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GOOD[I. Call to Order]
MORNING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.UH, THANK YOU, UH, OR AFTERNOON NOW, I GUESS ACTUALLY THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR THE JANUARY MEETING OF THE CAP METRO BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
I'LL CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER.
TODAY IS MONDAY, JANUARY THE 24TH, AND OUR TIME IS 1210.
UM, BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR AGENDA, I WANT TO JUST TAKE A MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE AN OUTSTANDING MEMBER OF OUR STAFF.
WHO'S BEEN WITH THE AGENCY FOR A LONG TIME AND WHO WILL BE JOINING US FOR THE LAST TIME TODAY.
OUR CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER JAMES SCHROEDER IS LEAVING CAP METRO AFTER 19 YEARS OF SERVICE.
UH, JANE HAS WORN MANY HATS OVER THOSE YEARS OF SERVICE.
MOST RECENTLY AS OUR VP AND CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER SINCE APRIL OF 2019, JANE'S LEADERSHIP OF THE TECHNOLOGY TEAM HAS SUPPORTED THE ORGANIZATION THROUGH THE COVID PANDEMIC, TAKEN OUR WORKFORCE FROM BEING AN ONSITE, UH, AND INTO A COMPLETELY REMOTE WORKFORCE.
AND THEN LATER TO A HYBRID WORKFORCE, THE MET A GLOBAL PANDEMIC AND, UH, IN MIDST OF A WORLDWIDE SHORTAGE OF COMPUTER CHIPS AND HARDWARE, UH, THAT'S RELIANT ON THOSE CHIPS.
UH, SHE HAS CONTINUOUSLY PROMOTED CAT METRO'S VISION, UH, OUR MISSION AND SUPPORTED OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES AS SHE'S BEEN A PLEASURE TO WORK WITH.
UH, WE'RE GOING TO WISH HER THE BEST AND ON BEHALF OF ALL OF US, UH, ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, WE WANT TO SAY, THANK YOU JOB WELL DONE, AND, UH, UH, FAIR SEES AND FOLLOWING WINS.
SO, UH, WE, UH, APPRECIATE, UH, ALL YOU HAVE DONE FOR US.
AND IF YOU, UH, WANT TO HAVE ANY FINAL WORDS FOR US, UH, WE'D LOVE TO WELCOME YOU TO THE, UH, PODIUM.
YEAH, I'M JUST GOING TO SAY A COUPLE OF THINGS.
YOU KNOW, WHEN I STARTED HERE 19 YEARS AGO, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE TECHNOLOGY WAS ON THE BUS, THERE WAS A RADIO AND THAT WAS, UH, UH, AND FOR CUSTOMERS, THERE WAS A PRETTY CRUDE WEBSITE.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, IN THAT TIME WE HAVE GROWN TECHNOLOGY TREMENDOUSLY AND IT HAS BEEN ENJOYABLE AS AN IT PROFESSIONAL TO MOVE OUTSIDE OF THE TRADITIONAL SERVERS AND ROUTERS.
AND IT'S JUST SOME REALLY GREAT TECHNOLOGY.
THAT'S ADVANCED OUR MISSION AND PROVIDE GREAT SERVICES TO, TO CUSTOMERS.
UH, I HAD BEEN PROMOTED CONSISTENTLY ALONG THE WAY, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE, UH, FAITH THAT THE SENIOR EXECUTIVE TEAM HAS SHOWN IN ME, AS WELL AS THE BOARD AND ALL YOUR SUPPORT.
UH, I HOPE TO COME BACK ONE DAY AS A VOLUNTEER TO HELP USHER IN PROJECT CONNECT AND, UH, UH, JUST MAKE THIS A GREAT FOR US AND FOR THE COMMUNITY.
I APPRECIATE IT ABOUT JOINING ME IN A ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR JANE.
YOU'VE HELPED TURN US INTO A IT COMPANY WITH WHEELS, AND, UH, WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR MANY YEARS OF, UH, UH, OF GOOD SERVICE.
UH, NEXT WE'LL TURN TO OUR PUBLIC COMMENTS.
UH, FIRST STEPS, THE NOVIA JOSEPH'S MS. JOSEPH'S.
ARE YOU AVAILABLE, MS. JOSEPH, ARE YOU ON THE LINE WITH US? DIDN'T WE JUST DO THIS LAST TIME, MR. JOSEPH, CAN YOU TRY UNMUTING YOURSELF ONE MORE TIME? OH, YOU, SHOULD WE CALL HER BACK? YEAH, WELL, LET'S HOLD ON ONE SECOND.
WE, UH, WE DIDN'T HAVE, YEAH, WE DIDN'T HAVE JANE TO GUIDE US THROUGH THIS.
SO, UH, UH, RANDY, YOU WANT TO SHOW WHAT WE HAVE HERE AND YOU WANT TO SAY, YEAH, THANK YOU, CHAIR.
UM, AND J I, I TALKED TO YOU OFFLINE EARLIER, BUT, UH, REALLY ON BEHALF OF THE WHOLE, UH, STAFF AND THE SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM, WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA MISS YOU, BUT ALSO VERY ENVIOUS SOME OF US, AT LEAST THAT, UH, YOU'RE RETIRING, UH, AND, UH, AND REALLY GONNA ENJOY THAT.
SO WE HAVE A NICE LITTLE, UH, PRAYED HERE FOR YOU.
KIND OF THE TRADITION IS, YOU KNOW, WE STARTED ACTUALLY, YOUR PREDECESSOR WAS THE FIRST TO RECEIVE, BUT THE, UH, THE CAP METRO FLAG STOP, UH, WITH YOUR YEARS OF SERVICE.
SO, AND IT'S ALL ABOUT OWNERSHIP, COLLABORATION, AND MISSION, AND THOSE ARE THE VALUES YOU EXCLUDE EVERY DAY.
AND, UM, SO, UH, AT THE BOARD WOULD BE OKAY.
MAYBE WE'LL DO A QUICK PICTURE WITH JANE UPFRONT SO WE CAN SEND HER OFF WITH A KNOWLEDGEMENT, UM, BOARD MEMBERS.
I LOOKED, I THINK IT'S ONLY FITTING NINE, JOINING JANE VIRTUALLY ON THIS LAST MEETING.
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YOU GOT THAT REMOTE THING DOWN IT.[II. Public Comment]
BACK TO PUBLIC COMMENT, MS. JOSEPH, ARE YOU ON THE LINE WITH US? HEAR ME? WE CAN HEAR YOU YOU'LL HAVE FIVE MINUTES.THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY TOLD ME I COULDN'T UNMUTE MYSELF.
SO I DID TRY AS IT RELATES SPECIFICALLY TO COVID-19.
I JUST WANT TO REQUEST THAT YOU PUT IN 95 MASK ON THE BUSES AND LATERAL TO THE BUS.
ACTUALLY IT'S BEEN AWHILE SINCE ELECTION DAY, AND THERE WAS NO MATH ON BUSES THAT I WROTE, AND I EVEN GAVE AN INDIVIDUAL IN THE EXTRA MATH THAT I HAD.
OTHERWISE PEOPLE ARE BEING TURNED AWAY AS IT RELATES SPECIFICALLY TO CONSENT ITEM, NUMBER TWO, THAT'S THE CAPITAL MITCHELL, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, MULTIPLE USE AGREEMENT.
I WANTED TO ASK HOW THIS RELATES TO PROJECT CONNECT SPECIFICALLY TO NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT STATION.
IT'S A NORTH LAMAR STATION IS ON PAGE 55.
I JUST WANT TO CALL TO YOUR ATTENTION THAT DECEMBER 17TH, 2018 IS WHEN YOU ACTUALLY APPROVED THE LONG RANGE PROJECT CONNECT PLAN.
AND IT DID NOT INCLUDE NORTH MEMORIAL TRANSIT CENTER, BUT YOUR ADVERTISEMENT AND PROPAGANDA ALL SPECIFIED NORTH MEMORIAL TRANSIT CENTER.
AND SO I WOULD ASK YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT YOU HAD NO AGREEMENT IN PLACE WITH TXDOT AND THAT THEY INFORMATION YOU PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC LACKS TRANSPARENCY.
IF YOU NEED TO AMEND THAT LONG RANGE PLAN, HOW WOULD ASK YOU TO DO IT PROPERLY SO THAT THE PUBLIC CAN COMMENT AS IT RELATES SPECIFICALLY TO THE BOARD PACKET.
I JUST WANT TO CALL TO YOUR ATTENTION, MY DISAPPOINTMENT IN THE VIEWPOINT DISCRIMINATION.
THAT CONTINUES AS IT RELATES TO MY OWN PERSONAL COMMENTS.
I AM NOTED ON PAGE SEVEN OF THE DOCUMENTS WITH THREE OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTERS.
HOWEVER, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE C-SAT CUSTOMER SATISFACTION ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND THE ACCESS MEETING, IT IS VERY EXTENSIVE.
AND SO I WOULD ASK YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT VIEWPOINT DISCRIMINATION, YOU ARE CHOOSING TO PRIVILEGE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SPEAKING AT CSX AND ACCESS OVER THOSE OF US WHO SPEAK DURING THE REGULAR MEETINGS.
AND ALSO THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS, OPERATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE HAD EXTENSIVE CONVERSATION, BUT NONE OF THAT IS CAPTURED IN THE BOARD PACKET.
SO EITHER PUT US ALL IN THE PACKET OR LEAD IT OUT.
AND AS IT RELATES TO THE COMMENTS THAT ARE MADE BEFORE THE BOARD, I WOULD ASK YOU TO HAVE MR. EASTON GO BACK AND SUMMARIZE PUBLIC COMMENTS AND ALSO INCLUDE THE HYPERLINK TO THE BOARD PACKET SO THAT IF ANYONE WANTS TO SEE THE UNOFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT, THEY CAN EASILY CLICK ON THE LINK AND GET THAT INFORMATION.
AS IT RELATES SPECIFICALLY TO YOUR ACTION ITEMS, THE LEANDER INTO LOCAL AGREEMENT, LACKS TRANSPARENCY, THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN THE PACKAGE OTHER THAN THE HEADER.
AND SO TO THE BOARD, AS WELL AS CEO, RANDY CLARK, I COULDN'T BE MORE DISAPPOINTED.
I'VE LISTENED TO MANY PROBABLY ANDREW'S BOARD MEETINGS, AND THEY'D SPEAK ABOUT TRANSPARENCY.
AND EVEN BECKY ROSS, AS A CANDIDATE SPOKE ABOUT TRANSPARENCY, BUT THIS LACKS TRANSPARENCY AND JUNE 3RD, 2021 IS WHEN THEY HAD AN OPEN DISCUSSION ABOUT CAPITAL METRO.
AND IT WAS OUT OF THE COUNCIL MEMBER, UH ZERNIKE WHO ACTUALLY BROUGHT FORTH THE ITEM.
AND ONE OF THE REASONS WAS FOR A TRANSPARENT DISCUSSION.
I'LL JUST CALL TO YOUR ATTENTION.
IT'S A BIT DISTURBING AS IT RELATES TO MEMBER STRATTON.
THERE'S AN ARTICLE FROM 2019 WHERE IT CALLS HIM AS TALKING ABOUT THE BENEFITS THAT LEANDRA GETS FROM CAPITOL METRO, JULY 18TH, 2019.
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STRATTON SAID LEANDER HAS BENEFITED FROM BEING A FULL MEMBER OF CAPITAL METRO.HOWEVER, WHEN YOU LAST MET IN YOUR SPECIAL BOARD MEETING, HE TALKED ABOUT BEING EMPATHETIC TO MEANDER, NOT GETTING THE SERVICES THAT THEY DESERVE.
I WOULD JUST ASK YOU TO BE TRANSPARENT, MAKE UP YOUR MIND ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
THAT SAME ARTICLE TALKS ABOUT ME AND HIS CONTRIBUTION.
IT TALKS ABOUT LEANDER CONTRIBUTED AROUND $5.1 MILLION IN SALES TAX TO CAPITOL METRO IN FISCAL YEAR 20 17, 18, BUT ALL FARTY SAID IT COSTS NEARLY $9 MILLION IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THE SERVICE.
AND I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT IS CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS REALLY DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH IT COSTS.
AND ON JUNE 3RD, 2021, UH, MR. , UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ACTUALLY MENTIONED THAT YOU SAY THAT IT'S COSTING YOU MORE THAN THEY ARE CONTRIBUTING, BUT WHAT THEY ARE UNDER THE IMPRESSION IS THAT THEY'RE NOT GETTING A GOOD RETURN ON INVESTMENT.
I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT THAT 2 MILLION, $4 MILLION MORE, THAT YOU ARE PAYING ON THE SERVICE FOR LEANDER TAKES AWAY FROM SERVICE IN NORTHEAST AUSTIN, WHERE MINORITIES WAIT 30 MINUTES TO TRANSPLANT ON 45 MINUTE AND 60 MINUTES IN NORTHEAST SIDE.
AND ON THAT NOTE, I APPRECIATE YOU MAKING MY COMMENTS, BUT I WOULD JUST ASK YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT THEY DID WANT TO HAVE A WORK SESSION WITH, THANK YOU.
OUR NEXT, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT IS MR. ISAIAH SMITH.
DO WE HAVE MR. SMITH, MR. SMITH? ARE YOU WITH US? YEP.
FIRST OF ALL, I WANT, W WHAT, LIKE, DID THEY, UH, MEMBERS OF THE, UH, CAPITOL METRO CMTA BOARD, UH, FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK IN FRONT OF YOU GUYS TODAY? I THINK SHE SEES YOU GUYS IN AN EMAIL ON JANUARY 21ST OF THIS YEAR, AND I SENT IT TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS@CAPMETRO.ORG.
AND I BELIEVE THAT YOU GUYS ALL RECEIVED THAT, UM, THERE HAS BEEN A SEVERE LABOR SHORTAGE AS YOU GUYS ARE WELL AWARE AT CAPITAL METRO.
AND I HAVE, UM, BEEN EXPLAINING THIS TO A LOT OF INDIVIDUALS, BUT THIS IS DUE TO, UH, MANAGEMENT ISSUES REGARDING THE VERY AWFUL THIRD PARTY CONTRACTOR AND THE TRANSPORTATION AND A COUPLE OF MEETINGS AGO.
I BELIEVE I MADE A STATEMENT TELLING THE BOARD OF TRUST.
I'M TELLING YOU GUYS STACK UP THIRD PARTY CONTRACTOR IS NOT GOING TO HELP YOU ACCOMPLISH, UM, THE PROJECT CONNECT.
AND I STILL STAND BY MY DECISION.
UM, AND BY MY WORDS TODAY, I USED TO BE A BUS OPERATOR FOR OVER TWO YEARS AND SEVEN MONTHS.
I STARTED IN 2018 UNDER A CONTRACTOR CALLED RAF DEV.
WHEN I FIRST STARTED, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE DRIVING.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVED WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY, BUT AS SOON AS MB TRANSPORTATION TOOK OVER OPERATIONS OF SOUTH BOX, THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR EMPLOYEES HAS BEEN TOTAL HEALTH.
UM, WE'VE HAD HIGH RADICAL MEMBERS OF MANAGEMENT THAT I DON'T BELIEVE ARE THERE ANYMORE.
UM, WE ARE NOT, WE ARE CONSISTENTLY, I MEAN, CONSISTENTLY NOT PAID CORRECTLY.
AND THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I LEFT LAST YEAR.
IT'S BECAUSE, UM, YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE IN HARD WORK, YOU KNOW, I'M 26 YEARS OLD, I'M A COLLEGE STUDENT.
I SHOULD BE GRADUATING IN MAY.
AND I DO BELIEVE IN WORKING FOR WHAT I GET, BUT IF I WORK HOURS, I EXPECT TO BE PAID CORRECTLY FOR THOSE HOURS.
I UNDERSTAND THAT ACCIDENTS CAN HAPPEN SOMETIMES IN PAYROLL, BUT WHEN YOU HAVE EVERY SINGLE PAY PERIOD THAT PAYROLL IS CONSISTENTLY AND DELIBERATELY MESSING UP ON THE PAYCHECKS OF OUR HARD WORKING PEOPLE, I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
AND SINCE THESE FUNDS ARE BEING, UH, COMING FROM GOVERNMENT FUNDS, I KIND OF THINK THAT'S KIND OF CRIMINAL FRAUD, MY OPINION, BUT ANYWAY, UM, I WAS NOTIFIED RECENTLY THAT I'M NOT ELIGIBLE FOR REHIRE, UM, BY SOMEBODY IN MV TRANSPORTATIONS HR DEPARTMENT.
AND I FIND THAT REALLY HYPOCRITICAL BECAUSE I'VE PUT IN A TWO WEEK NOTICE ON TIME.
I DON'T HAVE A DISCIPLINARY FILE.
I'M BIGGIE SUBJECTED TO RETALIATION.
UM, THE BUS OPERATORS DO STAND UP FOR THEIR RIGHTS,
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UM, ARE OFTEN RETALIATED AGAINST, AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE SUCH A SEVERE LABOR SHORTAGE.SO I'M HOPING THAT YOU GUYS WOULD CHANGE THE CONTRACTOR FROM MV TRANSPORTATION TO SOMETHING ELSE, SO THAT EMPLOYEES FEEL VALUE.
AND SO THAT THIS SEVERE LABOR SHORTAGE CAN BE CORRECTED.
AND LASTLY PAYING PEOPLE AT 22 AN HOUR, THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD THING, BUT IF PEOPLE STILL ARE NOT GOING TO BE PAID CORRECTLY, EVERY SINGLE PAPER, YET, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU GIVE THEM A HUNDRED DOLLAR PAY RAISE BECAUSE THEY'RE STILL NOT BEING PAID CORRECTLY.
AND THOSE ARE HUGE ISSUES THAT I'M HOPING THAT CAP METRO WILL ADDRESS.
THANK YOU, MR. SMITH, DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS THAT CONCLUDES OUR PUBLIC COMMENTS? UH, NEXT WE'LL HAVE OUR BOARD ADVISORY COMMITTEE REPORTS BOTH SEE SAC AND XS, AND ALSO OUR FIRST REPORT FROM OUR PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY IS NOW EXITING
[III. Advisory Committee Updates]
OUR FIRST REPORT FROM OUR PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEE AS PAR WELCOME, READY TO KICK US OFF.I MET AN PARK COMMUNITY MANAGER, A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MANAGER FOR CAPITAL METRO AND A STAFF LIAISON FOR ACCESS C SAC AND NOW P SAC, UM, FOR PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
UM, I'M HERE TODAY TO GIVE YOU THE JANUARY UPDATE.
UM, I AM ALSO HERE WITH, UH, CHAIR TAYLOR FROM C SAC.
UM, AND PAUL HUNT FROM ACCESS CANNOT JOIN US, BUT HE DID DEBRIEF ME, UM, LAST WEEK ON HIS UPDATE.
UM, I WILL START WITH THE P SAC UPDATE.
WE HAD OUR FIRST MEETING ON JANUARY 13TH, UH, WHERE WE FOCUSED ON INTRODUCTIONS AND PROVIDED AN ORIENTATION, UM, TO CAP METRO AND OUR APPROACH TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
UH, THE COMMITTEE ALSO HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS ON LEADERSHIP QUALITIES AND TRAITS FOR THE POLICE CHIEF, UM, WHICH GARDNER WILL GET INTO, UM, IN HIS, UM, UPDATE.
UH, WE'RE REALLY PLEASED WITH THE GROUP AND, UM, WE APPRECIATE YOUR THOUGHTFUL NOMINATIONS.
WE RECEIVED A GROUP WITH A LOT OF VARYING PERSPECTIVES, SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
AND ALSO THANK YOU TO VICE CHAIR TREVELYAN AND, UH, PRESIDENT CLARK FOR HELP, UM, HELPING US JOIN.
I MEAN, HELPING US WELCOME THE NEW MEMBERS, UM, C-SAT CAN ACCESS UPDATES.
UH, THE COMMITTEES MET ON JANUARY 5TH AND 12TH RESPECTIVELY, AND WERE BRIEFED ON ANTI-DISPLACEMENT UPDATES BY, UM, THE CITY OF BOSTON PROJECT CONNECT, UM, AND OPERATION SOFTWARE.
UH, IN ADDITION, C SAC ALSO RECEIVED AN OVERVIEW OF THE RED LINE PARKWAY INITIATIVE AND ACCESS RECEIVED, UM, THEIR ANNUAL METRO ACCESS METRO UPDATE FOR 2021 FISCAL YEAR.
UH, BEFORE I PASS IT ON, UM, I DO HAVE AN UPDATE FROM THE LAST BOARD MEETING, UM, ABOUT THE WEB PAGE EDITS.
I'M WORKING WITH CHAIR TAYLOR TO REVIEW THE PAGES, AND, UM, WE ARE GOING OUT AT SEVERAL WEBPAGES TO INCREASE, TO INCREASE COMMITTEE VISIBILITY ON BOTH WEBSITES, UM, AND ALSO THE PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT FEEDBACK PAGE THAT WE TALKED ABOUT LAST MONTH.
UM, RIGHT NOW CAP METRO ADVISORY COMMITTEE PAGE IS UPDATED.
WE ADDED SOME VISUALS AND DESCRIPTIONS TO THE PAGE, UM, AND WE WILL BE CHANGING THE PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT PAGE TO MATCH THAT.
UH, WE'RE ALSO MEETING WITH OTHER AGENCIES TO GET BEST PRACTICES FOR THE FEEDBACK PAGE, AND WE'LL BE WORKING ON THAT THIS MONTH.
UM, SO, UH, WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE IT EASY TO NAVIGATE AND EASY TO FIND AN ACCESS.
SO THAT'S MORE TO COME ON THE FEEDBACK PAGE.
UM, ALSO FOR C SAC, WE HELD ELECTIONS AND, UM, WE MET, UM, THE, THE COMMITTEE, UH, REACHED A QUORUM, SO WE HELD ELECTIONS AND, UH, CHAIR TAYLOR IS REELECTED.
UM, SO WE'RE HAPPY ABOUT THAT AND I'M GOING TO BE CONTINUING TO WORK WITH HIM TO, UH, CONTINUE TO MEET A QUORUM EACH MONTH FOR THE COMMITTEES FOR CSX.
UM, I'LL PASS IT ON TO CHAIR TAYLOR NOW.
UM, GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR MEMBERS SUPPORT.
UM, AGAIN, THAT'S SUMMARIZED THINGS PRETTY WELL.
UH, WE DID HAVE AN OVERVIEW DURING PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS FROM TOP WALTZ WITH REDLAND PRIMARY INITIATIVE.
UM, ROSE LISKA WAS ALSO IN ATTENDANCE FROM CAP METRO.
UM, AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT SHE'LL BE WORKING THROUGH CAP METRO TO MANAGE THAT PROJECT.
I LOOK FORWARD AND HOPE THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO GET UPDATES FROM CAP METRO ON STUFF'S BEING TAKEN, ESPECIALLY
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WITH REGARD TO, UM, THE RECENT GROUNDBREAKING, UM, AT MORE, AS WELL AS ONGOING, UM, DISCUSSIONS AROUND MCCALLA AND THE PLANNING FOR HOW THE PARKWAY AND THAT CYCLE INTERACT.UM, AS MS PRYOR MENTIONED, WE HAD AN UPDATE FROM DEPUTY JACKSON, UM, REGARDING THE ANTI DISPLACEMENT INITIATIVES, UM, AND OPERATIONAL SOFTWARE UPDATE FROM JONATHAN TANZER, AS WELL AS PROJECT CONNECT UPDATE, UM, FROM PARK.
UM, WE WERE ABLE TO HOLD ELECTIONS, UM, THIS MONTH.
UM, AND AS I MENTIONED, WE ARE WORKING TO REACH OUT TO REMAINING MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN ABSENT, UM, TO GAUGE INTEREST TRUST, AND TO FOLLOW UP WITH THEM.
AND THEN WE WILL WORK BACK WITH YOU ALL TO MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS WHO ARE NO LONGER ABLE OR WILLING TO ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE, UM, CAN BE REPLACED THAT WE CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN, UM, ATTENDANCE AND ARE ABLE TO BE PRODUCTIVE COMMITTEE.
[IV. Board Committee Updates]
OUR REGULAR COMMITTEE UPDATES, A CHAIR KITCHEN.WOULD YOU LIKE TO START US WITH OPERATIONS? YES.
I DON'T HAVE A LOT TO REPORT AND SO RELY ON MY COLLEAGUES.
IF THEY WANT TO ADD ANYTHING, WE HAD SOME GOOD DISCUSSION AND PASSED ALONG SOME ACTION ITEMS, UM, ON CONSENT, UM, RELATED TO, UM, BUS STOP.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF BUS STOPS THE, UM, THE CONTRACT WITH I'M GOING TO GET IT WRONG TO PZ SOFTWARE ON SOFTWARE LICENSING, UH, JANITORIAL AND PRESSURE WASHING SERVICES AND THE BUBBLE.
AND YOU'LL SEE THOSE ON OUR AGENDA TODAY.
WE GOT GOOD FEEDBACK ON THE CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SURVEY AS A DISCUSSION ITEM AND THE CUSTOMER WIFI UPDATE ALSO AS A DISCUSSION ITEM IN AN OPERATIONS UPDATE.
SO, UM, WE HAD SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SURVEY AND THE POTENTIAL TO DO SOME DRILL DOWN, UH, ON CROSS TABS TO JUST UNDERSTAND MORE SPECIFICALLY, UH, WHAT MIGHT BE, UM, HAPPENING WITH DIFFERENT POPULATIONS.
SO WE HAD SOME GOOD, UH, UH, DIFFERENT SUBSETS OF OUR CUSTOMER BASE.
SO WE HAD SOME GOOD CONVERSATION, UH, ABOUT THAT.
DOES ANY, UH, ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES ON THE COMMITTEE WANT TO ADD ANYTHING? NOPE.
UH, FINANCE AUDIT AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE DID NOT MEET THIS MONTH AND WE DON'T HAVE A CAMPO UPDATE.
SO NEXT, UH, BOARD MEMBERS STRATTON, WHERE YOU GIVE US AN ATP BOARD UPDATE.
UH, THE, UH, AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP MET ON, UH, LAST WEDNESDAY, JANUARY THE 19TH.
UM, WE, UH, HAD OUR USUAL MONTHLY PROGRAM UPDATES DISCUSSING, UH, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, BIGGEST CHANGE THERE.
WE'RE NOW DOING A THREE MONTH OUT WINDOW SO THAT THE PUBLIC AND STAKEHOLDERS HAVE A BETTER IDEA OF WHAT'S COMING OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT THREE MONTHS, AS OPPOSED TO THE MONTHLY, UH, A MONTHLY UPDATE, AS WELL AS DOING OUR USUAL RECAPS OF THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN HAPPENING.
LOTS OF GOOD FEEDBACK, LOTS OF GOOD CONTINUING COMMUNITY EVOLVEMENT ABOUT DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING ALONG THE LINES OF WHAT'S GOING ON.
UM, ADDITIONALLY, UH, TECH USUAL TECHNICAL PROGRAM UPDATES AND MARKETINGS ARE THERE AS WELL AS, UH, ADMINISTRATIVE WHEREVER WE ARE IN THE HIRING PROCESS.
BIGGEST THING THEY'RE FOCUSED ON, UH, THE BOARD'S CONTINUING EFFORTS TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE HIRING OF AN INTERNAL AUDITOR.
UH, WE DID, UH, EVENTUALLY CONVENIENT TO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO LOOK INTO, UM, TO LOOK INTO SOME OF THAT, UH, AS WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH THE ONGOING HIRING PROCESS THERE, UH, FOR ACTION ITEMS, WE DID, UH, PER THE JOINT POWERS AGREEMENT, UH, ADOPT THE, UH, TH THE, UM, COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE BYLAWS, AS WELL AS THE, UH, THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHARTER AMONG TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES, CHARTER AMENDMENTS.
AND, UM, AND THEN FINALLY WE DID, AND, AND I THINK THIS WAS A PARTICULARLY ONE OF THE BIGGER ITEMS, UH, AND REALLY IMPORTANT AS WE CONTINUE TO MOVE PROJECT CONNECT FORWARD.
