All right, thank you.

Good evening, everyone.

Welcome to the June 8th, 2026 meeting of the Sacramento Regional Transit Board of Directors.

Tabitha, would you please take the roll?

Director Brewer is absent.

Director Budge?

Yeah.

Director Dickinson is absent.

Director Hume?

Here.

Director Jennings.

Director Kennedy.

Director Maple.

Director Rorba.

Here.

Director Schaefer?

Here.

Director Cerna.

And Chair Sing Allen.

Here.

With that, we have a quorum of nine votes, and this meeting of the Sacramento Regional Transit District is recorded with closed captioning.

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

The recording will also be video streamed at Metro 14 Live.gov.

Today's meeting replays Saturday, June 13th at 1 30 p.m.

and Sunday, June 14th at 2 p.m.

on Metro Cable Channel 14.

Once posted, the recording of this meeting can be viewed on demand at YouTube.com forward slash metro cable 14.

Members of the audience wishing to address the board should fill out a speaker card located at the rear of the room and provide it to myself or Adam.

Once the item has been called, additional speaker cards will not be accepted.

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

The timer will chime when you have 20 seconds, and then again when your time is up.

Written public comment was received from Barbara Stanton, ridership for the masses on item 2.12.

They do not support the elimination of bus route 33 from Linda McKinnah, Bridgeway Towers Owners Association on item 4.1 with several questions regarding the budget and a comment from Ronnie Miranda on bus route 13.

And these comments have all been provided to the board.

Thank you.

And if the record can also reflect that Director Dickinson is here.

And is it we have uh this uh gentleman needs some assistance on filling out a speaker card if you can help with that?

I got it.

Okay, you got it.

All right.

Next up is our Pledge of Allegiance.

Um Director Jennings, would you please lead us?

If you're able, would you please stand?

What is the beginning of the bag of the United States of America?

Which spans one nation indivisible liberty and justice are all.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And just a quick note that staff would like to pull consent calendar item 2.13 off the agenda.

It will be brought back to the board at a later date.

With that, next up is our consent calendar items 2.1 through 2.18 minus 2.13.

Um any questions or comments from directors looking to the right?

Yes, Director Dickinson.

Can we just have a little discussion of 2.12 here?

Certainly.

We'll start with that without objection.

Oh, go ahead.

Okay.

I'll read the item into the record.

Resolution 2026 06076, approving a Title VI service equity analysis and adopting service changes to eliminate Route 33 and create Route 133 for August 2026.

Uh and it I know we had a comment on this from ridership for the masses from Barbara, and so maybe the staff can just uh talk about how ending this service dovetails with beginning service at the Dos Rios right light rail stop and how there's not a loss of uh mobility uh as a result of of this change.

So whoever whoever is the right person, okay.

Hi, I'm Laura Hamm, senior vice president of planning grants and procurement.

Um regarding this item 2.12, route 33 has provided connectivity for primarily for residents of Mirisval Village to the nearest available light rail station at Alcali Flat.

Well during the time that Dos Rios has been under construction.

Um, as was presented to the board when the Dos Rios project was approved.

The long-term plan was the elimination of Route 33, which is largely duplicative of the Dos Rios light rail station once it opened.

So it is not scheduled to end service until after the opening of the Dos Rios Light Rail Station.

In addition to that, the light rail will provide some service enhancements for the residents in the area, including later evening service, weekend service, and holiday service that the Route 33 does not provide today.

This this service really goes back to Ray Trethaway and trying to establish service long before actually anyone thought there might be a dose Rios station.

So you mentioned that it serves Marisol Village, but it goes actually further a little further west than that, does it not?

Yes, it does.

Um and as part of the proposal, we are preserving one AM trip and renaming the service route 133 to specifically serve um the opening of the Union Gospel mission.

I think the concern may be that those who are at the western tip of where the service has been will now have a multi-block walk to the Dos Rio station.

I I mean I infer from Barb.

Okay, I'll start over.

I infer from Barbara's comment that that's maybe the heart of the concern.

So uh what what changes in that regard in terms of of length of walk and uh um intervals of service.

I mean, how how does how does this really replace uh how does the new service to with the stop at uh the dose real station really replace the the 33 effectively?

I have I our planning staff and the the audience if we want to provide just a little bit more detail on the length of the walk compared to the Route 33.

Thank you.

Yeah, good evening, members of the board.

James Drake, senior manager of uh service planning, and uh yeah, depending on where one resides in Murrasol Village, the walk's gonna be variable.

I mean, if you're at the east edge, it's basically across the street.

If you're at the northwest corner of Mirasol Village, you know, Dos Rios and uh Richards Boulevard, um, that's about kind of the the farthest distance.

And I don't, you know, I don't have it in front of me, but I'd say that's probably a little over a thousand feet walk.

Didn't 33 though actually goes a little further west, doesn't it?

So uh Route 33 has one trip in the morning and one trip in the afternoon that goes off the normal route.

Just the one all the way over to Union Gospel Mission.

And it's just one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

And um that that's the uh trip that Laura mentioned.

Um is actually gonna be preserved.

Yeah, I understand the AM trip to be preserved.

But Dos Rios has been as far west as the 33 has has gone over the yeah, dos rios is the kind of the western boundary of it, yeah.

Dos Rio Street, okay.

So uh so about a two and a half block walk.

There about those uh at say dos rios and uh um the boulevard.

Yeah, and Richards Boulevard.

Okay, thanks.

Okay, thank you.

I'm gonna go to my public.

Okay, we have Helen O'Connell.

2.2, 2.3.

You'll ask you, you know, Harry to speak all on this one, you know?

Just two many more.

Um I would like sorry, Helen.

Can you speak on all of your consent calendar items?

I can try.

Okay.

Um I would like to um make a um supportive statement.

Um sometimes people think I don't um recognize things, so I'm here to do that.

Um I think the um the transit pass program is very important for the university students and the employees, so that they can manage to afford to go to the university.

Um I'm glad to see that um RT is still going to um reinstate the agreement, and as they admended it.

Um 2.3.

Second amendment.

So I suppose.

Okay, the environmental legal support for the downtown river front streetcar project.

I know that it's taken a long time to get the river front streetcar project up and running.

But I would like to know how many environmental things did we have to do over and over this downtown streetcar.

It seems to have had to do a whole bunch.

I got 2.6.

I don't really understand what the um title three administrative code for the Sacramento Regional Transit District Board rules and procedures is about.

Um I couldn't really figure it out.

