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TO, UH, GET STARTED.SO REALLY NICE TO HAVE EVERYBODY IN PERSON.
AND IT'S A GREAT DAY WHEN WE CAN SAFELY CONVENE HERE IN KUDOS TO ALL THOSE ACROSS AMERICA WHO GOT IT.
OUR TIME IS 1215, AND I'M EXTREMELY HAPPY TO CALL THIS IN-PERSON MEETING TO ORDER OUR FIRST AGENDA
[I. Public Comment (Part 1 of 2)]
ITEM.I UNDERSTAND WE HAVE FOUR PEOPLE WHO HAVE SIGNED UP TO PROVIDE COMMENTS TODAY AND EACH HAS ELECTED TO JOIN US VIA TELEPHONE.
UM, WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME, PLEASE UNMUTE YOURSELF AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK.
UH, BEAR WITH ME, DEAL WITH TECHNICAL ISSUES RELATED TO OUR DOING THIS BOTH IN PERSON AND VIA TELEPHONE IN ZOOM.
WE'RE GETTING FEEDBACK VERY WELL.
OUR FIRST, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT IS FROM, UH, MS. ZENOBIA, JOSEPH, MS. JOSEPH, ARE YOU WITH US? MS. JOSEPH, ARE YOU ON THE LINE? THANK YOU.
THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR MEMBERS, UM, AS AN OPIATE JOSEPH, MY COMMENTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO TITLE SIX OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, AS THEY HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST.
I JUST WISH TO CALL TO YOUR ATTENTION SPECIFICALLY, AN EMAIL THAT I SENT TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE AND WHILE HOUSE BILL THREE EIGHT NINE THREE, WHICH IS THE CAPITAL METRO TUNNEL.
SUBSURFACE BILL IS NOT IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE.
THE SPONSOR FOR REPRESENTATIVE HANNAH HOSA IS IN THAT COMMITTEE.
SO I SENT MY COMMENTS TO MARISSA DOT PRYOR, UNDERSCORE S C AT SENNETT, TEXAS.GOV.
AND SPECIFICALLY I SAID, DISPARATE IMPACT FINDINGS.
AND I WENT ON TO SAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2017.
I INFORMED THEM ABOUT CAPITAL METRO SERVICE, EQUITY ANALYSIS, FINDING 11 OF 13 ROUTES THAT ARE PROPOSED TO BE ELIMINATED IN 18 OF 20 WELDS THAT ARE PROPOSED FOR MAJOR SERVICE CHANGES BASED ON THE POLICY THRESHOLDS FOR CONSIDERATION.
I PROCEEDED TO TELL THEM RATHER THAN COMPLY WITH TITLE SIX CHAIR, LAWYER, WAYNE COOPER SIMPLY CHANGED MITIGATION TO MEAN OUTREACH, TO INFORM CUSTOMERS OF THEIR NEW ROUTES.
THERE WAS NO MEANINGFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
AND THEN I SPECIFIED FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION CIRCULAR FOR SEVEN OH 2.1 B 2012, CHAPTER FOUR, DESK 16.
I WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT ROUTE THREE 92 IS ACTUALLY REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTATIVE GINA HANNAH HOUSES ROUTE.
SHE REPRESENTS THE AREA FROM BREAKER AND NORTH LAMAR, ALL THE WAY TO GREAT HILLS, THE AREA WHERE YOU UNILATERALLY ELIMINATED ACCESS TO THE DOMAIN AND GREAT HEELS FOR HER CONSTITUENTS.
I WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE AS WELL THAT IN THE BOARD PACKET ON PAGE FIVE, THERE'S AN UPDATE TITLE, SIX UPDATE ABOUT AUSTIN FC FROM MR. DIETER.
AND HE SPECIFIES THAT YES, THROUGHOUT THREE 83, WE'LL GO FROM EVERY 30 MINUTES TO EVERY 15 MINUTES BETWEEN NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT JENNER AND PAVILION PARKING, RIGHT? AND ROUTE THREE 92 WILL INCREASE THE EVERY 20 MINUTES ON GAME DAY.
AND SO WHILE I RECOGNIZE THAT GAMES ARE NICE TO ATTEND, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE MINORITIES ARE STILL TRYING TO GET TO WORK.
I'M JUST GOING TO ASK YOU ONCE AGAIN, TO RESTORE SERVICE, TO REPRESENTATIVE GINA HERE, THE HOSES, CONSTITUENTS ALL THE WAY TO GREAT HILL.
AND THEN I BELIEVE I'M HEARING THE BEEPER.
I'M NOT SURE, BUT I DO WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT I AM URGING ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC WHO IS LISTENING TO CONTACT THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS IN THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE, BECAUSE THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH DEMOCRATIC VOTES TO PASS.
HALLSVILLE THREE EIGHT, NINE, THREE.
AND WITH THAT, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL GLADLY ANSWER THEM AT THIS TIME, BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE IT'S ON ETHICAL AND YOU HAVE NOT COMPLIED WITH TITLE SIX, AND I WOULD ASK YOU TO DO SO BECAUSE THE REAL IS 24 TO 30 YEARS IN THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION RIGHT AWAY, NORTH OF US, ONE 83.
SO IF YOU WANT FAVORS FROM THE STATE IS FREE LAND 99 YEAR LEASE, THEN I THINK IT WOULD BE A NICE THING FOR YOU TO ACTUALLY RETURN THE FAVOR AND PROVIDE SERVICE BETWEEN SAMSUNG AND APPLE AND NORTH OF US.
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YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, JOSEPH, THANK YOU.OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS BARBARA EPSTEIN.
MS. EPSTEIN, ARE YOU ON THE LINE WITH US? WE CAN HEAR YOU.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHETHER YOU WERE SPEAKING TO ME.
IT'S UH, THE CHAIRS RECOGNIZE YOU YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
UH, THE PEER HERE BEFORE, I'LL REMIND YOU THAT I'M AN ELDER LAW ATTORNEY.
I SERVE ON THE BOARD OF AUSTIN'S AGING IN PLACE GROUP, AND I'VE WRITTEN AUSTIN'S BUSES FOR 47 YEARS.
I'M ASKING YOU TO RESTORE THE PREVIOUS NUMBER 10 BUS STOP AT HANCOCK CENTER BECAUSE YOU'RE A PLANNING DEPARTMENT, TOOK A BUS STOP THAT WAS SAFE AND MADE IT LESS SAFE.
I WONDER IF ANY OF YOU HAVE RELATIVES WHO HAVE BEEN TOLD THEY SHOULD STOP DRIVING A LOT OF PEOPLE IN AUSTIN, PERHAPS 23%.
IF THE INTERNET IS ACCURATE OR EITHER OVER 65 OR DISABLED, THEY NEED GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD, PUBLIC TRANSIT, BUT YOU'RE NOT GIVING THEM OR THE GENERAL PUBLIC, ANY INCENTIVE TO DITCH THEIR CARS.
HERE'S WHY, WHEN I'M ALL GONE, THE TRIP PLANNER, IT DOESN'T EVEN SHOW ME THAT TOGETHER.
TWO BUSES, THE THREE 35 AND NUMBER 10, DID WE LOSE MISS EPSTEIN? MISS EPSTEIN? WE JUST LOST YOU.
CAN YOU HEAR ME?
AND THEN IF YOU GET MISS EPSTEIN BACK, WE'LL GO BACK.
UH, OUR NEXT SPEAKER WILL BE CHRISTOPHE.
DREWNIAK APOLOGIES IF I MANGLED YOUR NAME.
MR. ECHO, ARE YOU OUT THERE? IF, UH, IF YOU CAN HEAR US AND YOU'RE NOT JOINED, IF YOU'LL CALL IN, UH, WE'LL TRY TO GET TO YOU.
AND FINALLY, UH, CHARLENE HARRIS, SHE NEVER CONFIRMED ANY LUCK WITH MS. EPSTEIN, MISS EPSTEIN.
ARE YOU ABLE TO HEAR ME? WE LOST YOU IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR COMMENTS.
IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, IF YOU, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO TRY CALLING BACK INTO THE MEETING, WE WILL GIVE YOU ANOTHER THREE MINUTES.
IF WE HEAR FROM HER, LET ME KNOW.
[II. Advisory Committee Updates (Part 1 of 2)]
NEXT UP WE HAVE OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE UPDATES.UH, FIRST THE ACCESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
I HAVE TO SAY WHAT A PLEASURE IT IS TO BE IN PERSON WITH MR. BANKS AND BE ABLE TO GET THE FULL BENEFIT OF HIS HABERDASHERY EXCELLENCE.
SO I TRY TO COORDINATE WHENEVER I CAN.
CHAIRMAN COOPER, UH, CEO, PRESIDENT BOARD MEMBERS.
I AM THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH, UH, MANAGER FOR THERE FOR THE GREEN LINE AND METRO RAPID FOR AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP.
SO I'M GETTING YOU AND SAFETY.
IF YOU DON'T, YOU'RE FAILING BOTH THE PUBLIC AND YOUR MISSION HERE.
MAY I ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, MR. EPSTEIN, MS. EPSTEIN.
UH, IF YOU WILL HOLD ON ON A SECOND.
UH, MR. BANKS, UH, ARE YOU THERE? YEAH.
ED, CAN YOU HAVE HER? ARE YOU THERE? YES.
CAN YOU HEAR US, MS. EPSTEIN? CAN YOU HEAR US? YEP.
I'M SORRY, BUT WE HEARD ABOUT A MINUTE OF YOUR, THE BEGINNING OF YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT, AND THEN WE LOST YOU.
[I. Public Comment (Part 2 of 2)]
WOULD YOU LIKE TO START AGAIN? I'LL RESET THE TIMER AND YOU CAN HAVE ANOTHER THREE MINUTES.DO YOU WANT ME TO REREAD OR DO YOU WANT ME TO SEND IT TO YOU AND HAVE YOU, AND HAVE YOU CIRCULATE IT? YEAH, THAT'S UP TO YOU.
WE'RE HAPPY WE CAN HEAR YOU NOW.
AND WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU PARTICIPATE WITH US.
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ME TO START ALL OVER AGAIN OR YOU WANT TO TELL ME WHERE YOU STOP HEARING ME? I THINK IT WOULD BE USEFUL IF YOU STARTED AGAIN.WELL, HOPEFULLY IT'S, YOU KNOW, WITHIN YOUR, WITHIN YOUR TIMEFRAME.
I'LL REMIND YOU THAT I'M AN ELDER LAW ATTORNEY.
I SERVE ON THE BOARD OF AUSTIN'S AGING IN PLACE GROUPS.
AND I'VE WRITTEN OFF SINCE BUSES FOR 47 YEARS.
I'M ASKING YOU TO RESTORE THE PREVIOUS NUMBER 10 BUS STOP AT HANCOCK CENTER BECAUSE YOUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT TOOK A BUS STOP THAT WAS SAFE AND MADE IT LESS SAFE.
I WONDER IF ANY OF YOU HAVE RELATIVES WHO HAVE BEEN TOLD THEY SHOULD STOP DRIVING A LOT OF PEOPLE IN AUSTIN, PERHAPS 23%.
IF THE INTERNET IS ACCURATE OR EITHER OVER 65 OR DISABLED, THEY NEED GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD, PUBLIC TRANSIT, BUT YOU'RE NOT GIVING THEM OR THE GENERAL PUBLIC, ANY INCENTIVE TO DITCH THEIR CARS.
HERE'S WHY WHEN I LOG ON TO THE TRIP PLANNER, IT DOESN'T EVEN SHOW ME THAT TOGETHER.
JUST PICK UP THE THREE 35 AND 10, UH, SORRY.
TAKE ME FROM 38TH STREET AND DUVALL STREET TO MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
IT TELLS ME TO WALK HALFWAY AFTER TAKING EITHER THE THREE 35 OR NUMBER SEVEN.
WHEN YOU THINK THE STRIP REPRESENTS THE MOST BASIC TRANSIT TRIP IN THE MIDDLE OF TOWN, PEOPLE NEEDING TO GET GROCERIES AND MEDICINE.
HOW CAN I ASK SENIORS TO TRY TRANSIT? IF IT TAKES THE SAME 30 MINUTES TO WALK THE ENTIRE POINT SEVENTH OF A MILE.
AND EVEN IF WEATHER PERMITTING, THEY CAN WALK THE DISTANCE.
THEY MAY ENCOUNTER DISTRACTED DRIVERS AT EVERY INTERSECTION AROUND 20 YEARS AGO WHEN HANCOCK CENTER REDEVELOPED, AFTER SOME WRANGLING BETWEEN CAP METRO AND THE COMMUNITY, THE BUS STOP WAS PLACED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SITE PLAN.
THAT'S THE SAFEST LOCATION, RIGHT BY THE ATB ALMOST THREE YEARS AGO.
CAP METRO KEPT THAT STOP FOR NEW, LESS USE ROUTES, BUT MOVE THE NUMBER 10 RED RIVER.
AS IT ATTEMPTED TO DO ALL THOSE YEARS AGO, YOUR STAFF SAID THEY NEEDED TO USE SHORTER BUSES AT THIS STOP.
I CHECKED THE 40 FOOT BUS HOLDS 38 PEOPLE, UH, 35, BUT 35 FOOT BUS HOLDS 28.
WHY COULDN'T THE NUMBER 10 HAVE BECOME A SHORTER BUS CROSSING RED RIVER STREET.
ISN'T SAFE BECAUSE CARS ROUTINELY TRY TO BEAT PEDESTRIANS THROUGH THE WALKWAY.
OF COURSE, THE NUMBER 10 STOPS ALSO REQUIRE ME TO RECROSS 38TH STREET TO REACH THE THREE 35 STOPS WHERE MORE THAN ONCE AS MANY AS THREE CARS HAVE SPED UP TURNING WEST ONTO 38TH STREET, TRYING TO BEAT ME THROUGH THAT LOCK LINE.
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN KNOCKED TO THE GROUND BY A DISTRACTED DRIVER WHILE IN THE MIDDLE OF A CROSSWALK? I HAVE, EVEN THOUGH I WORE BRIGHT CLOTHING, I HAD A LITTLE DOG ON A LEASH THAT TURNED INTO A $20,000 TRIP TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM.
IF THAT DRIVER ON DUVALL STREET HAD BEEN GOING AT THE SAME RATE OF SPEED AS THE DRIVERS, ALL I'M ON RED RIVER STREET, NOW I WOULD HAVE BEEN KILLED.
SO WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO GET YOU TO FOCUS ON WHAT THE PUBLIC NEEDS WHEN YOUR STAFF CHANGED THE HANCOCK NUMBER 10 BUS STOP.
THEY PUT EVERYONE RIDING THIS ROUTE IN HARMS WAY.
I DON'T WANT TO BECOME ONE MORE VISION, ZERO PEDESTRIAN INJURY DEATHS STATISTIC THAT NO ONE HERE SEEMS TO PAY ANY ATTENTION TO HAVING TO CROSS A SINGLE EXTRA BUSY STREET TO GET TO A BUS STOP CAN ACTUALLY MEAN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.
YOUR STAFF SAID IT WAS MORE IMPORTANT TO HAVE A ROUTE THAT RON RAN IN A STRAIGHT LINE IS THAT NEAT STRAIGHT LINE, MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYONE'S LIFE.
FROM A PRAGMATIC STANDPOINT, YOU NEED TO RETHINK HOW YOU'RE GETTING PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR CARS, USING BUSES TO GET TO THEIR MOST BASIC NEARBY DESTINATIONS EFFICIENTLY AND SAFELY.
IF YOU DON'T, YOU ARE FAILING BOTH THE PUBLIC AND YOUR MISSION HERE.
THEY HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE WHILE WE WORK THROUGH OUR TECHNICAL ISSUES.
[II. Advisory Committee Updates (Part 2 of 2)]
ALL RIGHT, NEXT STEP.ARE THERE GOING TO BE ANY QUESTIONS? SORRY.
AND I HOPE THAT YOU'LL TAKE THIS MESSAGE TO HEART.
CHAIRMAN COOPER, UH, CEO, PRESIDENT CLARK BOARD MEMBERS.
MY NAME IS YANNIS BANKS, COMMUNITY OUTREACH MANAGER FOR THE AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP, UH, HERE TO GIVE YOU THE ACCESS AND SEE SEC UPDATES.
UM, SO FOR ACCESS, UH, THEY WERE GIVEN A PROJECT CONNECT AND PICK UP UPDATE, WHICH IS ONE OF THEIR STANDING UPDATES THEY WANT TO GET.
SO I, WE DID TALK TO HIM SOME MORE ABOUT THE UPCOMING PICKUP ZONES THAT WERE
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BEING LAUNCHED AND WHAT, UH, THE DESKTOP ZONE WOULD POSSIBLY LOOK LIKE.UM, LAWRENCE DIETER GAVE AN UPDATE ON AUSTIN FC PLAN, AS WELL AS THE TITLE SIX, UH, AND THEN TROY OFFICER GAVE AN UPDATE ON SECURITY, JUST WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING, UH, WITH JOB BEEN BRIEFED ON WITH TRYING TO GET THE PUBLIC SAFETY, UH, SECURITY OFFICERS GOING.
AND SO THEY GOT AN UPDATE ON THAT AS WELL FOR, UH, NORMALLY I PRINT THIS OUT, BUT I WAS HAVING PRINTER PROBLEMS. WHEN I GET HERE FOR X, FOR SEASICK, THEY ALSO WERE GIVEN A PROJECT CONNECT AND PICKUP UPDATE, UH, AS WELL AS A SECURITY UPDATE AND AUSTIN FC AND TITLE CS.
AND THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT FOR ACCESS.
DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS FOR MR. BANKS? NO QUESTIONS VERY WELL NOW.
[III. Board Committee Updates]
UH, WE'LL TAKE UP OUR COMMITTEE UPDATES.UH, FIRST OPERATIONS PLANNING AND SAFETY COMMITTEE, CHAIR, KITCHEN OPERATIONS COMMITTEE, MATT ON, UH, I BELIEVE IT WAS MAY 12TH.
UH, WE TOOK ACTION TO RECOMMEND APPROVAL ON A RESOLUTION RELATED TO THE, UH, UH, CONTRACT WITH THE STADLER RAIL GROUP HAD TO DO WITH AUXILIARY AUXILIARY COOLING SYSTEMS FOR, FOR METRO RAIL, UH, DIESEL, MULTIPLE UNITS.
UM, AND THEN WE HAD A PRESENTATION ON THE BUDGET CALENDAR VERY WELL.
UH, NEXT WE'LL TAKE UP THE FINANCE AUDIT AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE REPORT CHAIR MITCHELL.
THE FAA MO MET ON MAY 12TH, UH, HAD TWO ACTION ITEMS. ONE WAS ITS APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES AND THE OTHER WAS AUTHORIZING, UH, UPDATES TO THE CODE OF ETHICS.
THAT'S ON OUR ACTION AGENDA TODAY.
OTHER THAN THAT, WE HAD PRESENTATIONS FROM ON OUR FINANCIAL, UH, CONDITION, UH, THE FINANCIAL AUDIT, UH, THE STATUS OF INTERNAL AUDIT PLANS THIS YEAR.
HOW ABOUT A CAMPO UPDATE? REMEMBER MITCHELL, UH, CAMPO MET ON MAY 10TH AND, UH, HAD, UH, ACTION ITEMS. UH, THE CAMPO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IS NEGOTIATING WITH KIMBERLY HORN, A TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS AND METRIC DASHBOARD TO MAKE IT EASIER TO UNDERSTAND THE PUBLIC, TO UNDERSTAND, UH, HOW CAMPO PLANNING AND PROJECTS ARE GOING.
UH, THEY APPROVED, UH, SOME, UH, AMENDMENTS TO THE TRANSPORTATION POLICY BOARD, PORK BOARD BYLAWS.
UH, THE BIGGEST OF WHICH WAS ADDING A, UH, AN OFFICE CALLED THE SECRETARY.
UH, OTHER THAN THAT, WE HAD A PRESENTATION ON THE STATUS OF THE UNIFIED PLANNING WORK PROGRAM.
AND FINALLY, AN UPDATE ON THE AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP BOARD MEETING MEMBERS, TRENTON.
THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR, THE AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP BOARD OF DIRECTORS MET FOR THE FIRST TIME RIGHT HERE AT CAPITAL METRO HEADQUARTERS IN PERSON.
UH, WE HAD AN UPDATE AS ALWAYS ON A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES FROM, UH, UH, JACKIE NURENBERG, UH, THAT INCLUDED INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ON A PROJECT CALLED LES TA LET'S TALK STATION, ALIGNMENTS, VIRTUAL MEETINGS, AND THE, UH, STATION ALIGNMENT, SELF GUIDED, UH, THAT GOES ALONG WITH THAT WHERE PEOPLE CAN JUST LOG IN AND PROVIDE THEIR VIRTUAL COMMENTS.
THUS FAR, WE'VE HAD 294 PARTICIPANTS AT THE VIRTUAL MEETINGS AND A 990 VISITORS TO OUR SELF GUIDED TOUR WITH 78 PARTICULAR SURVEY, UH, COMMENTS LEFT.
UH, IN ADDITION, THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UH, WILL BE, UH, THE VARIOUS TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES WILL BE ANNOUNCED.
OUR JUNE MEETING THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE HELD THEIR FIRST MEETING IN APRIL ON APRIL THE 26TH.
THE NEXT ONE IS SLATED FOR MAY THE 26TH AT 5:00 PM.
IT WILL BE HELD VIRTUALLY, AND THAT INFORMATION IS POSTED ON THE ATP WEBSITE.
UH, WE ALSO HEARD TECHNICAL, UH, PROJECT UPDATES FROM, UH, DAVID COUCH TALKING ABOUT THE NEPA PROCESS AND VERY STATUS OF OUR, UH, DIFFERENT PROJECTS GOING ON.
AT THIS TIME, WE HEARD AN ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE FROM, UH, GREG
I'D SAY THERE ARE A LOT MORE NEW, NEW FACES THAT ARE COMING ON BOARD, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED AS THE PROJECT CONTINUES AT THIS TIME.
UH, ONE JUST LITTLE INTERESTING TIDBIT.