UH, WE APPROVED A RESOLUTION THAT, UH, AWARDED A CONTRACT FOR COMMERCIAL RISK AND PROJECT DELIVERY SERVICES TO ERNST AND YOUNG, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE ADVISORS, LLC.
THIS IS A FOUR-YEAR TERM CONTRACT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED,
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UH, $17 MILLION.THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE HAVE ALL BEEN TALKING ABOUT ALL THREE PARTIES, UM, THAT THE, THE, TO BOTH THE CITY OF AUSTIN, US HERE AT CAP METRO AND ATP ABOUT PROGRAMMING PROJECT RISKS, THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE VARIOUS, UH, PROJECTS THAT ARE COMPONENTS AS WE MOVE ALONG, DOWN THE LINE, TRYING TO IMPLEMENT PROJECT CONNECT, AND THIS, THIS CONTRACT IS GOING TO HELP US BETTER DETERMINE HOW TO ASSESS THE VARIOUS RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH, AS WE MOVE ALONG, UH, DETERMINING HOW WE'RE GOING TO BUILD THE VARIOUS SEGMENTS OF PROJECTS ASSOCIATED WITH PROJECT CONNECT.
SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT AND MOVING IT FORWARD AND LOOKING FOR BIG THINGS COMING OUT OF THAT, TO HELP US KIND OF SET AND LAY OUT THE FRAMEWORK FOR HOW WE'RE GOING TO PROCEED MOVING FORWARD WITH VARIOUS TYPES OF CONTRACTS AND, AND RISK TOLERANCE, UH, THAT ATP AND, AND FOR THAT MATTER, ARE THE PARTNERS ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING FOR MOVING FORWARD.
UH, WE ALSO THEN IN ADDITION, UH, WENT INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO KIND OF LOOK OVER SOME OF THE FUTURE, UH, UH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR, UH, PERFORMANCE METRICS FOR FYI TWO.
AND THEN, UH, THE OTHER PERHAPS LARGEST THING THAT CAME OUT OF THE MEETING.
UNFORTUNATELY, I WASN'T ABLE TO BE THERE FOR THIS, UH, WAS A VERY ROBUST CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT I I'VE BEEN KIND OF HEARING AFFECTIONATELY REFER TO AS THE FUNNEL.
THIS IS WHERE THE, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS REALLY GOT INTO THE KIND OF LOOKING AT SOME OF THE BIG, THE BIG ITEMS, BIG TICKET ITEMS, UH, WITH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CLARK AND, UH, AND, AND, AND THE TEAM KIND OF TRYING TO GET AN IDEA AND WRAPPING OUR HEADS AROUND WHAT WE WANT TO REALLY TALK ABOUT THAT ARE SOME OF THE BIG TICKET ITEMS. AND, AND, AND SORT OF, AGAIN, SOME OF THESE, THESE RISK POINTS AND ALL THESE BIG PROJECTS WITHIN PROJECT CONNECT AND THE BEST WAY TO APPROACH THEM.
UH, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WERE TALKED ABOUT WAS, YOU KNOW, LEADING TO THE POSSIBILITY OF GETTING THE TRI PARTIES TOGETHER, CATMAN FOR AWARD CITY OF AUSTIN AND ATP BOARD TOGETHER TO REALLY DISCUSS THIS AND FURTHER FLESH THESE OUT TO REALLY IDENTIFY, UM, THE, THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF EACH PARDON, UH, FURTHER AS WE MOVE DOWN THE CONTINUUM, MOVING THE PROJECT DOWN, DOWN THE LINE.
SO, UM, THAT'S REALLY WHAT I'VE GOT.
NOW, IF ANYBODY WANTS FURTHER INFORMATION, YOU CAN GO TO THE ATP, TX.ORG WEBSITE, WHERE EVERYTHING IS PUBLICLY POSTED THERE, INCLUDING THE COMPLETE VIDEO OF THE MEETING.
THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN, THANK YOU, MEMBER STRATTON, UH, FOR THAT REPORT AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
I KNOW THAT IS A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT TIME CONTRIBUTION.
WE APPRECIATE YOU'RE REPRESENTING US ON THAT BOARD, UH, BOARD MEMBERS
[V. Consent Items]
NEXT WE'LL HAVE OUR CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS. WE'VE GOT FIVE ITEMS TOTAL.AND IF ANY BOARD MEMBER WISHES TO HAVE ONE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA AND PLACED ON THE ACTION AGENDA, UH, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
CONSENT ITEM NUMBER ONE APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM THE DECEMBER 17TH, 2021 BOARD MEETING ITEM NUMBER TWO APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZED IN THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OR HIS DESIGNEE TO FINALIZE AN EXECUTED MULTIPLE USE AGREEMENT BETWEEN CAP, METRO AND TXDOT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF CURRENT AND FUTURE BUS STOPS AND METRO RAPID STATIONS IN TEXTILE RIGHT AWAY.
ITEM THREE IS APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT AND CEO TO FINALIZE AN EXECUTED CONTRACT WITH TRAPEZE SOFTWARE GROUP FOR SOFTWARE LICENSING, MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT FOR ONE BASE YEAR WITH FOUR OPTION YEARS IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 3 MILLION, $254,599.
ITEM FOUR IS APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OR HIS DESIGNEE TO FINALIZE AN EXECUTED CONTRACT WITH BMC ARE JANITORIAL AND PRESSURE WASHINGTON SERVICE, LLC FOR THE FUELING AND INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR CLEANING OF TRANSIT REVENUE VEHICLES AND AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $3,557,818 FOR A THREE-YEAR CONTRACT.
AND THEN ITEM FIVE APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT AND CEO, OR HIS DESIGNATE, A FINALIZED AND EXECUTED CONTRACT WITH BUBBLES AND SUDS FOR THE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR CLEANING OF TRANSIT REVENUE VEHICLES IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $3,046,880 FOR THREE-YEAR PERIOD AT DOES ANY BOARD MEMBER, UH, WISHED TO HAVE ONE OF THOSE FIVE ITEMS REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA MEMBER POOL, NO NEED TO PULL FROM CONSENT, BUT I DO HAVE A REQUEST AND DIRECTION TO PROVIDE ON ITEMS FOUR AND FIVE.
UM, SO MAYBE WE'LL START WITH THE MOTION AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A DISCUSSION.
SO I MOVE APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA.
THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND DISCUSSION.
REMEMBER POOL, THANKS, UH, CHAIR COOPER, UM, ITEMS FOUR AND FIVE.
I'D LIKE TO REQUEST THAT CAP METRO PROVIDE
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AN OVERVIEW OF THE VARIOUS CONTRACT SERVICES THAT WERE DESCOPED FROM THEIR CONTRACT WITH MV TRANSPORTATION, INC, AND ALSO TO PURCHASE PLAN FOR TAKING ON THOSE SERVICES IN-HOUSE OR ACQUIRING NEW CONTRACTS TO COVER THOSE SERVICES.AND THAT'S ON ITEMS FOUR AND FIVE, THAT'S THE BUBBLES AND SUDS AND THE BMR JANITORIAL AND PRESSURE WASHING.
JUST FOR CLARIFICATION BOARD MEMBER.
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A FOLLOW-UP MEMO FROM, FROM US? THAT WOULD BE, THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL.
SO IF WE'RE GETTING A DESCRIPTIVE, UM, A DESCRIPTIVE MEMO, THEN WE CAN ACCEPT THOSE AS FRIENDLY AS, AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO, OKAY.
DID YOU HAVE YOUR, OH, NO, I WAS JUST GOING TO ADD, I THINK THAT, THAT, I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.
WE HAD SOME VERBAL CONVERSATION AT OUR OPS COMMITTEE AROUND THAT, SO IT WILL BE HELPFUL TO GET IT IN A MEMO FORM.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? WE HAVE A MOTION A SECOND.
UM, IF THERE'S NO OTHER DISCUSSION THAT I'LL, UH, CALL ROLL IN AS MUCH AS, UH, UH, WE HAVE ONE BOARD MEMBER, UH, APPEARING BY VIDEO.
SO AT BOARD MEMBER ROSS, HOW DO YOU VOTE BOARD MEMBER POOL? YES.
BOARD MEMBER, MITCHELL BOARD MEMBERS STRATTON, AYE.
I REMEMBER KITCHEN AND COOPERS AND I, THE MOTION CARRIES EIGHT TO ZERO.
NOW WE'LL MOVE ON TO OUR ACTION ITEM AGENDA.
WE'RE POSTED FOR ACTION ON THREE ITEMS TODAY.
OUR FIRST ACTION ITEM IS THAT,
[VI.1. Approval of an Interlocal Agreement with the City of Leander regarding funding for transit related capital improvement projects.]
UH, TO CONSIDER AN AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF LEANDER THIS MAZDA, ARE YOU READY TO TAKE US THROUGH THAT? WELCOME.CHAIR COOPER MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, PRESIDENT AND CEO, MR. CLARK, ERICA, MAZZA VICE PRESIDENT OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS.
LET ME JUST GET MYSELF SITUATED, BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
UH, WE HAVE ONE SLIDE THAT I'LL WALK THROUGH TODAY, BUT YOU HAVE A PACKET OF INFORMATION IN FRONT OF YOU.
THAT IS THE DRAFT ILA BETWEEN CAPITAL METRO AND THE CITY OF LEANDER AND ACCOMPANYING RESOLUTION.
AND IN BETWEEN THERE, THERE'S ALSO A TABLE THAT FORECASTS OUT THE POTENTIAL DELTA BETWEEN THESE, UH, SALES TAX AS DEFINED BY THE DEFINED BY THE CITY OF ATLANTA AND THEIR CONSULTANT GOODMAN CORPORATION, AND OUR ANTICIPATED COST OF SERVICE BASED ON RETURNING TO PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS OF SERVICE IN 2023 AND 2024.
AND THEN ALSO INCLUDING A 3% COST OF A SERVICE INCREASE INFLATION IN THOSE YEARS AS WELL.
SO I'LL WALK THROUGH THE ILA AND THEN, UH, WELCOME AND OPEN FOR QUESTIONS.
SO ON, UH, JANUARY 12TH, 2022, WE HELD A SPECIAL MEETING WHERE THE CAPITAL METRO BOARD APPROVED RESOLUTION 20 2020 2, 3 18 DIRECTING STAFF TO PURSUE ENTERING INTO AN ILA UTILIZING THE BUILD CENTRAL TEXAS PROGRAM OR A SIMILAR PROGRAM ALSO TO DEVELOP A $10 MILLION TRANSIT SUPPORTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE FUND FOR SUBURBAN MEMBER CITIES IN AND DEVELOP A FORECAST AND ESTIMATE COST OF SERVICE SALES TAX PROJECTION SPREADSHEET, AND EXPLORE THE DISPOSITION OF REAL PROPERTY IN LEANDER.
AND WE ARE BEFORE YOU TODAY WITH THAT DRAFT ILA AND SUPPORTING RESOLUTION OUTLINING THE ITEMS ABOVE SPECIFICALLY TO THE ILA.
WE ARE LOOKING AT, UH, THE BUILT CENTRAL TEXAS PROGRAM FORMAT AND WITH THE INFORMATION THAT IS BEFORE YOU TODAY, WE HAVE OUTLINED WHAT LEA CITY OF LEANDER COULD RECEIVE IN TERMS OF THE DELTA BETWEEN THE COST OF SERVICE AND THE SALES TAX PRODUCED IN FYI 2021, WHICH IS LOOKING AT A 1.1 MILLION NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED TWENTY ONE THOUSAND AND FIFTY SEVEN DOLLAR, UH, RETURN FOR THEM TO PRODUCE TRANSIT, SUPPORTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS.
OUR COST OF SERVICE HAS BEEN DEFINED, AND I BELIEVE THAT THIS HAS BEEN A QUESTION.
SO I WANT TO PAUSE FOR A QUICK SECOND.
OUR COST OF SERVICE HAS BEEN DEFINED AS THE OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE COSTS THAT ARE PROPORTIONAL TO WHAT LEANDER RECEIVED.
SO IT'S THE PROPORTIONAL HOURS OF SERVICE BASED ON THE ENTIRE HOURS OF SERVICE THAT OUR RED LINE SYSTEM OPERATES PLUS A PROPORTIONAL PROPORTIONALITY OF THE CAPITAL COSTS OF, UH, THE CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEPRECIATED AT A 50% REDUCTION.
UM, I CAN WALK THROUGH THAT AGAIN, BUT
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I KNOW THAT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL BE CONTINUING TO REFINE OVER THE COURSE OF SEVERAL MONTHS, BUT I WANTED TO GIVE A BRIEF UPDATE ON HOW WE ARE COSTING OUT OUR COST OF SERVICE.AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE THE DELTA FROM THE SALES TAX THAT CAME THROUGH.
IN ADDITION, WE ARE PROVIDING TECHNICAL AND PROGRAM ASSISTANCE FOR FEDERAL GRANTS THAT SUPPORT TRANSIT SUPPORTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE, ME, BOTH LEANDER AND CAPITAL METRO GOALS.
AND THAT IS ALSO DEFINED IN THE ILA AS PART OF THE DRAFT RESOLUTION CAPITAL METRO BOARD.
UH, WE'LL BE ESTABLISHING A NEW 10 MILLION CAPITAL FUND FOR FOR SMALL MEMBER CITIES, WHICH INCLUDES LEANDER.
AND THOSE MEMBERS CITIES MAY APPLY FOR ADDITIONAL TRANSIT SUPPORTIVE PROJECTS.
WE ARE RECOMMENDING THAT THE FUNDING SHALL BE PROPORTIONAL BASED ON SALES TAX ALLOCATIONS, RELATIVE TO ALL MEMBER CITY SALES TAX CONTRIBUTIONS.
THIS IS ESTIMATED FOR THE CITY OF LEANDER SPECIFICALLY TO BE AROUND SEVEN, $7.4 MILLION.
AND STAFF WILL SEEK INPUT FROM THE CITY OF LEANDER AND THE SMALL MEMBER CITIES AND DEVELOPING ADDITIONAL PROGRAM PARAMETERS.
AS WE CONTINUE TO ENHANCE OUR PARTNERSHIPS AND COORDINATION EFFORTS, CAPITAL METRO STAFF WILL WORK WITH THE CITY OF LEANDER TO SEEK PARTICIPATION ON THE FEDERALLY REQUIRED SERVICE PLANNING PROCESS.
PRIOR TO BRINGING SERVICE CHANGES TO THE BOARD FOR CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL.
THIS WAS A REQUEST FROM THE CITY OF LEANDER TO CONTINUE COORDINATING WITH THEM ON SERVICE ENHANCES AND SERVICE, UH, SERVICE DELIVERY METHODS GOING FORWARD.
AND LASTLY TO THE PROPERTY AS CAPITAL METRO FINALIZES ITS FACILITY MASTER PLAN, IF REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS ARE IDENTIFIED IN LEANDER AS AVAILABLE FOR NON-CAPITAL METRO FACILITY PURPOSES, WE WILL COORDINATE WITH THE CITY FOR BEST USE OF THE REAL ESTATE TO MEET BOTH ENTITIES GOALS.
AND AS OF TODAY, WE HAVE INITIATED ON THE APPRAISAL PROCESS, WHICH IS THE FIRST STEP IN OVERALL DISPOSITION.
AND THIS APPRAISAL PROCESS SHOULD BE COMPLETED IN MAY, 2022.
SO THAT IS AN UPDATE FROM TWO WEEKS AGO FROM THE BOARD.
AND I AM HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
YOU MIGHT HAVE QUESTIONS FOR ERIC, MR. CHAIRMAN, MR. CHAIRMAN.
CAN YOU ALL SEE ME? I CAN'T, I, I HAD TO SPLIT MY SCREEN TO LOOK, PULL UP THE DOCUMENTS.
CAN YOU ALL SEE ME TOO? OR DO I NEED TO SHUT SOMETHING DOWN ON MY END? I CAN'T SEE YOU, BUT WE REMEMBER WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE.
DO YOU WANT TO VOTE AS TO WHETHER THAT'S AN IMPROVEMENT? PROBABLY NOT.
FIRST OF ALL, ERICA, THANK YOU.
I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN, YOU'VE BEEN PUTTING IN A LOT OF WORK ON THIS AND I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
UM, THE ONE, ONE CONCERN I'VE GOT IS THAT THAT WAS AN AWFUL LOT OF WORDS.
UM, I'M KIND OF A VISUAL LEARNER HERE AND I, I THINK I GOT A LITTLE BIT THAT LOST IN TRANSLATION THERE WHEN WE WERE STARTING TO TALK ABOUT THE CALCULATIONS FOR THE COST OF SERVICE.
UM, THAT'S A REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT CONCEPT.
AND I REALIZED THAT IT MAY BE A LITTLE BIT INTO THE WEEDS, BUT FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CONVERSATION IN PARTICULAR, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
I THINK FOR THOSE OF US IN THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO UNDERSTAND THAT, AND I THINK IT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL IF WE ACTUALLY HAD A VISUAL OF THAT, TO UNDERSTAND THAT AND SEE IT A LITTLE BETTER AS TO HOW THAT CALCULATION GETS ALLOCATED.
YOU YOURSELF HAD A LITTLE BIT OF TROUBLE TRYING TO PUT THE WORDS TOGETHER TO HELP US ON T T TO HELP US UNDERSTAND IT.
UM, THE ONE THING THAT I WILL SAY THAT I AM THAT, THAT AS I WAS READING THROUGH THE DOCUMENTS IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING THIS MORNING THAN I AM, UH, INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT IS IF, IF, AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW, MAYBE SOMEBODY ELSE CAN ADVISE ON THIS, UM, WHERE DID THAT 50% DEPRECIATION COMMON, UM, FOR THE COST OF SERVICE, BECAUSE I NOTED THERE THAT IN THE AGREEMENT WE ARE STATING THAT LEANDER AND CAP METRO ARE GOING TO FOR THE COST OF SERVICE.
WE, ANDREW IS BEING ALLOCATED 50% OF THE DEPRECIATION COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CAPITAL, UH, BUDGET TO, OR THE, THE, THE, THE ASSETS ASSOCIATED WITH RUNNING THE RED LINE TO LEANDER.
WHERE DID WE COME UP WITH THAT NUMBER? SO I'LL, I'LL TAKE A COUPLE STEPS BACK BECAUSE I APOLOGIZE FOR KIND OF STEPPING OVER MY OWN WORDS IN TERMS OF, UH, THE COST OF SERVICE.
SO, UH, TO RESTATE THE COST OF SERVICE IS THE OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE THAT GOES INTO RUNNING THE RED LINE.
IT ALSO IS THE CAPITAL DEPRECIATION BECAUSE WE'RE DEPRECIATING THE ASSETS OVER A COURSE OF TIME, WHAT WE'RE.
AND THEN FROM THE LEANDER PERSPECTIVE, WE ARE LOOKING AT THAT AS A PROPORTIONALITY LEANDER HISTORICALLY HAS ASSUMED.
AND THIS IS WHERE I FORGOT MY NOTES.
LEANDER HAS ASSUMED ABOUT A 15 TO 17%, UH,
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PROPORTIONALITY FOR THE ENTIRE RED LINE ITSELF.SO IF THE RED LINE, YOU KNOW, IS A HUNDRED HOURS, YOU KNOW, LEANDER HAS ABOUT 15 TO 17 OF THOSE HUNDRED HOURS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.
SO THAT IS THE PROPORTIONALITY THAT COMES IN.
AND THEN ALSO WE THEN TOOK A 50% REDUCTION IN TERMS OF THE DEPRECIATION.
AND IT IS IMPORTANT DUE TO THE, THE GRANTS THAT WE RECEIVE IT IS IN PART TO DO, UM, JUST TO THE OVERALL SYSTEM NETWORK.
AND THAT, I HOPE THAT HELPS ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
AND MAYBE THERE'S A FEW OTHERS THAT CAN WEIGH IN A LITTLE BIT MORE AS WELL.
SO, SO JUST TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND AS PART OF THE, SO THAT YOU SAID 15, 15 TO 17% OF THE OVERALL RED LINE, THAT WAS, THAT WAS FOR THE ONM.
WE TOOK A PROPORTIONALITY FOR EVERYTHING.
BUT THEN IT'S THAT 50% DEPRECIATION THAT THE 15 TO 17% THAT I GET, THEN I CAN GET, BECAUSE LEANDER IS, BUT ONE PIECE OF THE LARGER RED LINES SYSTEM THAT, THAT I UNDERSTAND WHERE I AM HAVING A VERY HARD TIME WRAPPING MY HEAD AROUND IS THAT WE ARE JUST LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT JUST LIKE YOU SAID, HERE, IT IS ONE PORTION OF THE LARGER SYSTEM.
AND I GET THAT THERE IS A, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LARGER SEGMENT OF, OF A RAILROAD TRACK GOES BETWEEN THE LAKELINE STATION AND THE LANDER STATION, BUT HOW WE ARE DETERMINING OR WHY WE ARE DETERMINING THAT LEANDER SHOULD BEAR 50% OF THE DEBRIEF OF THE DEPRECIATION COSTS IN THAT CALCULATION.
DO YOU MIND IF I, IF I JUMP IN AND GIVE SOME CLARITY, I WILL TRY TO DO DIFFERENT WORDS THAT MAY MAYBE TRY TO DO THAT.
SO THE COSTS ARE MADE UP OF TWO FACTORS, FACTOR ONE IS ONM.
AND THAT HAS DONE PROPORTIONALLY ACROSS THE ALIGNMENT.
AND I THINK ERIC HAS MENTIONING APPROXIMATELY 17% OF DAILY, IF YOU WILL, O AND M SERVICE IS ASSIGNED TO LEANDER CAUSE IT'S BASED ON SERVICE AND THAT'S THE WAY WE'VE DONE THAT FOREVER.
NOW YOU HAVE CAPITAL COSTS ON THE CAPITAL.
LET ME JUST ASK YOU, HOW DID THE PROPORTION OF THE 15 TO 17 PER IS THAT ON A BY SERVICE SERVICE HOURS? YEAH, BUT THE QUESTION IS BASED ON WHAT, WHAT'S THE PROPORTION OF PEOPLE, RIDERSHIP MILES, SERVICE HOURS, SERVICE HOURS, BETWEEN WHERE BETWEEN LAKELINE AND LEANDER, I'M SORRY, THE 15%, HOW DID WE DECIDE WHAT THE RIGHT PROPORTION OF THE SERVICE HOUR COST IS? SO IT'S JUST STRAIGHT SERVICE HOURS.
IT'S THE ACTUAL HOURS NEEDED TO EFFECTUATE SERVICE TO LEANDER.
SO THAT'S WHY THERE'S NO, I THINK WE'RE CONFUSING PROPORTIONALITY AND WHATNOT.
SO, SO AGAIN, SERVICE HOURS TO RUN THE LINE ARE DIVIDED BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES ON THAT LINE.
AND SO IF THERE'S A HUNDRED HOURS OF SERVICE IN A DAY FROM THE PRIOR STATION TO YEAH, EXACTLY.
ACROSS THE WHOLE ALIGNMENT, 17 IT'S APPROXIMATELY 70% IS ASSIGNED TO LEAD AT THE TIME FROM THE LAST STATION TO LEANDER.
SO THAT'S PART A, OF THE FORMULA PART B OF THE FORMULA IS CAPITAL DEPRECIATION.
ERIC IS NOT SUGGESTING THAT 50% HAS EVER BEEN ASSIGNED TO LEANDER.
THE SAME 17 APPROXIMATELY PERCENT HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO LEANDER AS CAPITAL DEPRECIATION BECAUSE IT'S BEEN SIGNED PROBABLY THE BEST WORD ASSIGN BASED ON SERVICE HOURS, WHAT STAFF HAS DONE.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE BRINGING FORWARD TO THE BOARD FOR.
ULTIMATELY, YOUR DECISION-MAKING WAS THE DISCUSSION IN THIS DIOCESE LAST WEEK WAS VERY CLEAR TO ALL THE STAFF THAT YOU ALL SAID, SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES SHOULD NOT BE DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACTED WITH THE CAPITAL COST ASSOCIATED WITH THE ALIGNMENT.
SO STAFF SAID, LET'S TAKE THE 17% OF CAPITAL APPRECIATION THAT'S DECIDEDLY GANDER, AND PUT A 50% DISCOUNT ON THAT PART.
SO EFFECTIVELY IT'S MORE LIKE AN EIGHT AND A HALF PERCENT.
AND AGAIN, I'M, WE'RE ROUNDING FIGURES A LITTLE BIT HERE TO LEANDER BECAUSE OF THE BOARD'S CONVERSATION AND KIND OF IMPLICIT DIRECTION LAST WEEK THAT SAID FIND A WAY TO BETTER ALIGN THE CAPITAL DEPRECIATE.
THE CAPITAL COST SPECIFICALLY, I KNOW BOARD METRIC KITCHEN MENTIONED CAPITAL SPECIFICALLY, BUT REMEMBER SAID, I THINK YOU MENTIONED CAPITAL AS WELL.
IF THE BOARD DECIDES FIFTIES, YOU KNOW, SHOULD BE 60, SHOULD BE 20.
THAT THAT'S ALL YOUR DECISION.
WE, WE, WE WANT TO DO SOMETHING THAT WE THOUGHT WAS FAIR, EQUITABLE DRIVEN BY AN EASY, TRANSPARENT METRIC THAT FED TO THE DISCUSSION THAT THE BOARD GAVE US LAST WEEK.
SO HOPEFULLY THAT GIVES BETTER CLARITY.
IT'S NOT 50% OF CAPITAL ASSIGNMENT.
IT'S 50% DISCOUNT ON THE ASSIGNMENT THAT HAS ALREADY TOOLEY AMBER, HOPEFULLY THAT GAVE CLARITY TO EVERYONE.
AND I APOLOGIZE IF THAT WASN'T CLEAR,
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OH, I, THAT I, THAT ANSWERS MY QUESTION.SO BASICALLY, UM, IT'S, IT'S JUST A BALLPARK.
IT'S A, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST PICKING A NUMBER TO CUT IN HALF DISCOUNT IN HALF, BASICALLY WHAT THEY WOULD NORMALLY BE ATTRIBUTED TO.
AND AGAIN, WE DID THAT, UH, MAKES SENSE.
I WOULD WANT TO HEAR FROM, UM, BOARD MEMBER ROSS, HOW SHE FEELS ABOUT THAT, BUT I THINK I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU, UM, ATTACHING A, A DISCOUNT THERE.
WELL, I THINK THAT WE SHOULD EXPECT CHALLENGES WITH CALCULUS AND NONLINEAR EQUATIONS.
SO REMEMBER, STRATTON, DID YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS THAT WE CUT OFF OR I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY, THANK YOU.
AND I THINK THAT THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE AS I READ IT, I'M LOOKING AT IT GOING, WELL, WAIT A MINUTE, WHY ARE WE ASSIGNING 50% OF THE DEPRECIATION TO, TO THE CITY? THAT, THAT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR, MAKE SURE IT'S VERY CLEAR TO THE LEANDER CITY COUNCIL, AS WELL AS IN ANY OF THE, THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY.
THAT, THAT, THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE.
THAT IT'S WHAT THAT, THAT, THAT WHAT'S IN WRITING AND WHAT RANDY SAYS.
I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE EXPRESSING IT CLEAR ENOUGH THAT IT, THAT, THAT WHAT RANDY SAID IS REALLY WHAT'S IN WRITING THAT WE'RE TAKING THAT, THAT SERVICE ALLOCATION, WHICH IS, HAS HISTORICALLY BEEN, AND, AND I GUESS MY FOLLOW-UP QUESTION TO THAT IS THAT 15 TO 17% THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, IS THAT, UH, RANDY IS THAT 15 TO 17% IS, IS THAT NORMALLY, AND TRADITIONALLY THE WAY THAT A, UM, THAT A TRANSIT SYSTEM WOULD ALLOCATE ITS SERVICE, UM, WOULD LOOK AT ALLOCATING ITS SERVICE COSTS, UH, BECAUSE FUNDAMENTALLY WE'RE STILL KIND OF NEW AT THIS WHOLE TRAIN THING COMPARED TO, YOU KNOW, SAY WHERE YOU CAME FROM INITIALLY WHEN YOU WERE IN BOSTON, IS THAT NORMALLY HOW A, A TRANSIT AGENCY WOULD LOOK AT ALLOCATING COSTS? I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING IT AN APPROPRIATE WAY.