And I think that the rules and procedures of all of RT stuff should be followed and not negated by filing things late and making it an emergency to where the procedures and the protocol aren't being followed.

Next one, I'm gonna skip to 2.8.

Um the Los Rios light rail station has gone through a lot of different amendments and changes for the construction.

Um did we not do something right the first time that we have to do things over and over again?

Um all of these kinds of things take up extra money just because somebody didn't dot their I's and cross their T's and checked check the small print before they got started.

Um I am in support of the fair equivalent and approving this transfer agreement with the Capitol Um Corridor Joint Powers of Attorney Authority.

I'm sorry.

Um that I think that would be a really good deal.

Um item 12 2.12.

There is um not just the issue of canceling a route, but the route serves an underserved part of the um public, and it is very difficult for um people that are um home challenged to be able to get two services.

Um the union gospel mission is way far away from where they need to go to get services um and limiting it to once a day, they have to be out of there by six o'clock, but they have to be back by six o'clock at night too.

So how do they do that if the bus doesn't run both ways?

Just a comment, and we only got two responses to um the survey kind of thing.

They asked for responses, and uh, according to my friend Barbara, there were only two, and one of them um was an RT employee.

So that's that that shows me that it may not have gotten out to the people that are really being affected by the change okay I'm I'm a proponent of 2.13 um supplemental paratransit service and we're pulling that so we'll see that when it comes back 2.16 is the um the tr executing student transit pass I am very supportive of that decision that we don't scrap that because if you are a young person and you hop the train just because it's closer and you don't have fare you're liable to get into that um young people in the corrective um system and then they can never really get out of that revolving door so I'm very supportive that you have um chosen to continue that service I'm also yeah that's it that would be the 17 let's see oh 17 I had a question on 217 um are these amendments the contract changes on number seven thirty seven and thirty eight um i'm not sure how many others things have been upgraded rethought redesigned um again are we using our money which is limited to the to the uh to the fullest is extent or are we buying things figuring out that it's not working and have to redo it okay that's it thank you thank you next public comment and next we have Rick Hodgkins and Rick if you can just do the same you have 2.5 2.12 and 2.13 okay um 2.5 I can't remember what that one because I just know the the numbers but I am um and I also have 2.1 too I am also very concerned if we eliminate um even if the bus 133 serves the Dos Rios and uh Richards Township nine stations does it also serve um will it continue to serve loaves and fishes because I've taken the 33 to loaves and fishes on occasion even though I did it years ago I hope it'll still serve loaves and fishes um 2.1 um I would highly recommend that when it comes to the capital corridor that we have buses that are much more comfortable for going to and from Tahoe as well as more than just one a day because there are multiple capital corridor trains a day and also the um the what the transit watch app or the alert security app I would like I love that app I've had it for almost two years now I would like to be able to change the I would like to be able to to use the train alert sound rather than two two or three bongs and finally I'm glad 2.13 is being pulled off the agenda I'm against going with the uh transit knowing the complaints Jeff Tom and I heard about it so thank you thank you someone's retrieving the microphone with that we'll go on to our next public comment that's out the public comment on the consent calendar all right thank you.

Were there any additional comments from directors looking to the left and seeing none?

None to the right.

Thank you.

With that, I will look for a motion to pass consent.

I'll move uh the consent calendar um realizing that 2.13 has been pulled.

Okay.

Okay, we have a second.

We have a motion and a second.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Thank you.

Seeing no opposition.

All right.

Um, our next item, please.

The next item 3.1 customer service response to feedback and comments.

Lisa Hines and Blanca Orahu are here to present this item.

We're testing out a new teleprompter today.

So we can actually look up while we're presenting.

So bear with me as we get started here.

Chair Sing Allen, members of the board, I am Lisa Hines, Vice President of Security Safety and Customer Satisfaction.

I am presenting customer satisfaction responses to public concerns and comments.

Our first public comment.

How can display message signs be standardized and could the multi-display format used in vehicle 1582 be adopted for light rail?

Our IT department is actively working on a train and station refresh project that will standardize station and vehicle signage with real-time information.

As part of the project, we are going to replace all the legacy digital station signs with modern digital signage so that they are all consistent in color, lines, and display real-time train arrival information.

The board approved this project at the March board meeting.

What actions are SACRT taking to address traffic congestion in the region?

The best way to combat traffic, regional traffic congestion is to get people on transit.

One bus can take away 50 vehicles, one line rail train can take away 120 cars off the road.

With additional dedicated funding, local funding for SACRT, we can deliver more services, have faster connections and mobility choices that take cars off the road and ease traffic congestion.

Does the CEO authority to execute project agreements for the mid-town Sacramento Station project shift construction decisions to the CEO?

And how will stakeholders be informed before approval?

The item the board previously approved was a construction project agreement with the San Joaquin Regional Rail for their excuse me, their expansion of the gold runner service into Sacramento.

They are constructing a new midtown station at the tracks between 19th and 20th streets.

Next public comment.

Are the Siemens Fleet Monitoring, Sol Source Procurement, and the Capital Budget Amendment?

Excuse me, included in the city and county budgets.

SACRT is not incurring any cost.

Costs are being covered by the state transit assistant funds, STA funds, and no, these are not in the city or county of Sacramento budgets.

Next public comment.

What plans exist for the Swanston station, including potential hotel, affordable housing, and parking uses?

With the announcement of return to office for the state employees in July, SACRT will be monitoring the usage of our parking rights.

On June 1st, Director Dickinson convened a meeting with city staff and a number of affordable housing developers to discuss the future vision for both the Swanston and Marconi park and rights stations as well as adjacent city property.

We hope to see additional housing built on both sites in the near future.

Next public comment.

Please provide a report from the SACRT Go open house.

The SACRT Go Open House brought together more than 70 writers, advocates, community members, and stakeholders to provide direct feedback to the SACRT Go services.

Staff collected and reviewed all comments and questions.

And the key themes including reliability, customer service, accessibility, reservations, and communication.

Feedback from both the Open House and the SACRTICA website is being evaluated, and departments are developing action plans focused on operational training, communication, and process improvements.

Staff will continue to prioritize and prioritize the opportunities to enhance the customer experience and support the long term success of the SACRT Go program.

Next public comment.

How is SACRT addressing concerns about limited bike and wheelchair space on the new light rail vehicles?

We have recently launched a subcommittee to review our current policies on bicycles, strollers, and wagon usage on SACR SACRT trains and buses.

