did with the smart ride.

They should do that with the flex too.

We'll make it easier.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate your comments.

No problem.

Thank you.

And those will be taken in consideration.

Appreciate it.

Next week or please.

The next item is the General Manager's report, 4.1.

Good evening, Mr. Chair, members of the board and the public.

Thank you for joining us.

Thank you for the public comments.

We will definitely take a look at that.

Just to see how we can improve.

So instead of doing the regular GM report, you know, I decided to skip that instead.

To share with the board and the public this presentation.

The reason we want to share this is, you know, a long morning in the past.

We will always, you know, be able to secure meetings with FTA headquarters, you know, officials

and US DOT officials.

And we're going to do that again this year in the early May.

And in the last several years, each time we met with FTA, we were always, you know,

able to bring significant amount of the grants from the federal government.

And I want to just go through this presentation with the board and with two purpose.

Just to try to get some feedback from the board.

Secondly, and, you know, then because every time we met with FTA, each board member

always were able to advocate for more projects and more importantly promote this region

is a highly collaborative region.

And that really, you know, did very well in in front of the federal government.

So that being said, that's just around this presentation quickly.

So recently, US DOT secretary made a whole bunch of, you know, communications or directives.

And if you can look at the bottom, there will five major directives.

Regain the public trust, prioritize families, business efficiency, reduce crime, including

assaults and customers and transit workers, and reduce fear evasion.

I want to very proudly say that these five major initiatives actually have been

our top priorities in the last ten years.

We have achieved some significant, you know, results and put us where ahead of our peers.

Let's next slide.

Before, you know, if I'm going to talk to them, so I try to have two slides just to have

some in a second slap shot.

And the first one with the largest motor model transit provider serving 90% of the public

transit riders and with about 1500 employees, a two-billion dollar capital budget in F425

and operating budget is $266,000,000.

And we have a highly diversified rider profile.

67% of our riders are transit dependent riders.

And our vast ridership recovery ratio is 103%.

Our light rail is a little bit behind.

And with the governor's new direction, you know, about four days, you know, in person

working part is a, we hope our light rail ridership will fully recover very soon.

Next slide.

So in terms of a Reagan public trust, and we have done lots of initiatives such as

annexations for four, five actually, you know, entities.

And that is the best demonstration how we have regained public trust.

And let's look at the next one.

And in 2016, on the major A, you know, initiative, every time we did three major A, you know,

in last nine years, one is 2016, one is 2019, one is 2021.

If you look at, you know, the 2016, we were ranked is NIST trust worthy with our historical

turnaround because of the strong leadership of this sport and, you know, our origins

to work of all staff and wonderful partnership with, you know, almost all transit, all

your peers or your partners in this region.

2000, 19, and 2021, the public polls actually showed security at 65% satisfaction rating.

And the other public entities and jurisdictions who actually received the funding, you know,

from the major A, they ranked as 41 to 51%.

So we really, you know, tend around next.

In terms of priority, it has been families are right free RT for over 300,000 students

to make sure they can write us free.

That really, you know, helped the families and also helped, you know, schools.

And definitely, you know, we were creating lifelong transit writers.

Next one, please.

In terms of business optimization or efficiency, if you look at the NTD, national transit

database, you know, data in terms of financial performance on the left side and cost, cost

per mile for bus, our cost is about 15 dollars per mile.

But our top 10 transit peers in California is about 20 dollars.

And the right side, our cost for revenue mile for light rail, our cost is about 22 dollars.

But our peers is about 27 dollars.

So we are, you know, looks like we have some of the lowest operating cost compared to

our peers.

Based on the national transit data information, it's not something we, you know, ask for them,

is based on the actual reports from the federal government.

Next slide, please.

And our innovative, you know, cost efficient 3P, rated resulting in some significant

cost saving, for example, security flags, our cost annually, we're going to save about

8.5 million dollars.

With the inflation in next 10 years, we will save more than 100 million dollars.

That saving will ensure we have, we will have a funding to maintain our current bus and

rail and per transit services.

And also paying our employees, especially union employees in a highly competitive way.

And with the second goal, with the use of, and the use of is a private part of the, you

know, help us with about 30% of per transit service.

We cost is about 50% lower than what, you know, we incurred.

And next, please.

And the TODs in the past several years, we have line, we built the TODs for six out of

line, you know, properties.

And about, if I recall, is about 3,000 affordable housing units were built.

And also about 10,000 affordable housing units are being built.

We're going to put that 3,000, 10,000 in to this slide.