IN FACT, I'LL THROW OUT IS THAT THUS FAR, I WROTE THIS DOWN THAT THERE IS A COMBINED 280 YEARS OF PUBLIC TRANSIT EXPERIENCE AND DIVERSITY AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE STAFF THAT HAVE BEEN HIRED THUS FAR, WHICH I THINK IS PRETTY EXCITING.
AND WE WE'VE TAKEN STAFF FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY FROM VARIOUS TRANSIT AGENCIES THAT HAVE COME TO JOIN US FOR OUR PROJECT.
UM, WE ALSO PASS BOARD POLICIES AND THEN FINALLY, UM, WE GOT TO HAVE THE VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE BLUE LINE ALIGNMENT, UH, SOMETHING THAT
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ALL OF US HERE ON THE CAP METRO BOARD WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENJOY AND BE A PART OF IN THIS VERY MEETING.UH, SADLY NO VIRTUAL REALITY GOGGLES WERE PROVIDED.
THANK YOU, MEMBER STRATTON, KUDOS TO THE ATP BOARD FOR THE RECRUITMENT HAD SEEN SOME OF THE NEW ADDITIONS AND IT'S, IT'S A REALLY IMPRESSIVE LIST.
AND IT'S NICE TO KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT THAT EXPERIENCE COMING TO AUSTIN.
[IV. Consent Items]
NEXT STEP, UH, MEMBERS, WE HAVE TWO, WE HAVE OUR CONSENT, UH, AGENDA.THERE ARE TWO ITEMS APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM THE MARCH 29, 2021 BOARD MEETING AND APPROVAL OF A CONTRACT WITH A STATLER RAIL GROUP FOR THE PURCHASE AND INSTALLATION OF SIX AUXILIARY COOLING SYSTEMS FOR METRO RAIL VEHICLES.
DO WE HAVE YOU, UH, WANT TO REMOVE ANY OF THESE ITEMS FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA? UM, HEARING, UH, NO COMMENT TO THAT EFFECT.
THEN I WOULD ASK FOR A MOTION AND A SECOND RELATIVE TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA.
THERE'S A MOTION, A MEMBER POOL SECOND BY VICE CHAIR.
IF THERE'S NO DISCUSSION, THEN I'LL ASK, UH, ALL OF YOU TO SAY I AND A DEPARTURE FROM OUR PRIOR CONDUCT WHILE WE'RE ALL ON A TEAM MEETING, WE CAN JUST DO IT THE OLD FASHIONED WAY.
AND IF MEMBER RENTER IS CHECKED IN ON TEAM, WE'LL ASK HIM TO CONFIRM, BUT ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA, PLEASE INDICATE BY SAYING AYE, AYE.
AND DO WE HAVE MEMBER INTO REIA ON THE, NOT ON THE TEAMS MEETING VERY WELL.
MOTION CARRIES SEVEN TO ZERO WITH ONE NOT PRESENT.
NEXT UP WILL BE OUR ACTION ITEM.
YOU ARE NOT PRESENT FORMER MAYOR MATH, NEVER MY STRONG SUIT.
DO YOU WANT TO TEXT HIM FIRST AND SEE IF HE'S PLANNING TO COME IN AND THEN, OR HIS ASSISTANT AND GIVE US AN UPDATE.
[V.1. Approval of an agreement related to financial commitments and the development and operation of a proposed McKalla Place Rail Station with Austin Stadco LLC.]
NEXT UP, OUR ACTION ITEMS. NUMBER ONE IS APPROVAL OF AN AGREEMENT RELATED TO FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OPERATION OF A PROPOSED MCCALLA PLACE RAIL STATION WITH AUSTIN STAD CO LLC, CHARMELLA MUCOR G R U LIVE OR TEAM MEETINGS.WE ARE GETTING USED TO IN-PERSON MEETINGS.
AND THE PRESENTATION IN FRONT OF YOU IS, UM, IT'S JUST, THESE ARE HIGHLIGHTS OF CAP METRO AND AUSTRIAN FC AGREEMENT ON MCKELLA STATION, UH, DEVELOPMENT OF THE Q2, UM, STADIUM, THE STATION THAT WOULD, UH, PROVIDE SERVICES TO Q2 STADIUM WITH THAT NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
HERE'S THE OVERVIEW OF THE FINANCIAL AGREEMENT AS PART OF TRANSPORTATION MITIGATION REQUIREMENTS IN ITS LEASE AND BASED ON THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET WITHIN THAT LEASE WITH CITY OF BOSTON, AUSTIN STANKO LLC WILL PAY TO CAP METRO AND AMOUNT, NOT TO EXCEED $640,000 FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN TRANSIT FACILITIES, BUS AND TRANSIT IMPROVEMENTS TO BE LOCATED IN PUBLIC RIGHTS AWAY WITHIN Q2 STADIUM, IN THE VICINITY OF Q2 STADIUM AND ADDITIONALLY $3 MILLION TO BE PAID IN EQUAL INSTALLMENTS OF 200,000.
OVER A 15 YEAR PERIOD FOR PURPOSE OF DEFERRING CAPITAL IS COST AND EXPENSES IN CONNECTION WITH THE STADIUM DESIGN CONSTRUCT, THE STATION, THE DESIGN CONSTRUCTION, AND PERMITTING OFF MCCULLOUGH
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PLACE.RAIL STATION WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT JUST A COUPLE POINTS OF WHY WE ARE BUILDING THE STATION AND HOW IT ALIGNS WITH THE AGENCY'S STRATEGIC GOALS.
UM, IN ADDITION TO PROVIDING HIGH QUALITY CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, WE, IT ALSO, THIS IS THE FIRST PROFESSIONAL STADIUM, UM, PROFESSIONAL SPORTS FRANCHISE IN AUSTIN, AND WE ARE BEING VALUED COMMUNITY PARTNER IN SUPPORTING ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NORTH AUSTIN AND CONNECTING PEOPLE TO PLACES.
UM, NOT AS PART OF THIS AGREEMENT, BUT WANTING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE SERVICE PLANNING PROCESS THAT WE HAVE UNDERTAKEN SO FAR AND HIGHLIGHTS OF THAT, THE SERVICE TO Q2 STADIUM, UM, IT OFFERS HIGHER LEVEL OF FREQUENCY ON MITCHELL RAPID EIGHT TO THREE AT SEVEN MINUTE, UM, AT AN EIGHT MINUTE, NO MORE THAN EIGHT MINUTE ON GAME DAYS, METRO BUS, ROUTE THREE, THREE 83 AND THREE 92, AS WELL AS, UM, AT HIGHER FREQUENCY, WE HAVE DESIGNATED METRO ACCESS DROP OFF AND PICK UP NEAR THE STADIUM.
WE ARE OPERATING METRO RAIL, UM, FOR TWO HOURS AFTER GAMES AND SPECIAL SERVICE TO AUSTIN FC GAME DAYS, INCLUDING Q2 OPENING EVENT.
SATURDAY SERVICE WILL BEGIN ON MAY 29TH.
UM, AND AGAIN, FOR GAME DAY, WE ARE PROVIDING A SERVICE WE'LL START AROUND 10:00 AM AND OPERATE UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT, AFTER TWO HOURS AFTER THE GAMES AND DETAILS OF THAT CAN, UH, IS AVAILABLE@CAPMETRO.ORG FORWARD SLASH AUSTIN MC.
SO WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE TWO, UM, CLAUSES OF THE FINANCIAL AGREEMENT.
THERE ARE NOT A WHOLE LOT OF COMPLICATED DETAILS IN THE AGREEMENT, $640,000, UH, FOR TRANSIT RELATED BUS AND, UM, RIGHT AWAY FACILITY IMPROVEMENT AND $3 MILLION CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS OVER A SPAN OF 15 YEARS TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF STATION AND ASSOCIATED EXPENSES.
WE DO HAVE A TRANSPORTATION PARKING AND EVENT PLAN.
IT NEEDS TO BE UPDATED AS CONDITIONS ON THE GROUND CHANGE.
WE ARE REMAINING FLEXIBLE ON THAT AND WE, UH, THE CREAMER STATION WOULD REMAIN OPERATIONAL, UM, UNTIL MCELLIS, UH, POLICE STATION IS OPEN WITH THAT.
I AM REQUESTING, UH, THE APPROVAL OF THE AGREEMENT AND I'M GOING TO PASS IT ON TO CHIP.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. MUKHERJEE? REMEMBER STRATTON? YEAH, SO I JUST WANTED TO A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
ONE, UM, MY UNDERSTANDING IS JUST TO, TO MAKE SURE AND I, I DID READ THROUGH IN THE PACKET, THE, THE, THE AGREEMENT, THE AGREEMENT, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I UNDERSTAND THAT, THAT WE HAVE TWO DIFFERENT DISTINCT PIECES HERE AS AT LEAST IT IS.
IT IS, UM, EXPLAINED WITHIN THE AGREEMENT THAT WE, THAT THE DEFINITION OF TRANSIT IN THE AGREEMENT MORE SPECIFICALLY IS FOCUSING AROUND, UM, BUS AND, UH, AND OTHER RELATED SERVICES AS AN WE'RE SEPARATING OUT RAIL.
AND SO THE $640,000 REVOLVES AROUND UPGRADING AND UPDATING THINGS LIKE CROSSWALKS, PEDESTRIAN HYBRID, HYBRID BEACONS, ANY KIND OF STATION REQUIREMENT, LIKE BUS DEPOT REQUIREMENTS ITSELF FOR PEDESTRIAN DROP-OFF AND PICK UP FOR THE BUSES THEMSELVES, METRO ACCESS, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.
AND I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT I DIDN'T MENTION INITIALLY THAT THIS IS PART OF THE TRANSPORTATION MITIGATION REQUIREMENT WITH CITY OF AUSTIN AND THE $640,000 IS, UH, COMES OUT OF STEMS FROM THAT, UM, THAT, THAT UNDERSTANDING AND THE LEASE AGREEMENT AND THAT, THAT IS AN UP TO AMOUNT.
SO IT MAY NOT BE THAT WE RECEIVE A FULL SIX 40, BECAUSE IF WE DON'T SPEND THAT MUCH, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO PAY US THAT MUCH.
UM, THE WAY THE AMOUNT, IT, IT IS ITEMIZED, BUT IT'S AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $640,000.
NOW, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE, OF THE EQUATION WITH THE METRO RAIL, THAT IS THEY'RE GIVING, THEY'RE GOING TO BE GIVING US THE 300 OR THE $3 MILLION PAID AT $200,000 OVER THE 15 YEARS, CORRECT.
FOR THE, BASICALLY FOR EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH BUILDING THE STATION, MAINTAINING THE RAIL, EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH THAT AS PART OF THE AGREEMENT ON THAT SIDE OF THE LEDGER.
AND THE, THE, THE SERVICE THEN WE'RE, WE'RE ALREADY GOING TO BEGIN THE SERVICE PRETTY MUCH IMMEDIATELY WITH THIS, WITH THIS FIRST GAME, CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT.
REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS, THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.
AND I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT, THAT WE'RE GETTING THIS AGREEMENT IN PLACE NOW, WHICH JUST ONE MORE STEP FORWARD FOR THE GROWTH OF THE RED LINE AND PROJECT CONNECT, AS WELL AS ALL THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE COMING TOGETHER FOR TRANSIT RIGHT THERE.
ONE LAST THING I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT I NOTED, I BELIEVE I SAW IN THERE A PROVISION ABOUT PARKING RIDE, THAT WE'D ALSO BE ABLE TO UTILIZE THE FACILITIES FOR PARKING RIGHT IN THERE.
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ON THAT A LITTLE BIT.SO AUSTIN EX FC, ACCORDING TO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS SAID IN GOOD FAITH, UH, D WILL CARRY ON GOOD FAITH DISCUSSIONS TO HAVE ANY, UM, ADDITIONAL PARKING, UM, AT THEIR PARK AND RIDE FOR AS PARKING RIGHT TO CAP METRO STATION ON NON-EVENT DAYS.
SO, UM, WE GET TO BENEFIT TO USE THAT AS A PARKING RIGHT OPPORTUNITY AS WELL FOR IT.
I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE A HUGE BENEFIT FOR FOLKS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OVER THERE TOO, BECAUSE CURRENTLY THAT ONE OF THE BIGGEST, I THINK ONE OF THE BIGGEST, UH, ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS I'VE HEARD ABOUT THE KRAMER STATION ALONG THE RED LINE IS, IS IT'S THERE, THERE'S NOT THAT ABILITY.
THERE'S, IT'S REALLY PRETTY MUCH JUST DROP AND GO.
YOU DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO, TO PARK AND UTILIZE THE WAY THAT YOU DO AT HOWARD AT LAKELINE AT LEANDER.
SO I THINK THAT THIS IS YET ANOTHER WIN-WIN WIN FOR ALL OF US.
SO REALLY GLAD THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE A PART OF, OF WHAT WE'RE DOING TOO WITH THIS.
YES, WE ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT AS WELL.
OTHER QUESTIONS, REMEMBER POOL? I WAS LOOKING AT THE 3 MILLION IT'S THE M IN THE FIRST, WHEREAS THE, THE SUBSECTION TO LIE 3 MILLION TO CAP METRO, UM, APPROVED AND RECOMMENDED FOR TRANSIT RAIDERS FACILITIES THAT EQUAL INSTALLMENTS OVER A 15 YEAR PERIOD.
WHEN DOES THAT START? WHEN WILL WE SEE THE FIRST INSTALLMENT PAYMENT? I THINK AT THE START OF CONSTRUCTION IS HOW I HAVE IT.
AND ASHLEY, IF YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL CLARIFICATION ON THAT ARE SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IN THE AGREEMENT ABOUT THE COMMENCEMENT DATE.
AND I THINK IT TIES WITH THE COMMENCEMENT.
IT'S NOT IN HERE, MY MARCH 1ST OF 2022, OR START A CONSTRUCTION, WHATEVER COMES FIRST.
AND WHICHEVER COMES FROM PAGE NUMBER IS THAT 31 31 IN YOUR PACKET.
LET ME JUST MAKE SURE I SEE THAT FIRST INSTALLMENT FIRST DAY OF THE CALENDAR MONTH COMMENCEMENT OF CONSTRUCTION, BUT NOT LATER THAN MARCH ONE, 2022.
SO, SO, SO SOMETIME NEXT YEAR AND LATER THAN MARCH ONE OF NEXT YEAR.
I JUST HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE USE OF THE 200,000.
UM, I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT LANGUAGE RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF ME, BUT BASICALLY, UM, CAP METRO CAN USE FOR OTHER TRANSIT RELATED FACILITIES IS THAT, UM, IT SAYS AS DETERMINED FROM TIME TO TIME BY CAP METRO, UM, IS, IS THAT TO BE READ AS IN, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION? I, I CAN ATTEMPT TO ANSWER THAT.
SO IT IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF MCKELLA STATION.
AND SINCE THE 15 YEAR PERIOD IS MUCH LONGER THAN WHEN THE DESIGN IS GOING TO BE COMPLETED AND CONSTRUCTED.
UH, IT IS FOR MITCHELL RAIL OPERATIONS TO MCCALLA STATION, ANY UPGRADES TO IT, ANY SAFETY OR SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS THAT MAY BE NEEDED, THAT'S SPECIFIC TO OPERATIONS TO THE STADIUM THAT'S AND WE WANTED TO BE VERY EXPLICIT AND FLEXIBLE IN THAT LANGUAGE THAT, UM, WE ARE NOT SPECIFICALLY DUE TO THIS 15 YEAR PERIOD WITH EQUAL AMOUNTS OF 200,000.
SO WE CAN USE IT FOR OTHER PLACES, UM, BECAUSE IT SAYS FOR OTHER TRANSIT RELATED FACILITIES WITHIN CAPITAL METRO'S JURISDICTION.
SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT, I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT THE SENTENCE SAYS.
SO I JUST, JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WAS WITHIN A CAP METRO'S DISCRETION, AS OPPOSED TO HAVING TO REACH SOME SORT OF AGREEMENT WITH THE COMPANY.
I'M NOT SEEING ANY LANGUAGE TO THAT EFFECT, BUT I HAVEN'T READ EVERY LAST LINE IN HERE.
SO JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I WAS READING IT RIGHT.
IT IS AT OUR DISCRETION, BUT I THINK WE'RE PRECEDENT HAS A CLARIFYING.
WHERE DOES IT SAY OTHER, BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST FOR PAGE 31, UH, I'M 31 TO BE ALL THIS SUGGEST IS THAT ON AN ANNUALIZED BASIS, IT'D BE $200,000 PAYMENT.
AND I THINK WHAT SHARMILA IS EXPLAINING IS THE, THE STATION WILL OBVIOUSLY BE BUILT BEFORE THE 15 YEARS ARE UP.
AND SO IT CAN'T BE CAPITALIZED IN THE YEAR OF SAY 20, 29 AGAINST THE STATION THAT WAS BUILT IN 2023, BUT IT IS ALL MONEY THAT IS RELATED TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE STATION.
THEY'RE BASICALLY JUST GIVING US PAYMENTS BACK OVER A PERIOD OF TIME.
I'LL JUST NOTE THAT THE STATION WILL ALREADY BE BUILT, RIGHT? THE PRIOR PARAGRAPH A SAYS, IF THE COMPANY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT'S PAID OVER TIME AND WILL BE USED BY CAP METRO FOR OTHER FACILITIES, UH, AS DETERMINED BY CAP METRO.
SO I THINK IT'S CLEAR THAT THAT'S OUR DISCRETION, NOT THEIRS.
IT WILL BE A REVENUE STREAM INTO THE CAPITAL BUDGET BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY FRONT LOADED THE COST OF THE STATION.
THAT IS A LITTLE BIT CONFUSING.
AND FOR THAT, THAT'S THE REASON
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THAT IT WOULD BE SPENT ON OTHER TRANSIT RELATED FACILITIES, BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY SPENT THE MONEY ON MY CALLA.AND SO THIS IS REIMBURSING US, AND THEN WE WILL BE SPENDING IN OTHER THINGS WITHIN CAT METRO'S DISCRETION.
SO THAT SUB PARAGRAPH UNDER NUMBER TWO, FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS SEEMS TO SAY IT SEEMS TO BE IN CONFLICT.
UM, BUT I THINK WE ARE WORKING OUT HERE ON THE DIOCESE THAT IT IS INTENDED FOR MCCALLA STATION AND THAT IF THERE AREN'T FINANCIAL NEEDS AFTER THOSE STATION IS BUILT, BUT WE ARE STILL RECEIVING THE 200,000 A YEAR OVER THE 15 YEAR SPAN, WHICH TAKES US INTO 2037, RIGHT.
THEN THAT'S A PERMISSIVE THAT'S PERMISSIVE LANGUAGE.
THEN FOR KENT METRO TO USE IT FOR TRANSIT RELATED NEEDS AT OTHER STATIONS, THAT'S CORRECT.
WE HADN'T HAD THAT LANGUAGE IN THERE THAT BASICALLY SAID WE ARE OBVIOUSLY BUILDING THE STATION OR ON THE EARLY SIDE, THEY WILL BE GIVING US PAYMENTS FOR 15 YEARS.
AND WE HAD TO HAVE THAT LANGUAGE TO SUGGEST THAT WE CAN USE IT.
IT'S JUST THE BOARD AND STAFF OF 12 YEARS FROM NOW, IT'LL BE ANOTHER $200,000 IN REVENUE SOURCE THAT WILL HAVE TO BE JUST SPENT ON THE BUDGET THAT YEAR BECAUSE THE OTHER PRO THE PROJECT HAS ALREADY BEEN BUILT.
SO WE JUST NEED THAT LANGUAGE TO NOT MAKE IT RELATE TO SOMETHING BECAUSE IT'S ALREADY BEEN CAPITALIZED.
I RE I UNDER, YES, THAT MAKES SENSE TO ME.
BUT I DO THINK THAT THE FIRST PRIORITY SHOULD BE WHAT ARE THE NEEDS IN 2035 OF THE MCCALLA STATION, BECAUSE IT WILL HAVE BEEN IN PRETTY HEAVY USE FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS.
AND THERE COULD BE SOME FACILITIES IMPROVEMENTS, TRANSIT RELATED NEEDS AT THAT SITE.
SO WOULDN'T, WE GIVE PREFERENCE AND FIRST DIBS ON, I MEAN, 200,000, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT, WELL WE, YEAH, SO, AND IDEALLY IN OUR WORLD, WE DON'T WANT TO EVER TARGET REVENUE SOURCE BECAUSE IT ALL GOES INTO OUR STATE OF GOOD REPAIR PROGRAM.
SO WE DON'T HAVE A SOURCE THAT GOES TO A STATION TO A SPECIFIC BOSS DISTRIBUTE ROAD IT'S DONE IN A SYSTEMIZED WAY FROM A TRANSIT ASSET MANAGEMENT POINT OF VIEW AND STATE OF GOOD REPAIR.
SO, SO IT GIVES THAT FLEXIBILITY TO THE, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE ACTUAL NEEDS ARISE.
SO GENERALLY SPEAKING, THIS STATION IS GOING TO BE IN GREAT, UH, IN A GREAT STATE OF REPAIR FOR DECADES.
AND THE FLEXIBILITY, I AGREE, UM, IT'S NECESSARY GIVEN THE LONG GLIDE PATH TO GET THE 3 MILLION.
UM, BUT I WOULD LIKE THE RECORD TO REFLECT THAT.
I THINK THAT THE FIRST PRIORITY OR THE PRIORITY SHOULD BE WHAT ARE THE NEEDS AT THE STATION FOR WHICH WE GOT THAT MONEY.
WE DIDN'T GET THE MONEY GENERALLY FOR THAT MATTER.
WE DID GET IT SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE OF THE STADIUM THAT WAS BEING BUILT THERE AND BECAUSE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS AND THEY WEREN'T TERRIBLY ROBUST, IN MY OPINION, WITH REGARD TO COMMUNITY ASSETS, THIS IS ONE PLACE WHERE WE DID GET SOME, SOME SPECIFIC COMMUNITY ASSET FROM, UH, I DUNNO, I GUESS IT'S IT, WASN'T CALLED STAT CO AT THE TIME, BUT IT'S CALLED STACK COME NOW.