We will be looking at peer agencies, all data points, and then we will share with the community our thoughts to get feedback before any updates to the policies are made.

So more to come on that.

I wanted to provide a quick update.

There was a question about bringing SAC PD back.

SACRT no longer contracts with the Sacramento Police Department for Police Services as they had staffing issues and elected to cancel the contract with us.

We have solely contracted with the Sacramento Sheriff's Department since January 11th of this year.

I am very happy with the level of service that we are receiving from them.

With the goal of improving safety and security of our riders, the Sheriff's Department has focused on supporting employees, including transit ambassadors as well.

To date, the Sheriff's Department has made just at 200 arrests in that short time frame.

Three days after they took over the contract, they arrested our prolific copper thief.

So kudos to them, and I'm very appreciative of and thankful for their service.

Additionally, they have arrested and identified fair vending machine vandals, and they've conducted 29 investigations in that short time and made arrests on every investigation.

They are making a difference in our safety and security, and I see it, and I hope we all see it.

Okay, let's see.

And then the next update is our transit ambassador update.

I wanted to also take a chance to take the opportunity to provide a quick update.

We had two open houses for the TAs, and they were very heavily attended.

One of them had 90 people attend.

We had 700 people apply for our recent transit ambassador job posting.

We split that in half and interviewed the qualified candidates.

So I just helped and we wrapped up interviewing 70 people from that first group.

38 of the people were selected to move forward through the process.

The common theme throughout the interviews were that the candidates were very happy to get an opportunity to get a career position with SACRT.

They respected our agency and the opportunity to have career growth.

We currently to date have 45 transit ambassadors.

The next three-month transit academy for transit ambassadors will be July 16th, and we plan to hire 50 new TAs to reach a staff level of 60.

We're authorized 50, and we have 10 backup positions that are also authorized.

So we will hire to 60 with our goal of staying at 50 or above.

The TA's presence on the trains is having a positive effect on the writer's perception of safety and security.

Our writer shared this feedback via alert SACRT.

If you guys will recall, I mentioned that I put on the trains alert SACRT.

Please tell us how our transit ambassadors are doing.

Um this is one of the feedbacks that I'd like to share.

Umbassador Dodson is credited to the writer shared this alert, shared the feedback via alert SACRT.

Ambassador Dodson is a credit to the ambassadors.

He is always friendly and has a great personality.

What a great way to start the day.

Train 421B.

That concludes my presentation, and now I'll turn it over to Blanca Arojo for an update on SacroT Go service.

Okay, good evening, Chair Singh Allen and members of the board.

I wanted to provide a brief update on the Sacra TGO supplemental service procurement.

This has been a lengthy process that staff has been working on since August of 2025.

This procurement was not developed in isolation before the RFP was released.

We spent time gathering feedback from writers and shared the proposed scope of work with the mobility advisory committee for their review and input.

The mobility advisory committee review the proposed requirements and provided recommendations based on concerns they hear directly from writers and their own experiences using the service.

In addition, secret considered feedback receiving feedback received through customer complaints, comments raised during board, the board meetings, MAC meetings, writer outreach efforts, and input from our operational team.

Together, this feedback help shape the final scope of work.

We took that feedback seriously.

Several recommendations from the MAC members were incorporated into the final scope of work, particularly in areas related to ADA service expectations, door-to-door assistance, service, animal awareness, driver qualifications, vehicle identification, passenger safety, and customer service.

Those concerns help shape the requirements, including in the procurement.

Our goal was to establish clear expectations that any future contractor will be required to meet.

By incorporating these requirements into the contract, we created accountability.

These expectations are no longer just recommendations or best practices.

They become contractual requirements that the selected provider must meet.

This procurement reflects years of feedback from writers, advocates, MAC members, board discussions, customer complaints, and staff ex staff experiences.

That feedback helped shape the service requirement before a single proposal was ever submitted.

Once the RFP was released, our ability to discuss details became more limited.

Procurement rules require a fair and impartial process and to protect the integrity of the evaluation.

While we continue providing updates on the process itself, we could not discuss proposed detail scoring or evaluations until the procurement was complete.

Six proposals were received and evaluated throughout a competitive process that included written proposals and oral interviews.

The highest rank proposal was identified using the established evaluation criteria.

More recently, we received requests for additional information from members of the community regarding accessibility training, share rights, and the transition plan.

To allow additional outreach and discussion, as you saw, we recommended removing the item from the board agenda and returning to the Mac for a more detailed presentation and request presentation and question and answer session.

Ultimately, this procurement reflects the voices of our writers we serve and the feedback we receive help shape the requirements, strengthen accountability, and ensure that those expectations are built directly into the contract.

Thank you.

Any questions?

Okay, thank you.

All right.

Alright, um, let's see.

At this time I would like to announce that we will be opening the public hearing.

Um Tabitha, would you please read the item?

I'm sorry, we did have public comment on the customer service item.

Okay, you don't have it on here.

Oh Helen O'Connell 3.1.

Um, as far as it it pertains, the report pertains to the RTGO update supplementary service.

I am very glad that the um RT staff has um taken our requests from the public very seriously and have um brought it are going to bring it to the the mobility Advisory Council on June 18th to get a more in-depth um detailed description of what's going to um be included and not included um I'm glad that it it was not given to the board and then brought to the Mac board um that would have put it um out of the the oh I can't the protocol procedure and policy order.

Um I'm glad that this item has been done in the correct order.

Thank you.

That's all the public comment.

So just a general question for these for this item for this agenda item.

It this is where staff is reporting out on comments received from the public.

If we're going to allow public comments on public comments, if you can denote that, but yes, it's my understanding that we don't because there's precedence-wise, it's fine that we do, but if we are just let us know.

Okay, I'll add it.

Thank you.

Alright, thank you.

Alright, at now at this time we will be opening the public hearing.

Tabitha, would you please read the item?

4.1 public hearing and adoption of the fiscal year 2027 operating and capital budgets.

We will accept public comment, and then resolution 2026 06086 adopt FY 2027 operating in capital budgets.

And Jason Johnson is available for any questions.

Are there questions from my director colleagues here looking to the right?

Director Dickinson.

Thanks, Chair.

Our historian.

Well, I'm gonna avoid history hopefully here.

Um I did uh have a small bit of history though.

I think I recalled from uh the last meeting, which which was when we looked at this before.

Uh I thought I had asked if we could uh see the projected actuals for FY26.

And I I didn't spot those.

Were there's were those somewhere included in the material?