So people can see that directly.

And certainly your TOD will actually revitalize in our neighborhood and create economic, you

know, return and increase ridership.

Next slide, please.

A lot of major topics from the new secretary of DOT is reduced crime and fear evasion.

We implement the large of industry, you know, best practices to address the crime issues.

And our crime dropped over 34% in last several years.

Right now the crime rate is extremely low at a certain incident per one meaning, one meaning

right rights.

Our fear evasion is less than 1%.

And just about 10 years ago, our fear evasion rate was about double digit.

It's high as 21%.

And I remember at that time, director Sarah and Mr. Chair, you know, he's the number one

directive to his staff is I want you guys to reduce that.

And we work very hard to reduce that.

And we received the top national awards on safety and security if you look at the next

slide.

Out of last six years, we received six top national safety awards, including two from

federal transportation security administration, the golden standard awards, out of 6800 transit

agencies, they are managing in terms of safety and security, what they are imagining.

We each year, they only award three transit agencies.

And we were very fortunate to 2022 and 2019.

We received award from them.

And then after, give us four additional safety and security awards, we really feel grateful

for these awards and thank board and community partners support and thank staff's hard work.

Next one, please.

A very high level slap shot of major capital projects.

We have over 100 capital projects in two billion dollars budget, which 1.1 billion dollars

funding are secured.

And we need to line major projects here.

And next slide here.

So, over the last six, seven years and then the future five years, in the last seven years,

our investment to sales ratio is 300 percent or three times, 1 dollar generate, 3 dollars,

economic return.

And our capital investment in us the six, seven years is about 523 million dollars, created

26,000 jobs.

Our next five years, the investment is about 800 million dollars and projected to create

40,000 jobs and increase in business sales 2.4 billion dollars.

And the previous slide I said, we secured 1.1 billion dollars.

But last of the money in the last five, six years have not spent yet.

And so, that's why we can confidently project the future 800 million dollars capital investment.

We might secure with more than 800 million because majority of this money are already

secured.

So, next slide please.

So if you can see, because this is for federal government or even potential White House

meeting.

And in the circular role from the right side, what we secured and the request, the federal

funding is about 400 million dollars.

And the request of this already secured and our total project is 1.1 billion dollars.

We got about 40 percent funding from federal government, which accounts about 35 percent.

So we want to really think federal government free, very generous support on our capital

projects.

And this is just so, they really view this region as a high investment region.

So, next one.

Next slide please.

Next slide please.

This is a lot of two elements of dilute modernization stations and tracks with secured $100.4

million, 40 funded.

And in two or three years, all gold line and blue line stations will be completed.

The first one of gold line stations, 29 stations are already done.

This will add more new good-paying jobs and increased leadership.

Next slide please.

The Sacramento Downtown Ravall side, Ravall Front Streetcar, this has been 20 years in

the making.

Two years ago, finally, the JPA for our streetcar said, you know, enough is enough with

dump to you guys, not dump to us, just transfer to us.

And we took that and we immediately worked with federal partners and state partners to

move this forward by the middle of this year, maybe a couple months later, we are ready

for FTA's review.

And we will ask for 36 million dollars, the fund is out here, to complete this project.

And we want to re-re-re-re-re-yats is one of two largest urban development zones in

the nation.

And also, real yards is the 20 seconds largest job center in the US too.

So this board, this bear is some significance of, you know, the amount of relation in terms

of this project.

Next one please.

This is the cost for the streetcar total cost is about 164 million dollars, 120 million

dollars is a kilo.

And we are asking FTA to award us additional 36 million dollars.

That is one of the three major requests in FTA meeting.

Next one please.

And what I 80, this is 40 funded and we hope we will finish a year later.

Okay, next one.

The BFM2, this board is very significant impact for this whole region.

We will build the first hydrogen-fuelling facility, the production facility for hydrogen

first in the capital region.

We don't have single one here.

And we're going to buy 20 line hydrogen buses, likely up to 72 hydrogen buses.

And the, the, the field inside will be used for public and private, not just for, not,

just for ourselves, is going to for public use too.

The total cost right now, we are, we, we secured or we think, you know, we were definitely

secured.

It's about 150 million dollars.

We're thinking about a lot of 50 million dollars we will secure down the road.

And it's, this will generate about 1881 new good paying jobs and driving the growth of

hydrogen field production and the economy in Northern California.

Next slide, please.