SO I JUST, I WANNA MAKE THE POINT FOR OUR RECORD, HOW WE GOT THAT MONEY, WHAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES WERE SURROUNDING IT, HOW THE CITY COUNCIL VOTED FOR THAT, WITH THE IDEA THAT THAT MONEY WAS GOING TO HELP WITH THE BUILDING OF THE MCCALLA STATION.
I GET THE NEED TO HAVE FLEXIBILITY REITERATE THAT I'M NOT OPPOSED TO THAT.
SO I'M REALLY JUST TAKING THIS OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SURE THE RECORD REFLECTS WHAT MY PERSONAL, UM, EXPECTATION IS AS THE COUNCIL MEMBER THAT REPRESENTS THAT DISTRICT.
AND AS PART OF THE GROUP THAT WAS NEGOTIATING WITH WHAT'S NOW CALLED STAFF FOR WHAT SMALL AMOUNT OF BENEFITS THAT WE WERE GOING TO GET FROM THEM.
UH, COULD WE CONSIDER AN AMENDMENT TO THE, UM, JUST AS BRIEF AMENDMENT THAT, UM, CAPTURES THAT, UH, INTENT? UM, KEEP THE SENTENCE SAYS IS WITH A COMMA THAT SAYS WITH PRIORITY FOR USE BEING GIVEN TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE MCCALLA PLAY STATION, AND THAT WOULD ALLOW THE FLEXIBILITY TO USE IT FOR OTHER, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR OTHER FACILITIES.
UH, BUT THAT IF THERE WERE NEEDS, UH, AT MCCALLA THAT RISE TO THE LEVEL OF NEEDING THE 200,000, THAT WOULD BE PRIORITY.
THE REASON IS FROM MY PERSPECTIVE IS, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A 15 YEAR PAYOUT.
THAT'S 15 YEARS IS A LONG TIME FROM NOW.
SO I THINK IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO CAPTURE THE INTENT, UM, IN THE ACTUAL LANGUAGE.
UM, IT SEEMS TO CAPTURE WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
SO I WOULD THINK THAT IT WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE LANGUAGE.
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COMMENT ABOUT THAT.WHAT WE'RE APPROVING IN MY MIND IS AS A CONTRACT BETWEEN US AND THE DEVELOPERS AND WE'LL HAVE PUT OUR MONEY INTO IT.
AND WHEN WE GET THE MONEY OUT, IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S OUR DISCRETION.
THIS LANGUAGE IS JUST TO MAKE CLEAR IN MY MIND THAT THEY DON'T HAVE A SAY AS TO HOW WE SPEND THE MONEY.
WE GET TO DETERMINE HOW WE SPEND THE MONEY.
ALL THOSE CONSIDERATIONS I THINK ARE APPROPRIATE FOR OUR BOARD TO THINK ABOUT.
BUT I THINK THIS CONTRACT JUST MAKES CLEAR AND THIS LANGUAGE JUST MAKES CLEAR, IT'S NOT THE STADIUM COMPANIES.
THEY DON'T HAVE ANY INPUT AS TO THAT.
NO, BUT THEIR AGREEMENT AND THEY REACHED THE ZONE.
THEY WERE GRANTED ZONING BASED ON THEIR AGREEMENT TO PUT DOLLARS INTO MCCALLA STATION.
WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT WHAT THEY'RE AGREEING TO DO IS TO GIVE US THE $200,000 IN OUR BOARD GETS TO DETERMINE HOW TO USE IT, WHICH I THINK IS ENTIRELY OKAY.
BASED ON THE, UH, BASED ON THEIR ZONING.
WE COULDN'T JUST GO OUT AND USE IT FOR SOMETHING OTHER THAN ONE, OTHER THAN MCCALLA, BECAUSE IT'S REIMBURSING FOR A BUILDING MCCALLA.
AND THAT WAS WHAT THE, UH, THE PURPOSE OF THAT THOSE ZONING DOLLARS WERE.
SO, BUT TH THIS IS JUST SAYING WE'D GET 200,000 BUCKS A YEAR TO USE AS WE SEE FIT IN THE CAPITAL BUDGET.
AND I, AND I THINK THAT, UM, BOARD MEMBER KITCHENS, SUGGESTION THAT WE ADD IN THERE WITH FIRST PREFERENCE BE FOR, UH, TRANSIT RELATED USES AT THE MCCALLA PLACE FACILITY, UM, ENCOMPASSES THE INTENT OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND WORKING TOWARD THIS AGREEMENT WITH STRATCO.
AND IT DOESN'T DO ANY VIOLENCE OR HARM AT ALL TO ANY FUTURE ACTION OF THIS BOARD.
BUT IN FACT, CLEARLY STATES THAT THAT IS WHERE THOSE MONIES SHOULD BE USED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
AND IF THEY'RE NOT NEEDED, THEN CERTAINLY THE BOARD COULD USE THEM IN OTHER TRANSIT RELATED.
I MAY CHIME IN AND JUST MAKE ONE COMMENT FOR EVERYONE'S CONSIDERATION IS THE ENTIRE VIABILITY OF THE STATION.
THEN THE UPFRONT INVESTMENT THAT WE ARE PUTTING IN, UM, WE AHEAD OF THE FINANCIAL, UH, COMMITMENTS AND THE INSTALLMENTS THAT ARE, THAT IS, UH, PARTS OF THIS AGREEMENT.
I THINK THE VIABILITY OF MITCHELL RAIL, UM, AND OUR F OUR FUTURE FOCUS ON MAKING IT A REGIONAL RAIL WITH A HIGHER LEVEL OF FREQUENCY IN 15 MINUTES.
I THINK IT, WE REALLY SHOULD CONSIDER THIS PROBABLY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF BETTER SERVICE ON THE REDLINE REGIONAL RAIL.
AND THAT ESSENTIALLY GIVES THE BIBLE TO THE STATION, NOT THE PLATFORM AT THE, AT THE STADIUM.
SO I WOULD ALMOST ENCOURAGE US IF I MAY DO THAT TO KIND OF TAKE ON A BROADER PERSPECTIVE AND FOCUS ON OUR FUTURE SERVICE VIABILITY AND ANY NEED, IF DOUBLE TRACKING THIS EXPENSE NEEDS TO REALLY GO TOWARDS DOUBLE TRACKING TO MAKE SERVICE TO MCCULLOUGH STATION A MORE VIABLE, UM, REAL SERVICE.
I THINK, UM, OUR FUTURE USERS WOULD ACTUALLY LIKE THAT.
SO I, I ALSO DON'T WANT US TO RULE OUT BY B HAVING A VERY NARROW DEFINITION ON HOW THIS MONEY SHOULD BE USED AT THE STATION ITSELF, BECAUSE I THINK THAT IS SELF-DEFEATING, UM, FROM WHAT PROBABLY WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE.
UM, I, I CAN APPRECIATE WHERE, UM, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN AND COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, POOL WERE COMING FROM ON THIS, BUT, UM, FROM, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, WE'VE THIS, MY CONCERN IS, IS THAT THIS MEANS THAT THE BOARD IS KIND OF GETTING IN THE MINUTIA OF, UM, MICROMANAGING A CONTRACT AND TRYING TO AMEND A CONTRACT FROM THE BOARD DIES.
AND I HAVE, UH, PERSONALLY, UH, HAVE A CONCERN ABOUT THAT.
UH, I FEEL LIKE THAT STAFF HAS NEGOTIATED IN GOOD FAITH WITH THE DEVELOPER ON THIS ONE TO HAVE THE AGREEMENT THE WAY IT IS.
AND SINCE THE MONEY IS ALREADY GOING TO BE FRONTED BY CAP METRO TO BUILD THE STADIUM, AND THAT'S GOING TO BE OBLIGATED BY US AND THE DEVELOPER PAYS IT BACK, IF IT'S ALREADY BEEN PAID FOR, THEN, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO BE DETERMINED BY THE BOARD, HOW TO DO THIS AND HOW TO BEST, YOU KNOW, EXPEND THE FUNDS IN THE FUTURE, THROUGH THE CAPITAL PROJECTS, UH, BUDGET AND FOR THE STATE OF REPAIR AND TO WHAT, UM, UH, SHARMILA HAD STATED THAT, UH, PART OF THAT FUNDS OR ALL THAT FUNDS, I MEAN, PART OF IT COULD BE USED FOR THE STATION.
THE FUTURE PART OF IT COULD BE USED FOR DIRECT ADDRESSING THE TRACKS COULD BE USED FOR ADDRESSING, YOU KNOW, DOUBLE TRACKING MAINTENANCE WHO KNOWS WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S GOING TO SAY.
THE NEXT VERSION OF POSITIVE TRAIN CONTROL WAS GOING TO LOOK LIKE.
I MEAN, ALL THESE THINGS THAT COULD COME UP.
UH, I JUST PERSONALLY, UM, IN MY TIME HERE THAT WE'D BEEN ON THE BOARD, UM, I GUESS WHAT I'M GETTING AT
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IS IF, IF, IF WE HAVE, IF THERE ARE BOARD MEMBERS THAT HAVE CONCERNS, I THINK BOTH FROM A POLICY PERSPECTIVE, AND THEN WE'VE THE WAY WE'VE APPROACHED THINGS IN THE PAST WITH THIS.I THINK THAT I, I WOULD FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE RATHER THAN TRYING TO AMEND A CONTRACT HERE THAT WE JUST TAKE A VOTE UP OR DOWN AND THEN TAKE IT BACK TO STAFF AND LET THEM LOOK IT OVER AND THEN BRING IT BACK AGAIN AT A FUTURE TIME, IF THAT WERE THE CASE, IF THAT WERE A CASE THAT IT'S TRULY A BIG ENOUGH CONCERN THAT THE BOARD FEELS THAT THIS ISN'T BIG ENOUGH ISSUE RATHER THAN TRYING TO AMEND IT FROM THE DIOCESE, REMEMBER KITCHEN.
UM, I, I HEAR YOUR CONCERN, UM, MEMORY STRATTON, UM, I DON'T FEEL LIKE IT'S MICROMANAGING.
UM, I DO FEEL LIKE BECAUSE THIS IS A POLICY ISSUE, SO, AND I DON'T, I DON'T FEEL LIKE I NEED TO DICTATE WHAT THE LANGUAGE IS.
I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT, UM, IT'S JUST IN FRONT OF US NOW AND IN AN EFFORT TO, TO GET IT DONE IS WHY I WAS PROPOSING THE LANGUAGE I'M HAPPY FOR, FOR THE STAFF TO TAKE IT BACK AND CONSIDER THE POLICY DIRECTION AND WHAT THE BEST WAY TO CAPTURE IT IN THE CONTRACT.
IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE THINKING, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT, BUT THE POLICY GOES TO HOW THIS, THESE FUNDS ARE USED 15 YEARS FROM NOW.
AND I DO THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE IF WE CHOOSE TO, AS A BOARD TO SET WHAT THAT POLICY IS RIGHT NOW.
AND I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
UM, YOU KNOW, WITH REGARD TO MAKING SURE THE LANGUAGE IS BROAD ENOUGH TO REFLECT THE INTENT.
AND IF I'M UNDERSTANDING THE INTENT, THE INTENT IS SERVICE, UH, TO MCCALLA PLACE, WHICH IS FINE.
SO I CAN, I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE MAY BE DIFFERENT WAYS TO WORD THAT, AND I'M HAPPY FOR THE STAFF TO TAKE THAT BACK AND, AND THINK ABOUT BETTER WORDING.
I WAS JUST TRYING TO EXPEDITE IT TODAY, BUT I, BUT I DON'T.
AND, BUT I DON'T THINK AS MICRO PANTOMIME MANAGING TO, UM, TO POINT OUT WHAT IS REALLY A POLICY QUESTION.
SO, AND I THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE FOR US, UH, AS A BOARD TO INDICATE WHAT WE THINK THAT INTENT IS FROM A POLICY PERSPECTIVE GOING FORWARD.
YEAH, I WOULD JUST SAY IF I DON'T, I'M AT A LOSS, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE WOULD HAVE BEEN TO CONTRACT BETWEEN US AND THE DEVELOPER WHERE WE'RE PAYING 20, SOME ODD MILLION DOLLARS TO BUILD THEM AS A STATION.
AND ONE THAT WILL SERVE THAT PART OF THE COMMUNITY.
AND WE GET A PIECE, BUT NOT ANYWHERE NEAR FULL REIMBURSEMENT.
WHY WOULD WE BIND OURSELVES IN A CONTRACT? IT SEEMS TO ME, IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A POLICY ABOUT THAT, WHICH I HAVE A ISSUE WITH AS WELL, BUT THAT SHOULD BE A POLICY DECISION OF THIS BOARD, NOT IN A CONTRACT WITH A THIRD PARTY.
AND SO I THINK IT'S, I DON'T THINK I UNDERSTAND THE CONVERSATION ABOUT THE POLICY AND WE CAN HAVE THAT DEBATE, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONTRACT WITH, WITH ANOTHER PARTY WE'RE TRYING TO BIND OURSELVES.
THAT SHOULD BE JUST A POLICY STATEMENT, REMEMBER POOL.
SO ACTUALLY MY, UM, CONCERN IS WITH THE LANGUAGE AND THE RESOLUTION, AND I'M NOT TOUCHING THE CONTRACT AT ALL, AND I'M ONLY VOTING ON THE RESOLUTION.
I'M, I MEAN, I KNOW THE CONTRACT IS AN AGREEMENT THAT'S ATTACHED TO IT, BUT I'M SAYING THAT THE MONEY SHOULD GO TO BENEFIT SPECIFICALLY THE STATION THAT STEAD CO IS BENEFITING FROM, AND THAT THE AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY COUNCIL WAS THAT IT WOULD GO TO THAT STATION AND ITS CONSTRUCTION REALLY IS ALIGNING IT WITH THE INTENTIONS AT THE TIME.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S $200,000 A YEAR.
IT'S REALLY A SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY, HONESTLY.
AND, UH, AND IT'S OFFERED UP IN SMALL INCREMENTS OVER A REALLY LONG PERIOD OF TIME.
SO IN THE END, IT'S NOT EVEN GOING TO BE WORTH WHAT IT IS WORTH TODAY, WHEN IT DOES FINALLY COME TO CAP METRO, IT MAY BE WORTH SIGNIFICANTLY LESS.
AND SO IT WON'T HAVE THE BENEFIT MAYBE THAT IT NEEDS TO WAS INTENDED TO HAVE IT IN THE CALLA PLACE.
UM, I MAY JUST NEED TO ABSTAIN ON VOTING ON THE RESOLUTION, BUT I, I REALLY HOPE THAT, UM, THAT THE DIRECTION THAT THE STAFF I WOULD BE SATISFIED AND COULD POSSIBLY VOTE FOR THIS, IF I WAS ABLE TO, UM, WITH THE CONVERSATION THAT WE'VE HAD HERE TODAY, PROVIDE DIRECTION TO THE STAFF, TO THE EXTENT THAT THE, UM, WHATEVER FUNDING COMES IN, WHATEVER SMALL INCREMENTS, OVER A FAIRLY LONG PERIOD OF TIME, OUR FIRST TARGETED TIER, THE SPECIFIC REASON WHY WE'RE GETTING THE MONEY IN THE FIRST PLACE, WHICH IS IN THE CAL STATION.
AND THEN, UM, I GUESS WE PROBABLY NEED TO EMOTION
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OF SOME SORT TO MOVE THIS ALONG.UM, SO I CAN JUST SAY THAT WE UNDERSTAND THE INTENT OF THE BOARD AND WE CAN, WE CAN, UH, LOOK AT THOSE FUNDING THAT WAY.
OBVIOUSLY THE FIRST FEW YEARS WHERE WE DIRECTLY TO THE STATION ITSELF, UH, BE CLEAR $200,000 A YEAR IS AN INCREDIBLY SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY IN OUR WORLD.
AND THERE'LL BE, I CAN'T THINK OF ACTUALLY ANYTHING RELATED TO THE STATION ITSELF THAT WE WOULD EVER HAVE A $200,000 OR LESS, BUT WE FULLY UNDERSTAND THE SENTIMENT.
AND SO WE THINK THE RESOLUTION IS WRITTEN, COVER COVERS WHAT WE'RE AFTER AND UNDERSTANDING YOUR POINT OF VIEW, UH, YEARS WHEN THE STATION IS DONE, WE CAN LOOK THROUGH THE LENS TO SAY, IS THERE ANYTHING AT THAT STATION, UH, ITSELF THAT IS SOME TYPE OF APPROVEMENT THAT THOSE DOLLARS COULD BE USED FOR OTHERWISE, THEY WOULD OBVIOUSLY GO INTO THE ANNUALIZED BUDGET TO BE USED, UH, JUST LIKE THE MONEY THAT IS BEING USED FOR THE STATION TODAY.
IF THAT, IF THAT WOULD KIND OF TIES IT ALL TOGETHER.
I, I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, AND I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, CHAIR, IN TERMS OF THE CONCERNS ABOUT AMENDING A CONTRACT.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT WE CAPTURE THE INTENT IN THE RESOLUTION ITSELF.
SO WE COULD ADD SOMETHING TO THE END OF THE FIRST PARAGRAPH THAT JUST SAYS, WHAT IS THE INTENT TO PRIORITIZE USE OF FUNDS FOR THE BENEFIT OF SERVICES TO MCCALLA PLAY STATION, UH, HOPEFULLY THAT, UH, UH, HOPEFULLY THAT WOULD CAPTURE THE INTENT THAT WAS JUST SHARED WITH US IN TERMS OF THE BROADER PICTURE.
SO IT WOULD SAY SOMETHING LIKE AND RECOMMENDED TRANSIT RELATED FACILITIES TO BE PAID IN EQUAL INSTALLMENTS OVER A 15 YEAR PERIOD WITH THE INTENT TO PRIORITIZE USE OF FUNDS FOR THE BENEFIT OF SERVICES TO MCCALLA, PLAYSTATION AND CHAIR.
I WOULD GO EVEN FURTHER TO REFER Y'ALL TO PAGE TWO, PACKET PAGE 22, JUST ON THE RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE RESOLUTION, THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, THE SECOND PARAGRAPH UNDER THERE, YOU'LL SEE AGAIN, TWO LITTLE, I, THE $3 MILLION PAID AN EQUAL INSTALLMENTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF HELPING TO DEFRAY KEPT METRO'S COSTS AND EXPENSES IN CONNECTION WITH THE DESIGN CONSTRUCTION AND PERMITTING OF THE MCCALLA PLACE RAIL STATION.
AND THAT, UM, SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S THE PIECE THAT I'M, THAT I'M FOCUSING ON.
NOT I'VE GOTTEN A LITTLE LOST AS TO EXACTLY WHAT OUR MOTION SHOULD SAY, ASHLEY, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE, I WOULD SUGGEST MAYBE MY ONLY SUGGESTION AGAIN, IS THAT WE HAVE A POLICY DEBATE WITH RESPECT TO THE RESOLUTION WE'RE PUTTING OUT 20, SOME ODD MILLION DOLLARS.
WE'RE GETTING A PITTANCE BACK.
UH, IT SEEMS TO ME CAP METRO WILL HAVE GIVEN ALL IT NEEDS TO GIVE TO MUKALLA STATION.
AND, UH, WE OUGHT TO HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY TO USE THE DOLLARS 15 YEARS FROM NOW.
HOWEVER WE WANT TO USE THE DOLLARS THAT WOULD BE WHERE I WOULD WANT TO BE.
I LIKE THE ORIGINAL RESOLUTION AS IT IS.
CAUSE I THINK IT GIVES US THAT FLEXIBILITY.
AND THAT'S THE PURVIEW OF THIS BOARD.
AND I GUESS TWO OF YOU DO, BUT I'M IN FAVOR OF US JUST GETTING THE MONEY BACK.
IF I MAY CHAIR, I GUESS IT MUST JUST BE OUR, OUR ASSUMPTION ABOUT FACILITIES DOES CAP METRO AND IT'S, UH, MAINTENANCE AND, UH, IT'S MAINTENANCE OF ITS FACILITIES ONCE THEY'RE BUILT OR DO YOU HAVE ONGOING MAINTENANCE AND, UM, OPERATIONS SURROUNDING EVERY BUS STOP AND STADIUM, I MEAN, UH, RAIL STATION, BUT WE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A FEDERAL MANDATE TO KEEP OUR ASSETS IN GOOD REPAIR AND OKAY.
UM, SO DIFFERENT THINGS WILL DEPRECIATE AND DECLINED AT DIFFERENT TIMES.
AND WE MAY NEED TO FIX A BUS STOP IN EAST AUSTIN MORE THAN WE NEED TO FRESHEN THE PAIN AT THE MCKELLA STATION IN THAT FUTURE BOARDS THAT SEEMS TO BE, SHOULD HAVE THAT FLEXIBILITY.
WELL, MONEY BEING FUNGIBLE THE WAY IT IS IF 200,000 WERE DEPOSITED TOWARD THE MCCALLA PLACE, RAIL STOP IN 2035, THEN MONEY FROM GENERAL REVENUES WOULD NOT BE TAKEN NEED.
WOULDN'T BE NEEDED TO BE TAKEN OUT IN ORDER TO MAKE SOME REPAIRS THERE.
AND THOSE MONIES COULD BE USED FOR, UM, UH, A STOP SOMEWHERE ELSE.
MR. CHAIR, UH, POINT OF ORDER, IS THERE AN ACTUAL MOTION? IS THERE AN ACTUAL MOTION ON THE FLOOR WITH A SECOND MOTION ON THE FLOOR? SUCH, DID YOU WANT TO MAKE ONE OR REMEMBER PULL? YOU WANT TO MAKE THE MOTION AND THEN WE CAN START FROM THAT.
I'D MAKE THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE RESOLUTION THAT'S ON OUR PACKET PAGE 23 WITH, UM, THE ADDITION OF THE PHRASE THAT IS ON PACKET PAGE 22, FOR THE PURPOSE OF HELPING TO
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DEFRAY CAP MATTRESS COSTS AND EXPENSES IN CONNECTION WITH THE DESIGN CONSTRUCTION AND PERMITTING OF MCCULLOUGH PLACE.MR. CHAIR, POINT OF ORDER, WE'D HAVE TO CONSIDER THE AMENDMENT BEFORE WE COULD CONSIDER THE FINAL MOTION OR MOTION.