AND THEN, THEN BASED ON THAT, IF THAT THIS IS CORRECT, THAT THEN IT'S CLEAR THAT, OKAY, WE'RE DOING THIS ACCURATELY BASED ON HOW MOST TRANSIT SYSTEMS IN THE COUNTRY WOULD ALLOCATE THE COST.
THAT'S AN APPROPRIATE WAY TO SAY BETWEEN LAKELINE AND LEANDRA.
AND NOW THAT WE'RE GIVING YOU A DISCOUNT ON THAT IN TERMS OF THE DEPRECIATION, THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING.
BOARD MEMBER, I GUESS I WOULD ANSWER WITH, I, WOULDN'T TRY TO PRETEND TO BE AN EXPERT ON EVERY AGENCY, UH, ON ALLOCATION.
AND I WOULD SAY IN OUR BUSINESS, UNFORTUNATELY WE SAY, IF YOU'VE BEEN IN ONE TRANSLATORS, YOU'VE BEEN TO ONE TRANSIT AGENCY, THEY KIND OF ALL ARE DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT, UH, WHICH IS A BIG CHALLENGE IN OUR INDUSTRY TO EVER COMPARE APPLE TO APPLE.
UM, AND THE MODELS ARE SO DIFFERENT BETWEEN STATE AGENCIES VERSUS CITY VERSUS REGIONAL.
UH, I WOULD SAY AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU HAVE TO DO SOME TYPE OF ALLOCATION.
AND I WOULD SAY SERVICE HOURS IS GENERALLY, I WOULD SAY THE MOST FAMILIAR I WOULD BE WITH SOMETIMES MAYBE IT COULD BE BASED ON, UM, MAYBE RIDERSHIP.
I THINK THAT'S PRETTY RARE, OR AT LEAST I DON'T, I MAYBE I'VE SEEN A COUPLE, BUT I THINK IT'S REALLY, FOR MOST PART IT'S HOW MANY HOURS OF SERVICE TO DELIVER THE PRODUCT, UH, TO THAT COMMUNITY.
UM, BUT I WOULD SAY THAT I WOULD SAY A CHAIR, IF, IF I COULD ENTERTAIN THE BOARD FROM A SECTION A, IN THE ILA, IF STAFF COULD REFINE THAT TO SAY FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS AGREEMENT, TOTAL COSTS OF SERVICE SHALL BE DEFINED AS OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE COSTS FOR TRANSIT SERVICE PROVIDED TO LEANDER AND 50% OF LEANDER PROPORTIONAL, TOTAL CAPITAL DEPRECIATION OF CUP OF COMMUTER RAIL ASSETS.
THAT WAS PROBABLY GOING TO BE BETTER STAFF LANGUAGE.
AND, UM, I WOULD SUBMIT THAT, THAT WOULD, WE COULD, IF, IF, OKAY, WE WOULD SUBMIT THAT AS A MODIFIED STAFF LANGUAGE FOR BOARD CONSIDERATION, JUST AN ADDITIONAL QUESTION.
SO I THINK THIS WAS INTENDED TO BE A TEN-YEAR AGREEMENT.
SO THE QUESTION THAT I HAVE, UM, AS WE THINK ABOUT LEANDER, WE ALSO WANT TO KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON, UH, CEDAR PARK AS A POTENTIAL INTEREST WITHIN THAT 10 YEAR, TIME PERIOD.
AND SO IF I'M UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOU JUST SAID, IF CEDAR PARK CAME IN, THE PROPORTION, UH, THAT LEANDER WOULD PAY WOULD GO DOWN, I ASSUME.
AND WHAT I'M REALLY DRIVING AT IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW THAT WORKS, BUT ALSO, UH, BE COGNIZANT OF THE FACT THAT HOPEFULLY WITHIN 10 YEARS, WE'LL HAVE, UH, CEDAR PARK IN AND DO WE HAVE A COST
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MODEL THAT'D BE APPROPRIATE FOR CEDAR PARK IF THEY COME IN? I THINK, UH, THE CONCEPT OF YOUR COMMENT, I THINK IS PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT THAT'S A LOGICAL, I SPECIALIZE IN OBVIOUS, SORRY, LOGICAL.UM, I WILL SAY, I THINK THERE'S A LOGICAL INFERENCE TO WHAT YOU'RE MAKING THERE.
WE ALSO WANT TO BE REALLY RESPONSIVE TO MAINER AS WELL, RIGHT? SO WE KNOW WE'RE IN THE GREEN LINE WE'RE GOING TO BE HAVING, AND THEN ALSO LONG-TERM ELGON WHO HAS SHOWN INDICATION.
THEY WANT TO BE PART OF CAPITAL METRO.
SO IN THEORY, THE MORE PEOPLE THAT BECOME MEMBERS, THE COST PROPORTIONALITY WILL BE SPREAD.
AND, UH, THAT ALLOWS, UH, PROBABLY, UH, IF YOU WILL, A MORE COST EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION WITH THAT SAID, UM, WE ALSO ASSUME OVER TIME, THOSE COMMUNITIES WILL WANT MORE SERVICE EVENTUALLY.
SO SERVICE COSTS COULD GO UP, YOU KNOW, ONE DAY LEANDER MIGHT SAY IN EIGHT YEARS, 10 YEARS, WE WANT TRAINS EVERY 10 MINUTES.
YOU KNOW, THE DEMAND IS THROUGH THE ROOF.
SO, UH, BUT I THINK YOUR RATIONAL THOUGHT IS YES, THIS, THIS SHOULD PROVIDE A FRAMEWORK FOR MORE MEMBERS, UH, ULTIMATELY IN THE FIXED RAIL, UH, UH, PIECE WHERE'S CAPITAL USUALLY IS THE CHALLENGING.
I THINK I SHOULD KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS, BUT DO WE HAVE ANY NONSTOP SERVICE TO LEANDER? UH, RIGHT NOW WE DO NOT.
THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE IN THE MODELING PROCESS TO SAY IS, CAN WE FIGURE OUT A COUPLE EXPRESS, TRAINS AND LOCAL? AND SO WE'RE DOING AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF WORK.
WE OBVIOUSLY, I THINK THERE'S MORE KNOWS THE RED LINE, YOU KNOW, I SENT THIS RELATIVELY PUBLICLY, UH, THE RED LINE WAS BUILT KINDA, UH, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT TO BE TOO DRY ON THE CHEAP AND TO DO THAT REALLY DIDN'T ALLOW A LOT OF SIGHTINGS AND PASSING AREAS, NOT HOW YOU WOULD REALLY BUILD, UH, THE RAILROAD OF TODAY.
AND THE MORE OF THAT FLEXIBILITY WE BUILD IN.
SO WE WERE ABROAD MORE THE OTHER DAY WITH THE GROUNDBREAKING THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE ENOUGH FOR A PIECE OF TRACK WORK.
UH, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT MORE MAKALA.
UH, WE KNOW SALTIEL ULTIMATELY SALTIEL TO SEVENTH STREET IS PROBABLY THE BIG CHOKE POINT THAT WE HAVE, BUT THAT HAS TO GET FIXED OUT LOUD.
THE GREEN LINE OPERATIONAL, UH, WORK AS WELL.
AND PTC HAS ACTUALLY BEEN SOMEWHAT OF A STRUGGLE BECAUSE IT ADDED TIME TO OTHER FORECASTS.
SO OUR GOAL IS TO FIGURE OUT HOW YOU WOULD HAVE MAYBE SOME LONG-TERM DIRECT FROM DOWNTOWN TO LEANDER, BUT DEEPER THAN THAT, I THINK, YOU KNOW, MORE MCCOLLOUGH ARE GOING TO BE INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT, TRAINS TO LEANDER AND THEN LEANDER BACK TO BROAD, MORE DOMAIN AREA.
SO I THINK THE IDEA IS TO GET THE RED LINE, NOT JUST TO BE, UM, DOWNTOWN TO LEANDER CONCEPT, HOW DO WE GET MORE MOVEMENT ACROSS THE LINE? SO WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY DOING THE LESS SOPHISTICATED MODELING ON THAT.
AND EACH TIME WE ADD TRACK OR SIGNALING WORK, THEY HELP ADD FLEXIBILITY INTO THE SERVICE.
SO IT'S, I WISH IT WAS VERY LINEAR.
ONE THING EQUALS X, BUT ONE THING EQUALS FIVE OTHER OPTIONS TO KIND OF PEEL THE ONION APART.
SO JUST CONCEPTUALLY, IF WE HAD DIRECT SERVICE OR EXPRESS SERVICE FROM DOWNTOWN TO LEANDER IN MY MIND, AT LEAST THAT WOULDN'T, THAT'D BE A DIRECT BURDEN TO LANDER, AS OPPOSED TO, UM, AND I'M JUST SCRATCHING MY HEAD ABOUT WHETHER WE HAVE THIS DRAFT IN SUCH A WAY THAT IF WE HAVE CHANGES OR YOU GOT DOMAIN TO LEANDER, HOW DO WE APPROPRIATELY ALLOCATE THE INCREMENTAL COST OF THOSE SORTS OF, WELL, THAT'S TRUE.
THAT'S WHY I WOULD SAY AGAIN, IT GOES BACK TO A SERVICE HOURS AND, AND THAT'S WHY IT'S, WE THINK IT'S AGAIN, MOSTLY USED IN OUR INDUSTRY AND IT'S WHY IT'S THE FARAH.
SO IT'S TO DELIVER SERVICE TO LEANDER TAKES X AND M INVOLVES ALSO REVENUE AND DEADHEAD AND HOW IT ALL WORKS KIND OF TOGETHER.
SO, UH, UM, WE FEEL LIKE THE LANGUAGE HERE IS SUFFICIENTLY, UM, UH, FLEXIBLE IN THE EVENT THAT WE ADD ADDITIONAL SERVICE, REMEMBER ROSS, THAT'S ALL FLORIDA PART OF THIS PROCESS.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS THAT HAVE GONE IN, BUT IT ALL GETS BACK TO RIGHT, THE DEVIL'S IN THE DETAILS.
AND SO IT'S ABOUT, UM, DRILLING DOWN AND FIGURING OUT EXACTLY WHAT THAT COSTS OF SERVICES.
AND ALSO, UM, THE COMMUNICATION PIECE BETWEEN THE SUBURBAN CITIES AND KEPT METRO AS EITHER KEPT METRO SEES A NEED TO BE ABLE TO EXPAND SERVICE, UM, BASED ON THEIR MODELING OR, UM, POSSIBLY A CITY SEES SOME THINGS THAT THEY'VE GOT GOING ON AND WOULD LIKE TO EXPLORE EXPANDING SERVICES.
AND IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE SUBURBAN CITIES TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THAT COST PER PROPORTIONALITY IS SO THAT THEY CAN DETERMINE, UM, IF THEY CAN AFFORD TO ADD THAT SERVICE, BECAUSE IT IS A BALANCING ACT THE WAY IT IS.
AND WITH THE WAY THIS IS WRITTEN OUT WITH DRILLING DOWN AND SAID THAT THE CITY CAN UNDERSTAND AND HAVE THE ABILITY TO BE ABLE TO AUDIT THOSE NUMBERS, UM, OF THAT COST OF SERVICE SO THAT AS THE MOVE FORWARD, CAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'RE NOT OPERATING.
AND ONE OF THE OTHER DEFINING FACTORS THAT'S, UM,
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WE'RE WORKING ON IS EXACTLY WHAT IS PRE COVID SERVICE HOURS.UM, AND, UM, AS THAT RAMPS UP, AND THEN ALSO JUST THE OTHER KIND OF SIDE PIECE TO THIS IS, UM, A CAP METRO WORKING WITH LAND OR ON, UH, INCREASING RIDERSHIP, RIGHT? BECAUSE WE NEEDED TO GET THE RIDERS BACK ON THE TRAIN BECAUSE THAT'S BEEN PART OF THE OPTICS FROM LANDER'S PERSPECTIVE IS THAT WE INCONVENIENCE MORE PEOPLE WITH THE ARMS GOING DOWN OVER THE SIX RAILROAD STOPS.
THEN WE ACTUALLY HAVE PEOPLE RIDING THE TRAIN.
AND SO IT'S GETTING MORE RIDERSHIP WHICH WILL INCREASE IN HELP THINGS, UM, IN THE LONG RUN.
OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, I'LL JUST SAY, I'M BRINGING YET ANOTHER MEMBER STRATTON.
I JUST WANTED TO VERIFY, UM, LEANDER DOES HAVE MULTIPLE, UH, GRADE CROSSINGS, UH, AS WE RUN THE LINE UP THERE THAT THAT CROSSED SOME, SOME MAJOR ROADS LIKE A CRYSTAL FALLS PARKWAY IS, IS, IS ONE OF THE ONES THAT I THINK OF IT.
IT'S GOT AN AWFUL LOT OF TRAFFIC UP THERE.
UM, WOULD THE BUILD CENTRAL TEXAS PROGRAM AS I WAS READING IT, UH, IF THEY CHOSE TO DO, UM, UH, TO DO ROAD IMPROVEMENTS, UM, UH, GRADE SEPARATION EXAMPLE, WOULD THEY BE ELIGIBLE TO DO SO UNDER TO USE BUILD CENTRAL TEXAS FUNDS TO, TO PURSUE, UH, GREAT SEPARATION PROJECTS, UH, MEMBER STRATTON? YES.
THAT I BELIEVE THAT IS IN THE LIST OF THE PROGRAM, UH, PARAMETERS THAT IS IN EXHIBIT A, WHICH TALKS ABOUT, UH, THE TRANSIT TYPES OF TRANSIT, SUPPORTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS.
THAT'S AWESOME STREETS, IT'S PEDESTRIAN PATHWAYS, ET CETERA, BUS STOPS, AND THEN OTHER MOBILITY SERVICES AS WELL.
AND I THINK WHAT YOU'RE SPEAKING OF ALSO LENDS ITSELF TO THE, UH, TO THE COMMENT ABOUT, UH, PARTNERING FOR, YOU KNOW, POTENTIAL FOR FEDERAL GRANTS, FRA GRANTS AS WELL.
UM, BECAUSE THAT'S, UH, THAT POTENTIALLY COULD BE A BIG TICKET ITEM.
OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? I HAVE ONE MORE, WHICH IS, DO WE KNOW THE ROUGH PERCENTAGE OF THE 10 MILLION THAT WOULD BE APPLICABLE TO YES.
CHAIR COOPER, UM, BASED ON THE TOTAL SALES TAX RECEIPTS AND THE PROPORTIONALITY AGAIN FOR LEANDER? UM, IT'S ABOUT 74%.
I THOUGHT YOU SAID THAT EARLIER.
SHOULD I JUST WANTED TO MENTION, I KNOW ERIC HAD ALSO REACHED OUT TO THE, UH, MAYOR OF MAYNOR, UH, AS WELL TO TIE THE LOOP WITH, UH, MAYOR MAYNOR BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THEY HAVE SOME MOBILITY NEEDS WE'VE BEEN TALKING TO AS WELL, AND THEY'RE A VERY FAST GROWING COMMUNITY AND I THINK WAS, UH, HAPPY TO HEAR THAT SOME FUNDING MAY BE AVAILABLE TO THEM AS WELL.
IT WAS A GREAT CONVERSATION AND WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW UP WITH THEM ON FRIDAY AND THEN SET ANOTHER MEETING THERE FORWARD.
GOOD OTHER QUESTIONS? REMEMBER STRATTON, GO AHEAD.
UH, I DID NOTICE LOOKING AT THE 10 YEAR, THE 10 YEAR PROJECTIONS THAT'S, UH, I BELIEVE IT SAID IN FYI 23 AND 24, UM, TEMPORARILY IT LOOKS LIKE, UH, LEANDER GOES, I GUESS, FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE UPSIDE DOWN AGAIN, UM, WHERE THE ALLOCATIONS ARE NEGATIVE.
IT LOOKED LIKE FROM THE NOTES, IT WAS INDICATING IT'S BECAUSE OF, UH, PROJECTIONS FOR EXPRESS BUS AND I THINK PICKUP SERVICE, UH, WHEN YOU'RE ADDING THAT BACK INTO THE EQUATION, I KNOW IT'S NOT THAT MUCH OF A DELTA, BUT IT IS, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS HERE I THINK, IN THERE, BUT IT DOES, IT DOES TAKE THEM NEGATIVE.
DO I UNDERSTAND IT THEN BASED ON BUILD CENTRAL TEXAS, THAT FOR THOSE TWO YEARS THEN, UM, THEY WOULD NOT IN THAT TENURE, UH, IN OUR TEN-YEAR FORECAST HERE, IF THAT DOES COME TO FRUITION, THEN THEY WOULD NOT BE AL ELIGIBLE DURING THOSE TWO YEAR PERIODS TO DRAW DOWN IN FUNDS DURING THAT TIME BOARD MEMBERS.
SHUT-IN UM, THE, THE, THE LAST PART OF YOUR QUESTION.
SO IF THERE IS, UH, IF THERE'S A REVERSE DELTA WHERE MORE SERVICE, LESS SALES TAX, THEN YES, THEY WOULD NOT NECESSARILY, THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DRAW DOWN ON BUILDS OUT TO TEXAS.
HOWEVER, WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT HERE BETWEEN THOSE COUPLE OF YEARS IS, UM, WE ARE ANTICIPATING THAT RAIL WOULD COME BACK FULL, UH, TO PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS IN 23.
AND THEN IN 2024, IT WOULD BE COMMUTER AND, UM, AND RIDESHARE SERVICES AS WELL.
SO AS, UM, BOARD MEMBER ROSS MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, W WE WILL BE WORKING THROUGH THAT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A CRYSTAL BALL, YOU KNOW, AND THROUGH THIS PANDEMIC, WE JUST DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, THAT IS AN ESTIMATION FROM OUR SERVICE PLANNING.
SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE TO PUT THAT IN THERE, BUT THEN ALSO THE ESTIMATION, UM, FOR THE SALES TAX INCREASES CAME FROM THE CITY OF LEANDRA AND THE GOODMAN CORPORATION.
AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT'S ROUGHLY ABOUT 6% A SALES TAX INCREASE HISTORICALLY YEAR OVER YEAR, THEY'VE BEEN IN THE PLUS 20 RANGE.
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RECOMMENDED THAT WE TAKE A VERY CONSERVATIVE APPROACH IN TERMS OF SALES TAX INCREASES.SO, YOU KNOW, REALLY THIS IS AN ESTIMATED FORECAST JUST TO KIND OF PUT SOME NUMBERS OUT THERE WITH OUR BEST GUESTS TODAY, BUT, YOU KNOW, THINGS CAN FLUCTUATE.
I THINK BOTTOM LINE IS, IS THAT THE COMMITMENT TO WORK BETWEEN CAPITAL METRO AND THE CITY OF LANDER AND OUR OTHER SMALL MEMBER CITIES IS, YOU KNOW, BURIED, YOU KNOW, IS BUILT REALLY WELL IN THE, IN BOTH OF THESE ILS AND THE RESOLUTION FOR EVERYONE.
AND IT WOULD SEEM TO ME LIKE THAT BY DOING IT THIS WAY, THERE IS A LEVEL OF CERTAINTY BAKED IN SUCH THAT IT, THIS AGREEMENT, UM, WOULD, UH, SOLIDIFY THAT SO THAT THEY WILL KNOW AND HAVE THAT BUDGETARY CERTAINTY GOING FORWARD THAT THEY KNOW.
CAN THEY EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO DRAW DOWN FUNDS TO USE FOR PROJECTS THIS PARTICULAR YEAR OR NOT? IS THAT, IS THAT WHAT I'M READING IN THIS? YES.
OTHER QUESTIONS, REMEMBER KITCHEN? UH, WELL, JUST TO CLARIFY, THE, THE DOCUMENT WITH THE ESTIMATES, UH, GIVES US A FORECAST, YOU KNOW, AND AN IDEA IN THE FUTURE, BUT IT'S NOT, IT IS NOT THE DOCUMENT THAT WILL BE USED TO DETERMINE THE DOLLAR AMOUNT FOR EACH YEAR.
I MEAN, IT WILL ALIGN TO THE EXTENT THAT THESE ESTIMATES ARE CORRECT, BUT WHAT WILL BE USED TO DETERMINE THE DOLLAR AMOUNT EACH YEAR IS THE PARAGRAPH ABOUT HOW IT'S CALCULATED IN THE ILA PLUS THE, UH, WHAT'S IN THE RESOLUTION THAT SETS OUT A PROCESS THAT I THINK BOARD MEMBER ROSS WAS TALKING ABOUT, WHERE THERE'S A PROCESS OF COORDINATION WITH LANDER AND WITH CAP METRO ON WHAT THOSE SERVICES ARE.
IS, AM I READING THAT CORRECTLY? CORRECT.
WE, WE WILL CONTINUE TO ENGAGE WITH SERVICE PLANNING, UM, BEFORE BRINGING, UH, SO IT'S A FEDERAL REQUIREMENT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A FEDERAL PROCESS, SO WE NEED TO DO FOR SERVICE PLANNING AND, YOU KNOW, SO WE WILL WORK WITH OUR MEMBER CITIES ON THE SURFACE PLANNING PIECE BEFORE WE BRING RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE CAPITAL METRO BOARD FOR THEIR APPROVAL OF THE SERVICE CHANGES.
I JUST THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT LEANDER HAVE A SAY IN, UM, IN WHAT THE SERVICES ARE, WHICH MEANS THAT THEY'LL HAVE A SAY IN WHAT THAT ULTIMATE DOLLAR AMOUNT IS THAT MAY BE TURN TO THEM.
CERTAINLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT CONVERSATION.
OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS, IF NOT, A CHAIR WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION RELATIVE TO ACTION ITEM, NUMBER ONE, VICE CHAIR.
TREVELYAN UM, I, I WOULD, I WOULD DEFER TO OUR REPRESENTATIVE FROM LEANDRA AND I'M PREPARED TO SECOND.
SECOND CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE, UH, HONORABLE MEMBER FROM LEANDER.
CAN I THIRD IT AGAIN LIKE IT DID LAST TIME.
WELL, EXCEPT AS MANY CHAIRS AS A AS SECONDS IS, UH, THERE ARE, REMEMBER ROSS, THE FLOOR IS YOURS MOTION TO APPROVE THE MOTION, TO APPROVE THE MOTION, UH, WITH THE, A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.
I'M SORRY WITH THE STAFF RECOMMENDED AMENDMENT TO REGARDING, I GUESS THAT WAS ACTUALLY IN THE ILA, WHICH THAT'S ACTUALLY A PART OF GI ILA.
WE'LL INCORPORATE THAT IN THE DRAFT.
SO MOTION TO APPROVE THE RESOLUTION IN FRONT OF US.
AND THEN A SECOND, THIS SECOND BY VICE CHAIRS, VICE CHAIR, TREVELYAN AND MEMBER STRATTON.
ANY DISCUSSION ON THE ITEM, IF NOT, UH, AGAIN, I'LL, UH, ASK FOR A ROLL CALL, VOTE, UH, MEMBER ROSS.
HOW DO YOU VOTE BY REMEMBER POOL? YES.
REMEMBER RENTERIA? I REMEMBER MITCHELL.
I, UH, VICE-CHAIR TREVELYAN I REMEMBER KITCHEN.
UH, PARTICULARLY THE STAFF AND BOARD MEMBERS, WHO'VE WORKED VERY HARD OVER THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS TO, UH, PUT THIS INTO PLACE AND TO DO SO IN A WAY, WHICH I THINK PROVIDES A FRAMEWORK FOR FUTURE EXPANSION OF OUR SERVICE AREA AND, AND CONTEMPLATES THAT.
SO, UM, I THINK THIS A BIG STEP FOR OUR REGION, UH, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT.
SO KUDOS, AND THANK YOU, STAFF IN PARTICULAR, REMEMBER ALL SORT OF TOOK THE WORDS OUT OF MY MOUTH, SO I DON'T WANT TO REPEAT, BUT THANK YOU.
THERE'VE BEEN A LOT OF HOURS PUT INTO, UM, PULLING THIS TOGETHER AND I THINK IT IS A BIG STEP FORWARD IN HOW WE TRULY BECOME A REGIONAL
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SYSTEM AND WORK WITH THE SMALL CITIES.TREVELYAN IF I COULD, I, I, UM, I AGREE WITH, WHAT'S BEEN SAID ALREADY.
I THINK THAT IS, IT IS IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT ALL OF US, SMALL CITIES.
UH, I KNOW THAT, UH, THAT LEANDER, UH, BROUGHT THE ISSUE UP AND HAS WORKED REAL, REALLY HARD TO MAKE SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND THEIR PERSPECTIVE.
I THINK THERE ARE OTHER SMALL CITIES, MAYNARD BEING ONE OF THEM, UH, WHERE, UM, IT GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO MOVE FORWARD WITH POLICY.
IT GIVES US A, ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE TO LOOK FROM, AND IT, AND IT REALLY, I THINK DOES GIVE US A LEGITIMATE OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY BECOME, UH, AS, UH, TO BECOME EVEN MORE REGIONALLY SIGNIFICANT.
UH, AND, AND, UM, AND I HOPE THAT, UH, AS, AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER, UM, WE, UH, WE DO THE THINGS, UH, THAT MEAN OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESS FOR THE ENTIRE REGION.
I LOOK FORWARD TO IT VERY WELL.
UH, BOARD MEMBERS, WE'LL NEXT MOVE TO OUR NEXT
[VI.2. Approval of a resolution electing officers of the Capital Metro Board of Directors for 2022.]
ACTION ITEM, WHICH IS, UH, UH, ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF THE CAP METRO BOARD OF DIRECTORS.UNLESS CARRIE TELLS ME I HAVE IT WRONG.
I THINK WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST IS TO, UM, HAVE A VOTE ON EACH OF THE THREE ELECTED, UH, POSITIONS IS THAT YOU CAN DO IT THAT WAY, OR YOU CAN HAVE SOMEONE PROPOSE EMOTION ON ALL THREE, UH, AND WE CAN TAKE A SINGLE VOTE.
UM, UNLESS ANYBODY HAS A PREFERENCE, MAYBE WE JUST DO THEM ONE AT A TIME, REMEMBER KITCHEN.
I'D LIKE TO NOMINATE VICE CHAIR.
JEFF TREVELYAN AS A CHAIR VERY WELL.
IS THERE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND TERRY MITCHELL, UH, WITH A SECOND.
WHY DON'T WE JUST DO THEM ONE AT A TIME THEN? UM, A DISCUSSION ON, UH, UH, THE ELECTION OF, WELL, LET ME GO BACK ONE STEP.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER NOMINATIONS FOR THE, UH, POST OF CHAIR MEMBER POOL? OH, I WAS JUST GOING TO SPEAK TO THE MARCY.
ANY OTHER NOMINATIONS REMEMBER POOL? WELL, I WANTED FIRST TO THANK YOU, UM, CHIP COOPER FOR YOUR ABLE HELMING OF THE, OF THE BOARD FOR MANY YEARS.
AND, UM, I'M JUST ENTERING MY SECOND YEAR ONTO THE BOARD AND I'VE LEARNED A HECK OF A LOT.
UM, DURING THE 12 MONTHS I'VE BEEN ON.
AND A LOT OF THAT IS DUE TO, UM, HOW WELL YOU HAVE RUN THESE MEETINGS AND, UH, THE KAREN CONCERN THAT YOU HAVE EXHIBITED TO THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR, WHEN THEY COME AND SPEAK TO US AND YOU GIVE THEM THE TIME THAT THEY NEED TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES.
AND SO WE DON'T ALWAYS HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO SHOW OUR APPRECIATION, UH, AMONG, UH, THIS SMALL GROUP.
AND CERTAINLY, PROBABLY NOT VERY OFTEN PUBLICLY.
