Of the Sacramento Regional Trans Transit Board of Directors.

Tabitha, would you please do a roll call and then read the Metro Cable replay statement?

Director Burr.

Here.

Director Budge?

Director Dickinson is absent.

Director Hume is absent.

Director Kennedy.

Director Maple is absent.

Director Rorba.

Here.

Director Schaefer.

Here.

And Director Rodriguez.

Here.

Director Rodriguez is here as alternate for Director Cerna this evening.

And Director Jennings is absent.

And Chair Singh Allen.

Here.

Director Hume is present.

Director.

With that, we have a quorum of eight votes.

And this meeting of the Sacramento Regional Transit District is recorded with closed captioning.

The recording will be cable cast on Metro Cable Channel 14, the local government affairs channel on the Comcast and Direct TV Uverse Cable Systems.

The recording will also be video streamed at Metro14 Live.sackCounty.gov.

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

and Sunday, November 16th at 11 30 a.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 were two written public comments received and provided to the board, one from Rick Hodgkins for item five regarding light rail safety and item 7.1 regarding comprehensive analysis and a sales tax measure.

And then a second comment from Helen O'Connell on item 4.1 regarding the action summary.

Thank you.

Next up is our Pledge of Allegiance.

May I ask Director Hume to please help lead us?

Sure.

The flag, please.

Pledge of allegiance to the flag.

I think hi, Eureka.

And to the concrete, which is their hands.

Foundation.

Okay.

Thank you.

So we're gonna go a little out of order on the agenda, and we're gonna take item 3.1.

And item 3.1 is our employee and retiree recognitions, second and third quarters 2025.

And Shelley Valentin will present this item.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

Uh board and everyone.

I am Shelly Valentin Sackerty's deputy CEO, and I am honored to present to you today our employee recognitions.

Today we are recognizing two quarters, um, April to June and July to September.

That's why you see some employees here to with us today and some family members.

Uh quite an exciting time.

Uh let's have our slide up.

Okay.

So we want to start with our years of service recognition.

We acknowledge our active employees who have dedicated 20 years or more of service to SAC RT.

Please give them a round of applause.

Oh, could you move to the next slide so we could see our list of employees?

Thank you.

All right.

So you see here our list of 20 years, 25 years, and 35 years of service awardees.

And today we have three of them who took the time to be here.

So we'll take the time to recognize them.

If we could please have uh Vice Chair Singh Allen and Henry RGM come up to the center and we'll have a picture and a certificate distributed to our awesome.

First off, if I when I call your name, if you could please come forward and join them.

Uh Ariel Tabutabo, light rail maintenance mechanic, a 20 years of service, yes, thank you.

And then we have Steven McGregor, bus operator, 25 years.

Please coming up.

And finally, we have Aswa Hanson, transportation supervisor, 25 years.

And we'll take a quick group picture.

Sh Shelly.

Shelley.

I I hate to interrupt, but someone from my team is on the list and they're here tonight.

Oh, Melissa, Melissa Noble.

Anyone who's here who's not on the list of MSVPs, we had an RSVP, and I have the list.

Please come on up, Melissa Noble.

20 years, I believe.

Thank you.

And there's one more.

Jesus Ledesma.

31 years.

Oh.

You're actually on our retiree list, I believe, but am I wrong on that?

Please.

Yes.

We will get them.

I'm sorry.

We were, yeah, we will we're sending it to everyone.

You guys are we didn't touch it.

You guys are on.

We didn't touch it.

Yes, I care.

We have testful.

We'd be sitting on the floor.

Yeah.

I don't think.

Thank you.

If you could please stay.

Director Singh Allen and Henry for the retiree recognition.

Okay, our retiree recognition.

20 years or more of service to SACRT.

We want to thank them for their dedicated service.

And we especially want to thank those who joined us tonight from um took the time out of their retirement to be here.

First on my list, if you could move to the next slide, Adam.

Please give them all a round of applause.

And then we want to thank everyone who are here with us tonight.

First is Fernando Zamudio.

Light rail vehicle technician for 21 years.

And then Christopher Espera, bus operator, 22 years.

And Neil Kell, bus operator, 22 years.

And then we have Ami Chand, Light Rail Operator, 27 years.

And then finally, Jesus Ledesma.

Bus maintenance mechanic, 31 years.

Did we miss anyone who's here too?

To make sure.

Retirees.

Perfect.

All right.

Congratulations.

You may take your seat.

And we'd like Henry and Director St.

Allen to stay for our final set of recognitions.

Our employees of the quarter.

So again, this is for two quarters.

This program recognizes employees who consistently demonstrate exceptional performance, embody our core values, and make a meaningful impact on both the workplace and the communities that we serve.

We are proud to have so many employees who just do great job every day.

So this award is separate because we recognize specific recognitions and contribution for those quarters.

Here are our employees of the quarter for the period April to June 2025, starting with administration.

So let me just say a few words about Esteban.

So our training and workforce development department is a strong and mighty team of two.

We have Esteban and ISIS, who's uh his manager.

We know that our employees need and use their services because our employee survey tells us so.

During this quarter, he was instrumental in the success of our first ever employee resource fair, connecting employees with local community colleges, universities, and trade schools to explore educational opportunities.

Esteban has only been with us for three years, but in this short time, he has already conducted 65 trainings on his own for over 600 employees.

Supported 295 trainings, workshops, and employee events, resulting in more than 2500 meaningful employee interactions.

I don't think it takes a day off because that's a lot of things.

We are proud to recognize him today.

Congratulations, Estimate.

And then our customer service employee of the quarter will be presented by Lisa Heinz.

It's an honor to recognize Transit Ambassador Quintez Dobson for Employee of the Quarter.

We'd also like to invite his family to join.

I see that he has family members here.

Since joining Sacramento Regional Transit and on January 16th, Quintes, known to all of us simply as Q, has embodied the very core values that define SAC RT, dedication, professionalism, and exceptional customer service.

In his short time here, Q has made a lasting impression through his strong work ethic and commitment to excellence.

Whether he's assisting passengers at a light rail station, supporting our fleet operations, or collaborating with coworkers in the office.

He approaches every challenge and training opportunity with enthusiasm and a desire to grow, consistently going above and beyond expectations.

Beyond his performance, Q brings camaraderie, empathy, and positivity to the transit ambassador team, making him not only an outstanding employee but also a valued teammate.

Please join me in congratulating Q with Employee of the Quarter.

Congratulations.

For the category of uh facilities and maintenance, we have Aaron Uribe, Light Rail Vehicle Technician.