They were not included at this time.

We're still in the process of doing year end cleanup, and there's a lot of moving parts that are associated with that.

We did review the overall budget.

We're still within one percent of budget to actuals at this point.

Um, so it didn't trigger any other need for additional actions at this time.

Okay, I mean I understand you wouldn't have your your finals.

Uh obviously you can't have those until the the budget year closes out, so uh it really is a projection, but uh if if I understood what you said within each of the both revenue and expense categories, the expenses as projected for FY26 are running within one percent of the twenty-six budget.

Well both revenues and our and expenditure, so expenditures are within one percent, and then we have additional revenues to cover any overs within that one percent range as well this time.

I would consider that pretty remarkable.

Um either either you're astonishingly good at budgeting or or uh uh or you're cooking the books to make sure you're within a percent.

I'm not sure what we'll go with option one.

I'm not so I'm not surprised.

But Director Dickens and you know uh in the 10 years very much we met the budget.

Well actually we'll always be no to budget on it, but in last 10 years.

So we did you did a very good stuff, did a very good job.

Apparently.

Well, when we see your your finals, we'll we'll we'll well the truth will be revealed, huh?

Uh I think that was I think that was it.

I was just looking at um the uh capital budget, but uh uh that I think that was something else that um didn't didn't pertain to this evening.

So thanks, Chair.

Any other directors with questions?

Looking to the left here, seeing none public comment.

Okay, we have Troy Wilkinson and then Helen O'Connell and then Rick Hodgkins.

Hello board, uh my name's Troy Wilkinson.

Um thank you for listening to public comments.

Um I wanted to comment on the budget.

We've had some discussion.

Um, I'm part of Strong Sac Town and also part of the transit team for them.

Uh we often wonder uh with relation to future comments um probably to follow about strict fare enforcement and also just fair in general for this system.

Um I believe looking at the previous uh meetings budget presentation, it was around like 20 million uh per year.

I could be wrong.

Um but and and something like seven percent of the budget.

I'm very curious, especially when a lot of fair enforcement results in a lot of uncomfortable um situations, a lot of inaccessibility for people uh for the system, whether or not it needs or warrants any hard uh thoughts about whether or not it makes sense to employ 45 to 60 transit ambassadors and all sorts of management and maintenance on kiosks and um other stuff that we currently don't have.

Um, you know, it's a lot of these stations don't currently have kiosks for purchasing fare.

We're about to switch apps, which I'm sure that costs money to manage, um, and we still charge people quite a bit of money.

Which does that really balance out?

Are we making money on the fairs when we employ so many people to collect them?

Um and it's just food for thought, but I think a lot of us don't quite see the math mathing for charging 250 um a trip.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next public comment.

Next we have Rick Hodgkins, and Helen's comment was for five, not four.

Rick Hodgkins again.

Um I realize that this is gonna sound redundant.

Um for those of you that who have been on the board for a while, you've heard me say it before, but for those of you new and or returning board members, in the case of board member council member Dickinson, I would like to say again, and I hate to I hate to uh offend some people about this, but that we've been told time and again by residents of Sacramento County that we will not fund RT any more than it already is that unless we tackle the homeless issue.

And with that said, I've come to the conclusion that it's just not only is it just RT's responsibility to deal with the homeless issue, it is also the responsibility of the California Apartment Association.

I don't know about you, but I have a bone to pick with the apartment association.

They've gotten away with things for 30 plus years since 1995 when the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act was implemented.

And again, once again, was county residents have told RT quote, we do not and will not fund RT anymore than it already is funded unless we deal with the homeless issue first.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Is that the final public comment?

That's the final public comment.

Okay, thank you.

Any follow-up director comments?

Seeing none.

Yes.

Oh, go ahead.

Sorry.

Thank you.

No, very efficient.

And I and I know that we've um had several discussions on the budget over the last several months, so I um don't want to go into detail, but I just want to say that you know, being on the SACOG board, being on RT on STA, all these transit andor transportation-related agencies.

We're there's a lot of discussion happening all the time about fiscal cliffs and how difficult it is right now for transit agencies.

And so I just want to point out that um we're really overperforming here uh in Sacramento, and I think that's important to note, but it also means that uh we're not immune.

Uh we we will uh we are looking towards cliff just like everyone else, though we've made um great strides in ensuring that we're gonna have to figure out what that looks like.

And I know there's a lot of other things, you know, out in the atmosphere, whether it be a possible transit measure in the city of Sacramento and so on, but I just really want to thank uh you, uh general manager and the staff for all the work on this and and the work that you do all the time to make sure that we're in the fiscal place that we're in right now.

And so um with that, I'm gonna be happy to close the hearing and move the budget if that's okay with you, Chair.

Thank you, and thank you for your very thoughtful comments.

We have a motion on the floor.

Can I get a second?

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

We will move on to our next item.

The next item number five, public addresses board on matters not on the agenda.

And we have Helen O'Connell and then Maddie Austin Kelly, Kate Crum, and a few others, but we'll start with Helen.

Hello.

Sorry, I'm on here all the day, but you know, somebody's gotta do it.

Um public comment has to do with um following procedure, protocol, and policy, and not sidestepping each one to make things go faster.

Um, in my opinion, and I've been around RT since 1974.

This is a habitual problem.

If RT is having difficulty getting something the way that they perceive it needs to be done, they declare an emergency, or they bury stuff in the back of a report somewhere, and keys don't get crossed, eyes don't get dotted, and that creates a problem later down the road, and then we have to rework it, and it takes forever to get things done.

So I am hoping that RT will um try to follow the protocol procedure and policies that are already in place, they just need to be followed more closely, especially the ADA Act.

Thank you.

Maddie Parfit.

Hi, my name is Maddie Parfitt, and I'm a member of Strong Sack Towns transit team.

I had an experience a while back with a bus driver, and I thought it was just a random misunderstanding, but now I'm not so sure.

I had taken my empty folded shopping cart on the bus to go to the grocery store.

And when I came back to the bus stop to get on the bus with my cart filled with groceries, the driver told me you can't get on.

You have to take all your bags out, fold your cart, carry everything on, and sit with the bags on your lap and hold the folded cart in front of you.

I went around and around with her for a few minutes.

She kept saying, that's the rule, that's the rule.

Eventually, she did let me get on with my full cart.

But recently I've heard of several other instances of this sort of thing happening with passengers being told they could not get on a bus with a cart full of groceries, they could not get on a train with a shopping cart.