SO I, I, I DID WANT TO DO THAT AND TIP MY HAT TO YOU FOR A GOOD WORK AND A JOB WELL DONE.
AND, AND MAYBE YOU CAN TAKE A BREATH AND KIND OF SIT BACK AND ENJOY JUST BEING A MEMBER FOR THE REST OF THE TIME.
I'M DELIGHTED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY, UH, UH, TO, UH, NO LONGER CALL.
UM, UH, VICE-CHAIR TREVELYAN VICE-CHAIR AND TO SLIDE DOWN ONE SIDE OF THE OTHER OF THIS DIOCESE AND, UH, UH, UH, SAVE SOME COMMENTS FOR LATER, BUT, UH, UH, EXCITED ABOUT THE ASCENDANCY OF VICE-CHAIR TREVELYAN AND I'VE PLEDGED TO DO WHAT I CAN TO HELP, UH, UH, MAKE THIS A SMOOTH AND EASY TRANSITION AND HELP HIM, UH, WHERE I CAN QUIETLY BEHIND THE SCENES ARE NOISILY, UH, UH, NOISILY HERE, BUT THANK YOU.
OH, I WAS JUST GOING TO ADD MY THANKS.
AND I THINK WE ALSO APPRECIATE THE LIGHT TOUCH THAT YOU BRING TO THE, TO, UH, TO KEEP US ALL MOVING FORWARD.
AND SO WE APPRECIATE THANK YOU FOR THAT.
AND, UH, UNLESS THERE ARE ANY OTHER, UM, CON UH, MY ADVISOR HAD A QUICK COMMENT CHAIR.
NO, FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE PRESIDENT? RIGHT? UH, THE PRESIDENT, I THINK, WANTS TO RISE ON BEHALF OF ALL THE STAFF AND REITERATE THESE BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS, AND, UH, THE STAFF REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATES ALL YOU'VE DONE.
AND I THINK, UH, BOARD MEMBER KITCHENS TOUCH A NOTE ABOUT LIGHT TOUCH IS, UH, IS VERY TRUE.
AND, UM, ALL THESE JOINT WORK SESSIONS AND, AND JOINT TRI-PARTY MEETINGS AS WELL.
UH, YOU'VE CHAIRED MEETINGS IN CITY COUNCIL, CHAMBERS YOU'VE YOU'VE CHAIRED MEETINGS AT THE CONVENTION CENTER.
UM, YOUR COMMITMENT TO THE ORGANIZATION IS, UH, UNWAVERING, AND I KNOW STAFF DEEPLY APPRECIATES YOUR LEADERSHIP OVER THE YEARS ON A PERSONAL LEVEL.
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I INCREDIBLY APPRECIATE, UM, ALL YOU'VE DONE FOR ME PERSONALLY, AND, UH, YOU SHOULD ROLL AS CHAIR, AND I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO VERY MUCH ENJOY NOT GETTING AS MANY TEXTS AND PHONE CALLS FROM ME, BUT I'M STARTING TO BE CHAIR OF TREVELYAN.UH, IT WAS PROBABLY, UH, GETTING READY FOR THOSE, BUT, BUT TELL HIM ABOUT THE SUNDAY AFTERNOON TEXTS.
I DO WANT TO REITERATE AGAIN ARE JUST DEEP.
WE'RE GOING TO SAVE YOUR A GOING AWAY HERE FOR THE END OF YOUR TERM, BUT A FEW OF US WANT TO MAKE SURE WE, UH, GAVE YOU JUST INCREDIBLE.
THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT JOB YOU'VE DONE AS CHAIR.
AND, UH, I'LL START BACKWARDS.
LET ME JUST SAY, UH, IT'S THE HONOR OF A LIFETIME, REALLY TO HAVE THIS JOB AND SEE THE PROGRESS AND TO BE ASSOCIATED BOTH WITH MY COLLEAGUES ON THE DAYAS HERE.
YOU THINK BACK TO, UH, UH, REMEMBER MITCHELL.
I THINK YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO WAS HERE BEFORE ME, UH, JUST BY A MONTH OR TWO.
UM, BUT A LOT HAS CHANGED SINCE, UH, UH, THE SUMMER OF 2014.
UH, WE'VE LOST AN ELECTION, WE'VE WON THE ELECTION.
UH, WE'VE CHANGED THE BUS LINES.
WE'VE DONE A LOT OF THE THINGS AND, AND, UH, IT'S REALLY BEEN A PRIVILEGE TO BE PART OF THAT, ESPECIALLY WHEN, UH, UH, THANK THE STAFF.
UH, AS I'VE SAID IN OTHER VENUES BY EXPECTATIONS, UH, UH, WERE MET AND FAR EXCEEDED I'VE, I REALLY AM PROUD TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH YOU FROM ALL THOSE WHO GATHER HERE TO THOSE ON THE FRONT LINES EVERY DAY.
UH, I'VE BEEN IMPRESSED AT EVERY TURN WITH YOUR PROFESSIONALISM, YOUR DEDICATION, UH, REALLY UNDERSTANDING THE, THE SERVICE PART OF WHAT WE DO, UH, WHETHER IT'S PLANNING, WHETHER IT'S DOING IT, WHETHER IT'S, UH, UH, THE PR CAMPAIGN OR WHETHER IT'S DRIVING THE BUS AND, AND GETTING PEOPLE ON TIME OR DEALING WITH UNRULY PASSENGERS, UM, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN VERY PROUD OF YOU.
SO YOU'VE ALL ENDEAVORED TO MAKE MY JOB EASY TO MAKE US LOOK GOOD IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND I'M FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR THAT.
SO I, UH, I'M SURE THAT YOU WILL EXTEND THAT TO MY SUCCESSOR AND, UH, WE ALL WILL, UH, WORK A LITTLE BIT HARDER CAUSE IT'S, THERE'S A LOT TO LEARN.
IT TOOK ME, I'VE BEEN ON THIS JOB FOR SEVEN YEARS AND IT TOOK ME SEVEN YEARS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT MOST OF THE ACRONYMS WERE AND, UH, WHAT WAS GOING ON.
SO WE'LL ALL ENDEAVOR TO HELP YOU, UH, UH, SOON TO BE CHAIRED TREVELYAN, UH, WITH THAT TRANSITION, IF I COULD JUST SAY ONE THING, UM, BEFORE THE BONE, UH, THAT WOULD BE, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS HAS PROBABLY BEEN, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU HAVE BEEN AT THE HELM AND PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST POLITICALLY DIVISIVE TIMES, UH, SINCE THE SIXTIES, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, WE'VE GONE THROUGH A PANDEMIC, UH, THE MAGNITUDE THAT WE HAVEN'T SEEN, UH, SINCE THE 1920S AND, UM, THE CARE THAT YOU'VE GIVEN, THE TIME THAT YOU'VE TAKEN THE PROBLEMS THAT YOU'VE CHOSEN TO ADDRESS AND TRY TO SOLVE, UH, THE COALITIONS THAT YOU'VE BUILT, THE TRUST THAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED FROM THE ORGANIZATION, YOUR COLLEAGUES, UH, BUT THE ORGANIZATION THAT WORKS UNDER YOUR LEADERSHIP, UH, HAS BEEN IMPRESSIVE AND IMPORTANT.
UH, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T WORK IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR BECAUSE THEY CAN'T STAND THE CRITICISM CAN'T STAND THE WORK THAT HAPPENS.
UH, WE'VE BEEN ON THE PHONE AT SEVEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
WE'VE BEEN ON THE PHONE AT 10 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT.
WE'VE BEEN ON THE PHONE WEEKENDS, UH, YOU KNOW, UM, IT'S BEEN A SEAMLESS PROCESS, UH, AND THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN UNLESS YOU CARE ABOUT THINGS THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN UNLESS YOU'RE WILLING TO BE INVOLVED IN THE BATTLEFIELD.
AND, AND, UH, THIS COMMUNITY HAS BENEFITED GREATLY FROM YOUR LEADERSHIP.
AND, UH, WE WANT TO KEEP YOU AROUND LONGER.
UM, JUST WANT TO POINT THAT OUT.
BUT, UH, BUT I THINK, UM, IT IS IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT THE TIMES THAT WE WORK IN AND THE PEOPLE THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH BECAUSE YOU'RE HAVING TO DEAL WITH A LOT OF PROBLEMS THAT, THAT CAME TO US GENERATIONS AGO.
AND, AND, AND WE'VE WORKED HARD TO TRY TO ADDRESS THEM.
AND, AND I THINK YOUR, YOUR, UH, YOUR KINDNESS, YOUR HARD WORK, BUT YOUR WILLINGNESS TO LISTEN, I HAVE, HAVE ALL BEEN MEANINGFUL.
AND, UM, AND WE ALL HOPE THAT, THAT WE CAN LIVE UP TO THE EXAMPLE THAT YOU'VE PROVIDED FOR US.
UH, I HOPE YOU WILL, FAR FAR EXCEEDED.
AND, UH, UH, IF, UH, IF YOU LOVE ME, YOU'LL A VOTE.
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WE'RE ABOUT TO BE OUT OF ORDER.NO, I REALLY WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.
YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN WE GOT HERE, WE WERE, UH, UH, THERE WAS A LOT OF COMPLAINTS GOING ON IN AUSTIN ABOUT THE LOW RIDERSHIP, YOU KNOW, AND, UH, AND THE BUS DRIVERS WITH, UH, WITH THE LOW MORALE AT THAT TIME.
AND, UH, UH, WAS YOUR LEADERSHIP.
AND, UH, AND ALSO WAS HIRING RANDY.
WE WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH A LOT, YOU KNOW, WE GOT TO LEADERSHIPS METERS WAS ABLE TO BRING, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE HAVE NOW, WE, WE PROJECT CONNECT, BUT ALSO THESE OTHER LITTLE SMALLER POTS THAT, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE PICKUP SERVICE, IT WAS OUR STAFF TO HERE IS JUST TO ME, I JUST, I THINK THEY HAD THE MOST GRAVITY AND STAFF THAT WE'VE HAD, AND IT WAS TWO YEAR LEADERSHIP WITH HIRING RANDY THAT WE WERE ABLE TO GET TO WHERE WE WERE AT.
SO I REALLY WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
I APPRECIATE THAT, BUT IT DOESN'T HAPPEN WITHOUT ALL OF US.
AND, UH, WE'RE A LOT BETTER WHEN WE'RE ALL MOVING IN THE SAME DIRECTION.
AND WITH THAT, IF THERE ARE NO FURTHER COMMENTS, UH, ALL IN FAVOR THEN, AND I'M GOING TO DO ROLL CALL AGAIN, UH, ELECTING A VICE CHAIR TREVELYAN TO THE POSITION OF CHAIR TREVELYAN PLEASE INDICATE, UH, WELL, ACTUALLY, I'M GOING TO ASK THAT WE DO IT BY ACCLAMATION AND, UH, AND, UH, UH, IF THERE ARE NO OBJECTIONS, UH, HOW ABOUT WE, UH, UNANIMOUSLY ELECT VICE CHAIR, UH TREVELYAN UH, TO THAT, TO THAT, TO THE POST OF CHAIR AND A MEMBER STRATTON, I'LL TAKE THAT AS A, NO OBJECTIONS, NO OBJECTIONS TO THE RIGHT OR LEFT OR RIGHT FOR THE RECORD THEN, UH, UH, WE UNANIMOUSLY ELECT AND BY ACCLAMATION, UH, JEFF TREVELYAN CHAIR OF, UH, CAP METRO, I HOPE YOU FEEL THAT WAY IN SIX MONTHS, YOU WILL DO A WONDERFUL JOB AND, UH, YOUR, UH, GENEROSITY AND, AND A WILLINGNESS TO TRY TO WORK HARD, TO GET PEOPLE TOGETHER AND GET THINGS RIGHT.
AND, UH, WE ALL PLEDGED TO DO OUR BEST TO HELP YOU IN THIS WHOLE OUTFIT BE SUCCESSFUL.
AND NEXT I'LL ACCEPT THE NOMINATION.
UH, MR. CHAIR, MR. CHAIR, MR. CHAIR, UH, IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, AND I HOPE I'M NOT, WOULD NOT BE OUT OF LINE.
YOU CAN TELL ME THAT TO JUST SIT DOWN AND BE QUIET, BUT THEN YOU'RE GONNA LOSE ME.
UM, WOULD IT BE OUT OF ORDER FOR ME TO GO AHEAD AND, UM, PUT FORWARD, UH, THE NAMES FOR BOATS, UH, VICE CHAIR AND SECRETARY AT THE SAME TIME, CHAIR WILL ACCEPT SUCH A MOTION.
I WOULD MOVE THAT, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO PUT INTO NOMINATION FOR VICE CHAIR AND KITCHEN AND FOR SECRETARY LESLIE POOL, SECOND, THERE'S A SECOND.
THE CHAIR WILL ASK THAT WE DO THIS BY ACCLIMATION AS WELL.
UM, AND, AND IF THERE'S NO, UH, IF THERE'S NO OBJECTION OR ANY OTHER, UH, NOMINATIONS HEARING NONE, UH, IF THERE ARE NO OBJECTIONS, I'D LIKE TO HAVE THE RECORD REFLECT THEN THAT THIS BOARD, UH, ELECTED AND KITCHEN IS VICE CHAIR AND COUNCIL MEMBER LESLIE POOL AS SECRETARY BY ACCLAMATION.
ANY OBJECTIONS, NO OBJECTIONS, DULY NOTED.
ANYBODY WANT TO SPEAK TO FIRE OR SHOULD WE, UH, MOVE ON? I HAVE ANOTHER NOMINATION TO MAKE VERY WELL.
I WOULD LIKE TO NOMINATE FOR OPS COMMITTEE, CHAIR OR STREP.
REMEMBER STRATTON, DO YOU HAVE ANY OBJECTION? PROBABLY PLENTY, BUT I'LL GO ALONG WITH IT.
ANY DISCUSSION? THANK YOU, ANA.
UH, DO WE NEED TO, I'M GOING TO JUST ASK THE CHAIR ELECT, UH, UM, DO YOU WANT TO DO THINGS ON FINANCE TOO? OR SHOULD WE JUST HAVE THIS SELECTION? I THINK WE WILL DO THIS ONE NOW AND WE'LL HANDLE FINE VERY WELL.
UH, VERY WELL, UNLESS THERE'S ANY OBJECTION.
UH, AGAIN, I'D LIKE TO ASK THAT WE DO THIS BY ACCLIMATION, ANY OBJECTION.
UH, LET'S LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT, UH, ERIC STRATTON HAS BEEN ELECTED BY THIS BOARD.
WELL, NOT ELECTED HIS NOMINATION IS APPROVED, UH, BY THIS BOARD, UM, UH, BY ACCLAMATION.
[VI.3. Approval of a resolution confirming the appointments to the Finance, Audit and Administration Committee and Operations, Planning and Safety Committee for 2022.]
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MAKING A NOMINATION TO CONTINUE THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF TERRY MITCHELL ON THE FINANCE AUDIT AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE.AND I THINK HE'S WILLING TO CONTINUE TO CARRY THAT MANTLE.
I'LL SECOND THAT AS WELL, VERY WELL.
UH, THERE WAS A MOTION AND A SECOND, ANY DISCUSSION, ANY OBJECTION, ANY OTHER NOMINATIONS SHARE WITHIN US THAT WE DO THIS BY ACCLIMATION AS WELL? ANY OBJECTION, HEARING NONE? LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT WE HAVE APPROVED THE NOMINATION OF CHAIR MITCHELL BACK, HIS CHAIR, MITCHELL, AND, UH, UH, WE'RE READY TO MOVE ON.
ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE NEED TO DO BESIDES, UH, ACTION ITEM NUMBER THREE, THEN VERY WELL, WELL, BEST OF LUCK, UH, TO OUR NEW OFFICERS AND, UH, AND, UH, COMMITTEE CHAIRS, UH, I'M CONFIDENT EACH OF YOU WILL DO A GREAT JOB AND FURTHER THE MISSION OF THIS ORGANIZATION HELP IMPROVE THE TRANSIT IN THIS COMMUNITY.
THEN, UH, FINAL ACTION ITEM, NUMBER THREE APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION CON.
AND EXECUTIVE IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND DO THE FOUR INFORMATION ONCE A DAY ON, UH, THEN WE'LL TAKE UP FIRST, THE,
[VII.1. Systemwide Accessibility and Urban Design]
UM, SYSTEM-WIDE ACCESSIBILITY AND URBAN DESIGN, UH, WITH MARTIN AND, UH, PETER MULLEN AS WELL.PETER PERIOD, JOINING VIRTUALLY MARTIN AND PETER.
MY NAME IS MARTIN AND I AM THE DIRECTOR.
OH, PARDON ME? GOOD AFTERNOON.
CHAIR COOPER MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND PRESIDENT CLARK.
I'M THE DIRECTOR OF SYSTEM-WIDE ACCESSIBILITY HERE AT CAPITAL METRO JOINED BY PETER MULLEN WITH THE AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP.
HE WILL, UM, HE'S HE'S REMOTE, BUT HE WILL BE JOINING US, UM, AS PART OF THIS PRESENTATION TODAY.
UM, THIS PRESENTATION IS TITLED SYSTEM WIDE ACCESSIBILITY AND URBAN DESIGN.
UM, AND IF YOU WOULD SLIDE TWO, PLEASE.
UM, IN REGARDS TO SYSTEM WIDE ACCESSIBILITY, IT'S IMPORTANT TO FIRST LAY SOME FOUNDATION ABOUT THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITY ACT AND ACCESSIBILITY.
SO THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT IS CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION, UM, PASSED IN 1990.
IT IS AN EXTENSION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION FROM THE SIXTIES, EXCEPT IN THIS CASE, IT EXTENDS CIVIL RIGHTS PROTECTIONS TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.
IT GUARANTEES EQUAL RIGHTS AND EQUAL ACCESS TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES HERE.
YOU'LL NOTE IN PARENTHESES PWD, JUST A WAY ON THESE SLIDES TO, UH, SHORTEN, UM, AND GIVE THAT A BIT OF AN ACRONYM.
IT CREATES A FRAMEWORK AND A STRUCTURE TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES HAVE ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AND FACILITIES SLIDE, PLEASE.
UM, IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT FOR US TO TAKE A MINUTE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT ACCESSIBILITY MEANS.
UM, ACCESSIBILITY BROADLY DEFINED IS THE DEGREE TO WHICH A FACILITY PROGRAM SERVICE TECHNOLOGY IS AVAILABLE AND PROVIDES ACCESS TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.
AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR SOMETHING TO BE ACCESSIBLE WHILE IN TERMS OF A FACILITY, UH, IS A READILY, READILY ACCESSIBLE AND AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TO, TO, TO ACCESS.
SO CAN THEY GET IN AND OUT AND NAVIGATE A FACILITY WHEN IT COMES TO A PROGRAM OR A SERVICE TO THE DEGREE, THE DEGREE TO WHICH PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT PROGRAM OR SERVICE AND FULL.
AND WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY, THE DEGREE TO WHICH PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES CAN USE THE TECHNOLOGY WITH, OR WITHOUT SOME ADDITIONAL FORM OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY, MEANING A DEVICE OR SOMETHING.
IN ADDITION THAT PROVIDES AN EXTRA LEVEL OF ACCESS SLIDE.
SO WHEN IT COMES TO SYSTEM WIDE ACCESSIBILITY, THIS IS A COORDINATED APPROACH TO IMPROVE ACCESSIBILITY ACROSS THE ENTIRE CAPITAL METRO TRANSIT SYSTEM.
SO IT'S TAKING THE SYSTEM AS A WHOLE AND LOOKING AT THOSE PIECES AND HOW THEY INTEGRATE TOGETHER TO MAKE A COMPLETE TRANSIT SYSTEM AND MAKE ONE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC.
WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FACILITIES, UM, WE'RE REALLY DISCUSSING, UM, OUR TRANSIT STOPS AND STATIONS, VEHICLES.
WE HAVE BOTH ON FIXED ROUTE BRT, LIGHT, RAIL COMMUTE, AROUND AND
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TECHNOLOGY, WHETHER IT'S OUR CUSTOMER FACING TECHNOLOGY, OUR, UM, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES OR ANY OF THE INTERNAL SYSTEMS THAT WE USE SLIDE.SO LET'S BEGIN WITH FACILITIES, UM, THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, THE CONTEXTUALLY DESIGNED, UM, ENVIRONMENT.
THIS IS A BIG PIECE BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE THE PEDESTRIAN MEETS THE, UM, MEETS THE INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO THIS IS KIND OF WHERE IT ALL BEGINS, AND WE NEED TO INCORPORATE ACCESSIBILITY AT CONCEPT AND DESIGN.
SO ACCESSIBILITY CAN'T BE SOMETHING THAT GETS THOUGHT OF AFTERWARD AFTER THE FACT, IT'S THE FIRST PRINCIPLE, IT'S A GUIDING PRINCIPLE, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT.
UM, AND I HOPE TO COMMUNICATE THROUGHOUT THIS PRESENTATION, THAT ACCESSIBILITY IS SOMETHING THAT IS CORE AND INTEGRAL TO THE WHOLE, UM, DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYSTEM.
AND IN THAT REGARD, IT NEEDS TO INCLUDE, UM, SPECIFIC PEDESTRIAN FEATURES AS REGARDS THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT.
SO SIDEWALKS, CURB CUTS, SHARED USE PATHS, TRAFFIC SIGNALS, AND STREET CROSSINGS.
UM, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CAPITAL METRO OWNED FACILITIES, BUILDINGS SUCH AS THIS ONE, UM, OUR HOUSE IS IN GOOD ORDER.
OUR BUILDINGS ARE READILY ACCESSIBLE AND USABLE BY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, AND WE HAVE, UM, MEETINGS AND OUR SPACES AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE TO COME, UM, AND ENGAGE US AS MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SLIDE.
CONTINUING ALONG WITH FACILITIES, UM, TRANSIT BEGINS AND ENDS WITH A SIDEWALK.
AND WHAT'S IMPORTANT ABOUT THE SIDEWALK NETWORK IS THAT THAT'S WHAT WE NEED.
WE NEED NETWORK CONNECTIVITY ACROSS THE SYSTEM TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, FOLKS CAN GET TO AND FROM WHERE THEY NEED TO GO, UM, ONCE THEY'VE ACCESS TRANSIT, AND MAKE SURE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHOEVER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT RIGHT AWAY PROVIDES FOR THAT CONNECTION.
THIS BOARD HAS, UM, INVESTED CONSIDERABLY IN IMPROVING THE SIDEWALK NETWORK, BOTH, UM, THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN, BUT AS WELL AS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH, UM, CAPITAL METRO AND OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS, FOLKS IN OUR BUS STOP IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, WHICH HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL, PROVIDES A LOT OF ACCESS TO OUR CUSTOMERS, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO USE WHEELCHAIRS, CURB CUTS ANOTHER NECESSARY PEDESTRIAN FEATURE, UM, NEEDS TO BE ADA COMPLIANT THAT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, UM, AND PROVIDES FOR DETECTABLE WARNING STRIPS.
THOSE ARE THE LITTLE BUMPS AND THE DOTS AT YOUR FEET WHEN YOU'RE PREPARING TO CROSS THE STREET SHARED USE PATHS.
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PIECE, UH, PARTICULARLY ON THE RAPID SIDE OF THE HOUSE.
UM, IT'S A MEANS OF, IT'S ESSENTIALLY, UH, A PATHWAY THAT PROVIDES FOR, UM, SHARED SHARED MODES TO SHARE THE SPACE.
SO WHETHER THAT'S INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES, AMBULATORY PERSONS, CYCLISTS, OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUALS, UM, CAN SHARE THAT SPACE, BUT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE SUFFICIENT RIGHT AWAY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN, UM, DESIGN THAT SPACE IN A WAY THAT IT'S SAFE AND ACCESSIBLE AND MINIMIZES ANY CONFLICTS BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS.
UM, FOR MANY OF THOSE DIFFERENT MODES, TRAFFIC SIGNALS ARE ALSO IMPORTANT HERE.
WE HAVE, UH, AUDIBLE PEDESTRIAN SIGNALS.
THESE ARE SIGNALS THAT ARE, ARE AUDIBLE.
UM, AND THEY PROVIDE A FORM OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION, PARTICULARLY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR LOW VISION, BECAUSE IF YOU'RE STANDING AT A CORNER, LOOKING AT A LIGHT, WHEN THAT LIGHT TURNS FROM RED TO GREEN ON THESE AUDIBLE PEDESTRIAN SIGNALS PROVIDE THE SAME LEVEL OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SIGNALING TO THEM THAT IT IS TO, IT IS IT IS SAFE FOR THEM TO CROSS AS WELL.
WE ALSO HAVE TWO OTHER TYPES OF, UM, SIGNALS OUT THERE, THE RECTANGULAR RAPIDLY FLASHING BEACONS, UM, AND PEDESTRIAN HYBRID BEACONS.
SO THESE ADD A BIT OF AN EXTRA LEVEL OF SAFETY, UM, AND WITH THE PEDESTRIAN HYBRID BEACON, THE PHB, UH, AN EXTRA LEVEL OF ACCESSIBILITY BECAUSE ALL VEHICLES DROP STOP.
AND, UM, IT ALLOWS FOR ALL MANNER OF PEDESTRIANS, INCLUDING THOSE WITH DISABILITIES TO CROSS SLIDE.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR LIGHT RAIL VEHICLES, OUR RAPID VEHICLES, OUR BUS, UH, OUR FIXED ROUTE BUS VEHICLES.
WE OBVIOUSLY INCORPORATE THE ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES OF THOSE VEHICLES, UM, RAMPS AND LIFTS, STOP ANNOUNCEMENT SYSTEMS, AUDIBLE ANNOUNCEMENTS, SECUREMENT SYSTEMS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES OF WHICH WE HAVE SOME REALLY NEW AND INNOVATIVE SECUREMENT SYSTEMS THAT WE HAVE ON OUR BUSES CURRENTLY
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AND LEVEL BOARDING PLATFORMS FOR OUR EXISTING COMMUTER RAIL, AND ALSO FOR OUR FUTURE, UM, LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM.IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE INTENTIONAL ABOUT DESIGN COMMUNITY INPUT FROM OUR STAKEHOLDER FOLKS, PARTICULARLY THOSE WITH DISABILITIES, SO THAT WE'RE DESIGNING SOMETHING THAT IS RESPONSIVE TO BOTH WHAT WE'RE REQUIRED TO BUILD AND DEVELOP, BUT ALSO WHAT'S, UM, RESPONSIVE TO WHAT WE HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY SIDE.
SO IN REGARDS TO THE TECHNOLOGY CUSTOMER TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE THE JOURNEY IS, IS KEY MOBILE APPS AND TECHNOLOGY CAN PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, WHETHER THERE ARE BARRIERS PRESENT, UM, THE CONDITIONS OF WHETHER, UM, IT'S THE SIDEWALK NETWORK OR THE STREET CROSSING NETWORK, UM, THERE'S TECHNOLOGY OUT THERE THAT CAN PROVIDE A GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION TO THE CUSTOMER, UM, TO PROVIDE FOR, UH, REALLY EMPOWERING THEM TO HAVE INFORMATION AS THEY, AS A, AS A NAVIGATE THE TRANSIT SYSTEM, WAYFINDING AND NAVIGATION IS CRITICAL.
UM, ESPECIALLY FOR FOLKS WHO MAY NOT BE ABLE TO, UH, SEE A SIGN OF POINTS THEM IN A PARTICULAR DIRECTION.
WE CAN USE TECHNOLOGY TO GET PEOPLE, UM, TO TRAVERSE EVERY STEP OF THE SYSTEM AND GIVE THEM A SENSE OF EASE AND CONFIDENCE AS THEY MOVE THROUGH OUR SYSTEM SIDE.
BUT REGARDLESS OF ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT PIECES THAT WE DO, AND IN TERMS OF, UM, IMPROVING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, IMPROVING TECHNOLOGY, ENSURING OUR VEHICLES ARE ACCESSIBLE AND EVEN PUSHING THE ENVELOPE ON SOME OF THOSE THINGS, THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE INDIVIDUALS OUT THERE WHO ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS OUR FIXED ROUTE NETWORKS.
IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO, TO HAVE OUR METRO ACCESS SERVICE, WHICH HAS BEEN DISCUSSED HERE BEFORE AS A SAFETY NET SERVICE FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE A DISABILITY, BUT ARE UNABLE TO USE OUR FIXED ROUTE SYSTEM EITHER SUMMER, ALL THE TIME.
UM, SO DESPITE THOSE THINGS, UM, IT'S GOING TO BE CRITICAL THAT WE CONTINUE TO SERVE THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO CAN NOT USE THE SYSTEM WITH A HIGH QUALITY METRO ACCESS PARATRANSIT SERVICE, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE ACCESS AS WELL, SLIDE.
AND NOW WE WANT TO TURN ATTENTION A LITTLE BIT TO PARTNERSHIPS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
SO, UM, WE HAVE TECHNICAL PARTNERSHIPS, UM, WHETHER THAT'S THOSE WITH OUR COLLEAGUES AT THE CITY OF AUSTIN'S PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, UM, WHEN WE'RE BUILDING THINGS LIKE SIDEWALKS OR AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, WHEN WE'RE WORKING THROUGH THINGS LIKE DESIGN WITH THE METRO RAPID PROGRAM, UM, OR ANY OF THESE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS VISION ZERO, THE COUNTY OR TXDOT, UM, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE OUR TECHNICAL PARTNERS.
WE WORK THROUGH, UM, ALL, ALL QUESTIONS OF DESIGN AND, UM, PERMITTING AND ALL THOSE PIECES TOGETHER IN A COORDINATED FASHION.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, WE HAVE OUR COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDER GROUPS THAT WE TURN TO ON A REGULAR BASIS TO HEAR FROM.
SO WE HAVE OUR ACCESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE INDIVIDUALS THAT, UM, ARE APPOINTED BY YOU ALL TO, UM, PROVIDE ADVICE AND RECOMMENDATION, UM, TO BOTH THE BOARD AND STAFF ABOUT MATTERS THAT DEAL WITH ACCESSIBILITY.
AND THEN WE HAVE, UM, OTHER GROUPS IN THE COMMUNITY SUCH AS ADAPTIVE, TEXAS.
UM, SOME YOU ALL MAY BE FAMILIAR.
UM, WE'VE HAD A LONGSTANDING RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM AND WE MEET ON A QUARTERLY BASIS AS WELL AS THE CHRIS CALLED CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND THE COALITION OF TEXANS WITH DISABILITIES.
AND THIS ALLOWS US TO MAINTAIN A COMMUNICATION AND A FEEDBACK LOOP WITH THEM SO THAT WE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP.
SO WE CAN, WE CAN SHARE IDEAS HERE, WHAT WE'RE THINKING, AND THEY CAN GIVE US THE FEEDBACK THAT WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD.
LOOKING AHEAD TO THE FUTURE APOLOGIES SLIDE.
UM, WHAT COULD A SYSTEM LIGHT ACCESSIBLE SYSTEM LOOK LIKE FULL ACCESSIBLE PATHS OF TRAVEL ACROSS THE TRANSIT SYSTEM WITH ACCESSIBLE PEDESTRIAN FEATURES, VEHICLES DESIGNED FOR THE FUTURE WITH AN EYE TOWARDS ALL FUNCTIONAL ABILITIES AND OPERATING WITH PRECISION TECHNOLOGY AND CUSTOMER INFORMATION SYSTEMS THAT CAN FACILITATE UNIVERSAL ACCESS AND IMPROVE THE JOURNEY, PROVIDING INFORMATION TO CUSTOMERS, UM, ALONG THE WAY.
UM, SO I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT NOW TO, UH, INTRODUCE PETER MULLEN AND GIVE HIM AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THIS IS WORKING IN ACTUAL PRACTICE, AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO HIM TO DISCUSS THANK YOU, MARTIN, AND, UH, UH, CHEMISTRY BOARD CHAIR, COOPER,
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UH, DIRECTOR CLARK IS REALLY A PLEASURE TO BE HERE.UM, FIRST OF ALL, I JUST WANT TO SAY WE ARE SO LUCKY TO HAVE MARTIN ON THE TEAM.
UM, IT'S BEEN REALLY AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE DESIGN TEAM AS WE MOVE FORWARD, THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS OF PROJECT CONNECT AND THEN THE LIGHT RAIL LINES IN PARTICULAR.
UM, AND HE'S JUST, UH, HE'S REALLY JUST A FANTASTIC RESOURCE.
I'M LEARNING THINGS FROM HIM EVERY DAY.
UM, AND SO WE'RE REALLY, WE'RE JUST REALLY LUCKY TO HAVE HIM, UM, AS PART OF THE, OF THE TEAM.
UM, AND I, YOU KNOW, HE ALSO HELPS US REMEMBER THAT THIS, YOU KNOW, ACCESSIBILITY IS NOT A BOX FOR US TO CHECK.
IT IS A FIRST PRINCIPLE FOR US AS WE MOVE THROUGH AND, AND THE DESIGN PROCESS AND BUILD OUT THE SYSTEM, UM, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF WE DESIGN PRIMARILY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, THAT'S HOW WE ENSURE WE DESIGNED FOR EVERYBODY.
UM, AND IT'S REALLY, IT'S A WAY TO FULFILL THE PROMISE OF THIS PROGRAM.
SO, UM, IT'S REALLY, IT'S, IT'S A CORE PART OF OUR PROCESSES, THE CORE PRINCIPLE OF THE DESIGN PROCESS.
AND SO, UM, IT REALLY INFORMS EVERYTHING WE DO.
I WANT TO JUST GIVE A FEW, FEW QUICK EXAMPLES OF HOW THAT'S PLAYING OUT, UM, SPECIFICALLY WITH THE, THE ORANGE BLUE LINES.
CAN YOU GO TO THE NEXT, UM, SO THERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES WHERE WE'RE, WE'RE EXPLORING DESIGN OPTIONS.
UM, AND ONE OF THE CRITERIA THAT WE APPLY TO THE EVALUATION OF THE OPTIONS IS HOW WELL DID THEY PERFORM FROM A POINT OF VIEW AS AN ACCESSIBILITY? UM, AGAIN, NOT JUST MEETING THE LETTER OF THE LAW, BUT REALLY FULFILLING THE SPIRIT AND GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND.
UM, SO WITH PLEASANT VALLEY, RIVERSIDE, THIS IS, UH, A MULTIMODAL TRANSIT, UM, UH, CENTER OPPORTUNITY, UM, COMBINING BOTH THE BLUE LINE WITH THE PLEASANT VALLEY METRO RAPID LINE, AS WELL AS LOCAL SERVICE.
AND SO, UM, LOOKING AT ALL OF THOSE, UM, EXCHANGES BETWEEN DIFFERENT MODES AND ALSO CONNECTING TO THE COMMUNITY, UM, AND IN THIS LOCATION IN PARTICULAR, IT'S, IT'S ACTUALLY QUITE CHALLENGING BECAUSE OF THE EXTREME TOPOGRAPHY ON THE SITE, UM, FROM SOUTH TO NORTH.
AND SO FIGURING OUT HOW TO, UH, READ SHAPE THE, THE S THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE SITE IN A WAY TO MAKE IT EASIER AND MORE INTUITIVE, UH, TO NAVIGATE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IS REALLY WHAT'S DRIVING THESE OPTIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE OPTIONS.
UM, NEXT, UM, ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS THE NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER.
UM, THE ORANGE LINE IS CURRENTLY, UH, ALIGNED TO RUN IN THE CENTER OF, OF NORTH LAMAR AND THIS LOCATION.
AND SO THE QUESTION IS HOW DO WE CONNECT TO THE TRANSIT CENTER, WHICH IS LOCATED TO THE WEST OF NORTH LAMAR, UM, AND CROSS NOT ONLY, UM, THE, UH, LAMAR, BUT ALSO THE FRONTAGE ROADS AND DOING THAT AGAIN IN A WAY THAT SAYS EASY AND INTUITIVE AND CELEBRATED AS POSSIBLE.
AND SO LOOKING AT DIFFERENT OPTIONS, WHETHER IT'S, UM, RAMPS OR ELEVATORS, OR A COMBINATION OF THE TWO, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT THOSE PROCESSES ARE, UM, AND THOSE MOVEMENTS ARE, UM, UH, CELEBRATED AS POSSIBLE, AND ALSO PUT ALL PEOPLE TOGETHER.
PART OF THE, THE, THE NEED HERE IS TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ARE NOT ISOLATED AND SEPARATED, THAT EVERYBODY IS ACTUALLY TAKING THE SAME PATH.
UM, AGAIN, THIS IS AN INCLUSIVE DESIGN SOLUTION.
UM, SO THIS IS HONESTLY ONE WORD WHERE ACCESSIBILITY IS A HUGE DRIVER OF THE SOLUTION WE CAN AT OPTIONS HERE.
UM, AND WE'RE GETTING COMMUNITY FEEDBACK ON IT, AND IT'S REALLY HELPFUL, UM, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I THINK SOMETIMES WE, WE, WE ARE CORRECT IN OUR SUBSTANCES AND OTHER TIMES, NOT SO MUCH.
SO REALLY IT'S A GOOD PROCESS TO GET THE COMMUNITY'S INPUT IN THIS AS WELL.
AND THEN, UM, AT THE DRAG, UH, WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR THE SURFACE RUNNING LIGHT RAIL STATION, UM, AND THE ALIGNMENT THROUGHOUT THIS, UH, SECTION OF GUADALUPE, UM, AND THE TWO OPTIONS HAVE, HAVE A DIFFERENT CONFIGURATION REALLY RELATIVE TO THE, THE SHARED USE PATH AND THE PEDESTRIAN AND CYCLING FACILITIES.
UM, ONE THAT'S, UH, YOU KNOW, SIGNIFICANTLY MORE GENEROUS THAN OTHERS.
AND SO, UM, LOOKING AT THE TRADE-OFFS THERE IN TERMS OF, UH, BETWEEN VEHICLES AND, UH, AND PEDESTRIANS AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN PARTICULAR, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK MARTIN TOUCHED ON THE NEED TO SEPARATE, YOU KNOW, FAST MOVING, UH, FOLKS ON BIKES FROM MAYBE SLOWER MOVING FOLKS, UH, EITHER WALKING OR, OR POTENTIALLY IN WHEELCHAIRS OR OTHER ASSISTED DEVICES.
UM, AND SO LOOKING AT HOW THAT PLAYS OUT WITHIN A VERY CONSTRAINED RIGHT AWAY FOOTPRINT, UM, NEXT, AND YOU COULD SEE, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT RENDERINGS ABOUT DIFFERENT WAYS TO ACHIEVE THAT.
AND CERTAINLY THERE ARE PROS AND CONS ON BOTH SIDES AND WORK.
WE'VE, UH, PUT THIS OUT TO THE PUBLIC AND GETTING FEEDBACK ON THESE.
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THREE EXAMPLES OF HOW THE ISSUE OF ACCESSIBILITY REALLY INFORMS THE DESIGN PROCESS AND WILL BE, UM, INFORMING WHAT WE DO AS IT MOVES FORWARD.AND ANY QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS FOR MARTIN OR PETER? YEAH, I HAVE A QUESTION IN, IN, UM, IF YOU COULD JUST TAKE ONE OF THESE EXAMPLES, PETER, THAT YOU GAVE US AND THEN SPEAK TO IT.
UM, THE TWO OPTIONS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ACCESSIBILITY, UM, I'M TRYING TO TURN, I APPRECIATE, UM, EVERYTHING THAT WAS SHARED WITH US ABOUT THE DESIGN PRINCIPLES AROUND ACCESSIBILITY, BUT I'M TRYING TO DO THE TRANSLATION IN MY HEAD BETWEEN THAT AND THE, UH, OPTIONS THAT WE'RE SEEING.
SO, UH, I DON'T, YOU DON'T NEED TO GO THROUGH ALL OF IT AGAIN, BUT IF YOU COULD JUST GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE FOR ONE OF THEM.
SO THIS IMAGE IS A GREAT ONE, RIGHT? SO YOU CAN SEE THE IMAGE.
THESE ARE THE TWO OPTIONS ON THE DRAG ONE, WHICH HAS THE DEDICATED, THE HICKEY COLOR LANE, EITHER FOR BUSES ONLY, OR FOR GENERAL TRAFFIC.
IN ADDITION TO THE LIGHT RAMP OPTION B THAT'S OPTION A OPTION B IS THE LIBRARY LONELY TRANSIT MODEL, OR THE TRANSIT MALL LIGHT ONLY DEDICATED LIGHT RAIL WITH COULD, IT COULD INCLUDE BUS FACILITIES, BUT REALLY IS IT DOESN'T HAVE AN ADDITIONAL LANE.
UM, AND YOU CAN SEE OUT ON THE, ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE THAT THE PEDESTRIAN FACILITY THREE BIT KIND OF CROPPED DOWN IN THE IMAGE, UNFORTUNATELY, UM, ARE PRETTY CONSTRAINED.
UM, WHEREAS, YOU KNOW, OPTION B, HE WANTED THE BENEFITS OF THIS ONE OR THAT, UM, WE CAN HAVE REALLY SEPARATED BICYCLING AND PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES.
IT'S JUST MUCH MORE GENEROUS, UM, FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF, OF PEDESTRIANS AND PEOPLE WITH WHEELCHAIRS.
UM, SO THAT'S ONE ASPECT OF, OF THESE TWO OPTIONS THAT WHERE ACCESSIBILITY IS REALLY AN IMPORTANT FACTOR.
UM, THE OTHER ONE IS, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT, THAT, UM, THAT MARTIN TOUCHED ON AGAIN, THIS IS A DETAIL, BUT THOSE LITTLE WHITE SQUARES ON OPTION B, UM, RIGHT THROUGH NEXT TO LIKE THAT, UH, CLASSROOM BACKPACK, UM, THOSE ARE, UH, INDICATORS, RIGHT? FLASHING INDICATORS.
AGAIN, THIS IS NOT DESIGNED, BUT WE KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, UM, INDICATORS TO, UM, WARN PEDESTRIANS OF ONCOMING VEHICLES, UM, IN THIS SCENARIO.
SO THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY, AND AGAIN, AS IN TERMS OF, UM, MULTIPLE, WHETHER IT'S AUDITORY OR OTHERWISE, UM, TO, UH, TO BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, BUILD THAT INTO THE SYSTEM SO THAT WE, UM, ARE SERVING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND CREATING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT.
AND IF I COULD ADD TO THAT, UM, AS, AS PETER IS SHOWING YOU, WE'VE GONE OVER THE SUN, I'M PRETTY FAMILIAR WITH THE IMAGES, BUT THE OPTIONS WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE THE VEHICLE LANES, AS YOU SAID, ARE GENEROUS, BECAUSE THAT ALLOWS, UM, A PERSON, WHETHER THEY USE A CANE OR THEY'RE IN A WHEELCHAIR, UH, DO YOU REALLY MINIMIZE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO INTERACT, UM, WITH CYCLISTS, ESPECIALLY IN A PLACE LIKE THIS, WHERE THERE IS A LOT OF CYCLING ACTIVITY, UM, AND ALSO WITH THE SIGNALIZATION AND THE FLASHING AND ANY, ANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR AUDIBLE, UM, WHEN YOU HAVE LESS VEHICLE TRAFFIC, YOU HAVE LESS OF A NEED FOR THAT.
UM, AND THEN YOU DO AWAY WITH SOME OF THE AMBIENT NOISES THAT CAN BE A CHALLENGE, ESPECIALLY LIKE WHEN, IN THE IMAGE THAT HE SHOWED YOU WITH NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER AND TRYING TO CLAUS MAKE A CROSSING CLOSER TO 180 3, THAT PRESENTS A CHALLENGE FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE A VISUAL IMPAIRMENT, BECAUSE THEN THEY'RE HAVING TO CROSS AN INTERSECTION, EVEN IF YOU HAVE SAFETY MITIGATIONS, UM, THAT IS CONCERNING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF AUDITORY INFORMATION FILTERING IN AND AROUND THEM.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF LITTLE CONSIDERATIONS, UM, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT DESIGN OPTIONS, REDUNDANCIES FOR, DO YOU NEED AN EXTRA, UM, ELEVATOR SHAFT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO PROVIDE THAT LEVEL OF ACCESS? UM, THERE'S LOTS OF DIFFERENT CONSIDERATIONS THAT WE GO THROUGH, UM, WHEN THE, UH, ARCHITECTURAL AND DESIGN TEAM PUT THE FIRST SKETCHES TOGETHER.
AND THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING THE NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER ALSO.
CAUSE IT, UH, IF I'M UNDERSTANDING THAT, UM, SLIDE CORRECTLY, IT'S, UH, IT'S A MATTER OF, OF THE CONFIGURATION OF HOW YOU GET OVER NORTH LAMAR THERE.
UM, AND SO, UM, I'VE BEEN WONDERING ABOUT THE CHALLENGES OF, OF THE, THE OPTION THAT RUNS ALONG 180 3, EVEN WITH A WIDER OPTION.
IT SEEMS LIKE THAT MIGHT CAUSE SOME, YOU KNOW, SOME, SOME CHALLENGES THERE.
SO, SO IS THAT WHAT I'M HEARING YOU SAYING, BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO CROSS THE, UM, YOU HAVE TO CROSS THE LANE, UH, TRAFFIC, IT WOULD DEPEND ON WHERE, UM, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S ONE THING, IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE GOING PARALLEL AS OPPOSED TO, UM,
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PERPENDICULAR AND MAKING A STREET CROSSING.UM, BUT IT'S NOT JUST, I THINK THE, I THINK THE POINT IS THAT, UM, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT ACCESSIBILITY, IT'S NOT JUST MAKING SURE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING IS 30 INCHES WIDE OR, UM, IN SOME OF THE DESIGNS WHERE THE TEAM HAS, UM, MAYBE A SLOPE RATIO.
SO IF SOME RAMPING IS AT A CERTAIN THRESHOLD, BUT REALLY LOOKING AT WHAT DOES, UM, WALKING ON A RAMP LIKE THAT FEEL LIKE FOR A PERSON, UM, ARE THERE WAYS TO DESIGN SOMETHING THAT MIGHT BE GENTLER, MIGHT BE MORE CUSTOMER FRIENDLY, TAKES INTO CONSIDERATION THE NEEDS OF, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST, UH, A PERSON USING A WHEELCHAIR, BUT MAYBE SOMEONE USING A WALKER.
SO IT'S THOSE, UM, IT'S THOSE LITTLE CONSIDERATIONS, UH, THAT WE WALKED THROUGH, UH, PIECEMEAL.
IT WAS FUNNY JUST CHAIR-ELECT JUST FOR CONTEXT TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND PETER, UH, IT LOOKS TO ME IF I'M, IF I'M LOOKING AT A, YOU'VE GOT A NORTHBOUND LANE AND A SOUTHBOUND LANE ON GUADALUPE, ALL RIGHT.
UH, IF WE USED, UH, THE, THE, UH, DRAWING FOR B NOW, THE WAY I UNDERSTAND IT ARE FROM WALKING THAT PLACE SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, THERE IS NO PLACE TO THE EAST, UH, ON CAMPUS THAT WOULD ALLOW YOU THAT NORTH SOUTH ACCESS ARE, IS THERE, OR ARE WE TALKING WITH UT TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS, UH, AN ALTERNATIVE ROUTE FOR VEHICLES GOING NORTH AND SOUTH? AND THEN WHEN YOU GO TO THE WEST OF GUADALUPE, WHAT'S THE FIRST STREET THAT YOU HAVE THAT WOULD HAVE BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH ACCESS WEST OF GUADALUPE.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, ON THE EAST SIDE, YOU KNOW, YOU WOULD BE, YOU PROBABLY DON'T HAVE A NORTH SOUTH ROUTE THROUGH THE CAMPUS UNTIL YOU GET TO, YOU KNOW, TRINITY SANCHEZ SINCE OUT.
UM, AND THEN, SO WE'RE NOT, WE HAVEN'T BEEN TALKING WITH THE CAMP, THE UNIVERSITY ABOUT ADDITIONAL NORTH SOUTH ROUTES THROUGH THE CAMPUS, UM, TO THE WEST.
IT WILL BE, UH, SAN ANTONIO AND THE RACISTS, RIGHT? AND SO WE ARE WORKING WITH ATD ON LOOKING AT MODIFICATIONS TO THE DIRECTIONALITY OF SOME OF THOSE STREETS AND SOME OTHER MODIFICATIONS TO THE STREETS TO FACILITATE A MOVEMENT NORTH SOUTH MOVEMENTS.
UM, AND THAT LOCATION IS FOR BIG GENERAL PURPOSE VEHICLES, AS WELL AS FOR BUSES.
SO, SO I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN HAVING, UH, THE, THE, UM, THE NUMBER OF ROUTES THAT GO THROUGH, UH, GUADALUPE GOING NORTH AND SOUTH DURING THE, DURING THE REGULAR DAY.
AND THEN, UH, WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO REDIRECT THAT ARE, UH, WHAT, BECAUSE IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IF WE ARE, IF WE ARE REDIRECTING IT, WE'RE REDIRECTING IT TO VERY NARROW STREETS.
I MEAN, UH, SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT AS WE, AS WE, UM, LOOK DOWN THERE THAT WE'VE GOT AN ALTERNATIVE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING TO PLACES LIKE COURT, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT THE TRAVIS COUNTY'S NEW COURT, UH, BUILDING IS GOING TO BE RIGHT, UH, IS GOING TO BE RIGHT THERE OFF 17TH, AND I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
UM, SO I'D WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS AROUND IT.
THAT IS USED REGULARLY, THAT IS GOING TO BE IMPACTED IF YOU REMOVE, UH, VEHICLE TRAFFIC OFF GUADALUPE.
SO I'LL DEFER TO THE, THE SERVICE DECLINING EXPERTS ON THE CAP METRO SIDE.
BUT I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, PARALLEL TO THE LIGHT RAIL DESIGN, THERE'S A WHOLE EFFORT ABOUT SERVICE PLANNING, UH, RECOGNIZING THAT THE SERVICE PLAN IS GOING TO ADAPT AND EVOLVE WITH THE ADDITION OF THIS NEW HIGH CAPACITY SERVICE THROUGH, YOU KNOW, LIGHT RAIL GOING FORWARD INTO THE FUTURE.
SO DON'T THINK WE KNOW THE ANSWER ON WHAT THE ROUTES WILL LOOK LIKE.
UM, BUT CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, THERE WILL BE ADAPTING IS AS PART OF THE FUTURE OF THE NETWORK TO GIVE US AS BEST TO ENHANCE THE SERVICE TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.
I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE AT THE COUNTY, I LIKE A VELVET PRICE WHO'S WHO IS OUR, ONE OF OUR DISTRICT CLERKS, UH, WHOSE SETS UP THE SYSTEM FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, JURORS THAT PARTICIPATE IN THE PROCESS, UH, THAT, THAT THEY ARE AWARE AND FAMILIAR AND GIVE YOU FEEDBACK TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY CAN ABOUT THEIR NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS.
UH, I GUESS I DO I OFFICIALLY CHAIR NOW, OR CHAIR-ELECT WILL SAY CHAIR-ELECT.
UH, THAT'S WHAT THE, SO THE TEAM, PETER'S KIND OF PROBABLY THE FACE OF IT IN A LOT OF WAYS, THE WORKSHOPS WE'RE DOING COMMUNITY-WISE, WE'VE DONE A BIG ONE ON THE DRAG WORKING VERY COLLABORATIVELY BETWEEN OUR
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CITY PARTNERS.IT'S OBVIOUSLY IT'S A CAP METRO CITY ATP, MAJOR COLLABORATION WITH ALL THE PARTNERS, UTS OBVIOUSLY HEAVILY INVOLVED, LOTS OF OTHER ABUTTERS AND WHATNOT, THAT, AND THAT'S A COMPONENT TO THE NEW COURTHOUSE.
A GOOD EXAMPLE IS, UM, THAT'S BASICALLY AT THE BASE OF A NEW RAIL STATION CALLED GOVERNMENT CENTER.
UM, SO SUBWAY STATION BASICALLY RIGHT AROUND THERE, GIVE OR TAKE A BLOCKER OR SO.
AND SO ALL THAT STUFF HAS TO COME TOGETHER.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE WILL NOT BE RUNNING THE SAME BUS SERVICE TODAY IN 2030.
IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, SO LIKE THE 8 0 1 IS REPLACED BY THE ORANGE LINE, THE 8 0 3, ACTUALLY THE CONCEPT IS TO GO DOWN TO LAMAR, WE BACK UP WITH THE TRIANGLE, THE ONE IN THE THREE, MAYBE TRUNCATED IN THE MIDDLE, SOME MIGHT GO THROUGH SOME KNOTS.
SO THERE'S A PRETTY SOPHISTICATED ANALYSIS GOING ON BETWEEN NOT JUST ATV ON VEHICULAR TRAFFIC, BUT ALSO SERVICE PLANNING TO PETER'S POINT.
SO, UM, AND WE SHOULD NOT EXPECT THIS TO BE SOLVED ANYTIME IN THE NEXT WEEKS OR MONTHS, THIS IS REALLY A MULTI-YEAR KIND OF EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS.
UM, AND THE NUMBER ONE PIECE WE'RE GOING TO DO IS MANAGE CONSTRUCTION, TRAFFIC MITIGATION.
AND, UM, WE HAVE TO START GETTING VERY PREPARED FOR THAT NOW BECAUSE WE'RE ONLY SEVERAL YEARS AWAY FROM GETTING INTO CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY.
SO KIND OF BACK TO MY OLD CRAWL WALK, RUN, UH, PROCESS, CAUSE THAT'S TRULY THE WAY THIS WOULD WORK, BUT REALLY WE'RE MORE THAN WANTING TO DO WITH THIS PRESENTATION IS REALLY HIGHLIGHT.
UH, OBVIOUSLY ACCESSIBILITY IS A CORE VALUE OF AS METRO, AS AN ORGANIZATION, ALL THE BOARD AND THE STAFF FUNDAMENTALLY BELIEVE IN THAT AND WANTING TO MAKE SURE MY MARTIN'S DOING A FANTASTIC JOB AND REALLY SHOW THE INTEGRATIVE INTEGRATED APPROACH AND COLLABORATION BETWEEN CAP, METRO AND ATP ON A DAILY BASIS TO BRING THE BEST DESIGN ELEMENTS OUT FOR THE, FOR NONE OF THE CURRENT AND THE FUTURE TRANSIT SYSTEM.
SO, UH, THANKS TO THEM FOR, UH, AND TO BRING THAT FORWARD TODAY.
UM, JUST QUICKLY I WANTED TO, UM, GET AN UNDERSTANDING OF, OF THE PROCESS.
I UNDERSTAND WE'RE GETTING, UH, PUBLIC FEEDBACK.
UM, CAN YOU JUST REMIND US ALL THE TIMELINE FOR THAT AND ALSO, UM, REMIND US HOW, UH, ISSUES RELATED TO, OR QUESTIONS RELATED TO ACCESSIBILITY MIGHT BE, UM, UH, AVAILABLE IN THE FINAL DECISION-MAKING.
IN OTHER WORDS, UM, AT THE POINT OF FINAL DECISION-MAKING, THE, UH, THE PUBLIC INPUT WOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE I ASSUME.
AND WOULD THERE ALSO BE SOME KIND OF ANALYSIS OR ASSESSMENT OF HOW, UM, A PARTICULAR OPTION FAIRS FROM AN ACCESSIBILITY STANDPOINT? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT AS I STARTED TO SAY SCORE, BUT I'M SURE YOU'RE NOT SCORING THEM, BUT SOME KIND OF, UH, SOME KIND OF ASSESSMENT ABOUT WHICH OPTION MIGHT BE, UM, BETTER.
ALTHOUGH I KNOW THEY PROBABLY BOTH HAVE PROS, THEY PROBABLY ALL HAVE PROS AND CONS.