Unfortunately is not able to join tonight, but we have presented his award at the last employee town hall.

And then for our next quarter for the period July to September, we have two uh awardees who are here tonight.

The first one is for administration, Angela Roy, to be presented by Blanca.

Okay, this quarter recognition uh goes to Angela Roy, one of our outstanding admin techs this quarter.

Angela has truly gone above and beyond her role.

During an unexpected staff shortage, she stepped up without hesitation, taking on her own responsibilities as well as those of an absent team member.

Despite the heavy workload, Angela success successfully prepared and coordinated a general sign-up for more than 500 operators, a massive effort that requires exceptional organization, accuracy, and communication.

She made sure operations continues continue smoothly with no interruption, showing the teamwork and dedication we value at SACRT.

In addition, Angela took an extra responsibility of training temporary staff member, offering guidance, patience, and support every step of the way.

Her professionalism, positive attitude and willingness to help wherever needed, make her a valuable part of our team and well-deserved recipient of this quarter employee quarter recognition of the month.

Thank you, Angela.

And finally, we have for maintenance and facilities to be presented by Lisa Heinz is Pamela Robertson, facility service worker.

I'm happy to introduce Pamela Roberson, employee of excellence within our facilities management department.

She is responsible for maintaining several light rail stations and has consistently demonstrated outstanding performance.

In the past quarter alone.

She received several perfect scores from the mystery writer program.

An accomplishment that speaks to her high standards and dedications.

And I think she was our first to to do so.

Pam's work environment is not without challenges, including issues with vandalisms and interactions with unhoused individuals.

Yet she approaches every situation with compassion and respect, building trust and fostering a sense of community.

Her presence alone often encourages others to take responsibility for keeping an area clean.

Pam is known for her positive attitude professionalism and strong work ethic.

No matter what challenges she faces she shows up each day ready to give her best.

Her commitment resilience and genuine care for her work make her an invaluable member of our team and a true example of excellence.

Congratulations Pai one sorry we just want to take a sure I missed that Esteban's family is here too so if you could take one picture with them.

Oh my goodness, very thank you.

Congratulations to our awardees and before I um end I just want to recognize our operator employee of the quarter Philip James Mendoza bus operator.

He's not able to join tonight he's driving but we will make sure to recognize him another time.

Thank you all right let's give them all an enthusiastic round of applause that was great.

Give a few seconds here you don't want to stick around for the rest of the meeting.

Good for you well earned all right next item we're going to go back to our consent calendar items 2.1 through 2.5 any questions from directors no all right we have a motion from um director second and a second no if there are no public comments oh yes you're right any public comments on there's no public comment on consent.

So we have a motion and a second all those in favor please say aye.

Aye any opposed abstain didn't see any all right thank you all right next up is our unfinished business we have any unfinished business.

No it's just customer service response and feedback and comment yes that's the next item 4 point one just waiting for the PowerPoint okay chair sing Allen members of the board I am Lisa Hines VP of security safety and customer satisfaction I am presenting customer satisfaction strategies and responses to public concerns and comments.

Public comment number one how will SACRT spend the 1 million dollar security increase the overall goal for the 1 million dollars is to increase security staff on trains specifically we're trying to aim to have one security resource on every single train we will increase the hiring of transit ambassadors from 40 to 50 we are holding interviews this week and next and we will have a training class starting in December and a second training class starting in January to reach and maintain our number of 50 although we are not in negotiations currently for this classification we wanted to provide a modest increase to the transit ambassadors SACROTE remains committed to safety and security, which is reflected in the budget allocated for these areas in this fiscal year's budget, as well as the addition of the 1 million dollars.

It was a fiscal decision that was not taken lightly, as it will have to, it means that it will have to take a it will have a lasting impact on future years' budget, and we have to make budget sacrifices everywhere to make it happen.

We look forward to continuing to work with our union partner and continuing to evaluate the effectiveness effectiveness of this program and provide additional opportunities and improvements as funding allows.

These discussions will commence as we negotiate a new bargaining contract next year.

We will bridge the gap with guards while in the process of hiring new transit ambassadors.

We just hired 10 additional guards.

We're also adding two additional people to staff to the Security Operations Center that runs 24-7, so from eight people to 10.

These upgrades were outlined in the staff report at the October 27th board meeting, which you all voted on.

We sent out a press release October 29th, 2025 regarding safety and security.

As we strengthen our safety and security, it is imperative that we market updates to our employees, our writers, and our community.

While recent media coverage has raised concerns about employee safety, it is important to clarify that the majority of the reported incidents involve aggressive verbal disagreements, not physical altercations.

These verbal incidents are reportable statistics required by the national transit database.

However, they are not crimes.

In fact, SACROTE's crime rate remains extremely low at just 3.7 crimes per 1 million boardings, dropping from last year's 7.5 incidents per 1 million boardings, a testament to the effectiveness of our current safety and security strategies.

As SACRT continues to enforce fair payment and serve vulnerable populations, including the unhoused, which is the most pressing concern in our community, we recognize that tensions can arise from time to time.

However, these efforts are working.

SACRET's fare evasion rate has dropped from double digits a decade ago to less than 1% today, reflecting a more accountable and respectful transit culture.

SACRT is doing everything possible to ensure its system remains safe, welcoming, and responsive for both brighters and employees.

Next public comment: can you ensure that the police units will be able to respond to calls quickly?

So I thought I would share what we have now and what we're transitioning to on January 11th.

Current staffing is we have 18 sworn officers and six armed non-sworn sheriff security officers.

The new staffing model will be 15 sworn deputies.

We're switching to sheriff deputies as SAC PD pulls out of the contract, and eight armed sheriff security officers.

The main thing you need to take away is there will be a seamless transition in police services through the changeover from SAC PD to the Sacramento Sheriff's Department, taking completely over of regional transit police services.

I wanted to highlight police officers are responding to certain calls moving forward, and I mentioned it last time at the board meeting.

We are refocusing our sworn officers to prioritize transit ambassadors who need assistance with uncooperative subjects, operator assaults, calls related to any banned or prohibited person, any violent felonies in progress, and we have notified all local law enforcement agencies of this transition.

We are working with our legal counsel on a banning program.

We plan to bring this program to all of you at the next December board meeting.

We will continue to request restraining orders for long-term long-term nuisance cases, and we will work to obtain probation conditions through the court system on subjects who commit crimes on our system or at our properties.

As we build a stronger workforce, we are committed to leveraging technology to strengthen safety, efficiency, and customer experience across our system.

So I want to share some AI programs that we have underway.