IT SOUNDED LIKE YOU WERE MIXING.
SO I THINK SHE'S TRYING TO GET THE MOTION.
I DIDN'T GET THE, JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE KEEPING ASHLEY HONEST OVER THERE.
THE EMOTION IS AS INCLUDED IN THE PACKET ON PAGE 23.
UM, AND I THINK IT WOULD BE A NEW SUBPART THREE ASHLEY FOLLOW ALONG CAREFULLY AND MAKE SURE I DON'T MESS THIS UP, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE A NEW SUBPART THREE UNDER THE FIRST WHEREAS CLAUSE TO SAY FOR THE PURPOSE OF HELPING TO DEFRAG CAT METRO'S COST AND EXPENSES AND CONNECTION WITH THE DESIGN, COMMA, CONSTRUCTION, AND PERMITTING TO THE MCCALLA PLACE RAIL STATION, I WOULD JUST KEEP IT AS PART OF SUBPAR TO, AND PUT THE COMMA THERE AND FOLLOW MIMIC PATIENTS TOO.
SO IT GOES WITH THE $3 MILLION.
I THINK THAT'S WHAT REMEMBER POOLE WAS TRYING TO SAY.
IS THERE A SECOND REMEMBER KITCHEN WITH THE SECOND? ANY, UH, COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS DEBATE VERY WELL.
ALL WE'RE DOING IS PICKING UP THE LANGUAGE THAT'S IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND REFLECTING IT IN THE RESOLUTION.
SO IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THAT MAKES SENSE, UM, THAT IS CAPTURES THE INTENT AND YOU KNOW, OR AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.
SO WE'RE JUST PICKING UP THAT LINE.
I'M OKAY WITH THIS LANGUAGE BECAUSE I DON'T THINK IT BINDS A FUTURE BOARD.
I THINK IT'S SAYING WE'RE PUTTING OUT A BUNCH OF MONEY AND THEY'RE GIVING US SOME OF IT BACK AND FUTURE BOARDS WE'LL FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH IT AS NEEDS AS THEY DETERMINE THE NEEDS.
SO I'M IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION IS DRAFTED STRAIGHT.
I, I WOULDN'T SAY MR. CHAIRMAN THAN IT DID, IT DOES ALIGN WHAT THE INTENT AND THE PACKET WAS WITH THE ACTUAL RESOLUTION TO MERGE THE LANGUAGES SO THAT THEY'RE MORE CLEAR TOGETHER.
AND I'M OKAY WITH THAT CALL THE QUESTION VERY WELL, ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE INDICATE BY SAYING AYE.
ANY OPPOSED? NAY MOTION CARRIES SIX TO ZERO.
AND NEXT STEP, THAT WAS THE, THAT WAS THE AMENDMENT.
NO, THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL MOTION.
THAT WAS THE, THAT WAS THE AMENDMENT THAT WASN'T THE, WE'VE GOT TO REMEMBER.
POOL MADE A MOTION THAT HAD LANGUAGE THAT WAS DIFFERENT FROM DRAFTED IN THE PAST.
THAT WAS THE AMENDMENT TO THE ORIGINAL DRAFT.
AND THEN DON'T WE STILL HAVE TO APPROVE THE MOTION ITSELF.
ACTUALLY DO YOU FEEL LIKE WE'RE GOOD.
AND IF WE WANT TO TAKE, I GET YOUR POINT THAT WE NEED TO TAKE THE VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT AND THEN THE, OKAY.
WE ATTACHED AN AMENDMENT THAT WE AMENDED THE RIZZO.
IS IT, THERE WAS ONLY ONE MOTION.
THE MOTION TOOK THE LANGUAGE IN THE PACKET AND ADDED A PHRASE THAT WAS THE OFFICIAL MOTION.
CAUSE THE, THE, THE MO THERE WAS NOT EMOTION ALREADY ON THE TAPE.
THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL EMOTION.
NOW WITH THOSE WILLIAMS, IT'S JUST WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GET BACK TOGETHER IN PERSON, RIGHT.
IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE WE DID A MOTION, SHALL WE? YEAH, WE CAN SHUT OFF, UH, BOARD MEMBERS.
WE CAN SHUT OFF OUR TEAMS MEETING POS, NOT GOING TO JOIN US.
SO THANK YOU OR BREAKING ALL KINDS OF NEW GROUND HERE, KNOCKING THE DUST OFF.
[V.2. Approval of updates to the Capital Metro Code of Ethics.]
ALL RIGHT.OUR NEXT ACTION ITEM IS APPROVAL OF UPDATES TO THE CODE OF ETHICS, OUR NEW GENERAL COUNSEL, ASHLEY GLANCER WITH THE MOTION.
IT IS GOOD TO SEE EVERYBODY IN PERSON.
SO IN YOUR BOARD PACKET, I AM ON PAGE 50, AND THIS IS A SMALL AMENDMENT TO OUR CODE OF ETHICS, REVOLVING OUR RE INVOLVING OUR REVOLVING DOOR POLICIES.
SO, AND YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PAGE.
NUMBER SEVEN, WE ARE CHANGING THIS TO READ THE, THE CENTER FOR THE LIFE OF THE CONTRACT OR FORMER EMPLOYEE OR A FORMER BURDEN MORE MEMBER WOULD BE, UM, PROHIBITED FROM PARTICIPATING IN THE CONTRACT FOR TWO YEARS.
AND THIS WOULD ONLY APPLY TO A
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FORMER BOARD MEMBER OR EMPLOYEE THAT ACTUALLY WAS INVOLVED IN THE RECOMMENDATION, A BID PROPOSAL OR SOLICITATION OF THE CONTRACT.SO THIS WOULD JUST CHANGE IT FROM THE LIFE OF THE CONTRACT TO TWO YEARS.
UM, I W I THINK WE HAD SOME CONVERSATION WHEN THIS WAS PRESENTED.
I WAS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ITEM SIX AND NUMBER SEVEN, OR ACTUALLY THE RATIONALE CAUSE ITEM NUMBER SIX IS ONE YEAR IN ITEM NUMBER SEVEN IS TWO YEARS.
SO, UM, IF YOU COULD JUST REMIND ME OF WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS THERE.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SIX AND SEVEN IS THE LEVEL OF INVOLVEMENT YOU WOULD HAVE HAD AT YOUR TIME IN CAP METRO.
SO SIX IS JUST A BLANKET REVOLVING DOOR PROVISION THAT WOULD APPLY TO ANY BOARD MEMBER OR EMPLOYEE THAT LEAVES CAP METRO.
THEY WOULD BE PROHIBITED FOR PARTICIPATING IN A YEAR IF THEY WERE WORKING FOR A CONTRACTOR FOR SEVEN, IT'S JUST A MORE STRINGENT REQUIREMENT FOR INDIVIDUALS THAT ACTUALLY WERE INVOLVED IN THE RECOMMENDATION, THE PROPOSAL OR SOLICITATION, UM, AND THE TERM, OKAY.
AND SO THE TERM PARTICIPATED IN THE RECOMMENDATION BID PROPOSAL OR SOLICITATION, I GUESS THAT ASSUMES VOTED ON IT, RIGHT? IT, IT COULD BE, BUT YEAH, YOU WERE INVOLVED IN THIS CONTRACT, EARNING CAPITAL METROS BUSINESS, MORE SO THAN EMPLOYEE.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR ASHLEY? IF NO OTHER QUESTIONS, A CHAIR WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION AND A SECOND WITH RESPECT TO THIS ACTION ITEM, SOME OF MOTION BACKLASH CHAIR, TREVELYAN SECOND BY MEMBER STRATTON.
ANY DISCUSSION? ALL VERY WELL.
GO AHEAD, MS. JOSEPH YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
MS. JOSEPH, ARE YOU ON THE LINE WITH US? THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR, BOARD MEMBERS.
UM, THERE'S AN OPIATE JOKE TO MY COMMENT, OR SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO LANGUAGE THAT'S ON PAGE 48.
IT'S PART OF A EXISTING CODE OF ETHIC, WHICH SPECIFIES INDIVIDUAL SERVINGS SERVING CAPITAL.
METRO WILL CONDUCT BUSINESS WITH HONESTY AND INTEGRITY.
AND I JUST WANT TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE COMMENT THAT YOU MADE ON JANUARY 28, 2019, WHERE YOU ACKNOWLEDGED IT IS ALSO UNDENIABLE THAT INDIVIDUALS MAY HAVE SEEN IN PARTICULAR AREAS, CHANGES THAT DID NOT HELP THOSE INDIVIDUALS, AND MAYBE DISADVANTAGE THOSE INDIVIDUALS.
WE HEAR THE PAIN AND CHALLENGE, PARTICULARLY WITH RESPECT TO THE EAST SIDE COMMUNITY.
AND AS YOU ARE AWARE, IF YOU WERE BEING HONEST, FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION CIRCULAR FOR SEVEN OH 2.1, THE CHAPTER FOUR DASH 16 DATED OCTOBER 1ST, 2012 REQUIRES YOU TO RE ANALYZE AND IMPLEMENT THE LEAST DISCRIMINATORY ALTERNATIVE.
AND SO I JUST WANT TO CALL TO YOUR ATTENTION THAT I DID ASK MR. DIETER ABOUT GRI ANALYZING THE NORTHEAST ROUTES.
AND WHAT HE TOLD ME DURING THE TITLE STEAKS UPDATE IS THAT HE HAS NO PLANS.
SO WE DO NOT PLAN TO RECONDUCT THAT ANALYSIS AT ANY TIME.
AND SO TO THE PUBLIC, I THINK IT IS VERY DISINGENUOUS FOR YOU TO ACTUALLY ASK FOR INPUT.
IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO COMPLY WITH THE ETHICS POLICY THAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO ADOPT, I WOULD JUST CALL TO YOUR ATTENTION AS WELL THAT YOU ADOPTED ON JUNE 10TH, 2020, A PROJECT CONNECT RESOLUTION, WHICH SPECIFIED THAT IT WILL CREATE AN INTEGRATED TRANSIT SYSTEM AND BETTER CONNECTS PEOPLE.
SO EVERYONE IN OUR COMMUNITY CAN THRIVE.
AND THEN YOU WENT AHEAD ON AUGUST 7TH AND SPECIFIED THE EXISTING LOCAL AND REGIONAL BUS NETWORK.
AND METRO ACCESS SERVICE ARE THE BACKBONE OF THE TRANSIT SYSTEM THAT WILL PROVIDE EQUITABLE CONNECTIONS TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO MEET THEIR ESSENTIAL NEEDS AND TO CONNECT TO THE HIGH CAPACITY TRANSIT NETWORK.
AND SO I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND, YOU ALSO WENT ON TO SAY THE SERVICE HOURS TO MAKE THAT LOCAL SERVICE SUCCESSFUL SHOULD BE MAINTAINED.
AND SO THIS IS IN COUNCIL MEMBER POOL'S AREA, AND SHE LIKED THE REST OF YOU VOTED FOR PROJECT CONNECT.
AND SO I'M ASKING THAT IF YOU'RE GOING TO READOPT THIS POLICY, EVEN WITH THE CHANGES THAT YOU RECOGNIZE THE NEED TO ACTUALLY DO MORE THAN PUT FORTH A PRETEXTUAL POLICY TO ACTUALLY LISTEN TO OUR CONCERNS AND RESTORE THE SERVICE SO THAT IT MIRRORS WHAT YOU HAVE ADOPTED AND WHAT THE VOTERS APPROVED, BECAUSE WHAT THE VOTERS APPROVED WAS THAT THE SYSTEM WAS EQUITABLE FOR EVERYONE, BUT YOU CONTINUOUSLY IGNORE SAFETY CONCERNS.
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STOP BY D FIVE EIGHT FIVE SEVEN, WHICH IS THE CHINATOWN MID-BLOCK STOP.YOU HEARD EARLIER FROM MS. EPSTEIN, WE HAVE THE SAME CONCERNS AS YOU ARE AWARE, FIVE LANES OF TRAFFIC OVER 30 VEHICLES PER DAY AT BREAKER AND NORTH LAMAR, PLEASE JUST MOVE THE STOP.
IT COST CAPITAL METRO, ANY MONEY TO SAVE LIVES BY THE CVS PHARMACY.
THERE'S A ROUTE ONE STOP, SAME AS TRUE AT BRAKER AND BURNET.
AND SO I'M JUST ASKING YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT IF YOU'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO IGNORE US, I DID IN FACT, WRITE TO NURIA FERNANDEZ, WHO IS THE FTA FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, BECAUSE HER INFORMATION WAS IN THE OFFSET TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP PACKET THAT IN THE MEETING THAT YOU JUST HAD ON PAGE 65.
AND SO I WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR AN EQUITABLE SYSTEM.
AND I WOULD ASK YOU TO BE TRUE TO THE HONESTY AND INTEGRITY WRITTEN IN THE POLICY THAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO ADOPT AS YOUR CODE OF ETHICS.
I THANK YOU AGAIN FOR ALLOWING ME TO MAKE MY COMMENTS ON THE EVE OF GEORGE FLORIDA MURDER.
I JUST HAVE TO SAY YOU HAVE SHOWN AN AVERSION TO BLACK PEOPLE, BLACK PEOPLE IN RP FOSTER STILL WAIT 60 MINUTES FOR THE BUS.
SIX MINUTE HEADWAY AT CRESTVIEW METRO RAIL.
THAT'S 10 TIMES LONGER THAT BLACK PEOPLE WAIT, MR. CHAIRMAN, I WOULD JUST ASK YOU TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
IT'S GOING TO HAVE A BLESSED DAY.
I THINK WE WERE ON ANY, UH, THERE WAS NO DISCUSSION AS I LAST RECALL, RELATED TO THE MOTION THE MOTION HAD BEEN MADE AND SECONDED.
UM, WE'RE READY FOR A VOTE UNLESS THERE'S ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS, ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE INDICATE BY SAYING AYE.
ANY OPPOSED? NAY MOTION CARRIES SIX TO ZERO.
I THINK THAT WAS ASHLEY'S FIRST PRESENTATION TO THE CAP METRO BOARD.
HOW ABOUT A ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR ALL RIGHT NEXT?
[VI.1. Project Connect Program Update]
UH, WE HAVE THREE DISCUSSION ITEMS, UH, FIRST UP AS A, UH, PROJECT CONNECT PROGRAM UPDATE FROM CHARMELLA AND, UH, UM, MR. COUCH.IT'S GOOD TO SEE EVERYBODY IN PERSON.
UH, AND IT'S, UH, AN HONOR TO BE ABLE TO BE HERE TODAY, UH, AND TO GIVE YOU A PRESENTATION ON HOW WE'VE BEEN MOVING FORWARD WITH PROJECT CONNECT START WITH THE SEQUENCE SIDE THAT WE HAVE THAT WAS APPROVED AS PART OF THE ACTION FROM LAST YEAR, UH, GOING UP TO THE REFERENDUM.
THIS IS OUR GUIDE, OUR PRINCIPLE, AND THE WAY WE DELIVER THE PROGRAM AS WE'VE STARTED TO WORK OUR WAY THROUGH IT ON THE TECHNICAL SIDE, UH, WE'RE ADVANCING THE BLUE LINE, UH, AND WE'VE RECEIVED, WHAT'S CALLED 15% DESIGN DRAWINGS AND WE'LL GET THE ONES THAT ARE THE 15% FOR THE ORANGE LINE.
VERY SOON, WE'VE BEEN WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH ALL OF OUR STAKEHOLDERS, INCLUDING THE CITY STAFF TO GO AHEAD AND GET COMMENTS ON THOSE DRAWINGS.
WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT THE RIGHT OF WAY IS.
WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT CONFLICTS ARE THERE.
WE WERE ALSO WORKING TOWARDS GETTING A SURVEY AND FINISHING OFF THE OTHER COMPONENTS THAT ARE REQUIRED UNDER THE FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS FROM THE TECHNICAL POINT.
UM, THE NOTICE OF INTENT, UH, TO ENTER THE EIS PROCESS WAS PUBLISHED THE OTHER DAY.
UH, SO THAT OFFICIALLY PUTS US INTO THAT PART OF THE PROGRAM.
AND OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, WE'LL ALSO REQUEST ENTRY INTO PROJECT DEVELOPMENT, UH, WHICH IS REALLY THE FIRST STEP IN THE CIG SECTION ON NEW STARTS.
WE'VE CONTINUED TO WORK WITH ALL OF THE AGENCIES AND OUR PARTNERS.
UH, AS WE GO FORWARD WITH A REVIEW OF ALL OF THE NECESSARY WORK, THAT'S THERE, THAT'S INCLUDED IN WHAT WILL BE A VOLUMINOUS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT DOCUMENT, UH, THE METRO RAPID, UH, WE ARE WORKING FORWARD WITH THE WORK THAT IS THERE FOR THE FIRST TWO LINES, WHICH ARE EXPO AND PLEASANT VALLEY.
UH, WE HAVE GONE AHEAD AND ACHIEVED THE CATEGORICAL EXCLUSION FOR THOSE LINES.
AND WE ARE NOW STARTING TO WORK ON THE OTHER TWO LINES, WHICH WILL BE, UH, THE EXTENSION OF THE EIGHT OH THREE LINE TO MANN CHEKA AND ALSO TO OAK HILL, UH, AS WELL AS THE INITIAL GOAL LINE, WHICH WILL BE, UH, THE BRT, UH, REALLY WHAT WE'VE GOT RIGHT NOW FOR METRO RAPID, WHICH IN THE FUTURE CAN BE CONVERTED OVER TO LIGHT RAIL, UH, ON THE RED LINE.
UH, YOU HEARD A PRESENTATION A FEW MINUTES AGO ON MACOLA STATION.
UH, SO I WON'T GO THROUGH THAT PORTION OF IT, UH, BROADMORE STATION, THEY'RE WORKING THEIR WAY THROUGH GETTING THE LAST OF THE PIECES FINISHED SO THEY CAN GO AHEAD AND START WORK THERE.
AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD CIRCULATORS KEEP ROLLING OUT AS THINGS GO ALONG AND AS THINGS IMPROVE, UH, THERE WILL BE MORE OF THOSE THAT COME OUT, UH, OUT AND INTO THE FUTURE.
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OKAY, WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE TAKING EACH PORTION OF THE SYSTEM, UH, AND GOING THROUGH IT ON A MONTH BY MONTH BASIS.SO THE FIRST PORTION WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS MONTH, UH, IS BASICALLY THE ALIGNMENT OF THE BLUE LINE, UH, FROM THE AIRPORT INTO BASICALLY THE BRIDGE COMING ACROSS INTO DOWNTOWN.
UH, IN THE SUBSEQUENT MONTHS, WE'LL DO THE SAME THING WITH THE ORANGE LINE.
UH, AND THEN IN JULY, WE'LL COME BACK AND WE'LL FOCUS ON BASICALLY THE DOWNTOWN SECTION, UH, THE AREA WHERE THERE ARE THE TUNNELS AND OTHER FEATURES LIKE THAT.
THIS IS THE, UH, SAME DIAGRAM THAT WE'VE USED A COUPLE OF TIMES BEFORE.
UH, WE ARE NOW IN THE AREA THAT IS THAT, UH, ENVELOPED BY THE RED SECTION.
UH, AS WE GO FORWARD, WE'D DONE THE SCOPING, UH, THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL, UH, STATEMENT IS WHAT WE WILL WIND UP WITH LATER THIS FALL.
UH, AND THEN INTO THE FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT AT THE END OF NEXT YEAR IN 22, FROM THERE, WE'LL BE ABLE TO GO THROUGH THE REST OF THE PROCESS, UH, FOR ENTRY INTO ENGINEERING ALL THE WAY OUT THROUGH GETTING A FULL FUNDING GRANT AGREEMENT TO GO INTO A LITTLE MORE DETAIL IN THE MIDDLE, A LITTLE MORE FINITE, UH, TIMELINE, UH, IN APRIL, UH, WE WENT AHEAD AND GOT THROUGH THE, UH, DRAFT OF THE NOTICE OF INTENT AND THAT WAS PUBLISHED, AS I SAID, A FEW.
IT WAS PUBLISHED ACTUALLY ON FRIDAY.
UH, THE 15% DESIGN FOR THE BLUE LINE, UH, IS IN, AND AS I SAID, ORANGE IS BEHIND IT.
AND THEN AS WE GO THROUGH THE SPRING OF THE YEAR IN 22, WE'LL HAVE THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT THEN GOING OUT THROUGH THE END AND THE FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT WITH THE, WITH THE CULMINATION WITH WHAT'S CALLED A RECORD OF DECISION, UH, ON THE FDIS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CONTINUES IN ERNST, UH, WITH THE CHANGE THAT WE HAD TO MAKE LAST YEAR TO GO AHEAD AND GO VIRTUAL AS EVERYBODY ELSE DID.
UH, THERE'S BEEN A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS IN PARTICIPATION.
THESE ARE THE LAST THREE EVENTS THAT WE'VE GONE AHEAD AND GOING THROUGH, UH, IN TERMS OF TWO EVENTS THAT WE'VE GONE THROUGH.
UH, AND THEN AS WE GO AHEAD AND GET INTO JULY, THAT'S WHEN WE'LL GO AHEAD AND TAKE THE FULL 15% DESIGNS AND GO BACK OUT TO THE PUBLIC, UH, FOCUS ON THE OVERVIEW OF THE BLUE LINE.
UH, AS I SAID, IT WILL RUN IN FROM THE AIRPORT, UH, PRINCIPALLY ALONG RIVERSIDE, UH, AND THEN MAKE A TURN BASICALLY AT THE STATESMAN SITE OVER THE LAKE, AND THEN UP TRINITY AND ACROSS, UH, FOURTH STREET TO REPUBLIC SQUARE.
SO LET ME FOCUS A LITTLE BIT DEEPER ON EACH PORTION OF IT.