Okay, the dose rail, you know, is a vital link along to the blue line support about 500

affordable housing units with the TOD and create about 546 new jobs and increase our

ridership.

Next slide.

We think we will be able to finish this within about two, two, two, two years or three years.

We got about 9.6 million dollars federal, you know, build grant, which previously we

called race grant and build grant was the Trump administration's first terms, term,

called build better utilizing investment to leverage development.

Some stuff.

Yeah, some stuff.

And 42 million dollars for this.

Okay, next one, please.

Home road live real station, you know, I have talked to a director barge and director

center and the city of Rancho, Cod over for a while and we need to make this happen.

This will support 42 acres of commercial and residential development.

It's very significant and provides access, transit access to 55,000 jobs.

The Rancho Cod over is a truly job creation center.

Then, you know, okay, that's fine.

Cost is about 33 million dollars.

We secured about 10 million dollars and was submitting the, we wanted to submit application

for build grant for 13 million dollars a couple months ago.

Okay, next one, please.

Stocking ball about BRT is our one, it's the first of our future, transit.

And we are talking about five, six BRTs in the major corridors.

One rise, whatever new, flooring, garden and other corridors, Stocking is the first.

The benefits are so significant, this will benefit, you know, 71,000 residents, 80,000,

8,000 jobs.

And we secured about 13, 15 million dollars so far, maybe 13 million dollars.

And our ask is next slide, please.

Okay, can you go back?

Maybe this one.

Okay.

We are going to ask, next year, ask about 50 million dollars federal funding to support

this project.

So one is, we talk about, you know, the street car is about 36 million.

And another 13 million dollars for the, the home roads and then this 50 million dollars

combined together is 100 million dollars.

But we already, you know, submit or about to submit the first two total 50 million dollars

ask.

And next year is this, a lot of 100 million dollars.

The good thing is, if we secured 100 million dollars federal money, then we will secure

probably 200 million dollars state money because they require us to have leverage or to

have secure other funding to leverage state money.

Okay, next slide, please.

BRT, what Lyreo to Elgro and Elport, this has been 20 years in the discussions.

We cannot wait a lot of 20 years.

So the right now is the right time to take actions.

He either, you know, decide the BRT, then we can move forward with BRT or, you know, Lyreo,

then probably next two years, we have the make a decision depend on 2026 if we're going

to have potential self-stacks measure or not.

But we needed to do feasibility study now.

And because in two or three years, what the right of a ways in the airport route, we have

to reverse those right of a ways.

So decision has to be made.

Okay, next one, please.

So as I just mentioned, street car, we're going to ask for 36 million dollars.

Then home road, we already asked for 30 million dollars, and that's about 50 million

dollars.

Then the BRT of Stockton Borough, we are going to ask for 50 million dollars maybe later

next year.

So that is our ask in the FTA meeting or any other meeting with our congressional

delegates or even White House meeting.

And certainly we next one, please.

Next slide.

We just want to thank you as DLT and FTA with deeply value, their strong partnership

and leadership and we're eager to work together with them to achieve great results in the

future.

And we want them to know how actually in the last 10 years at least we have been relentlessly

doing something.

They actually just point out crime, failure, and supporting family, all of us return investment,

all of us have a great sense.

And we want to work with them, partner with them to make this region even better and

greater and more bright future.

That is a basic presentation and unfortunately meeting 40 minutes, meeting normally with

FTA or others and with about six or seven board members, at least three minutes to talk.

So this presentation probably just about five minutes.

So lots of stuff will be cut.

And then we have to leave FTA and your Stealty to talk about 10, 15 minutes.

So we did that very well in the previous meetings with them and each board member actually did

exceptionally well in terms of you promote some projects, especially to talk about the

region, how we work together connectivity.

Thank you Henry, this is great report and I want to kind of open it up for director questions

and director comments as well as the public comments on that report.

So director Kennedy, start us off.

Thank you chair.

Henry, I appreciate the report.

I appreciate your position to stay politically neutral as well as staff is you have to.

You have to work with whatever administrations there.

That being said, and I don't want to bite the hand that feeds me, but this administration

is more likely to slap me upside the head than feed me with that hand.

So my question is, you know, because most of what you identified as far as funding that

we've received clearly happened before this administration.

I'm very dubious as to this administration's commitment to transit.

I'm particularly very dubious to this administration's hostility to electrification of transportation.

So that I want to focus on that because we have requirements that we have to make.

And we're dependent heavily upon grants from federal state government in order to electrify

our system.