We have an AI-enabled bus stop enforcement program.

It's our newest innovation.

It uses automated AI monitoring at our five busiest bus stops.

Within the first 10 months, this initiative has resulted in an 89% decrease in people parking at those bus stops, improving safety, reducing congestion, and supporting reliable transit service.

Our AI drone program.

We have launched an AI-driven drone program to proactively monitor critical infrastructure.

The drone captures real-time data to identify potential issues early, enabling staff to take swift corrective action and prevent service disruptions before they occur.

And also an AI program, we are currently working on two pilot programs in partnership with Safety Planning and Operations.

We will use forward-facing AI cameras in buses to monitor bus stop assets and conditions, including trash levels and maintenance needs, reduce customer complaints through proactive issue detection and rapid response, and provide valuable data to support bus rapid transit planning, traffic detour detour coordination, and operational decision-making to improve on-time performance.

Together, these initiatives position us at the forefront of innovation in public transportation, using AI to enhance safety, streamline operations, and deliver an improved experience for our riders.

Next public comment: an operator reported that a subject was on the train with a hammer, and the police did not respond what happened.

There was an incident where a T on a train encountered a subject holding a hammer.

The TA maintained a distance and called in for assistance.

The subject holding the camera hammer was mentally unstable and talking loudly.

The Security Operations Center observed what was happening live when they live viewed into the cameras on the train, and they dispatched police officers.

At the same time, a call came in that there was a subject sleeping on another train, and an armed security officer responded to that call.

It is very common to have multiple incidents being handled simultaneously, which was the case in this incident.

RTPS, our sworn police officers responded directly to the incident, arresting the subject.

The response was from a distance, as the officers drove directly to intercept the train.

We are in communication with our contracted deputy district attorney requesting up-to-date information about prosecution on the subject.

Next public comment.

Please also share that as a result, I was dropped off at the wrong location.

Even though one person made a complaint at the last board meeting, we took it seriously and acted immediately.

I want to be clear, English proficiency has always been a requirement under our current contract with User.

What we've done now is work with them to strengthen how that standard is verified and enforced.

In response, you serve launched a nationwide English language screening program, which began here in Sacramento in October and will be fully implemented December 2nd.

Any driver who doesn't meet reading, speaking, or comprehension standards is permanently removed from the platform.

Our new request for proposal does not replace that requirement.

It reaffirms and clarifies it.

It also adds stronger oversight by requiring ADA and safety training and full integration with our dispatch system for a real-time monitoring.

These actions ensure accountability, clear communication, and a better overall rider experience.

Next public comment: the bus tracker application does not inform if a bus is canceled.

Can you address this?

SACRT's bus tracker application and website both provide real-time information to help passengers stay informed.

Passengers can visit SACRT.com and select the service alerts page to view current updates on route cancellations, delays, and other service disruptions in real time.

For more personalized notifications, passengers can download the SACRT bus tracker app where they can track buses live to see where their vehicle is in real time, subscribe to their regular routes and receive text or email alerts about service impacts, including cancellations, access a direct link to SACRT.com through each alert to view exactly what trips are affected.

If a rider does not receive alerts or needs help downloading the app, they can contact our customer service team for assistance.

Our customer service team can help troubleshooting alert settings and ensure passengers are subscribed correctly to receive updates.

SACRT is committed to making sure riders have accurate, up-to-date information about their service, both through the bus tracker app and SACRT.com.

Next public comment.

How could the 164 million from the streetcar plan be used in a more incremental way?

Our VP of real estate and chief of staff, Chris Flores spoke with the person who made the public comment on October the 29th, and now that gentleman has a better understanding of the project.

The cost providing public transportation services fall into two main categories: operating expenses and capital expenses.

Like most transit agencies, SACRT pursues capital discretionary grant programs to fund capital expansion projects.

SACRT has received a variety of funds to support the streetcar connector to West Sacramento, including the state TIRCP grant program and Federal Capital Investment Grant Program.

These funds must be spent to construct the streetcar project, or the region would forfeit the outside investments from the feds and the state.

So I think we have a question.

And we are working very diligently with the all departments, including FTA and state and the two CTs to make sure we will make that happen.

The plan was, you know, to be in the construction by September next year, but uh giving the very clear direction now, you know, we probably needed to further expedite on that.

I just wanted to share with the board about this new development.

I suppose next slide.

Public comment.

Why isn't there better bus service to James Rudder Middle School?

Our planning employee emailed and called the person who made the public comment following the last board meeting.

James Rudder Middle School is currently served by Route 68, seven days a week from 6 a.m.

to 10 p.m.

It has a 30-minute frequency Monday through Saturday between CRC and Arden Fair and then one hour frequency on Sunday.

This route does not provide a direct connection from the vicinity of Elkgrove Lorne and Gerber Road.

SACRT Flex does operate in the vicinity, which is a shared mobility service for seniors disabled, low-income or low-income youth 13 to 17.

Staff staff explained that at this time SACRT does not have sufficient funding to increase bus service.

However, we also share that during the SACRT Board of Directors meeting on October 27th, SACRT staff presented the results of an outreach campaign that asked what the community would want to see from SACRT should the revenue from a sales tax of any size go to SACRT beginning 2026.

SACRT currently receives one-fifth of one penny sales tax revenue by comparison to our peers who receive five to nine times more.

And we will also need to identify an additional funding source to increase bus service.

Next slide.

Public comment.

Three operators have been cut by the new bus bears.

We check with bus operations, safety and risk, and no one has received any reports for operators being injured on these bus bearers.

The bus uh operators and the union were highly supportive of these new barriers and helped select the actual barrier chosen.

These barriers have been very well received by staff for the safety and security they provide.

Public comment.

How is homelessness being addressed?

Homelessness is a nationwide issue.

At SACRT, we hired a social service social services practitioner, Rose Artiaga.

She continues to support individuals experiencing homelessness who reside near SACRT infrastructure or utilize our transit system.

She manages a caseload of approximately 100 clients, many of whom she interacts with on a regular basis.

We recently onboarded a part-time intern from Sacramento State Social Worker Program to assist Rose in her daily responsibilities and gain field experience.

Together, they conduct outreach in the field, ride the trains to engage individuals experiencing homelessness.

Fair assistance is provided only to clients with whom Rose has an established working relationship.

This ensures accountability and adherence to SACRT's rules and ordinances.

Previously, daily ride passes were distributed at community events without verification of an individual's impact on system security and safety.

This practice has been terminated.