I discovered that RT does indeed have a rule requiring shopping carts to be empty and folded on buses and trains.

But if you look around, it's not teenagers who are using shopping carts.

It's older people, and it's people with disabilities who have no other way to get their shopping done except to take the cart cart on the bus and train.

They're the kinds of people who can't carry armloads of heavy bags, then balance them on their laps while holding a folded cart in front of them.

I don't know why RT is now enforcing this old rule, which seems aimed at those who are most in need of public transportation.

I've never heard other passengers complain when they see someone using a cart.

In fact, I've seen passengers help those with heavy carts get on and off the bus.

So it's time for RT to rescind this cruel and discriminating rule.

Thank you.

Next public comment.

Austin Kelly.

Dear members of the board, my name is Austin Kelly, and I've been a resident of Sacramento since 2022.

A recent recent policy change has required transit investors to be pushed into more of a fair enforcement rule, writing citations that neither they nor the public have access to the repercussions of.

It is my understanding that this first citation issued by SACRT to a passenger comes with 160 dollars of fine, but I've been unable to actually confirm this as this information is not easily accessible.

Um what I do know, however, is fare evasion is considered a misdemeanor after three or more instances in the state of California, according to Penal Code 640.

A passenger is liable to either pay a fine up to 400 dollars, spend up to 90 days in the county jail or both.

The Sacramento Bee reported that in 2018, a single day in jail cost the county 126.

Considering only inflation, Sacramento County is spending close to $15,000 per $7.50 lost to fare evasion.

A financial disaster for both the affected pastor and our local government.

While I understand that the system depends on fare as a necessary revenue stream, the proposed budget for 2027 only projects 7.2% of revenues coming from fare collection.

My ask is for this board to suspend no exception fare inspection, make citation and fare enforcement information readily available to the public, and allow trans investors to do their jobs with confidence.

RT's transit ambassadors are far more valuable to the system in offering their understanding compassion over their roles as strictly fair enforcers, allowing them to shine above the intolerable nature of 100% enforcement will make writing uh SACRT a more enjoyable experience for everyone.

Thank you.

Public comment Kay Crum and then Rick Hodgkins.

Hello, my name is Gay Crumb and I'm a member of Strong Sack Town, and this is my connect card, and I love it.

And I'm very concerned about the plans to phase out the physical card in favor of an app for many reasons, but I'm just going to touch on my personal concerns.

The first and the most obvious problem is that if your phone dies or you lose your phone or you leave it at home, you won't have your fare anymore.

Um, and I'm not sure about everyone else here, but my phone has died many times at work, and the last thing I want to be worrying about is how am I how am I going to get home now?

The second problem is once you pulled out your phone to do something legitimate like uh, you know, pay fare or look at a menu, we often continue to scroll on our phone afterwards because they're designed to be highly addictive.

So why wouldn't we?

Um I agree that there is value to having digital fare as an option, but if SACRT discontinues the physical connect card, the app becomes almost mandatory.

You'll force customers to pull out our phones and disconnect from the real world, and every time we remove something physical in favor of an app, we signal that we value the digital over human connection.

Over the past several years, I've set some very healthy boundaries and disconnect every Saturday, and this means that I don't use or carry my phone all day.

Since I get a monthly pass from my employer on my physical connect card, this is easy for me to do.

This practice has been so positive for my mental health, and I'm afraid that if the physical connect cards are phased out, I'll have to either choose to break this helpful boundary or decide that I'm not going anywhere that I want on Saturday.

I'm not suggesting that we eliminate the app, but here's a solution.

Put connect cart readers on light rails to take care of the vandalism problem.

This is what we have on buses already, and customers should be familiar with that system.

Um this is a way to connect with other riders when I'm not on transit.

This, in a world where people are craving more analog systems in their life, let's give people an option to keep carrying their connect cards.

And let's carry these proudly and make our connect cards a badge of pride.

Thank you.

Next public comments.

We have Rick Hodgkins and then Dan Allison.

Thank you.

I would ask that we never discontinue the single fare, the Connect card, the physical Connect card, because just a digital connection is not good enough, not only for the reasons stated, but also because if the minute you pull out your phone or the second that you pull out your phone, there's gonna be a homeless person, hey, say give me, give me, give me, give me, give me.

Can I use your phone?

Can I use your phone?

And just telling them no is not good enough because they could snatch it and rob you blind.

Um I found out at last month's Mac meeting that we are we will not be allowed to put any fare connect card machines or app readers on the trains, just like the transit systems in San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area for reasons I cannot remember, and even if I knew them, I'm not gonna go into them right now.

If the staff want to talk about that, that when it's their turn, so be it.

But I was told that we're not able to put readers on the machines.

I'm just worried about the homeless issue.

And again, how can we address the homeless issue?

Again, I don't think it has to do just with RT.

I think we all need to have a little bone to pick with the California Apartment Association.

Furthermore, there is an empty um retail space that used to be the cyber cafe at the Matherfield Light Rail Station.

What are we gonna be doing about that?

Thank you.

Dan Allison representing myself today.

Brief comment about um the connect card.

Most transit systems have solved the card issue by pushing the idea of putting cash onto bank cards for people who are unbanked and do not have cell phones.

Um, works fine for those transit systems.

SACRT has chosen not to do that.

I don't know why, but it could be a good replacement for connect card.

My main comment relates to the ambassadors and the tension that's being created on light rail by enforcement first policies.

I have seen several ambassadors escalate situations with passengers, making them worse than they were, leading to calling for law enforcement when that was not necessary.

And I can tell you, average passengers are feeling that tension.

They are not more comfortable with ambassadors now because of SACRT's enforcement first policy.

It's really causing a problem.

Originally there was a service orientation, now there's a law enforcement orientation.

And as Ms.

Hins said, we're not changing the policy until we've studied it, even though she is quite aware of the problems being created.

She's stonewalling.

I think the policy needs to be suspended until the study is done.

It is not making anybody happy.

Sure, there are problems on my rail, there are behavior problems.

There are sometimes people with strollers and shopping carts in the disabled area and willing to give up that space.

I'm recognized that there are problems.

The solution is to talk to people and try to solve those problems.

Thank you.

Public comments.

Hello board, my name is Alisa Lee.

Um I work with the 50 Corridor Transportation Management Association.

Our mission is to help people drive less and make it easy for them to take transit, walk or bike more.

We run a free transit fare program for residents in Sacramento in the Sacramento region, including in Folsom Rancho, Cordova, and Vineyard.