AND WITH THAT, GO THROUGH WHAT WE'RE GOING TO WIND UP, HAVING REALLY, AS THOSE FEATURES WITHIN THE GUIDEWAY, LET ME START FROM THE CENTER.
UH, THIS IS A SECTION WHERE WE WILL HAVE BOTH TRACKS IN THE CENTER.
UH, IT SHOWS A PICTORIAL HERE OF A TRAIN AND IT'S A SINGLE PLATFORM STATION.
THIS GIVES THE ABILITY TO GO AHEAD AND HAVE A LEFT-HAND TURN LANE.
ON THE OTHER SIDE, IT ALSO GIVES THE OTHER FEATURES THAT WILL BE BACK BEHIND THE CURB, IF YOU WILL, UH, TREES, BIKE PATHS, SIDEWALKS, AND ALL THOSE OTHER FEATURES THAT WILL GO IN AS WE GO AHEAD AND WORK THROUGH BOTH THE BLUE LINE, UH, AND ALSO THE ORANGE LINE.
LOOKING AT WHAT THE STATION SPACING IS.
UH, TYPICALLY WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT IS SOMETHING THAT IS BETWEEN A HALF AND ONE MILE APART, UH, WITH A HALF MILE BEING ABOUT A 10 MINUTE WALK.
SO THAT'S HOW YOU START TO GO AHEAD AND LOOK AT WHAT THOSE POTENTIAL AREAS ARE FOR A STATION.
BUT ONE OF THE CONSIDERATIONS THAT YOU WIND UP HAVING TO LOOK AT FOR THOSE STATION LOCATIONS IS YOU BASICALLY HAVE TO PUT THE STATION ON ALMOST FLAT GROUND.
UH, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PUT A STATION ON A HILL.
UH, IT DOESN'T WORK IN TERMS OF WHAT YOU NEED TO COMPLY WITH ADA, UH, AND ALSO THE OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS.
THE SECOND THING IS THERE IS A CURVE, UH, IT'S A 400 FOOT LONG STATION THAT BASICALLY HAS TO BE STRAIGHT.
SO THOSE TWO THINGS START TO DETERMINE A LOT OF THE AREAS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GO AHEAD AND COME UP WITH FINITE LOCATIONS FOR STATIONS.
IF I FOCUS A USING BASICALLY GOOGLE MAPS AS A REFERENCE POINT, UH, THE AIRPORT, UH, IS AT THE LOWER, RIGHT.
UH, AND WE THEN COME OUT OF THE AIRPORT, UH, AND AROUND THE EDGE OF THE AIRPORT, UH, OUT IN THE CROSS ONE 83 TO THE METRO CENTER STATION.
UH, AND THEN UP AND ACROSS 71.
AND I'LL GO THROUGH THESE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES IN DETAIL, STARTING
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FROM THE AIRPORT.UH, THIS WILL GO IN RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE TERMINAL.
UH, IT COMES OUT ARIEL, UH, AND THEN GOES AND ROUND IN LOOPS AROUND THE EDGE OF THE AIRPORT.
UH, AND THEN GOES OVER ONE 83 TO WHERE THE LOCATION OF THE METRO CENTER STATION WILL BE THIS YEAR.
IT GIVES YOU A LITTLE MORE DETAIL ON THAT ALIGNMENT.
IT SHOWS YOU THAT THE AREAS THAT ARE IN RED ARE REALLY THE AERIAL STATIONS, UH, AND THEN WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO GRADE, UH, THE COLOR FADES OUT AND IT'S WHERE YOU REALLY ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF ONE 83, OKAY.
AT THE AIRPORT ITSELF, UH, IT WOULD BE A CENTER PLATFORM STATION, UM, GOING IN BETWEEN TWO OF THE GARAGES DIRECTLY TO THE TERMINAL.
WHEN YOU START TO LOOK AT WHAT THAT SERVICE WILL BE, UH, FOR THE CUSTOMERS GETTING INTO THE AIRPORT, THIS IS A PICTORIAL OF WHAT IT COULD LOOK LIKE, UH, WITH THE CONCEPT OF GOING AHEAD AND MAKING THAT ENTRANCE.
IF YOU WILL, BETWEEN THE TWO PARKING GARAGES, WE HAVE COORDINATE THIS WITH THE CITY, UH, AND THE AIRPORT TO GO AHEAD AND LOOK AT HOW THEY WOULD BE RECONFIGURING, UH, THE TERMINAL IN THE FUTURE.
UH, AND THIS FITS IN WELL WITH WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING TO DO.
SHOULD WE GO AHEAD AND COME OFF THE AIRPORT PROPERTY? UH, WE WOULD BE AERIAL OVER THE TOP OF ONE 83, AND THEN WE COME TO THREE DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR THE LOCATION OF THE METRO CENTER STATION.
UH, THIS IS ONE THAT IS BASICALLY JUST OFF OF ONE 83, UH, IT'S IN AN AREA WHERE THERE ARE OFFICES TO THE SOUTH, THE WAREHOUSE TO THE NORTH, UH, AND THEN ALSO AN RV PARK.
UH, SO THIS IS ONE OF THE OPTIONS OF WHERE WE COULD GO AHEAD AND LOCATE THE STATION.
THE SECOND OPTION IS JUST SOUTH OF 71.
UH, IT IS BORDERED ON ONE SIDE, UM, BY A MOTEL AND THE OTHER SIDE BY STARBUCKS.
UH, SO AS WE GO THROUGH AND LOOK AT THIS AND LOOK AT THE PROXIMITY, UH, TO 71 AND ALSO THE START OF THE CURVE THAT YOU CAN SEE, UM, GOING JUST BEYOND THE STATION TO GO AROUND, UH, AND GET TO ONE 83 AND THE AIRPORT.
IT'S A SECOND LOCATION THAT WE COULD GO AHEAD AND PUT IT.
THE THIRD ONE IS NORTH OF ONE 88 NORTH OF 71, EXCUSE ME.
UH, AND IT WOULD BE A CENTER PLATFORM STATION JUST LIKE THE OTHER TWO WOULD BE.
UH, AND AS WE LOOK THERE, YOU'VE GOT MOTEL SIX THAT IS RIGHT ALONG THE FRONTAGE ROAD.
AND THERE'S A SERIES OF DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE IN PROCESS ON THE SOUTH SIDE, UH, THAT ONE'S LABELED WITH DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS.
AND THERE'S ALSO ANOTHER ONE THAT BORDERS RIGHT ON THE FRONT EDGE ROAD THAT WILL BE COMING UP SHORTLY FROM THAT POINT IN TIME FROM 71, UH, AROUND THE PLEASANT VALLEY, UH, WE HAVE THREE MORE STATIONS AND AS WE START TO LOOK THERE AND PUT IT INTO CONTEXT, AND AGAIN, BACK TO THE AERIAL PHOTO, UH, IT WILL BE THE MONTOPOLIS STATION, UH, IN FAR PHARAOH STATION AND THEN ULTIMATELY INTO WHAT WILL BE AT PLEASANT VALLEY, UH, ANOTHER MAJOR STATION THAT WILL BE THERE, UH, THAT REALLY IS AN INTERSECTION WITH A PLEASANT VALLEY METRO WRAP IN LINE.
SO THAT'LL BE A VERY BUSY TRANSFER STATION.
AND JUST AS YOU GO ALONG AND WE PUT THESE IN, BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT SHOWING EXACTLY WHERE INDIVIDUAL STATIONS ARE, BUT WHAT IT'S INDICATING IS THE AMOUNT OF DEVELOPMENT THAT'S GOING ON ON RIVERSIDE RIGHT NOW.
UH, SO YOU CAN SEE IN THIS AREA FROM A NICE TO FARGUS ROADS, THERE ARE DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE UNDERWAY, TWO OF THEM ON THE SOUTH SIDE, AND ONE ON THE NORTH SIDE, IT CONTINUES AS YOU GO AHEAD AND MOVE OVER TO MONTOPOLIS WHERE THAT STATION WOULD ALSO BE A CENTER PLATFORM STATION LOCATED JUST TO THE EAST OF THE INTERSECTION.
UH, AND AGAIN, DEVELOPMENTS GOING ON ON THE NORTH SIDE, UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW.
UH, AND THEN THE EXISTING APARTMENTS ON THE SOUTH SIDE THAT, UH, I BELIEVE HAVE BEEN BUILT IN THE LAST YEAR A FEW YEARS.
IT THERE'S THREE DIFFERENT TYPES OF STATIONS THAT WE WIND UP UTILIZING.
UH, THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A CENTER PLATFORM STATION.
UH, IN THIS CASE, WHAT IT GIVES YOU IS IT GIVES YOU MAXIMUM WIDTH.
IT GIVES YOU MAXIMUM CAPACITY, UH, AND FLEXIBILITY, UH, TO BE ABLE TO HAVE ALL OF THE CUSTOMERS ON THAT ONE PLATFORM THAT IS A LITTLE BIT WIDER.
UH, SO IT IS MORE OF A COMFORTABLE TYPE OF ATMOSPHERE AS OPPOSED TO WHAT YOU WIND UP WITH SOME OF THE SIDE PLATFORMS. IT ALSO IS THE MOST COST-EFFECTIVE TYPE TO GO AHEAD IN USE YOU MINGLE ALONG RIVERSIDE, UH, BASICALLY FROM GROVE TO FARROW, UH, IS THE NEXT STATION AT FARROW,
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UH, IN, IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA IT'S COMING RIGHT UP TO THE INTERSECTION, UH, WHICH IS A GREAT PLACE TO GO AHEAD AND HAVE IT, AND BE ABLE TO GET THE CROSSWALKS IN PLACE FOR CUSTOMERS TO COME IN FROM THE SIDEWALKS ON THE SIDE.CONTINUING BACK ACROSS, JUST TO GIVE YOU THAT INDICATION OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN-BETWEEN STATIONS, IF YOU WILL, UH, WORKING FROM CROSSING PLAYS TO WICKERSHAM, UH, DEVELOPMENT ON THE NORTH SIDE, AND A LOT OF PLACES, IF YOU RIDE OUT THROUGH THERE AND LOOK, UH, THERE ARE SIGNS ALL OVER THE PLACE WITH FOUR ACRES FOR SALE OR EIGHT ACRES FOR SALE.
UH, SO IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALL THE WAY ALONG CORRIDOR PLEASANT VALLEY IS ONE THAT WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF LOOK AT IT.
UH, IT'S SOMETHING THAT PETER WILL GO AHEAD AND CONDUCT SOME DESIGN CHARRETTES.
THAT'S, THEY'RE SEPARATED, UH, BETWEEN THE EAST AND WEST DIRECTION LANES.
THERE'S ALSO A LARGE, UH, DIFFERENTIAL, UH, IN THE GRADE FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER.
SO THIS CAN BE SOMETHING, IT CAN BE A VERY SPECIAL STATION, UH, AND GET A GOOD INTERFACE AND JUNCTION WITH WHAT WILL BE THE METRO WRAP IN LINE.
SO THIS IS ONE WE'LL BE GOING INTO A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF DETAIL AS WE GO FORWARD.
UH, THE AREA THAT IS GOODWILL AND OTHER RETAIL, UH, IS AN AREA THAT ALSO IS GOING TO BE SUBJECT TO REDEVELOPMENT AS IS THE PORTION ON THE SOUTHWEST COAST.
IF YOU GO, GO AHEAD AND GO FROM PLEASANT VALLEY, UH, OVER TO LADY BIRD LAKE.
UH, THERE ARE ALSO A SERIES OF STATIONS IN THIS LOCATION.
SO TO KIND OF GIVE YOU THAT AERIAL VIEW, YOU CAN SEE THE PLEASANT VALLEY STATION REALLY AT THE BOTTOM.
UH, AND THEN YOU'VE GOT LAKE SHORE, UH, TRAVIS HEIGHTS, AND LASTLY, THE WATERFRONT STATION WHERE YOU MAKE THE TURN TO GO OVER LADY, BUT AT GREG LAKE, LOOKING AS YOU GO TO THE WEST, UH, FROM WHAT IS THE PLEASANT VALLEY STATION, UH, YOU CONTINUE ALONG RIVERSIDE.
UH, THERE WERE APARTMENTS ON THE SOUTH SIDE, THERE ARE SOME FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS ON THE NORTH SIDE, UH, THAT OVER TIME WE WOULD BELIEVE THAT THERE WILL BE SOME REDEVELOPMENT IN THAT AREA.
THE NEXT STATION, AS YOU CONTINUE TO THE WEST GETS YOU TO, UH, THE LAKE SHORE STATION.
UH, THIS IS ONE THAT IS A SIDE PLATFORM STATION.
UH, AGAIN, IT IS RIGHT NEXT TO WHERE THE SEVEN 11 IS TUCKING UP TO THE INTERSECTION.
UH, SO IT GIVES YOU THAT GOOD ACCESS TO THE STATION.
THIS IS WHAT OCCURS WHEN YOU'VE GOT THAT SIDE PLATFORM STATION.
UH, IN THIS CASE, IT GIVES YOU THE NARROWER RIGHTAWAY, UH, SO THAT YOU'VE GOT THE TRACKS IN THE CENTER.
THEY'RE NOT GOING AROUND THE EDGES OF THE PLATFORM.
UH, SO IT GIVES YOU A DIFFERENT TYPE OF STATION THAT GIVES YOU A DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING AT HOW THE TRACK ALIGNMENT IS IN HOW YOU THROUGH THE AREA, CONTINUING EAST, UH, ON RIVERSIDE, UH, WE GO ACROSS FROM A LAKE SHORE STATION, UH, ON RIVERVIEW UNTIL WE GET TO
AND AS WE CROSS
UH, THIS ALSO WILL BE A CENTER PLATFORM STATION.
UH, WE'VE GOT THE AREA THAT IS ON THE NORTH SIDE, WHERE THE DOG PARK IS, UH, AND THEN IT'S BOUNDED, UH, ALONG THE SOUTH SIDE, UH, SOME OF IT WITH A SERIES OF RETAINING WALLS AND HOUSES THAT ARE BUILT ALL THE WAY ALONG THAT SIDE.
THIS IS WHERE WE'VE GOT THE CROSSING OF
UH, THIS IS AN AREA THAT GETS EXTREMELY TIGHT IN RIGHT AWAY, UH, AND TAKES YOU DOWN THE HILL AND INTO THE AREA PAST THE, UH, RIVERWALK CONDOS, UH, AND DOWN TO WATERMARK, WHICH IS WHERE WE GO AHEAD AND START TO MAKE THE TURN TO GO AHEAD AND GO TO THE NORTH.
UH, THERE WILL BE A SIDE PLATFORM STATION IN THAT AREA JUST BEFORE YOU GO AHEAD AND APPROACH THE BRIDGE.
UH, AND THEN UP TO THE LEFT IS WHERE YOU CAN SEE WHAT WILL BE THE CROSSING OF LADY BIRD LAKE, UH, AND ALSO THE START OF THE BRIDGE TO GO AHEAD AND GO UP OVER THE TOP OF THE LAKE.
IT WOULD THEN COME DOWN, UH, ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE LAKE.
UH, BASICALLY THE TONAL PORTAL, WHICH WE'LL COVER, UH, IN ANOTHER TWO MONTHS, UH, STARTS AT THAT POINT, RIGHT AT THE FOOT OF TRINITY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CULDESAC.
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COMING OFF OF THE BRIDGE, UH, AND THEN DOWN ACROSS THE BOAT HOUSE.UH, AND THEN WE'LL GO AHEAD AND BUILD ACCESS FROM THERE DOWN TO THE PATHS.
MATTER OF FACT, THAT'LL BE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE LAKE.
AGAIN, BACK TO THE PLACE THAT I STARTED.
IT GIVES US THE DETAIL AND IT GIVES US THE TIMELINE OF WHERE WE NEED TO BE AND WHAT WE HAVE TO DO AS WE GO AHEAD, UH, AND WORK TOWARDS GETTING THAT FINALIZATION OF THE EIS AND RECORD A DECISION, BASICALLY AT THE END OF 2022.
THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION, MR. CHAIRMAN, SIR.
QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, REMEMBER KITCHEN? I HAVE JUST A QUICK QUESTION.
DOES IT JUST AS A REMINDER, I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER, UM, WHERE THE, UH, ON THE BRIDGE, AND THIS MAY BE THE DETAILED THAT YOU PROVIDE LATER IN ANOTHER PRESENTATION, BUT I'M JUST CURIOUS, IS IT GOING TO GO OVER THE BOATHOUSE OR IS IT JUST THE WELL HOUSE CAN'T BE THERE ANYMORE? THE BOAT, THE UPPER PORTION OF THE BOATHOUSE CAN'T BE THERE ANYMORE.
UM, BECAUSE OF THE, THE GRADES THAT WE'RE GOING ACROSS AND THEN DIVING INTO THE TUNNEL, IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO RETAIN THE UPPER PORTION.
UH WE'RE WE WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE AND INTEND TO KEEP THE LOWER PORTION.
CAUSE THAT'S WHERE, UH, ALL THE PUMP EQUIPMENT IS, UH, FOR THE OUTFALL, FROM THE TUNNEL.
OH, SO IT'S EVEN POSSIBLE TO KEEP THE LOWER PART.
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN, WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO TRY TO MOVE THE PUMPS AND EVERYTHING THAT'S THERE.
UM, BUT THAT WE'LL GET, AS WE GO FURTHER IN, I GUESS THE, THE WHOLE CONTEXT FOR THIS IS WE'RE AT 15% AND THINGS ARE GOING TO GET REFINED AS WE GO FORWARD.
UH, AND AS WE GET TO THE 30% POINT OVER THE NEXT YEAR, UH, THEN THINGS WILL GET NARROWED IN.
UH, BUT THAT, THAT'S THE PROCESS WE'RE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW.
UH, AND, AND WE'VE HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHAT TO DO WHEN THE POTENTIAL FOR RELOCATION AND THE BOATHOUSE.
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, REMEMBER POOL.
AND THEN IN THE NEXT PRESENTATION, I GUESS WE'LL BE ABLE TO SEE A LITTLE MORE DETAIL ON THE MACARONI DOWNTOWN STATION AND REPUBLIC SQUARE.
THE NEXT PORTION WILL BE THE ORANGE LINE, UH, AND IT WILL BASICALLY BE BEYOND WHAT THE CENTER TUNNEL PORTION IS.
UH, SO IT WILL TAKE OFF FROM BASICALLY, UH, THE SOUTH END OF SOCO, GOING TO THE END OF THE LINE, UH, IN THE SAME THING AT THE NORTH END, GOING BASICALLY FROM THE DRAG UP TO TECH RIDGE, AND THEN WE'LL DO THE ENTIRETY OF THE CENTER, UH, WITH THE TUNNEL, UH, AS IN NEXT PRESENCE.
REALLY GOOD TO SEE THIS PROGRESS.
IT'S EXCITING HAVING, UH, JUST A HANDFUL OF MONTHS AGO, BEEN AT THE ELECTION STAGE TO SEE THIS WORK GETTING DONE.
[VI.2. Capital Metro Brand Refresh]
VERY WELL.OUR NEXT DISCUSSION ITEM IS A CAPITAL METRO BRAND REFRESH MR. CARTER.
GOOD TO SEE YOU IN PERSON PERSON SAYS NICE.
I'M THE CHIEF EXPERIENCE AND ENGAGEMENT OFFICER FOR CAPITAL METRO.
AND I'M HERE THIS AFTERNOON TO SPEAK WITH YOU ABOUT OUR BRAND REFRESH STUDY.
FIRST CHAIR, COOPER, PRESIDENT CLARK MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
IT IS GOOD TO SEE YOU IN PERSON.
LET ME DIVE INTO A COUPLE OF THINGS RELATED TO OUR BRAND REFRESH STUDY, UM, THAT WILL HELP US TO KIND OF FRAME WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THE CONVERSATION.
SO WE HAVE THIS BRAND AT CAPITAL METRO THAT YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH ARE ALL THE COLORS, THE LOGOS, THE WORDS THAT WE USE TO DESCRIBE WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO, WHAT OUR MISSION IS AND WHAT OUR VISION IS.
AND OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, SEVERAL YEARS, WE'VE BEEN NOTICING THAT THERE'S A NEED FOR US TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT WHAT THE WORDS ARE THAT WE USE, THE COLORS THAT WE HAVE, OUR LOGOS, OUR STYLE GUIDE, ALL THOSE THINGS TO SEE DOES THE BRAND THAT WE HAVE TODAY REFLECT WHO WE ARE TODAY AND WHERE WE'RE GOING TOMORROW.
SO THAT'S REALLY THE GENERAL TOPIC THAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT FOR THIS PRESENTATION.
SO INSIDE OF THIS PRESENTATION, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE CAPITAL METRO BRAND JOURNEY.
WE'LL ALSO LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BRAND REFRESH AND A BRAND REBRANDING AND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THOSE TWO, SOME TIMING CONSIDERATIONS, AS FAR AS WHEN WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT DOING THIS AND HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE FOR US TO DO A BRAND REFRESH SOME OF THE RESEARCH THAT WE'RE WE'RE TAKING UNDERTAKING RIGHT NOW.
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE FOR US TO CONTINUE INSIDE OF THIS REFRESH STUDY? SO, AS I MENTIONED, OUR BRAND IS MORE
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THAN OUR LOGO, THAT, THAT CAPITAL METRO DOME LOGO THAT WE SEE ON THE FRONT OF THIS PODIUM AND, AND EVERYWHERE ELSE.SO AROUND OUR PROPERTIES, THAT'S OUR VISUAL MARKETS.
IT'S, IT'S OUR ENTIRE IDENTITY.
YOUR, YOUR BRAND IS YOUR REPUTATION.
IT'S WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SAY ABOUT YOU WHEN THEY THINK OF YOU? WHEN THEY THINK OF CAP METRO, WE BELIEVE THAT OUR BRAND SHOULD BE MODERN AND DYNAMIC.
IT SHOULD BE SOMETHING THAT CONTINUES TO, TO REFLECT OUR COMMUNITY AND REFLECT OUR AGENCY WELL, AND WE, UH, WE BELIEVE THAT THE REGION HAS CHANGED, UH, SINCE WE'VE LAST DONE ANY BRANDING WORK.