Rose and Porter deliver on-track safety training to every unhoused individual they encounter using educational materials from Operation Lifesaver.

This outreach promotes rail safety and helps reduce trespass trespassing incidents, lowering the risk of injuries to operators, passengers, and the public.

Additionally, Rose collaborates with the safety department who utilizes forensic cleaning to support the cleanup of encampments on SACRT property every Wednesday.

Lastly, as we shared during a summer board meeting, SACRT is negotiating terms of a potential safe parking program at a portion of our Franklin Light Rail Station.

SACRT drafted a lease agreement and sent it back to the city in September.

We are still awaiting any feedback or edits from city staff.

Now I would like to introduce the VP of Marketing, Deborah Salinas.

Thank you, Lisa.

I thought I would give Lisa a little bit of break today and provide an update on the one item related to communications, specifically our phase two public outreach and sharing our story.

As you heard previously, we've done a lot of great work, but a lot of people don't know about it, and that will be all included in our phase two communications.

And as most of you know, over the last decade, SACRT is among the most ambitious and cutting-edge transit agencies in the nation, implementing a series of historic and transformative actions in a fiscally responsible manner.

As we heard from members of the public, we need to share that story in a meaningful way using solid examples of our great work.

Specifically, our story will be told in four pillars, as I outlined previously at the last meeting.

As a reminder, the four pillars we will build our story on include safety and security record.

Specifically, SACRT decided nearly a decade ago, in order to attract more riders, we had to improve safety and offer riders a greater sense of security.

And I know some of you were on the board at the time.

And our crime rate, although Lisa stole my thunder a little bit, you saw that specifically, it's on the board.

I won't read that part, but it is very low and is specifically very low compared to other transit agencies in the nation.

To accomplish this, we doubled our security team to nearly 200 personnel and created a multi-level security network designed to prevent nuisance behavior and fare evasion that includes over 2,000 cameras and my personal favorite, The Voice of God.

These efforts resulted in SACRT receiving seven of the top national safety and security wards in recent years.

Our next pillar is fiscal responsibility and trust.

Almost 10 years ago, the SACRT board and CEO Henry Lee affirmed a core commitment, putting customers first by delivering a clean, safe, and convenient transit service.

The vision launched one of the largest capital projects in our history, the light rail modernization and expansion project, upgrading our aging 40-year-old light rail system.

In many ways, it's remarkable that the project progressed as far and as fast as it has, especially since SACRT envisioned the program nine years ago.

There was absolutely no funding set aside to implement this.

With that short time, within that short time, we managed to secure nearly one billion dollars in funding to significantly modernize and expand our light rail system.

Rolling out new modern new low floor light rail vehicles, completing platform upgrades on the gold line, and introducing 15-minute light rail service to Folsom area stations.

Now that is a turnaround story that we want to share.

SACRT has also worked hard to restore internal fiscal stability, going from being in the RED a decade ago to now having a solid annual reserve, not only earning us the 2019 Good Governance Award from the Sacramento Taxpayer Association.

Thank you very much, Director Schaefer.

Although you weren't director then, so we really appreciate it.

We are happy to have you.

Over the last few years, and especially not only that, we also were ranked as the most trustworthy public entity over the last few years in recent public polling.

Next is community value.

We heard from the public that we need to keep fares affordable for seniors, persons with disabilities, and students.

And so, with our community partners, we launched the nation's most comprehensive fare-free for student youth program, dramatically boosting ridership and laying the groundwork for academic and economic success for generations to come.

Not to mention potential new riders for the future.

This program not only supports working class families by getting kids in grades TK through 12 to school, jobs, and after school activities, it ensures schools receive funding through improved attendance, helps eliminate residential isolation, improves mental health, and it provides congestion relief by taking cars off the road for up to 320,000 eligible student families.

Last year alone, there were over 5 million trips taken.

That's a significant reduction in congestion, CNG.

It's just an overall improvement for climate as well.

Also, our fares remain affordably flat, affordable and flat, with no increase for the last seven years.

In fact, we implemented a 10% fare reduction in August 2018, rolling back fares for the first time in our 50 plus year history.

And I believe, if I'm not mistaken, we might be the only transit to, I think, have done that at all to even roll back fares.

Aside from COVID, where it was free, they rolled back that and then they went back to regular standard fairs.

When we talk about community value, I should also point out that SACRT has stepped up to help our community when they need it most, providing Wi-Fi enabled buses during COVID to help bridge the information gap.

And most recently, we are providing free rides to SNAP recipients using our fair free ride flyer to help them get to food distribution centers during the federal shutdown, especially to help help them save money.

Because if you have to make a choice between food and transportation, that's a big deal for people who aren't having SNAP benefits.

And finally, we have needs.

I touched on this a little bit at the last meeting, and Lisa also just stole my thunder with us as well.

SACRT only receives one fifth of a penny in local sales tax, and we do not have a dedicated transit tax of funding source, like many of our peers, such as Portland, LA, and BART, which our services are often compared to.

We all, you know, we've asked people, a lot of in our surveys, you know, give us an example of a great transit system, and those three are often used to compare SAC RT.

Local funding is critical to leverage state and federal dollars to focus on fix-it-first data good repair priorities, which are also priorities stated by our riders and committee members in recent surveys.

These are just a few notable examples of the many stories SACRT will continue to share as part of our outreach moving forward.

And that concludes my presentation.

I'll have Blanca present as well.

Thank you.

We continue with the break and letting Lisa take take a quick second down there.

We received a comment about cancellations on Route 81 on the passport meeting, and I want to take this time to provide an update on cancellations overall.

Um, where we stand, how we prepare how we compare to the industry and what we are doing about it.

For Route 81 specifically, we review the data for September.

Out of 2,476 total trips for the month, 72 were canceled, which represents roughly about 3% of the route of service on that specific route.

While any cancellations affect riders, Route 81 operates 15 every 15 minutes.

So when a trip is missed, the next bus come shortly after.

We make these decisions intentionally to minimize passenger impact, focusing on protecting routes with longer headways, where a single cancellation could double someone's wait time.

Last year in 2024, SACRT averaged 1.24 percentage in cancellations.

This year we've already brought that down to 0.66%.

It's a 50% improvement.

Across the industry, most large agencies range between one and three percent.

So we're performing better than many of our peers, which shows the progress the progress we've made so far this year.

When cancellations do happen, the main causes are operator absences and increase in sick leave usage following the new stage law SB 616, which limits how employers can address excessive use of accrued sick time.

This has required stronger scheduling measures and more proactive communication with staff.