And in the last two years, we've given out $5,000 in transit fare by issuing preloaded Connect cards to help more people ride transit.

And furthermore, we work with workplaces, including several state agencies to support their employees to take transit, many of whom are issued connect cards for their transit subsidy.

At this point, we hear almost daily from these would-be transit writers that SACRT is failing to take our money because your connect card card readers aren't working.

Several riders actually have waited or have walked away from taking RT and end up driving instead.

We've talked to RT customer service multiple times about this, and we understand that the connect cards are being phased out in the next year, but in the meantime, you are making this a hard process for riders.

You're not collecting their fares, your revenue, and you're not giving them a good experience.

Many of the transit ambassadors don't know how to instruct riders about what to do when their card doesn't scan.

Sometimes the transit ambassador tells the riders they have to go and purchase a daily pass.

Sometimes the balance will say pending if you haven't tapped it successfully yet, but it doesn't seem the transit ambassador would know that.

They tell you you haven't paid and ask you to do bored, and now you feel like you're doing something wrong.

And when this happens, people don't want to try taking transit again.

They end up choosing to drive instead.

Next speaker into sending riders and revenue your way.

So we'd love for you to follow up with our organization about this.

Thank you.

Jeffrey Tardiya.

Jeffrey Jeffrey Tardiya.

I hope you're hearing me.

I've seen a lot of good things happening and going in one way or the other.

But uh more than a year ago, I asked that you need to review your policies because you have policies and procedures that have not been reviewed in some time, and you've got new things in there.

I haven't seen a committee yet formed to address this object.

And you go after budget after budget, and your objectives do not seem to be handled any better in any more in the correct manner to see.

You're offering solutions, but as this is a problem that you've known about dealing with the connect cards, and you've deal with a number of other new systems.

I next expect something's going to be going on with the Flexor system in attempting same-day service.

Board, you need to look at this in a more critical eye and not just leave it to staff of what needs to be formed here.

I still think you need to develop a revenue service that is RT's effective use for the purpose of public transportation.

And you share a lot of things, and it doesn't mean you know you know year by year what effect that has on your degree of service and your projects.

That's my public comment.

And still interesting in listening to you guys, although right now I shake my head a little bit about what you perceive as succeeding.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir, and welcome back.

Next public comment.

Troy Wilkinson.

Thank you.

Hello again.

Um, yeah, I just like to share a personal story uh to illustrate some of the frustrations uh that are happening.

Austin was uh talking about citation amounts.

I can confirm it's 157 because of this one right here, um, which doesn't actually say on the citation that it's 157 dollars.

So I was at Central Parkway uh station trying to get on the uh the train with my bike.

The train comes in.

I really want to get on this train, it's there.

Unfortunately, my phone doesn't have data.

I don't know why the 3GB is actually 1.5 GB, but that's what happened that day.

The moment I get on, the Transit Connect app does not allow me to log in.

Why?

Because I don't have data because of this.

The person who I already had seen being an enforcement uh enforcement officer at this point, they're not transit ambassadors, um, at this point, comes to me and asks for fare.

I say, oh yeah, don't have data.

I really would love to pay.

I always pay.

I had my safer sack streets shirt on.

I'm ready to be a supportive person and pay fair.

Unfortunately, that's not how it works anymore.

Zero tolerance, she says.

So I give her my ID, I get cited.

Great.

I can't get off at the next stop.

Why?

There's no kiosks.

If I got on at the next station, how is anyone able to pay?

There's no kiosks.

If there was a kiosk on the train, I could have paid.

Avoided paying 155 more dollars than the fare.

I can handle something like this.

Many people cannot.

I was not in a rush to get anywhere.

Some people will be.

So these are the types of things I think a solution at this point is suspend this no exceptions nature.

Um that's really making for an unhappy system until we have kiosks and the ability to pay everywhere.

Thank you.

That's all the public comment.

Look forward to seeing some responses from the comments we heard.

Um this evening.

With that, we'll move to our next item.

Next item six new business.

There is a correction to the staff report for item 6.1.

It is noted that the tax will be on the last eight thousand dollars contributed to the 457.

Uh, but it should be the last 11,250.

And the item 6.1 resolution 2026 06087 approval of the fiscal year 2026 annual performance evaluation for the general manager CEO Henry Lee, and the seventh amendment to his contract to comply with the new IRS tax changes.

And Shelley Valentin is available for any questions.

All right, thank you for that.

And the clarification, were there any questions from directors?

Seeing none public comment.

We have one public comment, Helen O'Connell.

No, I don't have Rick.

Did you have a comment as well?

Okay.

That's fine.

Hello.

One more thing.

Um Henry Lee has done a very good job at bringing many um infrastructure contracts and bringing up things that would benefit our city, and we are in a good place as far as infrastructure is concerned.

Although I do have concerns about the um general fund that can be used for um employees, um benefit packages, um making the um the different or um parts of RTs, people that are actually on the ground, they're they're all employees of Sacramento Regional Transit.

They should all have access to the same benefits packages, regardless of who they are.

RT go, train, bus, um, they should all have uh at least the same benefits packages.

And as far as um supporting different parts of RT, things are changing, and I'm happy about that.

Um people are listening, and I'm glad that Henry has made a extra effort to listen to his constituents.

So Henry, kudos.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next public comment.

Rick Hodgkins.

So I also say kudos too and hats off to Henry.

I will tell you, he is better than most of the general managers I've heard speak.

Um, particularly, you know, Pilka Robinson.

One of you remembers Pilka Robinson and then Beverly Scott.

Um, I don't know what good Pilka Robinson did, but I will tell you that we had more bus routes under her, like the 91.

Uh, that we need to bring that back to go to the sunrise light rail station, or at least do an express bus down sunrise from perhaps Lewis and Orlando and stop at Sunrise and Antelope and all the other major stops on the way to Sunrise Light Rail Station.

Um, under Bev Scott, we had uh the Folsom expansion and extension, and but under Henry, I would have to say that we started the um we started the actual two tracks to Folsom.

So Folsom residents can get service every 15 minutes.

So once again, that I think Henry has been the best that there ever is, and that the best there ever was.

Thank you.

Great comment.

Thank you.

Uh next public comment.

That's how the public comment.

All right.

Well, thank you.

With that, we will move on to our next item.

Did you want to take a motion?

Yes.

I am getting here.

All right.

Yes, we have a motion, seconds.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Thank you.

All right, next item.

General manager's report.

Good evening, madam chair, uh, the board, and uh public.