AND I'LL TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT OF THE BRAND EVOLUTION THAT WE'VE HAD ON THE CURRENT BRAND IN JUST A MINUTE, BUT SINCE WE'VE DONE THAT ORIGINAL BRANDING WORK, UH, WE'VE TURNED INTO MUCH MORE OF A, OF A LARGER REGION THAN WE HAD WHEN WE STARTED.
AND SO WE BELIEVE THAT OUR BRAND SHOULD BE LOOKING AT HOW WE EVOLVE TO, AND THIS IS A REALLY GREAT TIME FOR US TO DO THAT AS WE'RE BRINGING ON A NEW EXPANDED TRANSIT SYSTEM.
SO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BRAND REFRESH AND A REBRANDING, UM, IS, ARE THERE, THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT WAYS THAT YOU WOULD DESCRIBE THAT.
SO A BRAND REFRESH IS LOOKING AT THE MESSAGING STRATEGIES THAT WE HAVE TODAY AND LOOKING AT WHETHER THAT HITS OUR TARGET AUDIENCE OR NOT.
UM, IT ALSO GIVES US THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ADJUST OUR BRANDING ELEMENTS, TO BE REALLY RELEVANT WITH THE ORGANIZATION.
AND IT MAY SUGGEST SOME CHANGES TO THE LOGO AND TO SOME OF THE OTHER VISUAL MARKS THAT WE HAVE A REBRANDING WOULD BE IF WE WERE TO COMPLETELY RE GET RID OF ALL OF THE BRAND EQUITIES THAT WE HAVE, AND, AND START OVER FROM SCRATCH, WHICH WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT THERE'S A NEED FOR US TO DO THAT.
AND WE BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF BRAND EQUITY THAT'S, THAT'S WORTH KEEPING.
SO WE'RE GOING INTO THE BRAND REFRESH STUDY WITH THAT, WITH THOSE ASSUMPTIONS.
UM, SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS MAKING THESE MINOR TWEAKS, THESE, THESE THINGS THAT WILL HELP US TO, TO BETTER EVOLVE, EXCUSE ME, BETTER EVOLVE THE BRAND AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
SO WHY NOW, WHY DO THIS AT THIS POINT? WELL, WE BELIEVE THAT AUSTIN IS AT A PIVOTAL MOMENT TO REALLY BECOME A TRUE METROPOLIS, A LARGE REGION.
AND WE THINK THAT THIS IS A GOOD TIME FOR US TO CONSIDER IT GIVING THE REGIONAL GROWTH THAT WE HAVE.
WE ALSO HAVE THE, UM, THE MOMENTUM GOING INTO THE NEXT DECADE FROM PROJECT CONNECT, AND WE ARE GOING TO HAVE QUITE A FEW, UM, ASSETS THAT WE'LL BE ACQUIRING.
WE'LL BE PROCURING VERY SOON AND ALL OF THOSE ASSETS WILL WE'LL KEEP OUR BRAND ON THEM.
SO BEFORE WE GO AND PROCURE THOSE, IT'S A GOOD TIME FOR US TO DECIDE IS THE BRAND WE'RE GOING TO PUT ON THERE GOING TO BE THE ONE THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE WITH FOR THE NEXT, UM, YOU KNOW, DECADE OR MORE OUR PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF THE BRAND IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH.
SO WHAT WE CAN DO IS BUILD UPON THAT WITH, WITH SOME OF THE BRAND WORK THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO, AND THAT, UM, WE REALLY HAVE, UH, A LOT OF DYNAMIC, UM, ATTRIBUTES OF THE REGION AND OF THE AGENCY.
AND I THINK THERE'S SOME OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE SOME NEW ELEMENTS WITH OUR BRANDING THAT WOULD HELP US TO, TO BETTER.
SO LET'S LOOK BECAUSE SOME TIMING CONSIDERATIONS, AS I MENTIONED WITH PROJECT CONNECT, WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE PROCURING OVER THE NEXT, UH, 10 PLUS YEARS.
THAT INCLUDES ALL OF THESE, THESE SIGNS VEHICLES ARE STOPS AND STATIONS WILL BE, WE'LL BE NEW.
WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING EVEN SOONER THAN THAT.
LATER THIS YEAR, WE'RE DOING A UNIFORM UPDATE.
AND SO THOSE ARE ALL THE UNIFORMS THAT OUR CAP, METRO STAFF, WHERE WE'RE AT, WE'RE DOING A NEW PROCUREMENT OF OUR UNIFORMS, AND THOSE UNIFORMS WILL CARRY THE BRAND, NOT ONLY IN COLOR, BUT ALSO IN LOGO AND IN STYLE.
AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE NEW UNIFORMS THAT WE PROCURE ALSO CARE THAT NEW BRANDING TO THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING ON THIS UNIFORM STUDY OR UNIFORM WORK.
I JUST, A COUPLE OF BULLET POINTS HERE.
UH, OUR FRONTLINE STAFF REALLY ARE OUR BEST BRAND AMBASSADORS.
WE HAVE MORE OF OUR FRONTLINE STAFF THAT ARE OUT IN THE FIELD REPRESENTING THE CAT METRO BRAND THAN ANY OTHER STAFF MEMBER THAT WE HAVE.
SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE, WE DRESS THEM WELL AND THEY FEEL CONFIDENT IN WEARING A, YOU KNOW, A GOOD UNIFORM OUT IN THE FIELD AND THAT THEY ARE REFLECTION OF THAT BRAND.
UM, THOSE NEW UNIFORMS TOO, ARE GOING TO BE A BALANCE OF STYLE AND COMFORT.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT SOME, SOME NEW ITEMS, SOME NEW MATERIALS THAT WILL HELP THEM BE MORE COMFORTABLE IN THEIR, UM, IN THEIR DAY-TO-DAY WORK.
UM, AND THAT PROCESS FOR WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IN THEIR UNIFORM, UM, REDO IS GOING THROUGH ENGAGEMENT INPUT WITH THE FRONTLINE STAFF AND THE ATU.
SO IT IS SOMETHING WE'RE DOING A PARTNERSHIP WITH THEM TOO.
SO SOME, UH, NOTES HERE ABOUT OUR BRAND RELEVANCE.
AND SO WE'VE BEEN CONDUCTING SOME OF THIS STUDY SO FAR.
UH, THESE, THESE ITEMS COME FROM, UM, CONVERSATIONS WE'VE BEEN HAVING WITH THE COMMUNITY.
THEY'VE ALSO COME FROM SOME RESEARCH THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING ON OUR BRAND, OUR REPUTATION STUDIES.
AND WE DO THOSE ANNUALLY HERE AT THE, AND WE FIND THAT THESE ARE SOME OF THE ATTRIBUTES
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THAT OUR BRAND MUST HAVE GOING FORWARD, THAT WE MUST BE ESSENTIAL AND RELEVANT TO OUR CUSTOMERS AND OUR COMMUNITY.SO IT HAS TO FEEL LIKE THERE'S OWNERSHIP FROM THE COMMUNITY, WITH OUR BRAND.
IT ALSO HAS TO REFLECT THE INNOVATIVE NATURE OF OUR CITY AND ALSO OUR AGENCY.
WE HAVE TO SHOW THAT WE'RE A MAJOR PLAYER IN THIS CITY.
IT HAS TO BE DYNAMIC AND ADAPTABLE HAS TO BE EXCITING AND ALSO FUTURE FACING.
AND SOME OF THE BRAND RESEARCH WORK THAT'S UNDERWAY RIGHT NOW HAVE BEEN SOME SMALL INTERNAL FOCUS GROUPS.
WHO'VE BEEN HOLDING ONE-ON-ONES WITH SOME OF OUR STAFF AND GETTING SOME INPUT, SOME, SOME FEEDBACK FROM THEM.
WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE SENDING YOU ALL ALONG WITH SAC AND ACCESS COMMITTEES.
UH, SOME OF THE SAME QUESTIONS WE'VE BEEN ASKING OF OUR STAFF TOO.
SO YOU'LL GET THAT FROM US IN A, IN A SURVEY A LITTLE BIT LATER THIS WEEK, AND YOU'LL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME INPUT BACK TO US, AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO BE REVIEWING SOME OF THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF THE CHANGES THAT WE COULD MAKE TO OUR MARK AND BRANDING ELEMENTS.
SO WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS WHEN WE MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THIS, UH, THIS LOGO, THAT'S ON THE FRONT OF THIS LECTERN HERE, UM, OR ANY OTHER BRAND ELEMENTS, IT WILL HAVE A, WE'LL NEED TO PLAN OUT THOSE CHANGES BECAUSE THEY WILL TAKE TIME TO ALLOW ACROSS OUR, OUR, UM, OUR FLEET AND ACROSS ALL OF OUR ASSETS.
UM, AND IT WILL ALSO COST MONEY.
SO WE WANT TO DO THAT IN A VERY EFFICIENT WAY.
SO AS I MENTIONED WITH PROJECT CONNECT FOR PER PROCURING, NEW VEHICLES, NEW STOPS, NEW STATIONS, WE PROCURED THEM WITH THE NEW BRANDING ELEMENTS, AND THEN THEY WOULD LOOK AT HOW WE COULD PUT INTO A SCHEDULE REFRESHING THOSE THAT HAVE THE EXISTING BRANDING ELEMENTS TOO.
SO WE'LL LOOK AT THAT AS A PART OF OUR STUDY AS WELL.
SO THE PLAN IS TO COME BACK TO THIS, UH, GROUP IN JULY WITH, UH, WITH THAT WORK, WE'LL PRESENT THAT TO YOU.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AT THAT TIME, SOME, SOME CONCEPTS FOR WHAT, UM, THE RESEARCH AND THE STUDY IS SHOWING US IS WHAT WE CAN DO WITH THE, WITH THE BRAND AND HOW WE CAN MOVE IT FORWARD ALONG WITH SOME, SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE TIMING FOR THAT TOO.
AND, AND WE KNOW THAT THERE'LL BE, UM, THAT'D BE REALLY SOMETHING WE NEED TO LOOK AT TOGETHER TO SEE WHAT THE TIMING IS FOR TRYING TO COMPLETE THE BRAND REFRESH.
THAT'S FUN TO THINK ABOUT QUESTIONS FOR BRIAN, REMEMBER KITCHEN.
I ALSO WANT TO JUST SAY AGAIN, WHAT GREAT WORK THAT YOU ALL DO? I THINK YOU'VE DONE A FABULOUS JOB IN TERMS OF, UM, HELPING REBUILD TRUST IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND PART OF THAT IS THE, UM, UM, THE COMMUNICATIONS IN THE BRANDING.
UM, I, I, THE LET'S SEE PAGE ONE OH SEVEN, I GUESS IT IS.
IT TALKS ABOUT THE BRAND RELEVANCE.
UM, I THINK YOU'VE, I THINK YOU'VE CAPTURED IT HERE.
I WANT TO JUST, UM, REITERATE SOMETHING THAT YOU AND I TALKED ABOUT.
UM, AND THAT WAS THE IMPORTANCE.
I MEAN, THE THINKING THAT WE ARE SEEN AS WE ARE OWNED BY THE COMMUNITY, IN OTHER WORDS, I MEAN, NOT IN THE SENSE THAT THE COMMUNITY FEELS LIKE, UM, IT FEELS LIKE THEY OWN CAP METRO IN THE SENSE THAT THEY, UH, INVESTED IN CAP METRO, THEY, UM, CARE ABOUT CAP METRO.
UH, THEY FEEL LIKE IT'S THEIR AGENCY.
UM, AND I THINK YOU MAY BE CAPTURING THAT WITH THE ESSENTIAL AND RELEVANT.
I'M NOT SURE IF THAT, UM, GETS US ALL THE WAY THERE, BUT THAT'S WHAT I MEAN WHEN I SEE THOSE WORDS ESSENTIAL AND RELEVANT.
AND THE REASON THAT I THINK THAT THAT'S IMPORTANT IS BECAUSE, UH, WE'VE DONE, YOU GUYS HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB, UM, WITH PROJECT CONNECT AND, UM, MAKING THAT SOMETHING THAT WAS A COMMUNITY EFFORT.
AND WE KNOW IF WE'RE GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL, WE HAVE TO BUILD ON THAT BASE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT, I MEAN, IT'S AN ONGOING THING AND WE NEED TO KEEP BUILDING ON IT AS, AS WE GROW, BUT IT HAS TO BE AT THE END OF THE DAY, I WANT PEOPLE TO SAY, HEY, I'M PROUD OF OUR TRANSIT SYSTEM.
I FEEL LIKE I HAVE A SAY IN IT.
I FEEL LIKE IT'S MINE AS A CITY OF BOSTON.
AND, UM, AND SO THAT'S WHAT I'M HOPING THAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS.
UH, JUST WANT TO THANK YOU AGAIN, BRIAN, FOR THIS, THIS WAS A FASCINATING AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION, ESPECIALLY AS WE'RE EMBARKING ON THIS JOURNEY, BRAVE NEW JOURNEY.
THAT IS A PROJECT CONNECT WITH THAT IN MIND.
I JUST WANTED TO ASK BRIEFLY, UM, GIVEN THAT WE HAVE CREATED THE AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP TO HELP IMPLEMENT AND BE KIND OF THE FUNDING POOL AND, AND THE NEW BOARD THAT'S ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.
UM, ARE THERE ANY CONVERSATIONS AS TO HOW THE CAP METRO BRANDING WILL FIT IN WITH THIS KIND OF QUASI BRAVE NEW ENTITY, INTERESTING ENTITY THAT WE'VE HAD TO CREATE THAT IS THE IMPLEMENTING AGENCY OR ENTITY, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CORPORATION THAT IS ACTUALLY GOING TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
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BUILDING OUT THE SYSTEM AND HAS ITS OWN LOGO OUT THERE AND ITS OWN TEAM.HOW WAS THAT DYNAMIC GOING TO BE WORKING TOGETHER? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
IN FACT, WHEN WE STARTED SUPPORTING THE AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP WITH SOME OF THEIR, THEIR ORIGINAL, UH, BRANDING, UM, IT WAS DONE BY THE SAME TEAM THAT CAME UP WITH THE CAP METRO BRANDINGS.
THAT'S WHY YOU'RE SEEING A LOT OF THOSE THINGS THAT THEY'RE VERY COMPLIMENTARY BETWEEN THE TWO AGENCIES, UH, THE COLOR BLUE, SAME COLOR, UM, OR SAME TYPE OF TRANSIT LINES THAT WE USE IN SOME OF OUR GRAPHICS.
BUT MORE THAN THAT, IT HAS TO DO WITH THE, WITH THE VOICE THAT WE USE FOR THE AGENCY.
THOSE TWO STILL NEED TO BE VERY COMPLIMENTARY BECAUSE FROM THE COMMUNITY STANDPOINT, IN MANY WAYS, NOT EVERY WAY, UM, BUT THEY SEE US AS, AS MORE THAN JUST PARTNERS.
THEY REALLY SEE US AS, AS TRANSIT IN AUSTIN.
AND SO I THINK THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE DISTINCTION, THE TWO BRANDS, UM, BUT I THINK FROM THE COMMUNITY STANDPOINT TOO, THEY WANT TO SEE IT, THESE TWO PARTNERS WORK TOGETHER.
AND SO AS LONG AS OUR BRANDS ARE DOING THAT, UM, IN WHATEVER WAY THAT THEY EXIST ALONGSIDE EACH OTHER.
AND THEN THEY DO THAT MORE OFTEN IN OUR PROJECT CONNECT BRANDING, WHICH IS A SEPARATE BRAND THAT WE HAVE.
UM, SO YOU'VE SEEN THE PROJECT CONNECT, UM, SIGNS AND, UM, SOCIAL MEDIA GRAPHICS, THOSE THINGS.
WE, WE TRADITIONALLY PUT, UH, PARTNER LOGOS ALONG WITH ANY OF THOSE PLACEMENTS.
YOU'RE SEEING THE CITY CAP METRO AND, UM, AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIPS, BRANDS CONNECTED TOGETHER.
UH, BUT I THINK YOU'LL CONTINUE TO SEE THAT REGARDLESS OF WHERE WE GO WITH WITH THIS BRANDING, IT SHOULD IN FACT BE, BE MORE CLOSELY ALIGNED, LIKE IT SHOULD, SHOULD AMPLIFY WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH ATP.
UM, MORE THAN THE CAP METRO BRAND DOES TODAY.
AND ONE FOLLOW UP QUESTION AS YOU'RE HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS WITH COMMUNITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, UH, HAVE YOU ALL BEEN HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR, UH, WITH THE COMMUNITIES, NOT JUST WITHIN AUSTIN, BUT WITHIN THE, THE SERVICE AREA AS A WHOLE BRINGING IN FOLKS FROM, UH, THE SMALL CITIES AS WELL, ASKING THEM WHAT THEIR VIEWS ARE AND WHAT THEY SEE THE BRAND IS AND WHAT THEY, WHAT THEIR VIEWS AND BELIEFS ARE ON METRO.
WE DO GET SOME OF THAT INSIDE OF OUR BRAND PERCEPTION STUDIES WHEN WE DO THE BRAIN PERCEPTION STUDIES, UM, I WOULD SAY WE'RE TAKING ALL OF THE RESEARCH FROM PRIOR BRAND PERCEPTION STUDIES AND LETTING IT INFLUENCE THIS WORK TOO.
UM, ALTHOUGH FOR THIS EXERCISE, UM, SEE SACK AND ACCESS ARE REALLY WHERE WE'RE SPENDING THE MAJORITY OF OUR TIME, GETTING OUR CUSTOMERS TO, TO UNDERSTAND, UH, WHAT THEIR INPUT IS FROM, FROM THE BRAND, UH, TODAY.
BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE BRAND IS AN EVOLVING THING.
SO I THINK AS WE CONTINUE TO LOOK AT HOW WE SERVICE EVEN MORE OF OUR COMMUNITY, BROADER SECTIONS OF OUR COMMUNITY, UH, WE'LL LOOK AND FIND WAYS THAT WE CAN BE RELEVANT IN THOSE DIFFERENT PLACES.
UM, AND I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING WE LOOK AT SPECIFICALLY WITH THIS BRANDING IS, YOU KNOW, SHOULD, SHOULD, UH, A, UM, A REPRESENTATION OF A, OF A BUS STOP, LOOK DIFFERENT, MAYBE IN A DIFFERENT COMMUNITY WITH HOW WE DO PUBLIC ART WITH THE METRO ARTS PROGRAM.
SHOULD WE DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT WITH METRO MUSIC WHERE IT'S RELEVANT TO THE, TO THE RESIDENTS WITHIN THAT COMMUNITY INSTEAD? UM, ALL THOSE PIECES ARE BRANDING, SO IT MAY NOT REFLECT NECESSARILY IN THE, IN THE LOGO, BUT IN SOME OF THE PROGRAMMING THAT WE DO IN WAYS THAT WE EXPRESS THE BRAND TO THOSE COMMUNITIES, I WOULD SAY WE DEFINITELY WANT TO BE RELEVANT TO THE PLACES THAT WE EXIST.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WORK.
WE'RE EXCITED TO SEE THIS, UH, TRANSFORMATION AND I THINK, UH, UH, MEMBER KITCHEN SAID IT RIGHT.
WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE ACCOMPLISHED IN THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS AND, UH, LOOKING FORWARD TO DRIVING THAT TRANSFORMATION, UH, INTO THE FUTURE.
[VI.3. Contracting Requirements Review]
DISCUSSION ITEM, OUR CONTRACTING REQUIREMENTS REVIEW, UH, DONNA SIMONSON, ASHLEY FOR THE PARENTS.NICE TO SEE YOU IN PERSON AGAIN.
JEREMY COOPER, BOARD MEMBERS AND PRESIDENT CLARK.
IT'S REALLY GREAT TO BE HERE IN PERSON.
AGAIN, IT FEELS A LITTLE WEIRD, BUT WITH NOBODY ELSE AROUND, BUT IT'S REALLY GREAT TO BE HERE.
SO, UM, AS YOU SAID, UM, MY NAME IS DONNA SIMMONS.
I'M THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF ADMINISTRATION FOR CAPITAL METRO AND OUR DIVERSITY AND EQUITY AND INCLUSION OFFICER, UM, BETWEEN ASHLEY AND I TODAY, WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH, UM, SOME INFORMATION RELATED TO, UM, CONTRACTING AND PROCUREMENT REQUIREMENTS.
SO I'M GOING TO START WITH JUST, AND MOST OF THE BOARD PROBABLY IS AWARE OF SOME OF THESE REQUIREMENTS, BUT I'M JUST GOING TO GIVE A REALLY HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS ARE WHEN WE ISSUE AN AWARD CONTRACTS FOR CAPITAL METRO.
UM, SO I WILL START WITH THAT AND THEN I'LL TURN IT OVER TO ASHLEY TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING, AND THAT SHE'S BEEN DOING SOME RESEARCH ON THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO BRING BACK TO YOU TO HAVE A DISCUSSION BACK LATER ABOUT LATER IN THE SUMMER.
SO I FORGOT I'M SUPPOSED TO ADVANCE MYSELF RIGHT.
WANNA START WITH, UM, JUST GENERALLY TALKING ABOUT THE FTA REQUIREMENTS.
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PROCUREMENTS AT CAPITAL METRO THAT INCLUDE FEDERAL FUNDING, OR THAT WE INCLUDE FEDERAL CLAUSES IN, BECAUSE WE THINK AT SOME POINT IT MIGHT BE ABLE TO BE USED AS LOCAL MATCH.UM, THEN WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THE FTA GUIDELINES AND THOSE ARE VERY WELL OUTLINED IN THE FTA BEST PRACTICES, UM, MANUAL FOR PROCUREMENT.
AND IT COVERS EVERY STEP OF WHAT WE GO THROUGH, UM, IN A PROCUREMENT PROCESS ALL THE WAY FROM PLANNING TO SELECTING THE TYPE OF CONTRACT THAT WE'RE GOING TO USE, UM, HOW WE EVALUATE THE PROPOSALS THAT WE RECEIVE AND THEN AWARD THE CONTRACTS, UM, AND THEN HOW WE ADMINISTER THE CONTRACTS AFTER THEY'RE AWARDED AS WELL.