We've also seen seasonal patterns with school when schools are back in session or during the holidays off absences tend to rise.

In addition, some cancellations occur because of light road modernization projects where we provide the bus bridge support, and we need to temporarily reassign some of those operators to do the bus bridges.

To manage all of this, we're very intentional about where cancellations occur.

When we must cancel, we do we do so in our higher franquency minute fit.

So we we pick the the most frequent routes, which is usually the 81, the 51, and the and the route one.

They run every 15 minutes.

Compared to the hour, we are doubling somebody's time if we're canceling once only one trip.

So we we are intentional about which service we we cancel.

Um we also protect the longer um the first and last trip of the routes for the day, um, so we can ensure that service starts and ends dependably through this strategies combined with our hiring efforts and attendance tracking.

We've cut cancellations in half and position secret ahead of the industry average and real ability.

And that's all for me.

And now I'll pass it on to Alga Sanchez, our general counsel.

I have the the I think I have the last slide.

Um a public comment was made at the last meeting.

Um can you please provide connect card materials to the MAC before implementation and signing of contracts?

There was also a statement made by the speaker that uh there is a policy that we provide um that information to the MAC before a contract is awarded.

Um, there is that isn't a policy of the agency.

So I just wanted to clarify that.

Um, and you know MAC is a very valuable advisory body for us, and we very much value their input.

Um, but as a public agency, SACRT must follow strict state and federal statutory and regulatory procurement requirements that largely preclude SAC RT from obtaining input from a third party that is not part of the formal procurement selection panel during the procurement bid evaluation and selection process.

So it would not be appropriate for uh SAGRT to seek MAC input before making a final recommendation on award of a contract or execution of the contract.

Um, SACRT will can and will continue to seek input from the MAC when it is legally appropriate and consistent with our statutory and regulatory procurement requirements with regard to the question of uh providing uh a presentation or information regarding the connect car tap-to-play um tap to pay uh program.

We had prepared a presentation to go to the Mac last month, but they canceled the meeting and uh it has been rescheduled, so we do plan to um meet with the Mac on the 20th of November to go through the implementation plan for that program.

So, and now I don't know if I hand it back to Lisa to close it out or close it out.

Thank you.

All right, um, director questions looking to the left.

There we go.

I um I am an RT user, and when you mentioned that um the conversation about telling your story, I think that is definitely something that can be um I improved because RT um there are many positive things that do happen.

You have very friendly ambassadors, there are very friendly operators, and maybe sometimes shedding on that may um uh give people the interest to use um RT as opposed to having this belief that that it's uh unsafe.

You know, I I've been using it for uh 11 months now, and um I haven't had an incident where I felt unsafe, but I think that belief is that it's out there, and so maybe making shedding light on some more of those positive things that happen and the good things that RT provides our um area.

That's it.

Thank you.

Anyone else here on the left?

Uh no questions.

Did you no questions but comments as well?

I just want to thank your staff again.

Um they're always so quick to respond to users' complaints.

And unfortunately there are complaints.

But even just hearing today, making those well, they're not little things, but making those little things big things by bringing them to the attention to the board and telling us and following up on that loop of communication and how you handled it.

That helps us articulate when we get one-on-ones with people.

I felt this.

I'll talk a little bit more about the conference that I went with to with Henry, but I felt that when people heard I was from SAC RT.

So I just I just want to thank Henry and all the staff that continues to do that.

Such great customer service.

So I really appreciate it.

Anybody else on the left?

Any questions or comments?

Yes, Director Dickinson.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Um I do have a question.

About oh, 12 years or so ago, re regional transit was the beneficiary of legislation to allow excluding disruptive passengers, state legislation.

And I'm curious if you can first of all uh just uh update us on the status of of that.

I assume it's still uh applicable.

Um and then and then um secondly uh since I don't recall the provisions exactly of that legislation, uh could it be used uh for the disruptive passengers that engage in the the verbal uh altercations with with the transit ambassadors uh as a basis for uh exclusion from riding.

So um here, yeah, you're talking about um section 99170 and section 99171 of the public utility code, which provides us the authority to establish a prohibition order process, and um we we did not avail ourselves of that provision, but we are currently in the process of uh basically bringing it in into our system and um adopting it so that we can um issue prohibition orders.

The challenge with the statute is that in order for us to issue a prohibition order, we have to have an individual who is cited, for example, cited three times within a 90-day period, um, so that uh violating certain infractions and um and you know, we have to keep track of that, and then we go through the process and then you issue a prohibition order, and then you have to go through a whole process of like you have to wait 10 days for this and 10 days for that.

And so I think um there was a lot of frustration on the part of the folks who were gonna have to monitor this, and that's why I think we we didn't um avail ourselves of it.

But we are now in the process of doing it.

I think that things have gotten worse in terms of behavior of certain people.

It will be difficult it would be difficult, I think, to say um that anybody who engages in a verbal assault of our office of any of our operators or any or transit ambassadors would be prohibited because they'd have to violate one of our policies and have um and have a uh citation issued to them, and then we have to track it, and then we have to make sure that they, you know, did they get three citations in this 90 day period?

And but we're gonna do our best to um to do what we can to cite people and effectively track this so that we can prohibit as many people as we can who are engaging in this very bad behavior.

It's just a few people, but they create problems and they uh make people feel unsafe.

Well, I appreciate I appreciate the the challenges and of course the there was a balancing uh in in the legislation of trying to keep riders and and uh transit staff safe while also not excluding people who really needed to use transit as their form major form of transportation, and of course that was a bill sponsored by RT.

Yeah.

But uh but uh, you know, if if uh there are there are riders who are uh engaging in that kind of behavior, uh I think it's worth it to cite them.

Uh uh and I suspect that if if they think they can get away with that, that they'll do other things that actually escalate and and get worse.

So uh I realize it it may be procedurally cumbersome or even burdensome but in the long run it may it it may be uh important and worth it um to take on that burden uh and not and not have our staff putting up with that kind of behavior and certainly not expected to absorb that kind that kind of uh abuse was it was not it was a great piece of legislation as I remember but the author sir I was one of that for the records um just you want to respond I just wanted to add to that you know crystal and I've been working on this for a really long time and so the the restraining order was something that we pushed hard for we worked together on and we got it and the banning it's the right time it's the right time it's the right time that we we dial back on the free passes to anybody and everybody it's the right time that we hold people accountable it is a very big lift to do this but we're gonna we're gonna get we're gonna do it we're gonna be effective and we're gonna be able to protect our our operators and our passengers because of it.