Uh thank you for joining us this evening.

Uh I really want to, you know, thank, appreciate from the bottom of my heart, uh, for the all constructive, you know, um, criticism or suggestions or compliment, especially compliment.

Thank you.

And uh two things you know struck me today.

One is our transition of our fair payment system and program.

This is one of the most difficult, you know, uh uh project projects in the industry because the lots of intricacies and complexities in this process.

Uh uh, we heard some great suggestions.

We're gonna make some improvements.

Uh that's one.

Secondly, um, in terms of uh TAs, you know, uh zero tolerance.

Uh we're going to look into that to see how we can put you know the bearance, the compassion and uh the enforcement accountability, you know, most, you know, you know, you know, you know, optimal, you know, bearance, and uh especially you know, the the shopping car situation.

We will try to find uh uh a middle point to see how we can take off the most, you know, uh vulnerable seniors and others.

But just want to say thank you very much.

Okay.

So then I want to begin by acknowledging you know uh last Tuesday was the primary election for our region and for our state.

And I want to send a warm congratulations to Sakarti board members, um Mapus, Maple, Jennings, Kennedy, Hill, who have all been re-elected decisively, and uh uh the margins and support was so large, and they do not need to compete in the general election in November.

This is truly a testimony to the voters' trust in your strong leadership.

And thank you for sitting on SACAD board and needing this organization to a better place.

And I would like to thank Director Kennedy for flagging the needs of recently last week, displaced residents and families of 25.

And Director Kennedy immediately talked to us and support and direct us to provide passes to this 25 families.

This entire board feels strongly about the impact we can have on our individuals' lives and how we continue to the fabric of our community as a valuable community partner.

We will try to do better in the future, even.

So uh that being said, next with my slides.

Thank you.

Uh then uh library modernization project.

This is one of the largest capital projects in our history, about one billion dollars investment in our region, creates thousands of jobs and create and bring you know tens or hundreds of million uh dollars uh revenue to this region.

And uh as part of that, we you know uh uh put an order about 450 million dollars to Siemens, which is one of the largest uh businesses in this region, and Scott is here, you know, it represents Siemens here.

Thank you for the partnership.

Our partnership gets stronger and stronger.

And also last December, you know, GSAC uh organized the trip to Germany, and uh I was you know um invited to attend uh to to visit the headquarters of Siemens and Siemens you know uh leaders, top leaders, and uh assured us Siemens will continue to stay here and expand the business here, and that is great for for this region's uh business and job.

Uh we are continuing important station platforms construction work along the blue line, and we we finished the gold line uh earlier.

Uh the blue line right now is part of the system-wide upgrades for the new low floor library vehicles this week, June, this week, June 12th through June 14th, station upgrades will take place at what I-80 West and the McCartney RKD stations.

As a result, what I eat what I eight west, Roseville Road, McCarney and KD stations will be closed during this time.

And from June 17th through the 20th, station work will take place at the Florent and CRC stations, and we will run shuttle buses to connect passengers between stations, and we will soon finish all station conversion uh project.

Uh okay, that being said.

Speaking of the blue line, uh, the Arden Del Paso Park Park and Right Lab has reopened for the public.

Uh SACA departed with bridge housing in 2023 to secure a 43 million dollars affordable housing sustainable communities grant.

The funding supports the 124 unit affordable housing complex currently under construction, known as RIVAL, as well as funding for our diary of modernization project.

We are very excited to celebrate the opening of the rival apartments later this year.

Last year alone, we secured applied and secured 128 million dollars affordable housing uh fund from the state, and uh this year we just submit our application with 300 million dollars.

We're a little bit too aggressive because statewide only 800 million dollars.

Uh next, the streetcar public workshops.

Um, we have been hosting uh public planning workshops uh to share updates and get feedback on the uh downtown riverfront streetcar project.

And uh we already held two forums with the first one attracting more than 30 in-person attendees here.

Uh our next workshop will be in uh will be this Wednesday at 6 p.m.

at the West Sacramento Community Center.

Community members are invited to attend, provide comments and learn more about projects, uh projects, progress, design concepts, and the next steps.

Next one, please.

Uh SEO SACHAT transitioned our microtransit program from Smart Ride to SAC Flex in January 2025, thanks to our community partner's uh collaboration with the focus on seniors, persons with disabilities and low-income households.

The transition has allowed us to better meet the needs of transit dependent dependent riders while saving about $8 million a year for the next 10 years.

Starting Wednesday, July 1st, SAC RT Flex will expand its operating hours to better serve our community.

Weekday service will begin one hour earlier, starting at 6 a.m.

And for the first time, SACAT Flex will offer a Saturday service from 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m.

While we are making this expansion, this largely thanks to a recent 3.76 million dollars grants from California Public Utilities Commission access for wall program funding to support SACIT Flex.

We have an extremely strong uh grants management team.

They are looking uh scorching about like up to 50 different potential funding sources from the state and uh federal.

And we regularly get this type of additional funding.

And each year, just for example, each year, uh DHS from federal perspective, they offer about 88 million dollars annually for transit, and almost every year we get some funding from that.

That's statewide over 10,000 transit agencies.

So just want to thank the entire team, uh, grants team and everybody else, you know, all other departments for the great collaboration and teamwork and highly effective results.

Uh okay, next one, please.

Uh, this again, this is a very exciting community project funding.

Uh I really want to thank our congressional delegation for seeking community project funding in this upcoming federal appropriations process.

Both Congresswoman Matt Sui and Congressman Barra have secured a preparation request for SACIT in the FY27, transportation, housing, and urban development spending bill.

Uh $500,000 from Congresswoman Matasui for blue line safety improvements, $850,000 from Congressman Barra for infrastructure improvements on by real.

We are hopeful that both requests will successfully being included when the federal government inacts their FY27 budget.

And on the Senate side, Senator Adam Schiff has requested 10 million dollars for gold mine enhancement.

And we know senators, they have very limited uh number on the request.

And in fact, you know, Senator Schiff's request is the largest he's making statewide, and compared to Bay Area and uh AOA and they are much bigger than us, but uh you know, really appreciate Senator for asking for 10 million dollars for us, which is actually two million dollars more than the next highest request.

Yeah, that is truly uh you know uh amazing, and we're so grateful on that.

Uh this is uh wonderful teamwork of the you know WTS Bureau partnership, and uh uh encourage everybody just to go to 15th Street uh station to take a look at.

I'm gonna not to speak more about this.