SO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE COVERED, UM, UNDER THE FDA REQUIREMENTS, UH, BY AMERICA, SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO ROLLING STOCK, UH, REQUIRES THAT ANY BUSES AND RAIL VEHICLES THAT WE ACQUIRE, UM, HAVE TO, UM, INCLUDE AT LEAST 70% OF THE COMPONENTS IN SOME SUB-COMPONENTS BE MANUFACTURED IN THE US.
UM, AND THEN IT ALSO REQUIRES A FINAL ASSEMBLY FOR THAT ROLLING IN STOCK HAS TO OCCUR IN THE U S SOME ADDITIONAL BIOMETRICA REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, FOR ANY, UM, CONTRACTS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE.
THE FTA REQUIRES THAT, UM, COMPONENT THAT, UM, MATERIALS LIKE STEEL, IRON, OTHER MANUFACTURED GOODS, UM, ALSO WERE PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES.
UM, AND THEY'RE CONSIDERED PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES OF ALL OF THE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES FOR THE PRODUCT TAKE PLACE IN THE U S AS WELL AS ALL THE COMPONENTS FOR THE PRODUCT, FOR THE PRODUCT, FOR THE COMPONENT, HAVE A U S ORIGIN AND THEN MANUFACTURED GOODS MUST BE 100% PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES.
HOW'D DAVIS BACON ACT IS ALSO SOMETHING THAT IS REQUIRED, UM, FOR ANY PROJECTS THAT ARE FUNDED BY FTA.
IT PRESCRIBES PREVAILING WAGES THAT HAVE TO BE PAID TO LABORERS AND MECHANICS WHO ARE WORKING ON FEDERALLY FUNDED CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.
UM, AND THESE REQUIREMENTS ALSO EXTEND TO THIRD-PARTY CONTRACTORS, AND IT ENSURES THAT THERE'S FAIR PAYMENT TO, UM, ANY WORKERS THAT ARE EMPLOYED BY CONTRACTORS THAT ARE DOING ANY KINDS OF CONSTRUCTION WORK FOR CAPITAL METRO.
UH, THERE ARE ALSO SOME BONDING REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS.
UH, ONE OF THOSE IS A BID GUARANTEE.
SO FOR EVERY PROPOSER OR EVERY BIDDER ON A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, THERE IS A BID GUARANTEE REQUIRED OF 5% OF THE BID PRICE.
THERE'S ALSO A PERFORMANCE BOND REQUIRED ON THE PART OF THE CONTRACTOR TO COVER 100% OF THE CONTRACT PRICE.
SO THIS IS TO ENSURE THAT THE CONTRACTOR HAS THE APPROPRIATE FUNDS IN PLACE TO PERFORM, UM, ALL ELEMENTS OF THE CONTRACT.
THERE'S ALSO A REQUIREMENT FOR A PAYMENT BOND, UM, FOR 100% OF THE CONTRACT PRICE.
AND THE PURPOSE OF THAT IS TO ENSURE THAT THERE ARE ADEQUATE FUNDS AVAILABLE TO PAY ALL OF THE EMPLOYEES THAT THE CONTRACTOR IS EMPLOYING TO PERFORM THE WORK OTHER SPECIAL CONTRACT PROVISIONS.
UM, OF COURSE, THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, WHICH, UM, PROVIDES REQUIREMENT AROUND, UM, NO DISCRIMINATION AND HIRING AS WELL AS ADA RELATED TO THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROJECT.
UM, AND TO KICK BACK ACT, UM, OF COURSE PROHIBITS ANY KINDS OF BRIBES OR OTHER COMPENSATION FOR FAVORABLE TREATMENT, UM, FROM, UH, BY A CONTRACTOR.
UH, THERE'S ALSO SOME REQUIREMENTS FOR CONTRACT WORK HOURS, MAINLY AROUND SAFETY, UM, TO ENSURE THAT, UM, EMPLOYEES WHO ARE WORKING IN SAFETY, SENSITIVE TYPE ROLES, UM, ARE NOT REQUIRED TO WORK OVER, UH, OVER A GIVEN NUMBER OF HOURS AND THAT THEY HAVE SUFFICIENT REST TIME, UH, BETWEEN THEIR WORK SHIFTS AS WELL.
UM, EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY IS ALSO A REQUIREMENT OF FEDERALLY FUNDED CONTRACTS.
UM, AND THAT'S TO ENSURE THAT BOTH CAPITAL METRO AND THE CONTRACTORS THAT WE USE, UM, HAVE EEO PROGRAMS IN PLACE.
AND THEN WE'RE REQUIRED TO ENSURE THAT THOSE MEET THE FTA GUIDELINES, UH, LABOR NEUTRALITY IS A REQUIREMENT THAT ENSURES THAT THE CONTRACTORS DON'T EITHER HAVE ANY KIND OF REQUIREMENT RELATED TO A UNION AFFILIATION, NOR DO THEY PROHIBIT ANY KIND OF AFFILIATION WITH A LABOR UNION
THIS IS ONE THAT YOU'LL OF COURSE SEE, EVERY TIME WE BRING A CONTRACT TO YOU, UM, THAT HAS FEDERAL FUNDING, UM, WE USE A NUMBER OF CERTIFYING AGENCIES TO SORT OF OUR DBES AND YOU'LL SEE THOSE UP ON THE SCREEN.
THERE'S, THERE'S SIX OF THEM THAT WE PARTICIPATE WITH.
UM, WE HAVE A SOFTWARE CALLED BCG THAT A NUMBER OF OTHER ENTITIES USE AS WELL.
AND ALL OF THE CONTRACTORS THAT ARE CERTIFIED AS DBES BY THESE ORGANIZATIONS, UM, ARE IN THAT DATABASE.
SO WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION AVAILABLE FOR THE KINDS OF CONTRACTS THAT WE, THAT WE AWARD WHENEVER WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT OUR, WHAT THE CONTRACTING OPPORTUNITIES MIGHT BE
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FOR DBES SLIDE, HOW GOALS FOR DBE PUT FOR DBES WORK, BOTH IN CONTRACTS FOR ROLLING STOCK, AS WELL AS FOR OTHER TYPES OF CONTRACTS.SO WHEN WE ARE PURCHASING BUSES OR IN THE FUTURE, ADDITIONAL RAIL VEHICLES ARE THEN, UM, FTA ACTUALLY PROVIDES US WITH A LIST OF THE TRANSIT VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS WHO HAVE MET THEIR SPECIFIED DBE GOALS.
SO THOSE THAT'S ALREADY COVERED WHEN WE'RE PURCHASING VEHICLES, WHEN WE'RE AWARDING ANY OTHER TYPES OF CONTRACTS, WE SET THOSE GOALS BASED ON THE KINDS OF WORK THAT'S AVAILABLE IN UNDER THE CONTRACT, USING THE NASH, THE NORTH AMERICA INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM.
UM, WE USE OUR BCG PROGRAM TO ASSIST US IN THAT REGARD ALSO, BECAUSE THAT HELPS US TO DETERMINE OF ALL OF THE TYPES OF WORK THAT ARE AVAILABLE IN THE CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY.
UH, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THOSE, UM, CONTRACTORS, UM, ARE DBES OR COULD POTENTIALLY BE CERTIFIED AS DBS? UH, YOU MAY RECALL FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO'VE SEEN MY PRESENTATION A COUPLE OF TIMES WHEN WE DO THE, THE COUPLE OF YEAR, UM, UPDATE ON OUR DIVERSITY PROGRAMS, UH, WE SET A GOAL, EVERY, A TRIENNIAL GOAL THAT WE PROVIDE TO THE FTA.
WE WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SECOND YEAR OF OUR THIRD YEAR GOAL, UM, FROM 2020 TO 2022.
SO OUR GOAL FOR THAT PERIOD WAS SET AT 19%.
UM, 9% OF THAT, UH, WE, WE COMMIT TO ACHIEVE BY SETTING SPECIFIC GOALS FOR IT TO, TO MAKE A CONSCIOUS EFFORT, UM, TO FIND DBES THAT COULD MEET THAT PART OF THE GOAL.
UM, AND THEN THE OTHER 10% CAN BE ACHIEVED EITHER BECAUSE A PRIME CONTRACTOR, IT SEEDS THE GOAL, UM, OR THEY USED A DV ON A FEDERALLY FUNDED PROJECT WHERE, UH, WHERE THERE WERE, THEY HAD NO GOAL.
UM, I'LL MENTION HERE AS WELL.
WE ARE GETTING READY TO, AND WE'LL BE BRINGING BACK TO THE BOARD IN JULY A CONTRACT TO, UM, DO A DBE AVAILABILITY STUDY AND AN SBE DISPARITY STUDY.
UM, SO WE WILL BE USING, UH, INTEND TO USE A CONTRACTOR THAT IS NOW WORKING WITH BOTH THE CITY AND THE COUNTY TO DO THOSE KINDS OF STUDIES.
SO SHE HAS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF BACKGROUND IN THAT WORK AND HAS ALSO DONE THAT KIND OF WORK FOR OTHER TRANSIT SYSTEMS AND GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
UM, SO WE'LL BE DOING THAT THROUGH THE COOPERATIVE PURCHASING AGREEMENT THAT WE HAVE WITH THE CITY.
UH, LIKE I SAID, WE'RE WORKING ON THAT CONTRACT AND THE SCOPE NOW WILL BE GOING BACK TO THE BOARD TO, UM, GET YOUR, UM, TO RECOMMEND AWARD AT THE JULY BOARD MEETING.
NOW, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO ASHLEY TO START TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE ARE TAKING A LOOK AT GOOD AFTERNOON, AGAIN, BOARD MEMBERS, I'M ASHLEY GLOUCESTER, THE CHIEF COUNSEL.
SO WE HAVE BEEN DOING SOME RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS ON OPPORTUNITIES FOR, UM, CAPITAL METRO CONTRACTS FOR CONSTRUCTION AND LABOR CONTRACTS.
I THINK THIS WOULD BE SOMETHING ALSO ATP WOULD, WOULD LOOK AT KIND OF LOOKING HOLISTICALLY AT PROJECT CONNECT AND THE, AND THE CONTRACTS THAT WOULD BE ISSUED UNDER THAT PROGRAM.
UM, WE'VE BEEN DOING SOME PEER REVIEW, OF COURSE.
UM, THE CITY OF AUSTIN IS A PEER THAT WE'D BEEN LOOKING AT.
SO WE HAVE ANALYZED THE BETTER BUILDER PROGRAM THAT THE CITY HAS ADOPTED FOR EXPEDITING PERMITTING.
UM, WE HAVE LOOKED AT THEIR APPRENTICESHIP HIRING GOALS FOR, UM, CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS OF A CERTAIN DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT THE CITY HAS.
AND WE'VE ALSO LOOKED AT THE CITY'S LIVING WAGE REQUIREMENTS.
I HAVE DONE SOME WORK WITH LA METRO TO LOOK AT THEIR LABOR PROGRAM AND THEIR HIRING GOALS.
UM, THEY WERE, UM, WE CAN GO AHEAD AND GO INTO THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO, UM, GOING INTO LAST WEEK, THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DIDN'T MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT A PILOT PROGRAM THAT WILL SPECIFICALLY ALLOW FOR LOCAL HIRING, UM, OR PROGRAMS THAT ARE FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPING.
SO THIS IS, THIS IS, UM, KIND OF BRIDGES OFF OF WHAT LA METRO DID.
THEY DID PARTICIPATE IN THE FIRST PILOT PROGRAM ABOUT A DECADE AGO, BUT THEY ALSO ESTABLISHED A PERMANENT PROGRAM THAT WORKED AROUND THE FEDERAL PROHIBITION AGAINST LOCAL HIRING.
AND THEY DID THAT BASED ON SINCE THIS TRACKS, THEY KIND OF ESTABLISHED A PROGRAM THAT LOOKED AT SINCE ITS TRACKS OF CERTAIN INCOME LEVELS AND SAID THAT CONTRACTORS HAD TO HIRE INDIVIDUALS FROM THE CENSUS TRACT.
SO IT WASN'T LOCAL SPECIFIC, BUT IT AIDED IN HELPING THEM IDENTIFY WORKERS IN THE LA METRO AREA THAT FIT THAT DESCRIPTION AND ALLOWED THEM TO WORK ON LA METRO PROGRAMS. AND THEY'D BEEN DOING THAT NOW 2012 WAS THEIR START, AND THEY'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS.
SO THIS PILOT PROGRAM KIND OF BRIDGES OFF OF THE PREVIOUS PILOT PROGRAM AND THE WORK THE LA METRO AND OTHER TRANS AGENCIES HAVE DONE.
SO THIS WAS JUST ANNOUNCED LAST THURSDAY, I THINK IT WAS.
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AND WE WILL LOOK AT THIS PILOT PROGRAM FOR SOME OF OUR POTENTIAL CONTRACTS THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO ACTUALLY HAVE A LOCAL HIRING PREFERENCE OR A PREFERENCE FOR CERTAIN WORKERS IN OUR AREA.AND THEN LOOKING AT OTHER THINGS, OF COURSE, AS RANDY HAS MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES, WE ARE CONTINUING TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE FAST REENACTMENT AND OTHER ACTIONS THAT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WILL TAKE IN THIS AREA.
UM, THE CONSTRUCTION JOBS AND LABOR PROGRAM IS KIND OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT DOING.
UM, SOME SORT OF PROGRAM THAT WOULD ONLY APPLY TO CERTAIN CONTRACTS, SPECIFICALLY CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS, UM, FOR POSITIONS THAT ARE MORE LABOR POSITIONS WE WOULD HAVE WITHIN THAT HIRING GOALS.
SO WE CAN HAVE A PERCENTAGES FOR HIRING APPRENTICE SHIP PROGRAMS. SO FOR EXAMPLE, LA METRO HAS, UM, A 20% REQUIREMENT FOR HIRING APPRENTICES.
UM, THE CITY OF AUSTIN HAS A 15% REQUIREMENT FOR HIRING APPRENTICES, UM, DISADVANTAGED WORKERS.
UM, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT LA METRO HAS DONE.
THEY HAVE MADE A FOCUS ON HIRING WORKERS THAT FALL WITHIN THE NINE CATEGORIES.
UM, AND I WILL NOT LIST ALL OF THEM, BUT IT IS PRIMARILY INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE HAD HISTORICAL BARS TO EMPLOYMENT, UM, INDIVIDUALS THAT MIGHT HAVE CRIMINAL HISTORY AND INDIVIDUALS THAT MIGHT NOT HAVE A SOLID WORK RECORD, UM, UH, VETERANS, THOSE KINDS OF INDIVIDUALS THAT MAKE A VERY SPECIFIC, SPECIFIC AND TARGETED APPROACH TO HIRE THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND THEN LOCAL WORKERS AND LOW INCOME AREAS.
UM, THIS IS KIND OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WITH A LOCAL HIRING PREFERENCE OF HOW WE CAN UTILIZE WORKERS HERE IN OUR AREA, THE LIVING WAGE REQUIREMENT, UM, AS DONNA JUST MENTIONED, THE DATA SPEAK AND ACT DOES SET THE MINIMUM PREVAILING WAGE.
SO UNDER FEDERAL CONTRACTS, ALL CONTRACTORS HAVE TO PAY THE, THE WASTE LISTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, BUT IT'S A MINIMUM WAGE YOU CAN PAY ABOVE THAT.
AND THE CITY'S LIVING WAGE IS $15.
SO FOR CITY CONTRACTS, ALL, ALL CONTRACTORS HAVE TO PAY THE $15.
SO IF THAT POSITION PAYS UNDER 15, THE CONTRACTOR WILL MEET THE $15.
AND THEN WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT EVALUATING OTHER THINGS LIKE HEALTH INSURANCE, HOW WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO ENCOURAGE THAT COVERAGE AS WELL AS SICK LEAVE, UM, AND LOOKING AT ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR OSHA TRAINING FOR OUR CONTRACTORS.
AND WITH THAT, WE WILL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
YOU ALL HAVE QUESTIONS, REMEMBER TREVELYAN DID WE EVER DETERMINE THE LAST TIME WE PARTICIPATED IN THE DISPARITY STUDY? IT WAS PROBABLY A COUPLE OF DECADES AGO, MAYBE 15 YEARS AGO.
SO WE WILL, WE WILL, UM, PUT A PROGRAM IN PLACE AND HOPEFULLY REFRESH IT EVERY FIVE YEARS OR SO.
YES, WE CAN CERTAINLY DO THAT.
AND THAT'S, I THINK THAT THAT'S A GOOD GOAL FOR US TO HAVE, UM, AND COLETTE HOLT IS THE PERSON THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH.
UH, THERE'S A PROGRAM THAT, UH, IS BEING PUT IN PLACE BY THE COUNTY THAT YOU MIGHT CONSIDER AS WELL.
AND IT WORKS WITH THE UTS BUSINESS SCHOOL IN TERMS OF IDENTIFYING, UH, DIFFERENT VENDORS AND HELPING THEM BUILD THEIR INTERNAL CAPACITY.
SO AS YOU, AS YOU LOOK, UM, THERE'LL BE SOME THINGS THAT YOU DO INTERNAL TO THE WORKFORCE, HOW YOU PREPARE WORKFORCE, WHAT THEY NEED TO KNOW, AND THEN THE EXTERNAL WORKFORCE, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR, FOR A PERIOD OF TIME.
YES, MA'AM, WE'VE ACTUALLY, WE'VE DONE SOME RESEARCH ON THEIR PROGRAM.
SOME WERE THAT, AND WE'LL BE LOOKING MORE INTO IT.
AND, UH, WHEN YOU WERE LOOKING AT PEER REVIEW, SEE THAT I LOOKED AT VANDERBILT, BUILD THEIR PROGRAMMING, AND NOW THOSE ARE MORE VERTICAL PROGRAMS RATHER THAN THE HORIZONTAL PROGRAMS. WHAT HAVE WE COMPARED OURSELVES TO THAT, THAT, UM, OTHER, OTHER OF OUR PEERS, PARTICULARLY, UH, THE ONES THAT WE CONSIDERED PEERS AS WE REQ AS WE MEASURE OURSELVES AGAINST THE MARKET, UH, WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT FOR THE, FOR THEIR HORIZONTAL PROGRAMS? YEAH, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE, WE'RE STARTING.
SO LA METRO IS KIND OF OUR FIRST PEER TO LOOK AT IN TERMS OF THIS AREA, JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE THE ONES THAT REALLY KIND OF STARTED A PROGRAM LIKE THIS.
UM, AND WE'RE STARTING TO PUT TOGETHER A STAKEHOLDER GROUP OF LOOKING AT OTHER TRANSIT AGENCIES AND HOW THEY DO THAT.
UM, OBVIOUSLY THE CITY DOESN'T DO A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION.
UM, BUT WE DID WANT TO LOOK AT THEIR REQUIREMENTS JUST CAUSE A LOT OF THEM ARE TRANSFERABLE IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, TRAINING REQUIREMENTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT WE COULD, WE CAN DO TO INCREASE WORKER SAFETY.
WELL, I'M PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THIS AREA.
THE OTHER THING I MIGHT MENTION ABOUT THAT MAYBE NOT SO MUCH RELATED TO CONTRACTING, BUT RELATED TO WHAT WE KNOW THE MUCH, MUCH LARGER WORKFORCE NEEDS AT CAPITAL METRO IS GOING TO HAVE OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS.
SO WE'RE, WE'VE ALREADY STARTED A WORKFORCE PLANNING STUDY TO HELP US PROJECT WHAT THOSE NEEDS ARE GOING TO BE SO THAT WE CAN START VERY, VERY EARLY, UM, TO ENGAGE
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HIGH SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS TO BEGIN TO PREPARE THAT WORKFORCE SO THAT, UM, SO THAT WE HAVE DONE THAT ENGAGEMENT FAR IN ADVANCE OF WHEN THOSE NEEDS WILL OCCUR.SO THE COUNTY HAS A PRIVATE CITY DOES TOO.
WE'RE PARTNERS WITH THE LOCAL WORKFORCE BOARD.
AND THAT'S KIND OF PRECISELY WHAT WE'RE DOING, LOOKING AT LOCAL EMPLOYMENT NEEDS.
AND THEN WE'RE WORKING THROUGH ACC IS A SCHOOL OF CONTINUING EDUCATION AS WELL TO TAILOR SPECIFIC, UH, TRAINING PROGRAMS. UM, AS A MATTER OF FACT, ACC, UH, PRODUCED A, UM, PROGRAM THAT GIVES US THE, UM, COMMERCIAL DRIVERS THAT THE CDLS.
SO I WILL, I WILL MAKE SURE THAT CONNECTION WITH THOSE FOLKS AS WELL.
OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? REMEMBER KITCHEN? UM, YES.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I HEARD YOU, RIGHT.
UM, THE, UM, THIS LAST, THE LAST SLIDE, UH, DID YOU SAY THAT THAT Y'ALL ARE STARTING TO WORK ON SOME ASPECTS OF THIS SLIDE AND IF SO, WHAT'S YOUR TIMELINE? UM, WE'RE WORKING ON IT NOW.
UM, OUR GOAL IS TO TRY TO PUT IN THINGS THAT WE CAN PUT INTO, INTO THE EARLY PROJECT CONNECT CONTRACTS.
HOWEVER, THERE'S A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT WILL TAKE SOME TIME.
UM, AS DONNA MENTIONED THAT WE ARE HIRING, UM, COLETTE HOLT TO DO THE DISPARITY STUDY.
SO IN TERMS OF DOING SOMETHING LIKE LA METRO OR THE CITY DOES, AND, AND APPLYING A PERCENTAGE GOAL, WE WOULDN'T WANT TO DO THAT UNTIL WE'VE HAD A GOOD EVALUATION OF THE WORKFORCE HERE.
UM, SO WE CAN MAKE SURE WE ARE ACTUALLY PUTTING REQUIREMENTS ON THE CONTRACT THAT ARE ON THE CONTRACT THAT ARE ACHIEVABLE AND GONNA MOVE US FORWARD.