Just want to uh director than you just wanted to provide our data with historical information about eight nine years ago when we start to um to enforce our system uh I believe you know uh you know multiple board members still here you know uh you know uh give us a very you know strong direction in 2001 and 18 at two years we issued lots of citations one state statistics I remember was the whole county is citation the court citation we account for one and a half of the whole country citation that actually helped us tremendously and we also developed uh paid fair zoom uh policy so anybody who was in our station if we do not have a paid fair TK will pass whatever we you know ask them needed yeah that policy actually it was very effective just wanted to add a little bit historic information thank you any other questions or comments on the right uh we'll open up to public comments okay we have Robert Copeland okay first I want to talk about public safety if the passengers don't feel safe on a like rail train or a bus they're not gonna write it uh my choice if you got a pro a person that's sleeping and somebody having a hammer you have to want the hammer you don't go after a sleeper I'm sorry if that's happening that's a black mark on RT.

Also let's just say a few other things.

I think uh RT needs to be improved a lot I know you don't have the money to do it.

Thank you.

And oh I'm sorry.

Crystal McGeely afternoon madam chair ladies and gentlemen board public I only have two minutes um Lisa said a lot today was the day that a transit ambassador we found out that uh district attorney wasn't gonna file charges against them today.

So two homes were destroyed.

I reached out and I I reached out and I I sent a letter to some of the board members and you know apologize that I didn't send it to every one of you.

And what I said in the letter basically I wrote a whole bunch of stuff down and then I got up and I thought about it.

I've been here 20 years and the reason I'm still here safe is because I I was able to navigate the transit ambassadors and we do have transit officers, and I don't know how many of the board know that they're transit officers as well.

We just had one recently, not too long ago, um, retire.

And I understand that we have a million dollars, but I'm not privy to see how the breakdown is.

Maybe you're maybe to see how the breakdown is.

And the modest, when I looked up modest, it said unassuming.

That's the definition of modest.

And so I have here this modest agreement, MOU, that I have to say to my transit ambassadors, it's a modest, but we want you to still work.

We want you to still go out there.

They're trying to improve.

We have a program, so why not use it?

I have a contract.

The transit officers are in there.

You say that we don't have the budget, and I get it.

Maybe we don't have the budget, but you still have those transit ambassadors who're gonna be out there tomorrow.

This MOU doesn't start to next year.

The modest doesn't start to next year, but the abuse is still today.

Right now, we can do it better.

Thank you for letting me share.

I'm not staffed, I don't have in 15 minutes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any others?

That's all the public.

Alright, any follow-up questions or anything?

All right, we will move on to our next item.

This was just informational, so no board action needed.

Um, public comments or agenda items not on the agenda.

Okay, Robert Copeland.

Okay, I have a question for RT.

Do you have any uh people at RT staff that do customer service that speak other than Spanish or English?

Because there are a lot of people in Sacramento County that speak Vietnamese, Hamong, uh Russian, Ukrainian, and various other languages.

So, how would they get right on the like say a pair of transit type system?

If they can't speak the language and the driver don't speak the language, I'm kind of confused on that.

Also, if you want to do uh a sales tax, you've got to get uh uh organizations that support like uh SECMA transit writers unit.

I don't know if they're still around or ACE, they had a public uh transit committee, but I don't see them.

I don't know if they even still do it.

Thank you.

Also, my final comment, this is for the uh not for RT board, but for the city councils and the county board supervisor.

You want better RT, but system, you've got to provide more low-income housing development.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any more?

Uh Troy Wilkinson.

Hey everyone, how's it going?

Um, thank you for letting me speak.

I just wanted to uh sort of touch back on um the customer service thing.

I think it's really great how quickly these things are um being addressed in that they're you know, you guys are talking to us.

I was the individual that commented on the um streetcar, and it's fantastic.

I mean, to be able to publicly comment and then a day later uh get deeper information about it and quell some of the uh sort of issues I have with the project, but you know, some still outstanding, but generally just the fact that the next meeting you're following up on all of these public comments uh is fantastic, I think.

And I don't know how many other, you know, other city council does this or not, but uh it seems pretty rare to have that.

Um the only other thing or two other things that I wanted to address is one talking about the transit ambassadors.

I've witnessed two instances of yeah, verbal uh and sort of not so great instances of uh them really having to force someone who is not wanting to be forced off of the train and that kind of altercation.

It's not maybe always, but it does happen, and I am curious.

You know, those statistics are so hard to pair up with our anecdotal experiences.

Um, and yeah, other than that, we recently um I'm speaking as a member of Strong Sack Town, and we have a transit group.

Uh that group went on a little excursion to uh um to Hazel Avenue, a little skate room uh trip to just kind of get people involved in transit.

It was a fairly good experience.

We had some hiccups uh mainly with trying to change cars mid-trip uh to connect with another member, the doors shut.

Um we tried to leave change cars and the doors went open again.

So that was a sort of issue that we had.

But thank you for your time and I appreciate it.

Thank you.

LR Roberts.

So um I'm part of dog fight and have been for a long time.

So that's myself, Robert, Helen who isn't here tonight, um, and Jeff.

And I wanted to let you know that Jeff was crossing a crosswalk and got hit by a car, and the person didn't stop and drove off.

First said, Are you hurt?

And then after he said, Yes, I am, um, she drove off.

So he's in uh a nursing home right now, so that's one thing.

Um, and then um the next thing is um I was in midtown and happened to park across the street from your uh engineering office, and there was a homeless person starting a fire in the doorway to get warm.

And uh one thing I do is pass out hand warmers.

So I went around the other side of the building to find a door to knock on the door and say, Hey, you need to come put this out.

And I knocked on three different doors.

People saw me.

I'm big as you can see.

I pounded on the door and screamed, and people saw me and wouldn't come to the door to find out what I wanted.

So finally at the third door I went to, somebody said, Oh, yeah, we put the fire out.

But if someone sees you pounding at the door and saying it's an emergency, come out and find out what they want.

Um, and then the last thing that we talk about a lot at dog fight is you guys buy some equipment, and then we find out it's not wide enough for the wheelchairs involved, or the button isn't where someone in a wheelchair can press it.

So we don't want to hear excuses about why you can't talk to us first.

You know, I I sure don't want to hear that one again.

Thank you.

And Michael Bebbins.

Hi, everybody.

Uh, first off, uh, can you guys see me?

Um, sometimes we don't work clothes and I kind of blend in, but today you can see me.

I'm all right.

Okay, I assume so.