Do you see, have you heard anything, is there anything on the horizon that there's going

to be a lack of interest in participating in helping us meet those electrification goals

from the federal government?

Thank you.

The director candidate, but he has been our chair for many years.

So that's why I got a call a week ago.

I got some more than wonderful news, but it's not appropriate for us to share.

I can talk to you later.

Be safe.

Thank you.

My colleagues.

So I want to thank you for providing us with the snapshot and knowing that this is a rough cut before the actual meeting takes place.

How many of the applications have we submitted to the federal government right now?

Three.

Okay.

And based on the timeline or the time window, is there an expectation to receive word from the agencies this year on those awards?

Or is it more of a longer window?

The one award we expect is a home road station $30 million.

And your stillty encourages to submit that two month ago.

And we hope we will be able to get that award.

Then we're going to submit $36 million for the street car.

That award normally a year later.

Yeah.

You're director Hume.

Thank you, chair.

Henry, I just wanted to clarify when you were discussing the light rail slash rapid transit to the airport in Delk Grove.

I believe it was relative to the green line to the airport.

You mentioned the easements or the right of way.

You're expiring.

Yeah.

There's a sunset on the sunset.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Really.

Yeah.

It's 2028.

2028 is the dedication.

Yeah.

Dedication.

We either reverse back.

And do we have to have the project identified or construction underway or what is the trigger that preserves the way?

As long as we identified a PRT or whatever.

We established that, you know, was submit that request to FDA and then we were secured.

Okay.

And then my second question is going back to the, you know, some of the very early slides in this deck relative to the safety and the

action and what we're reporting as a reduction.

We just heard a very different story told here tonight by public commenter.

And so, you know, if I were to cover my eyes, then what eyewitnesses transgressions goes down to zero.

But that doesn't mean that they aren't happening.

And so have are we keeping pace with our efforts to curb these things.

And we're truly seeing that as a real world sort of happen stance.

This is really hard to say because any moment somebody will mess up the train.

They can through stuff.

Sure.

So any moment what we have been doing, we try to use, you know, our our cleaners strategically located in the middle of those lines.

As long as we find that, you know, those, you know, cleaning is issue.

We immediately get it.

People to address that.

And that's one.

Secondly, we virtually have transit ambassador and each train to check the fields.

And sometimes, you know, some, you know,

there were times, you know, some writers may not say that.

Sure.

And stations, you know, sometimes, you know, people may not, you know,

through some, you know, paper, will use people throughout.

And, you know, this gentleman mentioned, you know, college, you know, said college.

That, that is a particular area, you know, people through stuff.

But our executive team and myself regularly, you know, just right or go to stations and the trains to locate to say how, you know, how clean that is.

And how you know, how people behave.

Supermortgative time, those bad behavior, you know, people, we immediately catch through our cameras.

And we use the announcement to ask them to leave.

If they do not leave, we immediately, you know, send the police to address that issue.

The number one issue is really about, you know, very few mentally challenging individuals screaming and waving some stuff in some stations.

And even just like one minute that behavior really created bad image.

And we try to take more aggressive actions to take them away from our station.

And if you recall, seven years ago,

both instruct staff to get a new legislation to decimate our stations as fair zoom.

You have to have fear to be able to in our station.

So lots of efforts we have been implemented.

Lots of those initiatives are the best industry practices.

But let us not say we do not have some, in some people's mind,

they always have some impression, not favorable.

And director Robert, we talked about last time we were in the live real station of Fawson.

And I intentionally went with state in the station, there were three trains come.

I immediately jumped in to look at how clean the trains are.

And they are really, really, really very clean.

And definitely not always sometimes not clean.

But a lot of issue really is about the impression.

These are the presentation cup weeks ago about the safety and security.

And all actually the survey by the independent third party.

Virtually 70% of the feedback is we are OK, 30% feel unsafe out of that 30%

and the majority of come from the female writers.

But you ask those majority of female writers ask them to see if they can count by themselves

but the super majority respond by what we heard.

So how we can, a lot of things are well open system.

Anybody can enter the trains.

So that creates a lot of change.

This issue, the perception issue is in the whole industry.

But the actual crime situation, crime statistics, low data, real data,

and our crime solubility rate in this region, these are told me we are the best.

Our detectives solved the low crime issue very well.

And we were almost 20% of time we were able to catch the beta behavior people.

People.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Director Dickinson.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I want to amplify in a little bit of a different way the issue that Director Kennedy was raising.