SO, SO, UM, IS THIS, DOES THIS GOING TO RESULT IN, UM, NEW POLICY OR NEW ASPECTS OF OUR CURRENT POLICIES THAT YOU'LL BE BRINGING BACK AND BRIEFING US ON RADIO MIGHT BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO THIS, BUT THIS WOULD BE A PROGRAM THAT WE WOULD, WE WOULD DRAW OUT AND WE PROGRAM, WE WOULD MAKE IT PART OF ALL OF THE CONTRACTS THAT FIT UNDER THIS THERE.
SO WE WOULD LAY OUT AN ACTUAL PROGRAM AND FOR EVERY CONTRACT THAT WOULD FIT WITHIN THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT AND THAT TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT, IT WOULD FIT THERE.
IT'S NOT GOING TO APPLY TO, YOU KNOW, SERVICE CONTRACTS.
SO WE HAVE FOR IT OR THINGS THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, ADMIN INTERMITTENT.
I THINK DONNA JUST KIND OF FORESHADOWED THAT.
I MEAN, THE GOAL HERE IS TO BUILD A PROGRAM.
THAT'S A JOBS PROGRAM THAT CAN KEEP PEOPLE CONTINUOUSLY EMPLOYED, EITHER WORKING ON OUR CONSTRUCTION OR POTENTIALLY MOVING INTO WORK FOR CAPITAL METRO AS WE EXPAND OVER THE NEXT DECADE.
SO THEN FROM A TIMING PERSPECTIVE, WHEN DO YOU EXPECT TO BRING BACK THAT PROGRAM TO THE, TO THE BOARD WE'RE LOOKING, DO WE KNOW THE TIMEFRAME FOR THE SPIRIT IS I'M LOOKING AT PROBABLY SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR.
WE'LL PROBABLY PROVIDE ANOTHER UPDATE AND THEN HOPEFULLY FINISH IT WITHIN THE YEAR.
YEAH, I'M, I'M JUST, I'M TRYING TO GET TO THE BOTTOM.
I'M TRYING TO GET TO IS WHEN CAN, WHEN WILL THE BOARD BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME COMMENTS ON WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING FOR THE PROGRAM? SO THE DISPARITY STUDY IS REALLY GEARED TOWARDS OUR CONTRACTING GOALS FOR DB AND SBS.
UM, THE OTHER RESEARCH THAT WE'RE DOING, UM, IS NOT REALLY RELATED TO THE DVE GOALS, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE A SPECIFIC TIMELINE YET IS WE'RE JUST, I DON'T, I'M NOT, I, I'M NOT ASKING FOR AN EXACT TIMELINE.
I'M JUST SORT OF ORDER OF MAGNITUDE A COUPLE OF MONTHS, SIX MONTHS, YOU KNOW, AND I, I'M TALKING ABOUT THINGS LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU TALKED ABOUT, UM, EVALUATING HEALTH INSURANCE, SICK LEAVE, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU TALKED ABOUT, UM, LIVING WAGE REQUIREMENTS, ADDITIONAL TRAINING, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.
WHEN, UH, WHEN, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE OF MONTHS, SIX MONTHS, DO YOU, DO YOU HAVE ANY, IF YOU DON'T KNOW AT THIS POINT, THAT'S FINE.
JUST KIND OF LET ME KNOW YOU WANT ME TO DO THAT, SO SURE.
UH, I THINK, I THINK FOR MEMBERS OF YOUR QUESTION, SOME OF THE THINGS SAY AROUND PREVAILING WAGE, ADDITIONAL OSHA TRAINING, THINGS OF THAT NATURE ARE, I THINK ARE MORE IN THE SHORTER TERM.
SO I THINK TO ASHLEY'S POINT CONTRACTS THAT WE MAY BRING TO THE BOARD IS EARLY AS MID TO LATE SUMMER, CERTAINLY BY EARLY FALL, THAT WOULD BE THE EARLY OUTS ON PROJECT CONNECT ACTIVITIES.
UH, LET ALONE KIND OF REESTABLISHING, UH, SOME PARAMETERS FOR ALL FUTURE KIND OF CAPITAL METRO CONTRACTS.
I THINK THOSE KINDS OF THINGS ARE PROBABLY IN THAT TIMELINE.
SO WE'LL BE ENGAGING YOU OVER THE SUMMER ON THOSE.
I THINK THE, UH, DISPARITY STUDY, QUITE FRANKLY, IT'S PROBABLY MORE LIKE A YEAR OR TWO, MAYBE EVEN 18 MONTHS, UH, THAT MAY HAVE VERY, AND THE TIMING ON THAT IS REALLY PROBABLY TO HELP INFLUENCE THE LARGER PROJECT CONNECT MEGA PROJECT ACTIVITY, WHICH WE ARE SEVERAL YEARS FROM INDIA CONTRACTING ON THAT.
OTHER THINGS THOUGH, THAT WE WERE WORKING ON THAT KIND OF HOLISTICALLY FITS INTO THIS CATEGORY.
UM, WE, WE PLAN ON DOING A VARIETY OF FORMS WITH KEY STAKEHOLDERS RELATED TO PROJECT CONNECT OVER THE UPCOMING MONTHS FOR THE FIRST FORM.
AND THEN MULTIPLE TIMES A YEAR.
ONE OF THOSE THAT WE WANT TO DO IS ON KIND OF CONSTRUCTION, LABOR, UM, NOT NECESSARILY THE CAP METRO LABOR WORKFORCE, WHICH IS IT'S, IT'S, IT'S AN ENTIRE OTHER KIND OF EFFORT
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IT'S REALLY, UM, ABOUT HOW DO WE BETTER COORDINATE WITH OUR LOCAL TRADE, UH, LABOR PARTNERS, THINGS LIKE THE IBW, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.UH, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BE REALLY COGNIZANT THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE COMPETING FOR LABOR AVAILABILITY ON THIS PROGRAM.
I CAN'T EMPHASIZE ENOUGH HOW BIG THIS PROGRAM IS.
SO WHEN YOU HEAR SOMEONE IN THE REGION SAY I GOT IT, THIS IS ANOTHER BIG PROJECT.
IT'S THE BIGGEST THING THIS REGION WILL EVER DO BY FAR IT'S MULTIPLE MEGA PROJECTS AT THE SAME TIME.
SO WE ARE IN OUR CO YOU KNOW, IN OUR NEUTRAL ESTIMATES, WE TALKED ABOUT CREATING ALMOST A HUNDRED THOUSAND JOBS IN 10 YEARS, AND WE WILL HAVE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S GOING TO BE PERIODS OF CONSTRUCTION BUILD-OUT, BUT WE'LL HAVE THREE OR 4,000 PEOPLE A DAY WORKING ONSITE AND CONSTRUCTION JOBS FOR YEARS SPENDING FOUR OR 5 MILLION A DAY.
THIS IS AN ENORMOUS PROGRAM WE WERE UNDER.
AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE, WE ARE WORKING, UH, HAVING SOME INTERNAL THOUGHT PROCESS BECAUSE PART OF THIS IS RESOURCING.
WE HAVE TO GET ENOUGH RESOURCES ON BOARD AND WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING TO HIRE ON THE ATP SIDE, A JOBS COORDINATOR TO ENGAGE OUR LOCAL LABOR PARTNERS, KIND OF LIKE THE WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, IF YOU WILL, UH, PEOPLE, UH, OF OUR COMMUNITY TO THINK ABOUT HOW WE CAN CREATE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS, TRY TO GET AISD DEL VALLEY ACC TOGETHER.
WE'VE HAD SOME VERY EARLY CONVERSATIONS.
SO ALL OF THIS, WE JUST NEED SOME, UH, SOME MORE TIME TO FLESH OUT THAT THEN GOES INTO WHAT DONNA MENTIONED, WHICH IS OUR INTERNAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PLANNING, WHICH WE'RE DOING SOME OF NOW BETWEEN ATTRITION OF OUR STAFF, WHICH IS WE ALREADY HAVE 2100 STAFF.
AND WE HAVE A LOT OF, UM, UM, STAFF WITH A LOT OF SENIORITY ON THE OPERATING SIDE BETWEEN OUR GROWTH LOSS, RETENTION, UH, ATTRITION.
WE'RE GOING TO BE HIRING, HIRING HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE A YEAR, EVERY YEAR, HUNDREDS IN SOME YEARS, PROBABLY A BETTER PART OF EIGHT, 900 A YEAR.
IT'S JUST THE WAY THAT THE MODELS WILL WORK.
SO WE NEED TO DO A FAIR AMOUNT OF WORK ON THAT.
AND I KNOW THIS TAKE A LITTLE TIME.
I JUST WANTED TO REALLY PUT A FOCUS ON THIS POINT.
A LOT OF PEOPLE SEE OUR MAP AND THEY SAY, OH, PROJECT CONNECT IS THE PROJECTS, THE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS WE NEED TO DO THAT EQUAL EFFORT ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO SUCCESSFULLY BE READY TO OPERATE, BUILD TO THEN OPERATE THE SYSTEM.
SO I SAY THAT ALONG WITH WAY, WHICH IS KIND OF A, YOU'VE HEARD ME BEFORE SAY A LOT CRAWL WALK RUN.
SO THE CRAWL PART WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, THIS SUMMER INTO EARLY FALL, SOME OF THE LIVABLE WAGE, UH, INSURANCE TRAINING ASPECTS THAT THE TEAM IS ON AND WE'LL ENGAGE YOU ON THE SUMMER.
OTHER PIECES LIKE THE APPRENTICESHIP WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, I'VE GOT TO START IN EARNEST LATER THIS YEAR, BUT QUITE FRANKLY, IT WILL PROBABLY TAKE SEVERAL YEARS TO PUT TOGETHER, UM, CAUSE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO HIRE CLASSES OF EMPLOYEES.
UM, AND WE MAY HAVE TO DO SOME VERY INNOVATIVE THINGS WITH SOME OF OUR, UM, UH, WORKERS TO BUILD THIS, UH, KIND OF SYSTEM, A GOOD EXAMPLE IN OUR WORLD.
WE NEED A LOT OF COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRICAL STAFF THAT SAY OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE DOESN'T DO THE SAME BECAUSE OF THE TYPE OF SYSTEMS THAT WE HAVE.
UM, SO THAT'S ONE PRIORITY AREA THAT WE'LL PROBABLY BE WORKING ON AND THEN THE DISPARITY STUDY SHOULD ROLL IN REALLY NICELY TO THE LARGER, I THINK, PROJECT CONNECT, UH, CONTRACTING, UH, OPTIONS.
SO, UM, I WOULD LOOK AT THAT MAYBE IT'S A THREE, THREE LEGGED STOOL, IF THAT MAKES SENSE, OUR CRAWL WALK ONE, HOWEVER OUT ANALOGY, HOPEFULLY THAT HELPS.
THAT, THAT GIVES ME AN IDEA OF THE, UM, THE TIMELINE AND THE, UM, UH, UH, SO THAT'S VERY HELPFUL.
UM, I THINK IT'S EXCITING THAT WE HAVE THIS, THIS A HUGE OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR COMMUNITY, NOT JUST FROM A TRANSIT PERSPECTIVE, BUT FROM OUR LABOR PERSPECTIVE.
AND SO THE, THE ABILITY TO LOOK AT WHAT LEVEL OF FLEXIBILITY WE MIGHT HAVE GIVEN THE FEDERAL CONSTRAINTS, UH, TO LOOK AT OUR POLICY GOALS AT A LOCAL LEVEL, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF, UM, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF OUR WORKERS, I THINK IS, IS GREAT.
SO I'M REALLY PLEASED TO HEAR THAT Y'ALL ARE STARTING TO LOOK INTO THIS RIGHT NOW, UM, BECAUSE THINGS LIKE HEALTH INSURANCE, SICK LEAVE, UH, WORKFORCE SAFETY, I MEAN, WE WANT, THESE ARE, THESE ARE, UM, I THINK, I MEAN, I KNOW WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE, THESE NEED TO BE GOOD JOBS.
AND, UM, AND SO WE HAVE A HUGE OPPORTUNITY HERE TO WORK ON THAT.
SO, UH, SO, UM, UH, IF I'M HEARING RIGHT, WE'RE TALKING, YOU KNOW, SOMETIME DURING THE SUMMER FOR THE MORE NEAR TERM KINDS OF THINGS, TO HAVE A FOLLOW-UP CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT Y'ALL ARE FINDING AND PROPOSING LONGER-TERM FOR, UM, YOU WERE MORE TERM FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, THE ANALYSIS THAT HAS TO GO INTO HIRING GOALS AND THAT SORT OF THING.
OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS LOOK FORWARD TO THIS REPORT.
I THINK WE'RE IN A PRETTY HOT JOBS MARKET.
SO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT OF PAPER TODAY SAID WE'RE ALREADY UNDER 5% HERE LOCALLY, AND, YOU KNOW, CONSTRUCTION IS
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CRAZY CRAZY RIGHT NOW.SO, UH, THIS IS, UH, IT'S GOOD THAT WE'RE STARTING TO THINK ABOUT THAT IN A PROACTIVE WAY, SO THANK YOU.
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ALL RIGHT.LAST BUT NOT LEAST PRESIDENT CLARK.
UH, AND IT IS EXCITING, UH, BETWEEN BRAND REFRESH AND SERVICES AND EXPANSION.
UH, WE ARE, I THINK QUITE FRANKLY, AND MAYBE THE MOST ENVIABLE POSITION OF A TRANSIT AUTHORITY IN THE UNITED STATES WITH THAT SAID THE CHALLENGES OF EXPANDING AND DOING ALL THIS ACTIVITY.
AND ALSO PROBABLY THE FASTEST GROWING MARKET IN THE UNITED STATES IS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND CHALLENGE, UH, AND THAT WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH EVERY DAY.
AND SO EVERY DAY THE TEAM IS THINKING THROUGH THE RISK LENS TO ENSURE WE DELIVER THE BEST PROGRAM, UH, FOR THE, FOR THE, FOR THE COMMUNITY, A COUPLE OF QUICK THINGS.
AND I REALLY DO APPRECIATE EVERYONE BEING HERE TODAY, AND IT IS EXCITING FOR OUR FIRST MEETING IN PERSON.
UM, I HIGHLIGHT THE FIRST MEETING IN PERSON ALSO MEANS ON THE SERVICE LEVEL.
UH, JUST THE END OF LAST WEEK, WE RESTORED FULL CAPACITY IN ALL OF OUR VEHICLES AND THAT AS BOSTON RAIL, UH, ON THE DEMAND RESPONSE, METRO ACCESS PROGRAM ARE STILL LIMITING SOME CAPACITY.
UM, AND WE WILL DO THAT AS LONG AS, UH, UH, HEALTH-WISE AND VEHICLE AVAILABILITY ALLOWS, BUT ON THE BUS AND RAIL SYSTEM, WE'VE REMOVED THE, UH, SKIP A SEAT SIGNS FROM, UH, FROM A HEALTH AND SAFETY POINT OF VIEW.
AND SO AS MORE AND MORE OF OUR COMMUNITY GETS VACCINATED AND IT BECOMES CLEARLY MUCH SAFER.
UH, WE, WE REALLY WANT PEOPLE TO GET BACK ON THE SYSTEM.
WE'RE THERE TO CONNECT EVERYONE TO, TO WORK TO ACTIVITY.
UH, IT'S VERY CLEAR, I'M SURE ALL OF YOU HAVE SEEN THE, THE, THE CITY IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE ACTIVE BY THE DAY, THE WEEK.
AND, UH, THAT'S EXCITING TO BE A PART OF THAT.
SO, UH, NEXT THING I THINK DOTTIE HIGHLIGHTED THE AUSTIN FC SERVICE PLAN, JUST ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO, UH, GO TO THE WEBSITE TO GET SPECIFICS ON THAT.
IT'S THE FIRST TIME WE'RE REALLY PULLING OFF A BIG SPECIAL EVENT LIKE THAT.
AND ESPECIALLY FIRST ONE POST COVID, SO LOTS OF MOVING PARTS THERE, BUT WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR CITY PARTNERS CLOSE ON THAT.
UH, JUST QUICKLY I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT A LITTLE FEDERAL UPDATE FOR EVERYONE.
SO WE'VE BEEN MEETING A LOT WITH MEMBERS OF CONGRESS RIGHT NOW IN DC.
THERE'S, UH, OBVIOUSLY THE, IF NOT THE MOST TALKED ABOUT THING IN NATIONALLY IS AN INFRASTRUCTURE PACKAGE OR ALSO SECONDARILY THE SURFACE REAUTHORIZATION CURRENTLY KNOWN AS FAST ACT.
AND SO THERE'S, UM, THERE'S BEEN A PROPOSAL FROM THE DEMOCRATS AND THE HOUSE.
THERE'S BEEN A COUNTERPROPOSAL FROM REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE.
UH, SENATE REPUBLICANS PUT FORTH A BILL THE OTHER DAY.
UM, THERE IS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF, UH, ACTIVITY IN DC RELATING TO INFRASTRUCTURE AND SURFACE REAUTHORIZATION.
I THINK IT'S VERY FAIR TO SAY, NO ONE KNOWS EXACTLY HOW THIS WILL ALL TURN OUT, UH, WERE FEELING OPTIMISTIC THAT HOWEVER, THE PACKAGE TURNS OUT WILL BE BETTER FOR TRANSIT THAN IT HAS BEEN FOR A WHILE.
THE THING THAT WE ARE HIGHLIGHTING AND I APPRECIATE CHAIR COOPER HAS BEEN JOINING APTA, DID A VIRTUAL FLYING AND, UH, CHAIR COOPER HAS BEEN A PART OF THAT, WHICH IS REALLY, UM, TALKING TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ABOUT THE CRITICALITY OF THE FEDERAL PARTNERSHIP IN THE CIG PRINT PROGRAM, THE CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANT PROGRAM, AND APT THIS PROPOSAL TO GET BACK TO 80, 80% FEDERAL SHARE.
UM, I, I, IF WE EVER GOT TO 80% FEDERAL SHARE, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THE HAPPIEST CEO IN AMERICA.
I PROMISE YOU THAT, UH, WITH THAT SAID, WE THINK IT'S ONLY RIGHT THAT, UH, CENTRAL TEXAS GETS ITS FAIR SHARE, UH, CONSIDERING LOTS OF SYSTEMS AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT WERE BUILT FOR MUCH HIGHER PERCENTAGES THAN WHAT, WHAT SOME HAVE GOTTEN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
SO WE ARE WORKING THAT INCREDIBLY, UH, HEAVILY AND WHAT WE, UH, CONTINUING TO PUSH ERA, UM, UH, CAP METRO AND AUSTIN'S UNIQUE STORY.
EVERY TIME WE TALK TO SOMEONE IN DC, THEY REALLY LIKE OUR STORY, WHETHER IT'S JOB CREATION, WHETHER IT'S AN EQUITY LENS THAT QUITE FRANKLY, IT'S PROBABLY NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE AND A TRENDS, A PROGRAM OF OUR SIZE, WHETHER IT'S THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS, WHETHER IT'S THE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION, WE HAVE AN INCREDIBLE UNIQUE STORY, AND I THINK IT DOES RESONATE IN DC AND AROUND THE COUNTRY.
SO WE WILL, UH, REALLY CONTINUE TO PUSH IN, IN WORK HARD ON THAT NOTE.
DAVE MENTIONED THAT, UH, JUST TODAY, THE FEDERAL REGISTER, UH, FTA AND THROUGH CAP, METRO GOT PUBLISHED THAT THE LETTER OF INTENT FOR THE ORANGE AND BLUE LINE NEPA PROCESS TODAY, I WILL SAY THAT IS ANOTHER BIG STEP FOR US.
UH, JUST LAST WEEK WE RECEIVED A CATEGORY EXCLUSION FOR BOTH METRO RAPID EXPO AND PLEASANT VALLEY, ANOTHER BIG STEP FOR THIS PROGRAM.
AND THE THING THAT I'M THE MOST PROUD OF THESE ARE EXACTLY WHAT WE COMMITTED TO THE, TO THE COMMUNITY.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT THE VOTERS WOULD PROP
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A, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT WE SAW A CLEAR SCHEDULE AND THE TEAM HAS BEEN WORKING EVERY DAY, VERY HARD TO MEET THAT SCHEDULE.AND THOSE ARE KEY MARKERS THAT WE SAID WE'D HIT AND WE HAVE HIT.
AND I CAN'T THANK THE FTA ENOUGH.
THEY JUST BEEN INCREDIBLE TO WORK WITH.
SO WITH THAT CHAIR, UM, THANK YOU ALL ON THE BOARD FOR, UH, YOUR CONTINUED LEADERSHIP.
HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET YOU OUT ON THE SYSTEM.
ANYONE THAT WANTS TO GET OUT, WE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU FOR A RIDE ALONG, DEMONSTRATE THE COMMUNITY, HOW SAFE WE ARE AND GETTING OUT AND SEEING SOME OF OUR EMPLOYEES, UH, BACK, UH, GETTING, GETTING AUSTIN BACK TO BUSINESS.
SO, BUT THAT CHAIR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, PRESIDENT CLARK, YOU WANT TO MENTION THE MEMORIAL, UH, THAT'S PLANNED.
I THINK THAT WAS, I THINK WE'D HIGHLIGHT IT THAT AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING, BUT WE ARE HAVING ALL THE BOARD MEMBERS SHOULD RECEIVED A NOTIFICATION WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING A MEMORIAL FOR, UH, INDIVIDUAL INDIVIDUALS THAT CAP METRO FAMILY, THAT UNFORTUNATELY WE'VE LOST WHILE IN SERVICE AND TRYING TO CREATE A MEMORIAL FOR THEM IN A PERMANENT BASIS.
AND THAT'S COMING UP IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS.
AND THEN I THINK WE'D HIGHLIGHT THAT AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING.
UH, GOOD TO SEE EVERYBODY TODAY AND, UH, EXCITING TO SEE ALL THE GOOD STUFF GOING FORWARD, UH, AS, AS WE, UH, ARE ABLE TO GATHER IN PERSON.
SO LET'S KEEP IT ROLLING AND UNLESS THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER ROLLING.
BEN, TELL ME, YOU'RE SURPRISED.