Um, I appreciated the presentation from the last uh board meeting about the potential tax measure, uh, that maybe you don't want to do it through the county, but maybe if you had a citizen organization, I would suggest that you might still consider the countywide if it uh what I'm thinking.

I was months, a year ago at the county still has the problem.

I assume county board members are here that they can't afford to pave county roads.

And I was thinking, well, we need an RT tax.

What if we combine the two?

You can maybe somebody'd be interested in raising their taxes.

They know their road that they're traveling on mostly is gonna get fixed.

And the priority would be those that have bus lanes would get the ones priority of.

And if there's a high traveled corridor that doesn't currently have a bus, power in road goes from Elk Grove to the Powerland station, and there's lots of traffic, but no bus line, a little bit of bus line on 61, but no through one.

That would be a place if the transit thing passed, you could put a bus line there.

Serves a it would serve a lot of people.

And then also combining other things, uh, tourism.

What is the SAC RT's relationship with the tourism office?

If you're a tourist, you come into Sacramento, you should be able to get on a light rail train or a bus that kind of just goes to the major tourist spots, kind of a loop route, just to get the tourist money, and also spines, new corridors that either bisect the county and or rim route goes around.

If you want to get from the regional transit, if you want to get from Folsom to Elk Grove, you really can't do it effectively.

What if there was a short flight?

Elk Grove, once an hour, just start small with a small bus from Elk Grove to Folsom to Citrus Heights to the airport back down to downtown Sacramento.

Time's up, thank you.

Thank you.

That's all the public comment.

Great.

Want to thank everyone for your comments and looking forward to updates on that at the next Slack RT meeting.

With that, we will go on to our next item 6.1 information on report regarding contract change order number 24 to the contract for construction of the Dos Rios light rail station with DMZ builders.

And there's no presentation on this item.

The information is provided in the staff report.

And Henry Equat Uka is available if there's any questions.

Alright, opening it up for questions from directors.

Look at the left, looking to the right.

All right, seeing none.

Public comment on this?

No public comment.

Great.

Thank you.

Next item is our general manager's report.

Good evening, Madam Chair, board, and the public.

So I have a brief uh report.

So you saw the picture of Director and uh the Anna Robert and our AVP of IT and myself attended uh CTAs uh annual conference in Long Beach last week, and uh we uh we were busy.

And uh the picture on the left side uh uh is the picture we were with uh our FTA regional uh administrator, FTA regional administrator, Mr.

Ray Tennis.

And we had uh uh quite productive conversation about everything, especially the uh uh street car project.

And uh I briefed uh Congresswoman this morning, you know, have a meeting with her, and she committed to help us, you know, on you know, any hurdles we need to overcome.

And then um, you know, director robot and I had uh visited our vendors, Yusuf and Heating AI and a whole bunch of other, you know, uh uh partlers.

Uh, next one, please.

Uh the caterer speaker uh for this meeting uh is our former secretary of DOT, Pete Butterj.

He did a great job.

And I had an opportunity to talk to him for a couple minutes about you know the grants, you know, and his leadership.

He probably gave us about 600 million dollars uh in his term, and specifically last year, 77 million dollars local grant, the bus and bus facility, and we got a quite large amount, 77 million dollars made, not that big.

The first, you know, uh the the biggest award is what 99 million dollars, that is for the UJZ transit, which is a statewide transit.

And the second uh largest grant is uh 78 million dollars for AOA Metro.

AOM metro is seven times larger than us.

No, we got 77 million dollars.

That is a quite large amount, and I thank him and appreciate his leadership, and uh um then this year we're gonna 36 million dollars for the street car project again, you know, and uh so okay.

So then uh I uh uh participate a panel uh talk about uh our innovations and uh one is our heating AI and uh you know we may not um really uh promote this enough in the top five busiest bus stops since we implemented bus uh ultimate enforcement program early this year by using the heating AI, the reduction of incidence for those five bus stops is 89% reduction, and the one station uh used to have uh in the last year, before, you know, uh it's about 2,000 incidents or the in equal parking in that particular bus stop right now is about 90% reduction.

So it's it's a very good, you know, uh uh program, the AI program, and now we just get an FAA permission to have uh AI drones program to monitor our critical infrastructure, and we hope that will help us to further strengthen our safety program down the road.

And uh know about like uh two to three hundred people in that panel, which is a very good uh conversation with our peers.

Next slide, please.

Uh we start our podcast next stop, SACAT for two sessions.

Each month we'll get one.

I did the first, then we had one with the downtown partnership, and uh uh it's about 20 minutes you know, uh podcast, talking about lots of great things and our plan, our future, you know, projects, whatever, and try to energize the community.

For the sake of time, we're not gonna play that 20 minutes podcast.

Next slide, please.

Uh Aftershark.

Last month we had a wonderful aftershark music festival, and you see how many people there uh we carried about 12,000 rides.

Uh the whole yellow uh event with about uh 170, over 170,000 people and uh bringing about 35 million dollars economic, you know, impact for the region, and uh uh it's a wonderful event.

And we were able to work with the organizers to you know uh paid us a little bit, you know, cost to offset our cost and uh uh you know virtually you know uh charge a little bit on each ticket for our you know service.

Uh it's a great progress.

Uh next one, please.

Well, November 1st and 2nd, we had uh we participated in the Autumn Lenton Festival in our power-in station.

This is one of the largest Asian cultural events uh in this region.

10,000 people attend that for two lights.

We have some board members joined that we did not take pictures, so uh I I don't know you know how many board members attended.

So I'm not gonna name names.

You know, but I know you know uh uh you know Patrick uh director Hill and director Kennedy must have attended, and I don't know others, so uh next one please for some 20 years celebration last month, and we uh were able to celebrate uh the full sum library you know uh service for 20 years, and uh appreciate your uh director robot and uh mayor, you know, aquel acquirer attending uh the celebration and uh uh it's quite you know uh historical event.

Yeah, next one.

Uh talking about you know uh you know our library service, and we had the uh start November 1st and uh to uh this Saturday, you know, 15 days we had uh temporary you know service disruption on you know uh for the dose rail uh station construction.

The construction, dose rail station construction is on time and on budget.

And uh soon, you know, we're going to resume the service on Sunday, November 16th for the uh bus service for the uh for the you know uh Blue Line service for that section.

Uh that been the next slide, please.

And uh last month is our customer appreciation, you know, yellow month, and we attended lots of activities, and uh we appreciate our customers, you know, uh writing with us and to try to help us and uh to bring this you know whole community together.

And uh uh we'd really appreciate that.

And beside that when we talked earlier, I talked about you know uh the CTA annual conference in September.

