The Winston-Salem Public Works Committee met on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, from 2:00 PM to 3:06 PM, chaired by Council Member Barbara Hanes Burke. All four committee members were present (Burke, Andree-Bowen, Taylor, Clark), joined by Council Member A. Scippio. The agenda included seven consent items and four general agenda items. Items C-3 and C-4 were removed from the consent calendar for discussion, while the remaining consent items were approved. The committee received information reports and voted on several actions.
Good afternoon. And welcome to the September Public Works meeting. I am Chairperson, Barbara Burke, and I would ask for the City Clerk to please call the roll. Chairperson, Councilmember Burke. Vice Chair, Councilmember Andrew Bowen. Here. Councilmember Clark. Here. Councilmember Taylor. Present. Thank you. We have seven consent items, and I would ask council members, are there any items that you would like to have pulled? Three and four, Madam Chair. Thank you. Councilmember Clark. Is there a motion to approve the remainder of the consent items? So moved. Second. A motion has been made and it has been second. We'll have a voice vote. All in favor, let us know by uh saying aye. Aye. It passes. City clerk, would you re please read consent item three? Item C three resolution monodernizing the Winston Salem Transit Authority's fair policy to establish a fair cap. Thank you. Councilmember Clark, you ask for this item to be pulled. My question is how does the system know that you bought a ticket that morning and therefore is not going to charge you in the afternoon? So great question, Councilmember Clark. And good afternoon. Madam Chair, members of the committee. Catherine McClellan, answer your question. With the launch of the new mobile platform, this is going to be a really an enabler for this type of treatment. And in fact, the item really talks about how the ease of transaction with the mobile technology allows users to establish that fair cap or allows us to establish a fair cap. Basically, the profile identifies when they load the bus by the tapping of the reader on the bus and identifies how many times that they have assigned that profile to credential on the bus as they has they passed through. So essentially, no more than two times or two dollars. Well any any any access on the bus past that will know that it's a free trip. So every rider's got to have a card. That that's the that's the uh moving towards this. This is a the uh a tool to to incentivize that that mobile technology as we move towards a uh a fair list or a cashless uh trip. Just curious, I would would have guessed most of your transactions are currently cash. Well, right now, by and large, we don't we don't really accept anything but cash on the bus outside of the ticket that you get from the kiosk or at the transit center. So that is correct. That's why we have a lot of benefit into this technology when we move toward the mobile technology will allow us to establish that with the profile of the user. It just incentivize them to download the application. Okay. Councilmember. Excuse me. I was gonna make a motion if you want to. I have another question.