Coming back into this world in a more direct way, it is really gratifying to see the kinds

of projects, Dose Rios, Horn, Horn Road, McClellan, others that are underway and signify

measurable enhancements to the system.

There's also a little bit of a soap opera quality to this.

I feel like I left this 10 or 15 years ago, Missa Mepisodes came back and didn't miss

a thing.

When you talk about the street car and extension of light rail, both to the airport, Elk Grove,

some of the other projects.

What I think it needs to make us be very mindful of is that we have to have a local measure

to support transit to a much greater extent than we have historically.

That's something that's going to be important for every one of us who sits on this board

to bring to reality.

I think it's worth keeping in mind that the Green Line extension to the airport is

polls as the number one transportation project in this county and has done so consistently.

Over time, I think that there's a real appetite for more public transit.

I think we see that and it reflected in all the polling that's done.

It becomes even underscored to a greater extent by virtue of the fact that the federal

government may not be the source of funding that it has been historically, although we certainly

should pursue it as much as we can.

That the state is going to have to play a larger role in supporting public transportation,

which is going to be a very active topic around the capital this year.

I know.

So, to me, first of all, the kinds of improvements and extensions we're talking about, to me,

that has always been essential to get light rail to the airport and I've stalked the

BRT.

I forgot that one's been around a little while too.

Those are critical improvements if we're really going to take meaningful steps toward

making transit a choice for more people in this service area.

But we're going to have to do more and more of it on, literally, on our own dime.

And that dime is going to have to come from all of us in the community.

But it's going to be our responsibility as members of the sport and elected leaders in

this county to demonstrate, obviously, with the support and help of the staff here and

other places, to demonstrate the value of the investment.

So I just hope that doesn't slip to the back of our minds because 2026 is will be here

sooner than we think.

And then it's something we're talking about and promoting as well as taking feedback on

as we go through the course of our work on a daily basis.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Mr. Chair, can I just...

I first want to thank all board members, especially STA board members who are sitting in this

board for being visionary and being strong in terms of exploring the potential 2026

major.

The security, we have spent more than $100,000 investing in the grassroots outreach in

last year.

We plan to invest more for the community partners to do this job.

We are very smart towards the leading organization, not helping us on those grassroots outreach.

Also, the STA team asked us to commit the funding, the half funding for two potential

polls.

And two years ago, Chair and the candidate asked us to help on their poll for 2022 and we

did that.

So we're going to contribute up to probably $50,000 to do the polls again.

And I have...

We have talked a lot of community partners and we are all in to support whatever we can

do.

Great, Mr. Chair.

Yes, please.

Just on this before I leave this subject and to Director Digginson's point, I think,

especially given what we all know has happened most recently in terms of our past effort to

get a measure passed to keep us flush with resources for both service transportation and

transit.

I certainly can't stress this enough, but I would hope others feel likewise that what we should

have learned, hopefully we have from that experience is that we can let the perfect be the enemy

of the good.

And if we are destined to get into another pissing contest between service transportation and

transit and people get on their soap boxes and then their corner is about either.

And if they don't get everything they want for what they believe they're advocating for,

we're destined to repeat the history and we could look forward to failure.

So I'm hoping that those that feel strongly whatever your advocacy, you know, perspective

may be that that can be tempered with the fact that if you're whether you're a supporter

of either or both, everyone's going to hurt.

Everyone's going to be looking for resources for maintenance operations of our roadways

and and cleaner and safer transit if we don't get the next measure passed.

So I'll just leave it at that and hope that resonates and I'm sure plus we get to doing

much more deliberative planning and poll taking and those types of things.

So we just set up a committee at STA on the subject that they'll be certainly other

opportunities to discuss this.

But I think it's bears mentioning that the import of this next effort for a measure to pass

is really critical because if we don't get a pass this next time, it'll be a decade.

So just my quick comment to the general manager, I was really pleased and impressed with the

safety awards that we've received over the last six years.

That's the effort of a lot of people who are working to make sure that our forms of transportation

are safe as safe as they can be.

And I realize that's the moving target all the time.

You know, to look at from 2019 to 2025, the amount of awards that regional transit has received is impressive.

And I just wanted to acknowledge general manager and all the employees of regional transit for their hard work and obtaining those.

So congratulations on that.

And then I think my question, one of my questions while you were putting up the slides had to do with.

The number of jobs.

At each project will bring to to the region.

And the money that we would be asking for and I was just trying to make sense of.

Is that one of the requirements in order to be approved is the number of jobs that we are looking to bring.

So I just.

Yes, that is the me to that.