THAT'S, THAT'S ACTUALLY QUITE TRUE THAT THEY ALL HAVE PROS AND CONS.
SO I'LL DEFER TO, UM, JACKIE NIRENBERG AND THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TEAM IN TERMS OF SCHEDULES, TIMELINES, UM, AND SOME MORE OF THE SPECIFICS ON THE ENGAGEMENT PIECE AS RELATES TO THE TOTAL EFFORT.
BUT, UM, WE'VE HELD A COUPLE OF SESSIONS THAT HAVE JUST BEEN INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.
UM, SO ON THE RIVERSIDE AND PLEASANT VALLEY IMAGE THAT PETER SHOWED, UM, WE HELD A SESSION WITH, UM, STAKEHOLDERS THAT ARE INDIVIDUALS USING WHEELCHAIRS, BOTH MANUAL AND, UH, ELECTRIC, UM, WALKERS, DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT, UM, DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL ABILITIES WHERE WE SPENT TIME LOCKING THROUGH THE DESIGN, UM, SPECIFIC TO THE ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES OF, UM, OF, OF WHAT'S IN THE DESIGN, SOME OF THE ALTERNATIVES, UM, ALMOST KIND OF LIKE A FOCUS GROUP WHERE WE, WE, WE LISTEN, WE TAKE THE NOTES.
UM, SO IT'S NOT JUST, UH, MYSELF OR SOME OF PETER FOLKS, BUT ALSO SOME OF THE TECHNICAL TEAM SO THAT THEY'RE HEARING WHAT'S BEING SAID.
UM, AND THEN WE'VE HAD OTHER INDIVIDUALS, UM, WITH ALL MANNER OF DISABILITIES JOINING US IN SOME OF OUR, OUR GENERAL COMMUNITY, UM, COMMUNITY DESIGN WORKSHOPS, WHERE THEY SHARE SPECIFIC PIECES REGARDING ACCESSIBILITY.
AND THEN, UM, IN THE FUTURE HERE, WE ARE LOOKING TO, UH, CONTINUE WITH SOME OF THOSE VERY SPECIFIC, UM, COMMUNITY DESIGN WORKSHOPS THAT ENGAGE SPECIFICALLY THE ACCESSIBILITY COMMUNITY, BECAUSE IT IS HELPFUL AND WE'RE FINDING IT HELPFUL, UH, TO HAVE A STANDALONE WHERE WE CAN JUST FOCUS ON, UM, DESIGN QUESTIONS AND ISSUES THAT ARE ACCESSIBILITY FOCUSED AND GIVE THEM THE TIME THAT THEY, THAT THEY NEED.
AND THEN WE JUST, THE TECHNICAL TEAM TAKES THAT FEEDBACK.
UM, AND THEN THEY WEIGH SOME OF THOSE PROS AND CONS.
UM, AND THEN WE'LL, WE'LL FIND OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO CLOSE THE LOOP ON THOSE WITH, WITH THE COMMUNITY.
OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? JUST ONE AISLE TWO, MAYBE ONE, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION TODAY.
AND LIKE ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE
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APPRECIATED, UH, HAVING, OR AS A RESULT OF MY TIME ON THIS BOARD IS THE OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE TO EMPOWER PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT ABILITIES AND DISABILITIES, AND IT'S ALWAYS, UH, UH, TOUCHING AND, UH, UH, REALLY A GREAT SOURCE OF, UM, I GUESS, ENCOURAGEMENT AND PRIDE TO SEE FOLKS IN WHEELCHAIRS EVERY DAY, UH, WORKING THEIR WAY THROUGH OUR SYSTEM, UH, GETTING THE JOBS OR SCHOOLS OR HEALTHCARE.AND I THINK ONE, ONE OF THE SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES WE HAVE GIVEN THAT WE'RE IN AUSTIN, TEXAS WITH THE SCHOOLS FOR THE BLIND SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF, IS TO PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE, UH, IN THEIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING AND, AND THEN SUBSEQUENTLY THEIR ABILITY TO FULLY PARTICIPATE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
BUT I WONDER IF WE, AS A BOARD MIGHT WANT TO IN THE FUTURE HAVE AN ANNUAL ASSESSMENT ASSESSMENT OF OUR DOING AND ADAPTING, BECAUSE I THINK WHAT YOU DON'T MEASURE YOU DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT.
AND SO, AS WE CAN THINK OF SOME GOALS, UH, IN THE FORM OF METRICS AROUND OUR BUS STOPS ARE GENERAL ACCESSIBILITY.
I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO DO THAT, BUT I'M SURE THERE ARE SMARTER PEOPLE HERE WHO COULD HELP US THINK ABOUT, AS WE HAVE DONE IN THE PAST WITH BUS STOPS AND HAD A GOAL FOR THE QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS TO OUR BUS STOPS ASSESSING OUR OVERALL SYSTEM FROM A ACCESSIBILITY STANDPOINT AND WHAT OUR NEAR-TERM OBJECTIVES WOULD BE.
I THINK THAT'D BE SOMETHING I'D INVITE THE STAFF TO THINK ABOUT AND MAYBE BRING BACK TO US AS, UH, AN ANNUAL ASSESSMENT OF HOW WE'RE DOING ON THIS.
[VII.2. FY2021 Financial Report]
UH, CATHERINE, WITH OUR FINANCIAL REPORT.TREVELYAN OUR BOARD MEMBERS AND PRESIDENT CEO, RANDY, MR. CLARK.
UM, I WILL BE PRESENTING OUR FISCAL YEAR 2021 FINANCIAL RESULTS.
ALL RIGHT, GO AHEAD AND SKIP THE NEXT SLIDE TWO AND WE'LL START ON SLIDE THREE.
OH, DO I HAVE THIS HERE? FANTASTIC SELF SERVICE.
FIRST I'D LIKE TO LOOK AT OUR REVENUE NUMBERS FOR FISCAL YEAR 21.
THESE ARE PRELIMINARY NUMBERS AND WE ARE STILL GOING THROUGH OUR EXTERNAL AUDIT.
UM, THERE MAY STILL BE SOME SMALL ADJUSTMENTS THAT GET POSTED FOR FISCAL YEAR 21, BUT THIS IS DIRECTIONALLY CORRECT.
SO FIRST I'LL TAKE YOUR EYES TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SLIDE, WHERE WE LOOK AT TOTAL REVENUE FOR THE YEAR.
YOU'LL SEE THAT OUR BUDGETED NUMBERS FOR THE YEAR WERE $331 MILLION.
AND WE CLOSED THE YEAR IN SEPTEMBER WITH $382 MILLION.
SO WE EXCEEDED OUR BUDGET BY $50.5 MILLION, WHICH IS FANTASTIC FOR OUR AGENCY.
UM, AS WE COMPARE TO FISCAL YEAR 20, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE DID NOT EXCEED FISCAL YEAR 20 NUMBERS.
WE NEITHER BUDGETED TO NOR DID WE ACTUALLY EXCEED THOSE NUMBERS.
UH, WE CAME IN UNDER A $49.9 MILLION COMPARED TO FISCAL YEAR 20.
THERE ARE A FEW THINGS DRIVING THIS NUMBER, STARTING AT THE TOP WITH OUR SALES TAX PROCEEDS.
AND I'LL ACTUALLY GO THROUGH THESE IN MORE DETAIL IN A FUTURE SLIDE.
UM, OUR SALES TAX PROCEEDS CAME IN IN 14.8% HIGHER THAN THEY DID IN FISCAL YEAR 20.
UM, THAT COMES TO $49.7 MILLION YEAR OVER YEAR IMPROVEMENT IN SALES TAX REVENUES.
OUR PASSENGER FARES WERE DRIVEN PRIMARILY BY A COVEN OF COURSE.
AND SO WE SAW A 32.2%, UM, UH, BELOW BUDGET RIDERSHIP.
AND SO THAT CAME TO AN IMPACT OF $2.4 MILLION FOR OUR REVENUE.
UM, IF WE LOOK AT OUR OPERATING CONTRIBUTIONS AND GRANTS, UH, WE HAD ADDITIONAL 53 0 7 FUNDS CARRIED OVER FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR THAT EQUATED TO $5.3 MILLION.
AND THEN LASTLY, THERE WAS A $2.4 MILLION WHERE WE CAME IN UNDER OUR CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND GRANTS FROM FREIGHT RAIL BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT.
SO THIS GRAPH SHOWS OUR ACTUAL SALES PROCEEDS MONTH AFTER MONTH, YEAR OVER YEAR.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE RED SLIDE, YOU'LL READ COLUMNS, YOU'LL SEE THAT FISCAL YEAR 2019 GREEN IS FISCAL YEAR 20.
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THE BLUE IS FISCAL YEAR 21 TO NOTE HERE IS IF YOU LOOK AT OUR FISCAL YEAR, WHICH RUNS FROM OCTOBER 1ST THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, EACH YEAR, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, AND JANUARY THROUGH FEBRUARY, WE ACTUALLY RAN BELOW PREVIOUS YEAR FINANCIALS.BUT THEN AS THE ECONOMY RECOVERED, WHAT WE SAW IS IN MARCH THROUGH SEPTEMBER THAT WE ACTUALLY EXCEEDED, UM, THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
SO WHAT WE SEE THIS IS OF COURSE, IT'S OUR ECONOMY JUMPING BACK AND CONSUMER SPENDING.
UM, MOST NOTABLY, IF YOU LOOK AT SEPTEMBER, 2021 SALES RESULTS, UH, WE COLLECTED $30.9 MILLION VERSUS 23.4.
THE PREVIOUS YEAR THAT REPRESENTS A $7.5 MILLION INCREASE IN 32% OVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
ALL RIGHT, NOW I'LL TAKE YOU THROUGH OUR SALES TAX ROLLING AVERAGE TREND THAT SHOWS OUR ROLLING SIX MONTHS SALES TAX AVERAGES TO EVEN OUT THE SPIKES AND THE TROUGHS.
YOU'LL SEE THAT THE RECESSION IN 20, IN 2008 AND 2009 IS REPRESENTED IN THE FAR LEFT SIDE OF THE GRAPH.
AND YOU'LL SEE DECLINES FROM A COVID-19 STARTING IN MID 2019 ON THE VERY FAR, FAR, RIGHT? OF COURSE YOU'LL NOTICE THE SALES GROWTH OR SORRY, THE GROWTH RATE INCREASING AS OUR ECONOMY RECOVERED.
AND IT LOOKS LIKE THE SPIKE ON THE CHART TO THE FAR RIGHT.
AND THAT REPRESENTS AGAIN, THAT REPRESENTS OUR IMPROVED SALES TAX REVENUE RECEIPTS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR.
NEXT I'LL TAKE YOU THROUGH OPERATING EXPENSE.
UM, WE SPENT 89.7% OF OUR OPERATING BUDGET IN FISCAL YEAR 21, MUCH OF THE SAVINGS WAS FROM REDUCED BUS AND RAIL SERVICE RESULTING FROM COVID-19 AND THEREFORE THE EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH PURCHASE TRANSPORTATION, UH, BENEFITS AND FUEL EXPENSE WERE ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO US, NOT QUITE SPENDING ALL OF OUR OPERATING DOLLARS.
UM, TO NOTE, WE DID HAVE SOME SAVINGS OF $2.6 MILLION ON SALARY AND BENEFITS COMING FROM OUR ADMINISTRATIVE PENSION.
UH, WE ALSO UNDER SPENT OUR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BY $2.1 MILLION DUE TO CONSULTING AND SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE EXPENSE REDUCTIONS.
UH, WE ALSO SAW, UM, AGAIN FROM THE REDUCED BUS SERVICE OF 6.2% AND RAIL OF 20.7, WE HAD A, UH, $16.1 MILLION UNDER SPEND OF OUR BUDGET ALL IN YOU'LL SEE YEAR OVER YEAR AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF THE SLIDE THAT WE BUDGETED $278 MILLION SPENT 249.
SO WE UNDER SPEND BY 28.8 MILLION, RIGHT NEXT I'LL GO INTO OUR BUDGET TRANSFERS.
UH, EACH QUARTER WE PRESENT TO THE BOARD WHEN WE TRANSFER MONEY BETWEEN ACCOUNTS IN EXCESS OF $150,000.
AND THEN WE HAD FOUR FOR THE QUARTER.
UH, THE FIRST ONE AT THE TOP IS A TRANSFER FROM CAPITAL CONTINGENCY TO THE RE RETURN TRACK AT A RAIL MAINTENANCE FACILITY THAT WAS IN JULY.
UH, THE SECOND ONE ON OUR LIST, WE HAD A BUDGET TRANSFER AGAIN FROM CAPITOL CONTINGENCY TO SUPPORT NEW FACILITY PROJECTS THAT WAS IN JULY LATER IN JULY, WE TRANSFERRED FRONT FUNDS FROM THREE COMPLETED PROJECTS WHERE WE HAD SOME EXCESS FUNDS AND DIDN'T SPEND ALL THE MONEY WE HAD BUDGETED AND TRANSFERRED THAT OVER TO THE POSITIVE TRAIN CONTROL ON OUR RED LINE.
LASTLY, UM, THE FOURTH ONE IN JULY WAS TRANSFERRED FUNDS FROM THE METRO RAPID LINE PROJECT, ACTUALLY INTO SPECIFIC PROJECTS FOR METRO RAPID PLEASANT VALLEY AND METRO RAPID EXPO CENTER.
THOSE TOGETHER CAME TO 4.7 MILLION.
ALRIGHT, NEXT I'D LIKE TO WALK YOU THROUGH RESERVED, ALLOCATED AND RESTRICTED FUNDS.
THIS SLIDE IS A BREAKOUT OF OUR CASH AND INVESTMENT INVESTMENT HOLDINGS THAT WE HAVE.
UM, ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE, YOU'LL SEE, THESE ARE OUR RESERVE FUNDS.
THE STATUTORY OPERATING RESERVE OF $43.1 MILLION IS TWO MONTHS OF OPERATING EXPENSES OF FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
SO WE USE FISCAL YEAR 20 NUMBERS TO ESTIMATE WHAT THE FOLLOWING YEAR'S RESERVE FUND.
I'M SORRY, STATUTORY OPERATING RESERVES SHOULD BE THE BUDGET'S STABILIZATION RESERVE BEGAN IN 2016, AND WE SLOWLY BUILT UP THIS RESERVE.
AND IN THAT YEAR WITH $7 MILLION LATER IN 16 AND 17 WITH AN ADDITIONAL FUNDS AND AGAIN IN 2018, WHAT YOU WON'T SEE ON THE GRAPH ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE IS A CAPITAL EXPANSION
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FUND.THAT WAS, THAT WAS STARTED IN 2018.
AND AS WE PUT MONEY INTO THE CAPITAL EXPANSION FUND AND THE MONEY WAS TRANSFERRED IN JUNE OF 21 OVER TO AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERS FOR PROJECT CONNECT TO HELP THEM FUND THEIR PROGRAM.
ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, WE HAVE OUR ALLOCATED AND RESTRICTED FUNDS.
WE HAVE $6.4 MILLION SET ASIDE FOR THE CITY OF AUSTIN MOBILITY PROGRAM.
AND WE HAVE ANOTHER $157 MILLION THAT WE HAVE SET ASIDE FOR FUTURE CAPITAL BUDGET PROJECTS, WHICH ARE INCLUDED IN OUR FIVE-YEAR CIP PLAN.
ALL RIGHT, THE NEXT SLIDE, I'M GOING TO WALK YOU THROUGH OUR STATEMENT OF REVENUE EXPENSES AND CHANGE THAT POSITION.
YOU'LL JUST NOTICE IF WE LOOK AT THESE IN BUCKETS, WE HAVE OUR OPERATING REVENUE AT THE TOP NEXT, OUR OPERATING EXPENSES.
WE SUBTRACT THOSE OUT AND WE GET A NET POSITION OF OPERATING INCOME OR LOSS.
WE WILL TAKE OUT THE NON-OPERATING REVENUE AND EXPENSES AND WE COME TO A NET CHANGE IN POSITION.
UM, SO YOU'LL SEE OUR OPERATING REVENUE.
WE CAME IN AT 94.8% OF OUR BUDGET WITH $23.9 MILLION FOR OPERATING EXPENSES.
WE CAME IN 91.1% OF OUR BUDGET, $299 MILLION.
ACTUALLY LET'S ROUND THAT TO 300 MILLION.
AND THEN AT THE BOTTOM, YOU'LL SEE, WE HAD, UM, NON-OPERATING REVENUE OF 90.4% TO BUDGET OR $272 MILLION FOR A NET CHANGE POSITION OF NEGATIVE 4.4.
THESE WERE OUR BUDGETED VARIANCES BY DEPARTMENT.
I WILL NOT WALK YOU THROUGH EACH OF THESE, BUT JUST THE LARGER ONES TO TAKE NOTE.
I'LL CALL OUT ABOUT FIVE OF THE LARGER ONES HERE.
SO STARTING AT THE TOP IN DEPARTMENT 100, THAT'S OUR NON ALLOCATED BENEFITS.
WE HAD $2.3 MILLION IN SAVINGS IN OUR ADMIN AND BARGAIN PENSION EXPENSES BASED ON THE ACTUARY REPORTS THAT ARE PROVIDED TO US, UM, IN PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT, 1 41, WE HAD A $1.6 MILLION LABOR SAVINGS FROM ATB, 80 APD STAFFING, SHORTAGES, AND SAVINGS IN THE SECURITY SERVICES, UH, FOR OUR RIDE SHARE THAT'S DEPARTMENT 2 75, WE HAD PURCHASED TRANSPORTATION SAVINGS OF $2.4 MILLION DUE TO FEWER VANPOOLS OPERATING.
AND AGAIN, MOST OF THAT IS DUE TO COVID FOR OUR COMMUTER RAIL.
WE HAD A SAVINGS IN PURCHASE TRANSPORTATION OF $3.4 MILLION, UM, FROM 20.7 FEWER HOURS FROM OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE OVERSIGHT.
WE ALSO HAD A SAVINGS OF $9.1 MILLION IN PURCHASE TRANSPORTATION AND ALSO FUEL SAVINGS ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER ROUTES.
ALL IN YOU'LL SEE, AT THE BOTTOM, WE HAD AN OVERALL SAVINGS OF $28.8 MILLION.
HAVE A FEW MORE SLIDES, UM, SHOULD OR WHOEVER'S IN CHARGE SHOULD TO ASK QUESTIONS NOW OR, OKAY, GO AHEAD AND FINISH FIRST.
I HAVE, LET'S SEE, THIS IS THE LAST SLIDE.
UM, THE CAPITAL PROJECTS JUST BRIEFLY TO GO THROUGH THIS, YOU'LL SEE ON THIS SLIDE THAT WE ACTUALLY DID NOT SPEND, UM, OUR CAPITAL BUDGET, AND THAT WAS PRIMARILY DRIVEN BY TWO LARGE TRANSACTIONS.
UM, EXCUSE ME, YOU'LL SEE US HERE AT FACILITIES.
UM, WE HAD $17 MILLION MOVE TO A CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION.
THIS IS FOR A PROJECT THAT WE JOINED WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN, UM, FOR THE, UM, DOWNTOWN STATION.
AND SO WE HAD SAVINGS THAT THE CITY OF AUSTIN WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR.
SO THAT INCLUDES THINGS SUCH AS THE BRIDGE ROADWAY, PLUMBING, LIGHTING, ET CETERA.
AND THEN SOME SHARED COSTS SUCH AS DEMOLITION, EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL AND SOME TRAFFIC CONTROL.
THE OTHER BIG THING THAT WAS DRIVING THE VARIANCE HERE IS 30 POINT $31.1 MILLION, UM, IN EXPENSES THAT WERE TRANSFERRED OVER TO ATP, THOSE EXPENSES WERE INCURRED FROM JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER WHEN THE BUDGET WAS BUILT, IT WAS CONSIDERED THAT CAPITAL METRO WOULD INCUR THOSE EXPENSES.
SO THAT'S YOU ADD THOSE TWO BACK IN TO THE NUMBER BECAUSE THEY WERE TAKEN OUT.
WE WERE ACTUALLY CLOSER TO 72% OF OUR FULL YEAR BUDGETS SPENT.
THE QUESTION ABOUT, AND I THINK I KNOW THE ANSWER.
I JUST WANT TO ASK YOU, SO, UM, THE 36%,
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WHICH I BELIEVE IS RIDESHARE.SO IF THIS IS THE VAN POOLS, RIGHT.
AND SO THE THINKING IS, OR THE, NOT THE THINKING, BUT WHAT WE EXPECT IS HAPPENING, THERE'S, THERE'S FEWER VAN POOLS, UM, OPERATING THAN BUDGETED.
SO DO WE THINK THAT'S THE PANDEMIC OR DO WE HAVE ANY INDICATION OF WHAT'S GOING ON THERE? YES.
SO THE VARIANCE IS YOU SEE WHERE, WHEN WE HAD TO MODIFY SERVICE BASED ON PANDEMIC LEVELS, STAFFING LEVELS, OF COURSE WE DIDN'T SPEND THE MONEY ON.
SO YOU WOULD SEE IT COME UP IN VARIANCE VERSUS WHAT WAS INITIALLY BUDGETED.
OH, SO THAT WAS NOT BECAUSE OF CUSTOMER DEMAND.
IT WAS BECAUSE OF STAFFING ISSUES.
WELL, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT CONTRIBUTED TO THIS, BUT STAFFING WAS ONE OF THE BIG ONES AND STAFFING DRIVES A LOT OF OUR COSTS.
AND THEN THERE ARE OTHER ASSOCIATED COSTS, OF COURSE, WITH RUNNING THE SERVICE, FUEL USAGE, UM, MAINTENANCE ON THE VEHICLES.
UH, PERHAPS AT SOME POINT IT BE USEFUL TO JUST HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THAT PROGRAM IS GOING.
WE DON'T NEED TO DO THAT NOW, BUT ON THE RIDESHARE SPECIFICALLY, IF THAT'S OKAY.
MAYBE WHAT WE CAN DO IS COORDINATE WITH, UH, I GUESS VICE OR, UH, OPERATIONS CAN MAKE THE CHAIR ELECT STRATTON TO BRING A LOT OF TITLES TODAY, UH, BRINGING THAT FORWARD.
CAUSE THAT'S A, BE A LOGICAL PUBLIC PLACE TO HAVE THAT.
I THINK WHAT CATHERINE IS ALSO GETTING IS ON THE, ON THE, ON THE BOSS SIDE, I THINK WE KIND OF, AND DEMAND RESPONSE A LITTLE BIT IS, UH, WE WOULD LOVE TO DRIVE MORE SERVICE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY RIGHT NOW, SPECIFICALLY ON BOSTON.
I THINK THE COMMUNITY REALLY NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE NOT, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO SAVE MONEY IN THE BUS CATEGORY.
WE WANT TO ACTUALLY DELIVER MORE SERVICE.
AND, UM, WE, WE HAVE A STAFFING, QUITE FRANKLY, A STAFFING ISSUE THAT MOST OF AMERICA IS GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW.
UM, ALL INDUSTRIES AND TRANSIT, ESPECIALLY, UH, DOTTIE AND HER TEAM ARE WORKING EVERY DAY TO INCREASE TRAINING.
I THINK WE HAVE 36 INDIVIDUALS, I BELIEVE IN TRAINING RIGHT NOW.
UH, WE HAVE A PRETTY BIG GAP TO BUILD BACK.
HOPEFULLY AS OMICRON GOES AWAY, THEN WE CAN ACTUALLY STOP HAVING AS MANY PEOPLE IN QUARANTINE.
UH, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF OBVIOUSLY POSITIVE CASES LIKE EVERYWHERE AROUND THE CITY AND THE COUNTRY, UH, LUCKILY NO S UH, SEVERE ILLNESS OR ISSUES.
OUR VACCINATION RATES HAVE GONE UP CONSIDERABLY.
AND, UH, WE JUST GOT TO GET SOME PEOPLE BACK TO BE HAVING REGULAR, CONSISTENT, UH, STAFFING TO DELIVER MORE SERVICE.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING ON THAT EVERY DAY AND WE APPRECIATE HOW PATIENT THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN, UH, WITH AUSTIN, UH, QUITE FRANKLY, MOST, MOST SERVICES RIGHT NOW.
SO, UH, BUT MAYBE WE'LL BRING TO OPERATIONS COMMITTEE, VICE CHAIR.
OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? VERY WELL.
[VII.3. Public Safety Update]
GARDNER WITH OUR PUBLIC SAFETY UPDATE.UH, CHAIRMAN WADE COOPER, CHAIRMAN ELECT TREVELYAN FORD MEMBERS, PRESIDENT AND CEO, RANDY CLARK.
I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO SLOW DOWN AND JUST SPEAK CLEARLY.
I KNOW I TEND TO SPEAK LIKE RANDY.
SOMETIMES I HAVE TO CATCH MYSELF, BUT I'M REALLY EXCITED.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO CONFUSE THE TWO OF Y'ALL SAID THAT.
Y UH, UH, NO, BUT I'M REALLY EXCITED TO BE BEFORE YOU THIS AFTERNOON, UH, WITH THIS UPDATE IN PARTICULAR, BECAUSE WE HAVE A REAL, UH, FEEL-GOOD LIFE-CHANGING STORY AND SOME INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE BE DIRECTLY, UH, BEHIND IT, UH, TO INTRODUCE YOU TO, BUT FIRST, LET ME GET THIS GOING.
AND SO, UH, WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS A BIT ON OUR COMMUNITY INTERVENTION PROGRAM.
UH, OUR SPECIALISTS HAVE BEEN ACTIVE, UH, OUT AND ABOUT IN THE COMMUNITY SINCE OCTOBER OF LAST YEAR, DOING A WONDERFUL JOB.
YOU KNOW, THAT THE PROGRAM IS, UH, FRESH IT'S BRAND NEW IT'S, UH, INNOVATIVE IN THAT, UH, NOT MANY AGENCIES.
I THINK MAYBE TWO OTHER AGENCIES ARE TAKING A STAB AT IT.
AND, UH, WE ARE, UH, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF OUR SENIOR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, UH, DOWEL JAMAIL, REALLY TAKING THE BULL BY THE HORNS.
AND WE'RE VERY HAPPY WITH SOME OF THE OUTCOMES AND RELATIONSHIPS THAT HAVE COME OUT OF THIS.
SO IF I CAN, I'M JUST GOING TO SHARE WITH YOU, UH, THE EXAMPLE
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THAT WE HAVE BEFORE YOU IT'S.UH, FOR ME, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S ALMOST A TEAR JERKER IN THAT.
UM, HERE'S AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS ENCOUNTERED, UH, AT ONE OF OUR FACILITIES AND ASKED IF HE NEEDED SOME ASSISTANCE AND THERE BEGAN THE CONVERSATION AND THE ACTIONS TAKEN BY OUR TEAM, UM, SHORTLY AFTER, AND THE CONNECTIONS MADE TO GET THIS PERSON INTO A BETTER SITUATION.
AND SO WITH THAT, I THINK OF NOT JUST THE INDIVIDUAL THAT'S BEEN, UH, ASSISTED, BUT I ALSO THINK ABOUT HOW MANY OTHER SEEDS HAVE BEEN PLANTED AS A RESULT.
UH, WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY FAMILY MEMBERS MAY HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS PERSON, HOPING WELL FOR THIS PERSON, FRIENDS, YOU NAME IT.
AND SO THAT'S WHY I'M A VERY HAPPY TODAY TO PRESENT THIS A LITTLE HAPPIER THAN NORMAL.
I'M ALWAYS HAPPY TO PRESENT AN UPDATE, BUT THIS ONE REALLY GRABS UP MY, UH, MY HEARTSTRINGS.
SO IF I COULD JUST TAKE A MOMENT TO, UH, INTRODUCE TO YOU QUICKLY OUR, UH, COMMUNITY INTERVENTION SPECIALIST, UH, I'M GOING TO GET HER NAME WRONG.
HA UH, HOLLY, A WING, IF YOU WOULD STAND UP, PLEASE IS, UH, AND CARLOS SILVA, THEY ARE BLUSHING.