So I want to speak a little bit on ZipPass, and I would like to highlight um the uh in, you know, we are still holding the active zip pass tickets.

Um we're gonna extend zip pass retirement date through the 30th of June.

And I'm really uh you know uh listen to uh Kate's you know uh uh comment about they really like that physical car.

And we're gonna go back to talk to to talk about that to how we can uh to some legacy, you know.

It may uh it may you know uh add more customer satisfaction in this process, and uh we previously provided additional 45 days, and we're gonna provide you know a lot of 30 days to ease the transition, and uh the the new system, the you know, payment system is actually more smart and more simple way to pay the fare with transit connect, uh, our new mobile ticketing app and how we can we'll try to see if we can find a way to keep the physical car too.

Uh later this four, we will launch uh phase two uh feature of transit connect, including uh contactless tap right validation.

And we actually can use critical use any other you know uh uh uh regular like Apple Pay, just tap on the right, it will be much more convenient.

And we also will have the fair capping means every day per day, you have the daily maximum fair.

Now, after that, then you know, uh well, you know, I just uh uh got to the uh update.

We will have a physical car option.

It's not always going to you know phase out the entirely.

We will have that option.

Uh if we don't have that option, we're gonna add that.

How about that?

And add that option there.

Question on just this piece of um, so what I what I thought I heard you say was um the goal is to to transfer over to Tap to pay which is a lot of transit agencies are using that um which and so I I she's no longer in the room but for Kate Crom's comment earlier that can still be in line with you know not necessarily needing to have your phone because you can actually use your debit card or your your card that a physical card that you have on you um because I've done that before in some of the trans agencies and I found it really convenient so the goal is that okay great thank you yeah and uh um uh I mean we you know uh riders will have the ability to load cash at a vending machines or participate uh we have lots of participating retail locations they can do this and uh um furthermore you know transit of connect is being built to support a 40 integrated reading the fair experience by four this year means you know uh all small operators in this whole region they will use the same car you know we help them and uh you know uh this whole system and uh which you know we we really want to make sure you know we're a highly collaborative partner for all our you know partner agencies and even though we are accountable about 90% uh ridership in this region but we want to work with others we want to build a more integrated more so streamlined and more efficient and a convenient regional mobility network thank you back to you madam chip thank you for that excellent update any questions director Dickinson.

Thanks Chair I I just wanted um since we have a couple of um right rail service interruptions with with bus bridges uh I just wanted to mention I think I mentioned this uh when we were talking Henry the uh last week but but the staff in general I have seen a number of comments um about difficulties with the bus bridges in previous disruptions about about buses not showing up uh being very late if they do show up not stopping in places where people expect them to stop and the like so um that's obviously uh uh of concern and and um I hope that with these upcoming uh disruptions that we'll make an extra effort to inform people of what's going to happen uh first of all during the during the the time of the disruption and secondly to the extent that that we can uh monitor excuse me monitor as closely as we can performance to make sure that that whatever we're whatever we're uh representing will occur in terms of service actually does does take place thanks yes we're gonna do tomorrow uh morning we're going to immediately get some new improvement plan to get uh for the next phase you know list of a uh bus bridges and the good thing is we're going to finish very soon any other questions from directors seeing none public comment Helen O'Connell thank you very much Henry Lee for the detailed um general manager's report in the last month we didn't have one um this one makes up for it um I too am concerned about the bus bridges um they seem to pull bus bridges buses off of regular routes um and especially 15 minute buses um I live on the 51 line.

One day I went to catch a bus.

It did not show up.

I checked the uh cancellation list.

There were 27 cancellations on that one bus line.

Consequently, there were three cancellations in a row.

When I waited for the fourth bus that was going to run, I could not get on because the ADA area was full.

My bus stop is in the middle of the route.

The only way to make sure that I could have gotten on was to be at the beginning of the route on either end.

This created a problem because that day it was 98 degrees.

And I am heat sensitive.

If I would have known that there were 26 cancellations that one day, I would have chosen a different route.

Unfortunately, that day there was no excess existing route that I could have chosen.

I had to use some connections to get to where I was going to make sure that I could get where I needed to go and get back home.

But not everyone has those connections.

Please be more consistent consistent and not drag all the buses off of the 15 minute rides when they turn out to be one hour or two hours.

Thank you.

Public comment.

There's no more public comment.

Are there any follow-up questions or comments?

Looking to the right, looking to the left, seeing none.

We'll move on to our next item.

Okay, item eight reports, ideas, and questions from directors and communication.

We have 8.1 Sacramento Placerville Transportation Corridor Joint Powers Authority meeting summary from May 11th, 2026.

And there's no public comment on that item.

Okay, next item.

Item 8.2.

There is a correction needed on the date.

It should be March 15th of 2026.

And 8.2, San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority Meeting Summary.

And there's no public comment on that item.

Next comment next item, 8.3.

8.3 mobility advisory council meeting summary, May 21st, 2026.

And I do have one public comment on that.

Let's take that.

LR Roberts.

So I'm a decades-long member of Dogfight.

Recently I had to leave my Jeep at Costco on Expo.

I try to only use union places.

I had to walk with my very unsteady legs eight blocks to catch a bus.

This is unacceptable for the Costco, several small businesses, an apartment complex, a senior apartment complex, a mental health facility, a med clinic, a storage place, and a hotel.

In addition, now you know on the other side of 160 is several new apartments.

So the fact that there's no bus there seems really odd.

Because there's money on it.

So I don't know what's gonna happen if you get rid of my connect card.

And it only charged me $1.50, I guess because I'm old.

The driver was wonderful.

What a great guy.

Um I had to go to the golden one on Sutterville and then home.

I had long waits for buses in between and long walks from one to the other.

So you know, other than the bus driver being wonderful, um, there's lots of places where you it's hard to get.

Thank you.

Any more public comment?

No more public comment.

All right.

That takes us to our announcement of closed session items.

Item 12.1, conference with legal counsel pursuant to Cal Government Code Section 54956.9 D1 existing litigation.

Sarkisian Murphy et al.

versus Sacramento Regional Transit District, case number two for CV004763.

And there's no public comment on that item.

All right, then I will say that uh the announcement is there will be no report out from closed session.

The closed session will be held in this room.

If all attendees could please exit the room after the meeting is adjourned, and the next Sacramento Regional Transit Board meeting is scheduled for July 27th, 2026 at 4 p.m.

With that, we will adjourn this meeting.

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You're written.

Yeah.