So one of the top requirements in terms of the they want us to have a wonderful return on investment and rigorous vigorous cost benefit analysis and job creation, especially manufacture jobs.

And which we actually doing so well, for example, 59, nine real no flow vehicles.

That creates lots of jobs for the same as in our community.

And there was a buses.

We create those jobs for other communities across the nation and several most manufacturing manufacturer factories are in the red states.

So not only as far as the future creation of jobs, but our past and the work that we've done.

The money that we've received and the jobs that we've been able to create that also goes a long way to prove that we can create those jobs and can continue to create the projects.

Yes, that is a one of the reasons why we have received some wonderful news.

Great.

Okay, so there are no more questions from.

From our directors.

I would open it up to the public.

Okay, I think that's with Helena O'Connell.

Yes, please.

Helena, good evening.

Hello.

I haven't.

I have felt very strongly that Henry Lee has done an excellent job at procuring infrastructure.

Yes, done a very good job of getting federal and state funds to do what he's been doing.

And I am very happy that all of these projects are on the list.

I wasn't sure if the hydro stations were going to be available to the public.

Is that true?

Yeah, me hydrating.

Yes.

Okay.

And the.

I was under the impression that Elk Grove was going to be extended by light rail when I went to the.

Elk Grove Transit meeting.

So I think that when.

Has already been kind of looked at.

I'm not sure.

The bus rapid transit might not work too good to the airport because we would have to get a

whole bunch of different kinds of buses because they'll have.

You know, baggage and things that normal people don't carry on the regular buses.

I think the light rail would be more adaptive for that.

I think that overall we're doing a very good job.

But like you said, we need to get together and not separate on the issue of getting funds that

will be more available.

For operations.

I am extremely concerned that with more trains and more buses and more.

Rides and the streetcar and all that addition of infrastructure that we won't have any operators

that will be willing to stay to operate all this new equipment.

So that's my number one issue.

Time is up.

Thank you.

Mr. Scherke, I just want to acknowledge ATU President.

The question is here.

Thank you for her strong leadership.

We have built outstanding partnership.

Because of your strong leadership from Christo.

So, Harren, you need to talk to your president.

How to be open to.

All right, Crystal McGeeley.

Afternoon, Chairman Jennings.

Ladies, gentlemen, afternoon of the board.

My name is Crystal McGeeley.

I'm here today to kind of give you a little ATU report.

Henry is accurate.

We have been working hard together.

We've created a joint labor committee.

So I'm here to give you a little report.

We talk about those things.

We talk about the light rail stepdowns.

Troublesome bus passengers,

cleanness on the buses, the radio,

dealing with the public,

things of that nature.

We also have, I'm pleased to say that

Sakhar T has gotten touched with assembly woman,

belief Stephanie Nguyen, in regards to the safety.

When you were talking about the safety awards,

I am too impressed.

I've been working with Lisa.

She's been working diligently.

We're trying to get those things together.

Awards are great, but I still have operators

who are intimidated and who are being cussed out and who are.

But I am here to report that we have been made significant improvement.

I do know that you guys know that Mr. Mark Saldo is now taken over.

The one issue that I do have when Mr. Henry was talking about the job creations,

which is great for us.

Unfortunately, right now, we're in a little bit of an issue.

November 18th, the board basically said the contract for Sakhar T go was,

you know, you have held it, you approved it,

but we still have not gotten paid.

So when we're talking about the good jobs and things of that nature,

I brought it to Henry.

Mr. Henry's attention the other day.

I brought it to Ms. Shelley's attention the other day.

And these in Ms. Helen brought up, the drivers will be there.

Operators will be here.

We will be here to help facilitate me as a labor union.

As a labor leader, I will help push whatever you guys need to help push.

But on the same side, I need you guys.

I need this board to understand that these drivers need to get their pay.

Thank you.

I appreciate your time.

I appreciate your effort.

Ms. Blanca has been instrumental in helping us.

Thomas Russell has been instrumental in helping us.

Vince Beatty has been instrumental in helping us.

So that is my report to you to let you know that we are working on things.

There are some things that we are outstanding.

Very much outstanding.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

There are a number of public comments.

Great.

Great.

So we will move to item five.

Orts, ideas and questions from directors and communications.

Any at all?

Okay.

Seeing none.

Then that brings us to the end of our agenda.

And with that, this meeting is adjourned.

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Can you think of something?

So, uh, uh,

can you go on and steer?

We're going to go see the fun here.

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Yep.