UH, THEY ARE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR, UM, BUILDING NURTURING THE PROGRAM AND ACTUALLY TAKING THE ACTION THAT WE SEE ON THIS SLIDE.
SO I'M VERY GRATEFUL FOR, UH, WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IN LIGHT OF THE TIME.
I'LL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
AND SO, UH, AS A RESULT OF THEIR HARD WORK, WE'VE ESTABLISHED A NUMBER OF, UH, UH, VITAL, UM, RELATIONSHIPS AROUND THE REGION, INCLUDING MY CHURCH IS LISTED UP THERE.
UM, BUT, UH, WE'RE VERY HAPPY ABOUT THOSE RELATIONSHIPS BECAUSE THEY PROVIDE AVENUES OF SUCCESS FOR THOSE THAT WE, UH, THAT WE ENGAGE AT OUR FACILITIES AND, UH, ON OUR VEHICLES.
AND SO AS WAS MENTIONED EARLIER, WE HAVE BEEN MEETING WITH, UH, SEVERAL LEADERS AROUND THE REGION, GETTING THEIR OPINIONS ON SEVERAL DIFFERENT THINGS REGARDING, UH, THE HIRING OF A NEW POLICE CHIEF AND STARTING A NEW, UH, TRANSIT POLICE DEPARTMENT.
AND SO WHAT YOU SEE BEFORE YOU ON THIS LINE OR A NUMBER OF CHARACTERISTICS THAT YOU MAY HAVE SEEN BEFORE IN A PREVIOUS, UH, UPDATE, BUT THIS IS JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE CONTINUING OUR EFFORTS.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE HAD TWO MEETINGS LAST WEEK, ONE WITH A POLICE CHIEF AND ROUND ROCK AND, AND ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL WHO IS, UH, AN ACTIVIST HERE LOCALLY, UH, JUST TO GET, UH, VARYING OPINIONS ABOUT WHAT IT IS THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT IT IS THEY, UH, MAY BELIEVE MAY BE CONCERNING TO THEM.
UH, SO, UH, ADDING THE POWER HAS BEEN A LOCKSTEP AND MAKING THESE ARRANGEMENTS FOR US AND WE'VE, WE BELIEVE WE'D BEEN HAVING A LOT OF SUCCESS AS A RESULT.
AND SO THE PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEE, AS EDNA ALLUDED TO EARLY OR SAID EARLIER, FIRST MEETING WAS ON THE 13TH.
AND, UH, I THINK IT WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL IN THAT IT WAS VERY DIVERSE, UM, UH, FROM A, UH, A, UM, UH, ETHNIC, UH, PERSPECTIVE BACKGROUNDS PERSPECTIVE.
UM, THERE ARE MANY INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD SOME GREAT FEEDBACK AND INPUT, UH, AS TO WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE MOVING FORWARD.
AND WE WENT OVER A NUMBER OF TOPICS THAT WENT OVER VERY WELL.
AND SO, UH, WE'VE SHARED THIS WITH YOU BEFORE.
IT'S OUR TIMELINE AND PROCESS.
IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS, UH, BE GLAD TO, AND YOU KNOW, SIR, NO, NO CALL, I'M SORRY.
SO I SAW YOU MOVING TOWARD THE, UH, AND SO IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS, BE GLAD TO TAKE THEM NOW.
SO THE NEXT UPDATE YOU'LL BE RECEIVING WILL BE NEXT MONTH.
UH, THE FOCUS THEN WOULD BE OUR PA UH, PUBLIC SAFETY AMBASSADOR PROGRAM AND HOW WELL IT'S DOING, WE'VE RECENTLY LAUNCHED, UM, INTO OUR SYSTEM WITH EIGHT INDIVIDUALS.
AND SO I'LL HAVE A, UH, COMPREHENSIVE UPDATE, UH, FOR YOU ON THAT, INCLUDING MILESTONES
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TASKS, ET CETERA.WOULD YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS TO ALL PRESIDENT CLARK WANTED TO MAKE A COMMENT? REMEMBER KITCHEN? YOU HAVE A QUESTION OR, OH, UH, I WAS JUST GOING SAY, UH, THANK YOU TO THE, UM, CIS, I GUESS, THANK YOU BOTH VERY MUCH.
IT'S, IT'S THAT KIND OF PROACTIVE WORK THAT IS SO IMPORTANT BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IS PEOPLE GET SHUFFLED ALONG.
INSTEAD OF, INSTEAD OF TAKE CHECKING WITH GOING WITH THEM THROUGH ALL STEPS OF THE PROCESS AND THEN CHECKING UP ON THEM AFTERWARDS.
SO I'M REALLY, REALLY EXCITED AND PLEASED TO SEE THAT.
AND, YOU KNOW, I JUST LIKE TO SAY THIS IN MY 35 YEARS, PLUS BEING IN THIS INDUSTRY, UH, THE RAILROAD INDUSTRY IS QUITE DIFFERENT, ESPECIALLY THEN WHERE WE DIDN'T QUITE THE, THE, THE ACTION WAS IF A PERSON WAS AT YOUR FACILITY THAT DIDN'T BELONG, YOU CALL THE POLICE AND YOU MOVE THEM ALONG.
SO I WANT TO THANK, UH, OUR PRESIDENT AND CEO FOR HIS VISION IN TAKING A DIFFERENT APPROACH.
THAT WOULD BE A BIT OF A SOFTER APPROACH, BUT YET MEANINGFUL AND SUBSTANTIAL AND LIFE CHANGING.
SO OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, PRESIDENT CLARK.
AND THANK YOU FOR THAT COMMENT.
UH, I JUST WANT TO REALLY, AGAIN, TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK CARLOS AND, UH, HOLLY FOR ALL THE WORK THEY'RE DOING OUT THERE EVERY DAY.
IT IS AN INCREDIBLY IMPACTFUL, AND THIS STORY, UH, YOU KNOW, SENIOR STAFF, WE TALKED ABOUT LAST WEEK, IT ALMOST MAKES YOU TINGLE A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE, UH, THEY LITERALLY CHANGE SOMEONE'S LIFE.
AND I THINK I W I JUST WANT TO REINFORCE TO THE BOARD THE STAFF'S COMMITMENT TO WORKING WITH YOU ALL THAT.
AGAIN, I KNOW THERE'S BEEN SOME CONVERSATIONS ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY, OBVIOUSLY IN AUSTIN, BUT IN AMERICA.
AND I THINK THIS REINFORCES WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH.
WE WANT INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE HIGHLY SKILLED OUT THERE DOING SOCIAL WORK, CRISIS INTERVENTION.
WE ARE RAMPING UP HEAVILY OUR PUBLIC, UH, SAFETY AMBASSADOR PROGRAMS, CIVILIAN DEESCALATION, TRAINING, EYES AND EARS.
YOU KNOW, SOME OF THOSE, I THINK GARDENER SAID, WELL, MORE APT TO GIVE A DIRECTIONS IN A CITATION.
AND THEN THAT THIRD PILLAR IS THE TRANSIT POLICE, UH, ELEMENT.
AND, YOU KNOW, REALLY TRY TO COMMIT THE COMMUNITY.
WE'RE NOT TRYING TO CREATE A LARGE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
MILITARISTIC POLICE WERE, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS THERE TO SUPPORT THE OTHER ELEMENTS OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY PROGRAM WHEN, AND IF A SITUATION EVOLVES, THAT'S BEYOND THE CIVILIAN SIDE.
SO I JUST WANT TO GIVE A LOT OF KUDOS GARDNER DARRYL, THE ENTIRE TEAM HAS THAT, THAT WHOLE VISION.
AND WE'VE BEEN ACTUALLY RECOGNIZED ACROSS THE INDUSTRY.
NOW, APTA HAS ENGAGED US MULTIPLE TIMES KIND OF SAY, WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY LEADING THE WAY PUBLIC SAFETY SHOULD EVOLVE IN, IN, IN URBAN TRANSPORTATION.
SO I'M PROUD OF THE TEAM AND, UH, ANY WAY WE CAN BE HELPING THE GREATER INDUSTRY, I THINK IS GREAT.
SO JUST KUDOS TO THE STAFF ON THAT.
THANK YOU FOR THAT GREAT REPORT.
THANK YOU ALL ABOUT TO PROUD TO HAVE YOU WITH US.
WE, UH, ARE GOING TO FORGO FOR TIMING PURPOSES, DISCUSSION ITEM, NUMBER FOUR, THE FACILITY PROGRAMMING OVERVIEW, AND, UH, DEFER THAT.
[VIII.1. President & CEO Report]
OUR PRESIDENT AND CEO REPORT WE'LL THEN GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.AND FOR THOSE, UH, STAFF MEMBERS, WE WILL NOT BE DOING, UH, ANYTHING FURTHER FROM THE DAYAS OTHER THAN A JOURNEY WHEN WE RETURNED FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION.
SO DON'T HANG AROUND WAITING FOR SOMETHING.
UH, UH, WANT TO HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF VERY, VERY QUICK THINGS AND I WANT TO SPEND SOME TIME, UH, TALKING THROUGH, I THINK SOMEONE EARLIER WE'LL CALL IT THE FUNNEL, AND I THINK IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT FOR THIS BOARD TO, AND I'D LOVE A CONVERSATION STYLE ABOUT YOUR THOUGHTS, ABOUT HOW, HOW THE PROJECT CONNECT PROCESS EVOLVES.
UM, UM, WITH SOME DECISION MAKING LATER THIS YEAR, FIRST, I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THREE REALLY, UH, GREAT THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED OVER SINCE WE MET LAST TIME.
ONE IS OUR GROUNDBREAKING ON OUR NEW BROADMORE RAIL STATION.
A GREAT PICTURE THERE, YOU'LL SEE A, WE WERE JOINED BY BOARD MEMBER POOL WAS FRONT AND CENTER, ACTUALLY FRONT AND CENTER, RIGHT IN THE PICTURE ACTUALLY ON THAT ONE TOO.
AND A BOARD MEMBER STRATTON WAS ALSO THERE AS WELL, VARIETY OF OTHER COMMUNITY OFFICIALS AND, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UH, LEADERSHIP AND, UH, OUR BUSINESS PARTNERS.
SO REALLY GREAT PROJECT, PRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP, A GREAT WAY TO BUILD FOR THE FUTURE OF, UH, OF AUSTIN AND, UH, USING PARTNERSHIP DOLLARS TO DO THAT.
SO, UH, JUST REALLY GREAT TO GET THAT TO A LONG WAY TO PROJECT OFF THE GROUND.
AND, UH, AS I MENTIONED IN A LETTER TO THE BOARD LAST WEEK, I WANT TO GIVE KUDOS TO BOARD MEMBER POOL FOR HER TENACITY AND LEADERSHIP OVER YEARS TO GET TO THAT SPOT.
I'M GLAD WE WERE ABLE TO DO THAT.
UH, NEXT THING I WANNA RECOGNIZE SAM SERGEANT SAM GOT NAMED A FAST TRACKER, UH, AND THAT IS ON RAILWAY
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AGE MAGAZINE, 25, UNDER 40, AND THAT'S ACROSS THE ENTIRE RAIL INDUSTRY, NOT JUST TRANSIT AFRAID.AND, UM, AND, UH, THE BEST THING IS WHEN, WHEN SAM GOT RECOGNIZED FOR THAT, UH, CAP, METRO FOUND A PICTURE OF SAM AS A FOUR YEAR OLD WITH A LITTLE CONDUCTOR HAT ON.
AND, UH, I THINK SAM HAS BEEN AT IT SINCE THEN.
UM, SO IT JUST GOES TO, SAM'S JUST BEYOND COMMITMENT TO, UH, HIS COMMUNITY.
HE WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE AND HOW MUCH WORK HE PUTS INTO CAP METRO TRANSIT AND CONTRIBUTING EVERY DAY.
UH, ALSO I MENTIONED, UH, WE PUT A NOTE OUT TO THE BOARD.
I THINK IT WAS FRIDAY THAT FTA AWARDED US A NEW GRANT FOR $750,000.
AND, UM, ALTHOUGH SOMETIMES IN SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE MEDIA, YOU MIGHT SEE THAT FOR THE ORANGE LINE, THAT THAT'S ACTUALLY NOT THE CASE.
IT'S FOR THE ORANGE LINE ETO D PLANNING.
WE EXPECT TO GET SOME ORANGE LINE AWARDS WITH A LOT MORE ZEROS BEHIND THEM, 750,000.
UH, BUT THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT GRANT.
IT GOES TO THE GRANT THAT WE ALREADY RECEIVED, I BELIEVE IS FOR 900,000 ON THE NORTHERN SECTION OF THE ONLINE AND THE BLUE LINE.
AND THE YEAR BEFORE WE GOT, UH, ETO PLANNING MONEY FOR THE GREEN LINE, UH, THAT WE'RE WORKING THROUGH.
SO THANK YOU TO THE FTA AND THANK YOU TO OUR CITY PARTNERS.
THIS IS A A HUNDRED PERCENT COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN CAP METRO AND THE CITY REALLY FRAMING UP HOW THE BEST WAY TO DO, UH, EQUITY, EQUITABLE TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT ALONG OUR NEW, UH, MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT HERE IN AUSTIN.
SO THE PIECE I, UH, OUTSIDE OF THOSE UPDATES, I WANT TO REALLY SPEND SOME TIME HERE WITH, WITH THE BOARD, WALKING THROUGH WHAT WE'RE FRAMING UP AS THE 2022 PROGRAM DECISION MAKING PROCESS.
AND SO I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THIS LAST WEEK WITH THE, UH, ATP BOARD AND DURING THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR UPDATE.
AND I THINK IT'S, UH, I KNOW WE'RE WORKING, UH, SOME STAFF ARE WORKING WITH THE CHAIRS OF BOTH BOARDS AND THE MAYOR TO FIND, UH, A TRI-PARTY DATE TO GET THE GROUP, UH, GROUPS TOGETHER.
QUITE FRANKLY, I THINK ONE OF THE STRONGEST THINGS WE'VE DONE OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS IS HAVING OUR JOINT MEETINGS.
THE JOINT MEETINGS ARE REALLY BRING COLLABORATION AND UNDERSTANDING AND WORKING TOWARDS EVERYTHING TOGETHER.
UH, STAFF FEELS THAT THE ONLY WAY WE'RE GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL IS THAT WE'RE ALL PULLING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AS A, AS A TEAM.
AND SO I THOUGHT WHAT WE COULD HIGHLIGHT IS, UM, WORKING TOWARDS THE PROGRAM AND I DON'T WANT TO REALLY NECESSARILY GET INTO WHO'S DOING WHAT NECESSARILY.
I THINK THAT THE JOINT WORK SESSION HAS TO PROBABLY FILTER THAT OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE, BUT LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT, MAYBE ED, IF YOU COULD DO THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO THIS IS, AND I THINK A BOARD MEMBER STRATTON MENTIONED, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE CALLING THIS THE FUNNEL AND, UH, INTERNALLY, UH, FROM A STAFF POINT OF VIEW.
AND I THINK THE CONCEPT HERE WE WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT IS THERE'S A BUNCH OF DESIGN INPUTS THAT WE HAVE TO THINK THROUGH AND WORK THROUGH THERE'S ECONOMIC AND RESOURCE INPUTS AND THERE'S COMMUNITY INPUTS.
AND IF WE COULD, THERE'D BE ACROSS THE RIGHT EDGE, IF YOU WANT IT TO, YOU COULD ADD THE VALUES AND THE VALUES WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR YEARS RELATED TO PROJECT CONNECTOR, EQUITY, SUSTAINABILITY, AND INNOVATION.
SO HOW ARE WE GOING TO INNOVATIVELY DELIVER THE SYSTEM? UH, WHAT ARE THE PURPOSES WE WANT IT TO BE OBVIOUSLY ENVIRONMENTALLY AND FISCALLY SUSTAINABLE, AND WE WANT TO MAKE AS EQUITABLE AS POSSIBLE, OUR COMMUNITY.
SO YOU HAVE THESE VARIOUS TOPICS, AND THOSE ARE THINGS LIKE TUNNEL LENGTH.
UH, WHEN WE SAY LRT DESIGN, MOSTLY WHAT WE MEAN THERE IS THE UNDERGROUND STATIONS.
UH, THE ONES ON THE SURFACE ARE A LITTLE EASIER TO MANAGE THROUGH AND SPACE CONSIDERATIONS, MULTIMODAL COORDINATION, AGAIN, DIFFERENT MODES.
AND HOW DO YOU USE SPACE EFFECTIVELY? THAT GOES ALSO WITH THE COMPLETE STREETS PIECE.
AND THERE'S JUST, THERE'S AN ONION HERE, NOT EVERYTHING, MOST, EVERYTHING INTERACTS WITH ONE OF THE OTHER ELEMENTS WE'RE JUST TRYING TO CREATE ALMOST LIKE, UH, BUCKETS OR TOPICS.
UH, UTILITY COORDINATION IS AN ENORMOUS ELEMENT OF RAIL PROJECTS.
UH, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE MORE COMPLICATED BUT NECESSARY COMPONENTS, UH, AS WE ALL KNOW, AND AUSTIN'S PROBABLY THE EXTRA HIGHLIGHT ON THIS SUPPLY CHAIN AND INFLATION IS INCREDIBLY HIGH THIS YEAR, UM, WITH, WITH COVID.
AND WE'RE DEFINITELY SEEING THAT IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, AND WE'RE SEEING THAT IN MATERIALS AND COMMODITIES REAL ESTATE AND RIGHT AWAY WHILE THERE'S PROBABLY NOT A CITY IN AMERICA THAT IS ACTUALLY EXPERIENCING REAL ESTATE.
UM, YOU KNOW, AS A REGION REAL ESTATE COSTS ARE GOING UP SUBSTANTIALLY.
I THINK IT WAS SOMETHING A 28% LAST YEAR, YEAR OVER YEAR REAL ESTATE INCREASE JUST IN THE CITY OR TRAVIS COUNTY.
I CAN'T REMEMBER WHICH ONE I SAW THAT WAY RIGHT AWAY, THE NEED OF RIGHT AWAY IS TRULY DICTATED BY HOW MUCH COMPLETE STREETS WE WERE DOING.
AND SO THE MORE COMPLETE STREETS WE WANT TO DO THE MORE RIGHT OF WAY WE NEED, THE MORE RIGHT AWAY WE NEED, THE MORE REAL ESTATE WE HAVE TO BUY IN THE MORE REAL ESTATE WE HAVE TO BUY, THE COST GOES UP.
SO ALL THESE THINGS ARE KIND OF CONNECTED TOGETHER.
WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE THIS PRESIDENT BIDEN'S INFRASTRUCTURE BILL WENT THROUGH THERE'S NEW OPPORTUNITIES.
WE'RE HOPING TO WORK THROUGH TO GET MORE, MORE FUNDING, UH, BACK HERE LOCALLY OUT OF THOSE PROGRAMS, ERIC IS WORKING ON A FEDERAL STRATEGY TO THINK
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THROUGH ALL THAT, TO BRING BACK TO THE BOARD.AND, UM, AND THE PARTNERSHIP LATER THIS YEAR WORKFORCE IN DVE BAIL ABILITY IS GOING TO BE A SERIOUS, SERIOUS COMPONENT FOR US MOVING FORWARD.
UH, IF WE HAD UNLIMITED MONEY AND LOOKED TO HANDLE CONSTRUCTION DISRUPTION, WE STILL ARE.
I THINK YESTERDAY I SAW THAT WE'RE BACK UNDER 3% UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE AUSTIN METRO AREA, IF NOT THE TOP, ONE OF THE TOP TWO OR THREE IN THE COUNTRY, UH, IF ANYONE'S TRYING TO HIRE RIGHT NOW, THEY UNDERSTAND IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND PEOPLE, UH, WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING 35.
WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING, UH, I THINK, YOU KNOW, MOPAC SOUTH LOOKS LIKE THAT MIGHT BE MOVING FORWARD.
THERE'S THE AIRPORT EXPANSION PLAN, UM, ON AND ON AND ON AND LET ALONE ALL THE PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT WORKFORCE IS GOING TO BE A SIGNIFICANT ISSUE FOR US AS A REGION FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS.
UH, FOR SURE, DBE AVAILABILITY, WE HAVE TO WORK TO DEVELOP SOME DB, UM, SKILL SETS RELATED TO THE TYPE OF NEW WORK WE'LL BE DOING BECAUSE WE DON'T DO A LOT OF THE RAIL BUILT TODAY.
AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT'S HAPPENING, HOW TO ANALYZE CAPITAL FOR THE BEST ONM, UH, RETURN ON INVESTMENT.
SO IS IT WORTH SPENDING MORE ON CAPITAL FOR CERTAIN THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, OVER 10, 15, 20 YEARS, IT'S ACTUALLY MORE BENEFICIAL? HOW DO WE MANAGE OUR COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS OUTREACH? YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE, UH, SMALL BUSINESS MITIGATION IS A GREAT, IS A GREAT EXAMPLE.
HOW MUCH DISRUPTION IS THE COMMUNITY WILLING TO HANDLE IT ONCE? AND THAT USUALLY MEANS TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC IMPACTS.
UH, HOW DO WE TAKE ALL THAT INPUT FROM OUR ADVISOR COMMITTEES, THE TECHNICAL ONES ON THE ATP SIDE, BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, OUR COMMITTEES HERE AT CAP METRO AND THE CITY BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, AND THEN THE MOBILITY BENEFITS WHO GETS THE BENEFITS AND WHEN, HOW DOES THAT ALL KIND OF COME TOGETHER? SO AGAIN, A LOT OF THOSE ARE IN INTERDEPENDENT, BUT WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THE TEAM IS WORKING THROUGH.
SO I'M NOT ASKING THE BOARD TO NECESSARILY GET INTO THESE PARTICULAR TOPICS.
WE WILL SPEND TIME OVER, OVER, OVER THE NEXT SIX, EIGHT MONTHS GOING THROUGH SOME, AND THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY THINGS THAT COME TO A BOARD FOR DECISION PROCESS, BUT IT'S THINGS THAT ARE OUT THERE THAT WE HAVE TO WORK THROUGH THIS SUMMER.
WE'RE LABELING THINGS, CALL PROGRAM DECISION PRODUCTS.
AND SO THE TEAM IS WORKING ON 30% LIGHT RAIL DESIGN, AND MOST OF THE FINANCIAL IMPACT OF THE PROGRAM IS LIGHT RAIL PROGRAM BASED.
SO THAT'S WHERE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PIECES ARE, AND WE'RE DOING REALLY WELL ON OUR OTHER PIECES.
SO EVERYTHING'S KIND OF MOVING ALONG AS IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE, BUT THE 30% LIGHT RAIL DESIGN AND THE ASSOCIATED COST ESTIMATES WILL BE READY FOR THE SUMMER.
AT THE SAME TIME THAT HAPPENS, OUR DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT WILL BE READY AND WE WILL DO A PUBLIC HEARING AS PART OF A, I BELIEVE IT'S A 45 DAY NEPA NOTICE AT THE SAME TIME, AN UPDATE TO OUR INTEGRATED FINANCIAL MODEL WILL BE DONE.
AND THAT WILL INCLUDE THE ELEMENTS THAT WE THINK WE CAN DO EITHER HAVE A FEDERAL STRATEGY AND WHERE WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET MORE FEDERAL FUNDING IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PROGRAM.
UH, AS BOARD MEMBERS STRATTON MENTIONED AT, AT OFFICER TRADES, A PARTNERSHIP, A CONTRACT WAS ISSUED YESTERDAY LAST WEEK FOR, UH, INITIAL RISK AND CAN CONTRACTING PROCUREMENT METHODOLOGY.
SO THOSE ARE THINGS LIKE DESIGN BUILD, UH, UH, CONTRACTOR RISK, UH, THERE'S DIFFERENT METHODOLOGIES.
UM, AND THEN THAT ALL KIND OF HAS TO GET INTO WHAT WE IN OUR INDUSTRY WOULD KIND OF MORE TALK ABOUT A SEGMENT PHASING PLAN.
AND I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT TERM JUST FOR A SECOND.
AND I WANT TO REALLY, UM, AND I DON'T THINK, AND I OWN KIND OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS.
I DON'T KNOW IF WE'VE TALKED ENOUGH ABOUT THAT ELEMENT YET.
AND I WANT TO JUST, YOU KNOW, HIGHLIGHT THAT AND DAVE COUCH AND I SPENT SOME TIME OVER THE HOLIDAYS, AND I THINK IT CAME TO A REALIZATION THAT SOME OF US THAT HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN LARGER RAIL COMPONENTS PROBABLY HAVEN'T EXPLAINED THROUGH THE BOARDS.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY TO THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE, YET THE KIND OF THE MEGA PROJECTS THAT WE'RE BUILDING.
UM, I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE SET THE EXPECTATION THAT, YOU KNOW, THE ORANGE LINE IS NOT MONOLITHIC.
IT'S NOT NECESSARILY LIKE, OH, WE HAVE THE ORANGE LINE AND WE DO ONE CONTRACT AND WE HIT ONE BUTTON AND THE ORANGE LINE IS DONE.
IT'S NOT LIKE A, SAY A VERTICAL CONSTRUCTION WHERE YOU MAY OPEN A BUILDING OF SEG, SAY FIVE, 10 FLOORS.
AND THE WHOLE BUILDING OPENS AT ONCE.
NOT THAT, THAT ACTUALLY MAYBE IS THE BEST ANALOGY ANYMORE EITHER, BUT IT'S NOT THAT TYPE OF THING.
AND SO THE ORANGE LINE MAY BE FIVE CONTRACTS.
WE MAY HAVE EARLY ON UTILITIES, AND WE MAY HAVE VEHICLES THAT ARE DIFFERENT FROM CIVIL.
WE MIGHT HAVE TUNNELING, THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM SURFACE.
UH, WE MAY HAVE ORANGE LINE NORTH, WHICH IS DIFFERENT THAN ORANGE LINE SOUTH, ET CETERA, ET CETERA, THAT, UH, ERNST AND YOUNG ANALYSIS GETS FED THROUGH THE 30% DESIGN, THE D AND I S AND THE INTEGRATION FINANCIAL MODEL.
SO A GOOD EXAMPLE MIGHT BE THAT WE ARE RUNNING IN OUR WORLD.
WE WOULD CALL WHEN WE TURNED SERVICE ON, WE CALL IT REVENUE SERVICE, MAYBE FOR THE EASE OF THE CONVERSATION, WE'LL CALL IT PASSENGER SERVICE BECAUSE WHEN CONSTRUCTION IS DONE TO THE AVERAGE PERSON.
SO IF YOU'RE GOING DOWN RIVERSIDE IN SAY 7, 8, 10 YEARS, IT DOESN'T MATTER.
YOU MAY SEE TRAINS OPERATING, BUT THOSE TRAINS FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, WE'LL
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HAVE NO, NO, NO PASSENGERS ON BOARD, ANY OF THOSE TRAINS.SO THE COMMISSIONING AND TESTING PROCESS COULD BE EIGHT TO EIGHT MONTHS TO A YEAR.
SO THAT THROUGH THE SYSTEM PROCESS, VERY DETAILED, HIGHLY REGULATED SYSTEM SAFETY AND CERTIFICATION PROCESS.
UM, SO, AND, AND WHAT WE WOULD CALL BURNING OF THE VEHICLES.
SO A GOOD EXAMPLE MIGHT BE, WE MIGHT GET TO A POINT WHERE WE COULD DO REVENUE SERVICE OR PASSENGER SERVICE SAY, AND I'LL JUST USE THIS PURELY ILLUSTRATIVE, NOT, I'M NOT TRYING TO BE HELD TO THIS, JUST TRYING TO USE AN EXAMPLE FROM SAY THE AIRPORT TO SOUTH WATERFRONT, THAT SEGMENT MAY BE LIKE, OKAY, PEOPLE ARE USING THOSE TRAINS AND WE'RE GOING BACK AND FORTH AT THE SAME TIME.
THE NEXT PART OF THAT ALIGNMENT SAY WATERFRONT TO REPUBLIC SQUARE MIGHT BE IN ACCEPTANCE TESTING BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF SYSTEMS IN THE UNDERGROUND SECTION OF VENTILATION AND FIRE CONTROLS AND ALL THOSE THINGS FOR ANOTHER EIGHT MONTHS.