We had two, you know, board of members who attended uh our appt and new conference in Boston, uh director him and the director shift for attend that event.

Uh heard, you know, some grit senses and some grid pictures.

We did not get a chance to show you all board meeting.

We need to get some pictures from you next, you know.

Uh GM report, we can show, you know, uh some great things uh for you guys.

Uh uh being said, you know, uh I think that's concrete my report.

Thank you.

My only question is a director Schaefer wears cowboy hat.

Did you wear your cowboy hat?

No.

He always wears it, that's why.

It's a little more.

Yeah.

Summer time.

Weather was beautiful.

Lovely.

I imagine.

Umly opening it up for questions.

That was just, you know, lighthearted fun.

Any questions?

Yes, Director Him.

Uh thank you, Chair.

I was gonna save this for uh questions from uh directors, but since you brought it up, I was at the Caps Autumn Blantern uh festival at the Power In Station.

I thought it was a great activation of that space.

It was very well attended from what I could see on the day that I was there.

But while I was there, I happened to notice this very vacant large parcel uh right next door.

And then uh a couple days later, a week or so later, happened to be driving down power in and I saw the parcel again and I go, I gotta look up and see who owns that because that'd be a perfect spot for TOD.

Well, imagine my surprise when I pull it up on Parcel Viewer, and that's owned by RT.

So uh I would like uh information and it can be offline of what our plans for that uh remainder parcel are, um, because obviously we have a very large station there as it stands, so there's a lot of parcel that's being underutilized at this point.

A lot of jobs in that area, and a lot of jobs in that area.

We surplused that property about two years ago and tried to work with uh you know some developers to do that.

Then for some reason there was some type of dispute, whatever.

So we did lay down that, but uh our you know uh uh TOD team is going to quickly, you know, redo that.

So yeah.

Great.

We will give you more details.

That's between the time, Marconians was between the jobs and the entertainment at that location.

It's a great location.

It should be a good magnet, yeah.

Any other questions from directors on this?

Public comment?

No public comment.

I think I'll have I want to add a few, no questions though.

Um a few things that I kind of picked up from the uh the CTA conference.

First of all, walking around with Henry is almost like walking around with the rock star there, and that's how uh people around the re leaders around the region see Stack RT.

So it was really good to get that um that perspective um of really how important we are to the region as a leader.

Um one of the things that Pete Budicek said, and he did do a great job.

He was the opening speaker is that our leadership is to balance and weigh decisions on safety and affordability, that that was really important to communicate on the wins and how it helps our businesses, suppliers, workforce, and community.

Um a couple of things Lisa Hein Hein said and Deborah Salinas also, did I get it right?

Uh said too um basically was reiterated throughout the conference, um, that this legislation, this uh administration um really is about safety, enhancing safety, accelerate project delivery and permitting reforms, increasing opportunity for economic growth, and to streamline public transit statutory and regulation requirements.

Um, and then it always went back to telling your story.

Um, so how can what can we do as board of directors and our staff?

Um, something we're already doing, um, be on a first name basis with our DC transportation people, um, but message how our product our projects meet the goals of those in decision-making power, so really have that end in mind.

Um and safety is the top of that list.

And um Lisa, you said it's the right time, and everything that I heard at the conference is you're exactly right, it is the right time to make sure that we are hitting that and even doing better than we already are.

Um, cleanliness was as important um as a revenue driver.

Um so one of the things about telling the story was tell the story by showing showing human impact behind the numbers, and I think that's in any marketing, as we know as politicians is important in our campaigns as well.

Um, but there's more to consider in telling the story.

Students are getting licenses later and later and should always be a priority, which I think we do a good job at as well.

People are using transit for more recreational use now more than ever.

Um, so that's a particular aspect.

I know that Henry uh we talked to Ray and he talked about how important the limics were gonna be coming up, the World Cup first in LA as a um a precursor to what they can do better for the World Cup and the Paralympics, and we'll be participating in that as well.

Um everyone is an expert in transportation.

That was one of my favorite things that I heard.

And if you're delivering something, people understand it makes sense to people.

Um, so transit, this is something Pete said as well.

Um transit connects us to the offline, which is a great way to build community.

So the good news is I'll leave it to the good news is the federal transit administration is there's no furloughs, and the grant reimbursements are still being funded.

So um, and I'll keep it at the good news, but there's a little nervousness at the beginning of the um conference, but I felt at the end there was a lot of hope and positivity and how to move forward in articulation of that.

So it was a really good, well-rounded event, and it was uh once again walking around with Henry was one of the most fun things.

So thank you, Henry.

For sharing that um, great feedback from the conference.

Any questions, comments?

You do.

You said there was no public comment, correct?

All right, we will then move on to let's see, item 8.1, Sacramento Plaza Real Transportation Corridor Joint Powers Authority meeting summary.

Director Budges, you want to offer?

No, you have my report.

Uh Director Rosario was there and ask her if she has any additions or comments.

Okay.

Excellent, thank you.

And finally, any um questions, comments on.

Yes, go ahead.

Just want to do a quick reminder that for tomorrow, uh, if you are active duty or if you're a veteran, there are free rides on Zach RT light rail and buses.

Um, so that's the friendly helpful reminder.

And for some of us that are on social media, once we see the that that post, please share it um foreign wide so folks are firmly aware of that that is available tomorrow.

Thank you for that reminder and yes, Director Rodriguez.

I just want to say that I um appreciate it being here today.

I'm a big fan of RT, and I also appreciate that you have the recognition um and awards in those who have retired.

I think it's really special when somebody, when you give 38 years, which was the longest year there, um, and and they you retire with the thank you and recognition.

So great job with that.

That's it.

Thank you.

And I my final comment would be I would invite um Deborah and the team.

You've got a very active user here in um Rosario Rodriguez with Lightrail coming for in from Folsom.

So those human testimonies and that uh power of that.

She would be a great voice for that.

So just putting that out there.

It would be so yes, I'm gonna do it.

Oh yeah, you know, I I so when I hear some of the presentations, and I actually watch your um, I watched your meetings um when I'm at home, and some of the comments that come up about you know the issues on RT, I think those are probably fewer, and you say you share some of the stats.

Those are fewer far between because a lot of more positive things do happen, and that was one of the things I shared earlier, is that it it is very pleasant to ride RT.

To me, I get that free hour of study time, and so it's you know, it's it's it's I enjoy RT.

All right, all right, thank you everyone.

We will go ahead and formally adjourn the meeting.

Have a good evening.

A little bit over overestimating, probably good.

How about that?