The City Council held a budget study session on May 8, 2025, from approximately 9:45 AM to 12:00 PM, focusing on the Transportation & Aviation Services (TAS) and Environmental & Utility Services (EUS) service areas. Councilmembers reviewed proposed budgets, performance metrics, and discussed key operational challenges and strategic investments.
The meeting adjourned at approximately 12:00 PM, with the next session scheduled for Monday, May 12, 2025, at 9:30 AM.
Everyone, welcome. What a call to order today's budget study session for the morning of May 8th, day two. Here we go. Day one wasn't too bad, right? Got through it on time. Megan, would you please call the roll? Come here. Campos. Silence. Cohen. Ortiz. Present. Mulcahi. Here. Duan. Kendallas. Here. Casey. Foley. Maehan. Here. You have a quorum. Great. Thank you so much. For today's study session, we will be hearing presentations on transportation and aviation services and environmental and utility services. So we will get started first with transportation and aviation services, excluding lived in vehicles, which will be handled in a future study session. Want to guide folks to try to focus in on the issues for this CSA, this presentation. We uh will uh hear from staff and try to keep this section to roughly one hour, roughly 9 30 to 1030, and then I will uh transition us to our second study session on environmental and utility services, and once again we will get out of here by noon. All right, let's jump in. Thank you, Mayor and Council. John Risto, director of surface transportation. With me today is Muki Patel, our aviation director, and our new deputy city manager, Manuel Pineda. So we will jump in. As the mayor said, this is transportation and aviation services, and we're gonna go through a very brief slide presentation. You can see on the slide, the core services that both our departments serve, which is really customer focused. Uh obviously with the airport and the passengers and the people working at the airports, very, very much a customer service outcome. And in transportation similar, we really do do a lot of core services right in people's front yard, their front street, and a lot of other services that support everyday living. Just some of the program samples, and I'm sure you most of you are all aware of the types of services that both of our departments do. Just to highlight a couple, it's the really the the airport and the terminals and the customer uh satisfaction that goes into running uh a really highly thought-of airport with the city of San Jose, and then all the other traffic safety and other services that we do provide with the uh transportation department, both above, on and below the surface of the roadways. Uh some of our metrics. While they they don't show a gigantic change, these are all positive or relatively positive from years uh in the past, and I just want to highlight a couple of them. The passenger perception of airport satisfaction, it's a modest increase, but still an increase, and still this airport is doing very well with that in terms of comparative to other airports. Then I also want to just highlight our pavement condition index continues to go up. Uh, those of you that have been around while back in 2014, our pavement condition index was about 63, which was barely fair. So over the last 10 or 11 years, we've raised it 10 points, which is a pretty significant improvement. Some of the budget summary you can see up there. Uh just want to point out again, and mayor mentioned this is that part of the transportation budget also uh ends up in the utility services CSA, and so we'll be talking about that later. You can see there's very small increases in the operating portions of our both of our budgets and a small one one FTE increase in staffing. Highlighting some of the priorities that we both have. Um both the department of transportation and the aviation department.