MEANWHILE, THE ORANGE LINE NORTH COULD BE AN, YOU KNOW, TWO THIRDS AWAY DATA CONSTRUCTION IN ORANGE LINE SOUTH.
WE ARE JUST ABOUT TO BREAK GROUND.
OBVIOUSLY EVERY SINGLE THING CAN'T BE BUILT AT THE EXACT SAME TIME AND SOCIAL.
WE HAVE A SEQUENCE PLAN, WHICH IS ALL ABOUT HOW DO WE ROLL THESE PROJECTS OUT IN WHAT ORDER, BUT FROM A SEGMENTATION PROCESS, WE HAVE TO THINK THROUGH HOW THE CONTRACTS WILL EFFECTUATE GETTING THOSE PROJECTS DONE AND HOW THEY START UP IN DIFFERENT PROCESSES.
SO I SAY ALL THAT TO SAY, WE GOT THESE PRODUCTS THAT WE HAVE TO KIND OF DEVELOP, AND STAFF IS DOING A GREAT JOB.
AND WE GOT A LOT OF CONSULTANTS.
THE FIREPOWER ON THIS THING IS PRETTY HEAVY.
WE'RE GOING TO NEED MORE RESOURCES.
UH, AND WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE RAMPING UP EVERY DAY, BUT THAT LEADS TO KIND OF BASICALLY IN THE EARLY FALL TIMEFRAME, SOME STAFFING STAFF WILL BRING RECOMMENDATIONS AND, AND I WANT TO BACKTRACK AND SAY, ALL OF THIS IS BASED ON OUR SCHEDULE THAT WE WERE DIRECTED FROM THE START.
AND THEN WE, WE TOOK TO THE VOTERS, WHICH IS TO REALLY MOVE THIS PROGRAM THE WAY WE WANT.
WE NEED OUR GET OUR FULL FUNDING GRANT AGREEMENT IN 2024 TO GET OUR FULL FUNDING GRANT AGREEMENT FOR THE ORANGE AND BLUE LINES.
WE REALLY NEED OUR RECORD OF DECISION.
SO THAT ENVIRONMENTAL 30, THE ENVIRONMENTAL NEPA PROCESS RECORD DECISION NEXT WINTER TO GET TO OUR RECORD OF DECISION.
NEXT WINTER, WE NEED TO GET CONCURRENCE ON OUR 30% DESIGN, WHICH MOST OF US WOULD REFER TO A SCOPE.
WE GOT TO GET THAT DECIDED BY THE EARLY FALL AND THAT, SO EVERYTHING KIND OF CONNECTS TOGETHER.
SO OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, STAFF BELIEVES THESE THINGS ARE JOINT DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES, RIGHT? SO THE CITY OF AUSTIN OWNS THE STREETS.
METRO IS THE TRANSIT AUTHORITY AND THE US AS A GROUP ALL SET UP ATP TO BE THAT HOLDER OF THE FIDUCIARY FUNDS AND DELIVER THOSE CONTRACTS.
AND SO STAFF, AND WHEN, I MEAN STAFF, THE GOAL HERE IS UNITED STAFF OF THE THREE ORGANIZATIONS ARE BRINGING TOGETHER THE POINT OF VIEW OF HAVING A 30% DESIGN CONCURRED APPROVED, AUTHORIZED DIFFERENT WORD CHOICE IN THERE BY THE THREE BODIES AND THE SEGMENT PHASING PLAN.
SO AGAIN, WE, WE THROUGH THE ELECTION PROCESS AND THE BOARDS DID A GREAT JOB SETTING UP THE LOCAL PERVERT ALTERNATIVES.
SO WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT STREETS DO WE WANT TO DO THIS STUFF ON? IS IT RAIL OR BUS? THEN WE GOT TO, OKAY, LET'S ASK THE VOTERS TO LOCALLY FUND THIS.
NOW 30% DESIGN AND THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE THAT AS SCOPE, HERE'S TRULY WHAT WE'RE DOING AND HOW COMPLICATED AND HOW MUCH IT'S GOING TO COST FROM 30 TO A HUNDRED, IT'S THAT WHOLE DESIGN PROCESS TO GET TO THE FINISH AND BUILDING IT AND HOW TO WORK WITH REAL ESTATE AND NEIGHBORS AND TRAFFIC AND MULTIMODAL PLANNING AND YOU NAME IT.
AND SO WE REALLY GOT TO GET TO SOME LOCKED-IN KIND OF GROUNDING ON WHAT THE SCOPE IS, IF YOU WILL, UH, BY EARLY FALL.
SO THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE, YOU KNOW, STAFF'S NOT GOING TO BE BRINGING TO THIS BOARD ATP BOARD, THE CITY COUNCIL, LIKE, DO YOU WANT THE TUNNEL HERE OR HERE? IT'S NOT GOING TO BE THAT IT'S GOING TO BE 30% AS A PACKAGE TO SAY, HERE ARE ALL.
AND SO WHAT WE REALLY WANT TO DO IS OVER THE NEXT, SAY, 5, 6, 8 MONTHS, REALLY GO THROUGH A LOT OF THESE COMPLICATED TOPICS, DAYLIGHT, THE MUCH MORE FOR THE COMMUNITY.
WE WANT TO DO THIS IN A VERY TRANSPARENT WAY.
AND EACH ONE OF THEM WILL HAVE IMPACTS TO OTHER PIECES.
SO TUNNELING ON SOUTH CONGRESS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE.
ACTUALLY, IF I CAN DO I'LL PUT THE NEXT SLIDE KIND OF GIVES SOME INPUTS.
DECISION-MAKING THIS SLIDE WAS NOT REALLY SUPPOSED TO BE REVIEWED AS MUCH AS WE'RE JUST TRYING TO SHOW THAT THE THINGS ARE CONNECTED.
THE NEXT SLIDE IS PROBABLY WORTH TAKING A MOMENT HERE TO GO THROUGH.
THESE ARE STAFF'S VERSIONS OF PROBABLY THE 10 BIGGEST LIGHT RAIL DESIGN, UH, KIND OF THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO SOLVE, UH, TO MOVE THE PROGRAM FORWARD.
AND WHAT'S REALLY CRITICAL HERE IS THERE.
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I, AND I, AND I CAN'T OVERSTATE THIS.THERE'S GOING TO BE HUNDREDS OF DECISIONS AND THINGS CHANGING OVER THE NEXT 5, 6, 8 YEARS.
THE KEY FOR US AS AN ORGANIZATION, BOTH CAP METRO, THE BOARD, THE STAFF, AND ALSO OUR PARTNERS IS TO REALLY BE THE MOST CONCERNED WITH THE, WITH THE TOPICS OF SIGNIFICANCE BECAUSE THEY DRIVE THE WHOLE PROGRAM.
SO WE ARE GOING TO HAVE THINGS THAT ARE A MILLION DOLLARS AND $4 MILLION COME UP OVER THE YEARS AND WE'LL HAVE TO JUST WORK THROUGH THOSE.
UM, THESE THOUGH ARE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS COULD BE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND THEY THEREFORE THEY DRIVE THE ENTIRE PROGRAM DECISION PROCESS.
AND SO SOUTH CONGRESS TUNNEL LENGTH IS A GREAT EXAMPLE.
WE HAVE MAJOR ISSUES WITH UTILITIES AND OTHER CONFLICTS, THEREFORE GOING ACROSS THE RIVER IN A TUNNEL, YOU GET TO AUDITORIUM SHORES, YOU HAVE A 500 YEAR FLOOD PLAIN.
THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO BE ELEVATED THROUGH RIVERSIDE ON THE SOUTH CONGRESS.
THERE'S A CREEK AT SOUTH CONGRESS IN RIVERSIDE.
THEN THERE'S CAPITOL VIEW CORRIDOR ON SOUTH CONGRESS ITSELF.
SO THERE'S ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE, VERY SIGNIFICANT REGULATORY OR ENGINEERING COMPLICATIONS THAT WE HAVE TO WORK THROUGH.
AND WE WANT TO DO THAT PUBLICLY.
SO NOT NECESSARILY TO MAKE A DECISION, BUT TO SHOW THE COMMUNITY HOW THE PROCESS EVOLVES, GUADALUPE, THE TUNNEL LENGTH OF NORTH OR SOUTH OF MLK.
THERE IS IN THE NEPA PROCESS, WE'RE CARRYING THE TUNNEL NORTH OF MLK BECAUSE THE CITY PARTNERS REALLY WANT TO HAVE THE TUNNEL GO LONGER BECAUSE THAT WILL HELP THE OVERALL TRAFFIC NETWORK CAP.
METRO, I THINK THEIR CAB METRO'S POINT OF VIEW IS OBVIOUSLY THE MORE TUNNEL, SAFER, MORE RELIABLE THE SYSTEM WILL BE.
OF COURSE, THAT MEANS MORE MONEY.
AND SO IN THE NEPA PROCESS, WE'RE CARRYING NORTH OF MLK AS PART OF THE NEPA PROCESS, BUT WE HAVE A SIDE AISLE ALTERNATIVE, NOT PART OF NEPA THAT DAVE AND HIS TEAM WORKING WITH DADI, UH, UM, ON THE CAP METRO SIDE, IN THE NICU AND HER TEAM ON THE SEASIDE, THAT WILL BE BASICALLY, HERE'S AN ALTERNATIVE DESIGN AND COST.
SO WHEN WE GET TO THE SUMMER, IF WE NEED SOME OPTIONALITY, THOSE THINGS COULD EXIST AND WE CAN ALWAYS DO A SUPPLEMENTAL, THE NEPA AFTER RECORD OF DECISION TO AMEND THAT THERE'S THINGS OF THAT NATURE, SUBWAY CONCOURSE ON FOURTH STREET, HOW EXTENSIVE DO WE WANT THE CONCOURSE TO BE? HOW DOES THAT INTEGRATE TO OTHER BUILDINGS? THESE THINGS DRIVE COSTS, THE CRESTVIEW STATION AREA AND ENORMOUS DESIGN ISSUE AND OPPORTUNITY RIGHT NOW, CAP METRO RUNS RED LINE, BUT ALSO FREIGHT SERVICE THROUGH CRESTVIEW ON THE SURFACE WE ARE DOING NOW ON THE CAP METRO SITE, OUTSIDE OF THE NORTHERN LINE NEPA PROCESS, AN INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS AND ENGINEERING OF WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO GRADE SEPARATE THAT WE'RE TALKING, YOU KNOW, WE GOTTA BE EYES WIDE OPEN.
THAT'S SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO DO THAT.
QUITE FRANKLY, IN MY OPINION, THAT IS A REGIONAL PROJECT OF SIGNIFICANCE THAT PROBABLY CAMPO AND OTHERS SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN AT THE RIGHT TIME.
BUT WE HAVE TO LAY THAT OUT TOGETHER AND WE APPRECIATE CAMPOS LATEST GRANT.
THAT'S HELPED MOVE THAT PROCESS.
AND I KNOW A VICE CHAIR LIKE KITCHEN.
YOU, YOU WERE HEAVILY INVOLVED IN THAT.
BUT I USE THAT AS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THAT HAS TO COME TOGETHER.
PETER MENTIONED THE DRAG EARLIER TODAY, WE HAVE A BLUE LINE BRIDGE CONVERSATION, UH, WHERE WE CITE THE RAIL MAINTENANCE FACILITY.
WE'RE DOING A LOT OF WORK THERE AND THEN ULTIMATELY OUR VEHICLES AND SYSTEMS. AND I WOULD SAY THERE WERE, AGAIN, WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR BOARD DIRECTION ON A VEHICLE IS WHAT WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE COMMUNITY INTO THE PROCESS IS WHAT ARE THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE VEHICLES THAT MATTER MOST LOW FLOOR AS AN EXAMPLE, WHAT TYPE OF AMENITIES AND ELECTRONIC CUSTOMER SERVICE KIND OF FEATURES.
AND SO THESE THINGS COMING TOGETHER, AGAIN, WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO TAKE ANYTHING TO THE BOARD OR ANY OF THE BOARDS OR COUNCIL ON SAYING, PLEASE DECIDE, DO YOU WANT THIS ACROSS FOR YOU? OR THAT ACROSS VIEW, IT'S, HERE'S A PACKAGE FOR 30% DESIGN AND HERE'S HOW WE'VE MANAGED AS A TEAM OVER THAT LAST, THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, HOW DO WE TRADE OFF THESE KINDS OF THINGS AND ULTIMATELY SAY IN THE SEGMENT OPERATING PLAN, HOW DO WE ACTUALLY START PUTTING SHOVELS IN THE GROUND AND HOW IT ROLLS OUT OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS? AND SO, UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
IT IS, UM, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ON THE NEXT SLIDE.
THEY MIGHT BE INFORMATIVE, BUT IT'S BASICALLY, I ASKED THIS AT THE ATP BOARD AS WELL.
IT'S WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF WAYS THIS BOARD WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THESE TOPICS TO WORK THROUGH THESE TOPICS? AGAIN, NOT, I WOULD SAY IT FRAMING THIS WAY, KNOWING ULTIMATELY STAFF HOLISTICALLY, WE'LL BE BRINGING A 30% DESIGN FOR A VOTE.
AND, AND AGAIN, I THINK THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, IN MY OPINION, AS YOUR, AS YOUR CEO WOULD BE THE VOTE IS ACTUALLY NOT LEGALLY REQUIRED PER SE, ON THE FEDERAL PROCESS.
WE THINK THOUGH IT'S UNBELIEVABLY IMPORTANT FROM A COMMUNITY POINT OF VIEW AND A PARTNERSHIP POINT OF VIEW THAT THE THREE PARTNERS ARE ALL ALIGNED TOGETHER BECAUSE THERE'S NO WAY THIS PROGRAM WILL BE SUCCESSFUL LONGTERM.
IF THE THREE PARTNERS AREN'T ALIGNED, THEY ALL HAD THEIR INDIVIDUAL ROLES IN THE PARTNERSHIP, BUT THEY, THE MORE WE CAN BE ALIGNED AND WORKING AS A TEAM, AND WE'VE DONE THAT GREAT AS THE LAST FEW YEARS SHOW, THE BETTER THIS PROGRAM COULD ROLL OUT.
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FUTURE BOARD MEMBERS, FUTURE COUNCIL MEMBERS, FUTURE ATB ATP BOARD MEMBERS TO SHOW THAT UNIFIED APPROACH OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, BECAUSE EVERYTHING GO PIECE CAB METRO NEEDS TO OPERATE, BUT THE CITY OWNS THE RIGHT OF WAY AND ADP HAS TO DO THE CONTRACT.SO ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, WE ALL HAVE TO KIND OF GET THERE AS THAT TEAM.
AND SO I THROW THOSE KINDS OF QUESTIONS OR ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, BUT, UM, REALLY WHAT'S THE BEST WAY FOR THIS BOARD TO DIGEST THIS INFORMATION, THINK THROUGH THIS INFORMATION, HOW CAN WE HELP REALLY GET THE BOARD PREPARED FOR EARLY FALL TO BE THE MOST ENGAGED? AND, YOU KNOW, WE, WE THINK THAT COULD BE BOARD MEETINGS, IT COULD BE WORKSHOPS OR TRI-PARTY WORKSHOPS.
IT COULD BE MEMOS REPORTS, PANELS WITH EXPERTS.
WE, WE KNOW WE WANT TO DO SOME DOMESTIC TOURS.
WE ACTUALLY WANNA DO SOME INTERNATIONAL TOURS TO, TO LOOK AT VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY AND SOME TUMBLING PRACTICES.
UM, BUT, BUT STAFF IS WORKING INCREDIBLY WELL.
I WANT TO REALLY THANK THE CITY STAFF WORKING VERY POSITIVELY WITH THE CAP METRO AND ATP STAFFS.
UH, DOTTIE IS ACTUALLY FRAMING UP THE IDEA OF REALLY KIND OF LIKE A NICK HAS AT THE CITY OF PROJECT CONNECT OFFICE, CREATING THAT OVER ON THE CAP METRO SIDE.
SO BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT DONE A GOOD ENOUGH JOB AT THAT ON THE CAP METRO SIDE, WE'RE KIND OF DOING THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMALLY JUST BECAUSE WE'RE MOVING SO QUICKLY.
AND SO HAVING THAT REAL GOOD STRUCTURE WHERE, YOU KNOW, DAVE AND PETER, JOHN OF THE WORLD AT ATP CAN REALLY HAVE THE KIND OF EQUIVALENTS, YOU KNOW, AND HE CAN HER TEAM AT THE CITY AND WHO, YOU KNOW, SOME POSITION AT CAP METRO TO REALLY SEE THAT UNIFIED, UH, SENIOR LEADERSHIP KIND OF ROLES.
SO, UM, I GUESS I'LL STOP THERE CHAIR.
I KNEW THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF TALK EVEN FOR ME, BUT I REALLY WANT TO GROUND EVERYONE IN THE IMPORTANT PROCESS AHEAD AND REALLY MAKE SURE THE PUBLIC SEES HOW THIS PROCESS IS GOING TO UNFOLD.
I'LL JUST ASK A VERY QUICK QUESTION CAUSE WE COULD ALL TALK FOR HOURS ABOUT THIS, BUT, UM, UH, I, I JUST WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU AND I'M SURE YOU'RE ALREADY DOING IT, BUT, UM, AS YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT TO BRING TO THE, UM, AND THIS DISCUSSION MOVING FORWARD THAT WE'LL HAVE WITH ALL THE BOARDS, UH, I'M GOING TO WANT TO UNDERSTAND FROM THE CAP METRO SIDE AND FROM THE ATP SIDE, THE, ANY IMPACT ON ANY OF THESE MAJOR DECISIONS OR 30% DESIGN ON THE ANTI-DISPLACEMENT WORK THAT THE CITY IS TO BE, UH, IS IN THE PROCESS OF DOING NOW, OBVIOUSLY THAT'S THE CITY'S RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE THAT HAPPENS, BUT YOU ALL MAY BE ABLE TO GIVE THE CITY A HEADS UP AND GIVE THE BOARDS A HEADS UP ON SOME THINGS THAT COULD BE IMPACTED.
WHEN I LOOK AT THIS LIST OF A, THROUGH J THERE'S, NOTHING IMMEDIATELY APPARENT TO ME THAT WOULD IMPACT THE WORK ON ANTI-DISPLACEMENT, BUT I MAY BE MISSING SOME THINGS.
SO I JUST WANT TO HAVE SOME FURTHER CONVERSATION AND MAKE SURE THAT, UM, WHEN WE START DOWN THE ROAD OF TALKING ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS, WE'RE 30% DESIGN.
WE'RE ALSO TALKING ABOUT WHAT THE CITY NEEDS TO BE DOING ON ANTI-DISPLACEMENT TO BE SURE THAT THEY'RE IN SYNC.
AND WE'LL, WE'LL WANT YOUR, YOUR ASSISTANCE ON THAT.
OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS I'LL MAKE ONE, WHICH IS, I THINK IT IS VITALLY IMPORTANT THAT ALL THREE BOARDS SPEND AS MUCH TIME AS WE CAN OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS TOGETHER, AS WE DID IN THE PAST, LEARNING ABOUT THIS AND PREPARING OURSELVES TO MAKE DECISIONS.
I THINK, UH, OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS AT THE ATP BOARD ARE DRINKING FROM A FIRE HOSE IN EVERY RESPECT.
AND, UH, AS YOU CAN SEE, THEY HAVE HUGE DECISIONS TO MAKE, BUT THE INTERDEPENDENCIES OF THOSE DECISIONS, UH, ARE VERY CONSEQUENTIAL AND, UH, IN SOME RESPECTS, DIFFICULT TO GET AHOLD OF MOST OF US HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS THING FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS IN THE ATP BOARD, A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR.
AND SO I THINK FOR OUR POINT ENCOURAGING JOINT MEETINGS OF ALL THREE BOARDS AS FREQUENTLY AS POSSIBLE, UH, I THINK WOULD BE A REALLY GOOD THING FOR US AS WE DID BEFORE TO UNDERSTAND ALL THESE DEPENDENCIES, THE 10 BIG ISSUES, HOW IT IMPACTS THE CITY'S JURISDICTION RELATED TO THE RIGHTS AWAY OR DISPLACEMENT, HOW IT IMPACTS OUR FUTURE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE RESPONSIBILITIES AND OUR ROLE AS A FEDERAL SPONSOR.
SO, UH, WE W WHEN WE WERE, UM, I THINK TOGETHER LAST TALKED ABOUT HAVING THOSE MEETINGS.
I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW I'VE BEEN IN CONVERSATION WITH THE MAYOR AND, UH, CHAIR CASTRO DE BERRERA TO TRY TO GET THESE ORGANIZED.
AND AS SOON AS WE CAN STAFF, I KNOW IS TRYING TO FIND SOME DATES THAT WILL WORK AT THE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY, BUT I'M PUSHING AND I'M SURE MY SUCCESSOR
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WILL PUSH EQUALLY HARD NUMBER POOL.DID WE HAVE A FEBRUARY 18 DATE SELECTED AS A WHOLE? I BELIEVE, UH, WHAT I'VE HEARD AS EARLY AS THIS MORNING IS THAT THEY NOW CANNOT WORK FOR CERTAIN PEOPLE.
SO, UM, STAFF, I KNOW ALL THREE BODIES STAFF IS WORKING ON THAT.
SO, UH, I THINK STAFF'S POINT OF VIEW IS THE EARLIER WE CAN DO IT THE BETTER, BUT OBVIOUSLY I'M, I'M VERY DEFERENTIAL TO THE, UH, THE THREE CHAIRS.
I'LL CALL THEM OUT OF THE CHAIR FOR LACK OF A BETTER ON THIS, IN THIS SCENARIO.
IT'S NOT EASY TRYING TO SCHEDULE THAT MANY PEOPLE.
AND EVEN IF MANY OF THEM AREN'T ELECTED OFFICIALS, IT JUST MAKES IT REALLY HARD.
WELL, WE'LL KEEP, WE'LL KEEP, UH, PERSISTENT I'M.
I THINK IF MY 2 CENTS WOULD BE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET EVERYONE FOR EVERY MEETING AND THAT'S PROBABLY OKAY.
WE CAN'T TAKE 15 PEOPLE TO A PLACE ANYWAY.
UM, AND THEN KIND OF MORE DIVIDE AND CONQUER A LITTLE BIT.
AND SOME PEOPLE MIGHT BE REALLY INTERESTED IN THE TELLING STUFF.
AND OTHER PEOPLE MIGHT BE REALLY INTERESTED IN, YOU KNOW, CRESTVIEW OR SOME OTHER TOPIC AREA.
AND, UM, THE EARLIER WE CAN KIND OF, AND THE MORE FREQUENT, I THINK THAT THE CHAIRS POINT, UM, YOU KNOW, I GIVE A LOT OF CREDIT HERE TO THIS BOARD AND THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF TIME.
YOU ALL DEDICATED OVER TWO YEAR PERIOD OF MEETING.
AND I THINK THAT LED TO OUR TEAM'S SUCCESS AND THE MORE WE CAN DO THAT, IT ALSO HELPS THE PUBLIC SEE THE PROCESS IN A WAY THAT IS DIFFERENT THAN AN INDIVIDUAL MEETING.
AND IT'S REALLY GOOD FOR STAFF TO NOT GO FROM MEETING, TO MEETING, TO MEETING, TRYING TO DECIPHER THE DIFFERENT BOARDS AND AUTHORITIES.
AND, UM, AGAIN, I, THERE'S JUST A LOT OF POSITIVE OF GETTING EVERYONE TOGETHER FOR THAT.
IF WE CAN CHAIR, I THINK YOU'RE ALIVE.
I JUST THINK IT'S, UH, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT, UH, THAT WE ALL UNDERSTAND OUR ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.
WE WERE DESIGNED TO DO CERTAIN THINGS, AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE KNOW, UH, WHERE OUR JOBS AND INFLUENCE INFLUENCE ARE NECESSARY AND IMPORTANT, AND THAT WE KNOW THE THINGS THAT ARE ON OUR PLATE AND THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT ON OUR PLATE.
UM, I LIKED THE IDEA THAT WE HAVE A PRIORITY THINGS IN ORDER, BUT SOMETIMES IT'S GOOD TO, UH, AS WE CAN DEVELOP IT, LOOK AT THE ENTIRE WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE.
SO, SO THAT WE CAN, UH, LAY OUT ALL THE DISCRETE KNOWNS, THERE WILL CERTAINLY BE SOME UNKNOWNS, UH, THAT WILL BE ADDED ALONG THE WAY AS TO ANY TIME YOU DIG ANYTHING ANYWHERE THERE'S SOMETHING UNKNOWN, UH, THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PREPARE FOR.
BUT I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT, THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHETHER WE HAVE TO BUILD A HYBRID PROCESS BECAUSE WE CAN'T GET EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM OR ARE, UH, OR WHETHER WE HAVE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES WORKING TOGETHER, UH, IT IS, UM, TO ME, BRIEFING AT THIS LEVEL IS CRITICAL TO GETTING COMPLEX PROJECTS DONE, TO HAVE EVERYBODY BE ABLE TO, UH, LOOK AT IT IN BLACK AND WHITE, BECAUSE OFTENTIMES WHEN IT IS DESCRIBED TO A PERSON, SOMEBODY IS ON AUTOMATIC PILOT AND THEY'RE WORKING IN THEIR EXPERTISE AND THEIR VAGUE THAT THEY'RE LEAVING OUT THAT ARE NECESSARY FOR OTHERS WHERE THAT'S NOT THEIR EXPERTISE.
SO I LIKE THE IDEA OF, OF, UH, JOINT TEAM BRIEFINGS, BUT GIVEN THE FACT THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM AT ONE TIME, LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW WE, UM, HOW WE BUILD A HYBRID SYSTEM AND HOW WE BRIEF AS MUCH IN BLACK AND WHITE AS WE POSSIBLY CAN.
SO IF SOMEONE CAN'T MAKE IT FOR ANY GIVEN REASON, UH, THAT WE STILL HAVE A BRIEFING DOCUMENT THERE THAT THEY CAN GO THROUGH AND ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT AND SQUARE THINGS UP WITH THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THEIR TEAM.
UM, AND I'M HOPING THAT THE MEMO THAT I, SORRY, I'M LOSING TRACK OF WEEKS AND DAYS HERE.
UH, I THINK IT WAS LAST TUESDAY.
IT MIGHT'VE BEEN LAST MONDAY THAT I SENT OUT TO THIS BOARD, THE CITY COUNCIL AND ATP BOARD JUST DOING THAT TRI-PARTY MEMO OF STITCHING US ALL TOGETHER.
UM, HOPEFULLY THAT WILL BE A NEW WAY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE BRINGING EVERYONE TOGETHER IN THE PROCESS, BUT THAT WAS THE, CERTAINLY THE INTENT OF THAT OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS.
UH, NOW BOARD, UH, WE'RE READY TO GO TO EXECUTIVE SESSION, UH, AND THAT WILL BE PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 51 0.076 OF THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE FOR A DISCUSSION OF ISSUES RELATED TO SECURITY AND SECTION 5 51 0.072 FOR DELIBERATION REGARDING REAL PROPERTY.
AS I MENTIONED TO EVERYBODY, WHEN WE COME BACK FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION, IT WILL ONLY BE TO ADJOURN.
SO I JUST HAD ONE THING I WANTED TO PASS ALONG TO PRESIDENT CLARK AND HIS STAFF BEFORE WE GO INTO AN EXECUTIVE SESSION, BECAUSE I KNOW WE WON'T BE COMING BACK OUT TO PICK UP ANY ISSUES.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A NOTE THAT, UH, WE RAN
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INTO A LITTLE BIT OF DIFFICULTY AT THE CITY OF AUSTIN IN PREPARING FOR TODAY'S, UM, MEETING BECAUSE THE AGENDA WAS POSTED KIND OF LATE.AND OUR AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT STAFF WEREN'T ABLE REALLY, I MEAN, THEY WERE, THEY, THEY WERE ABLE TO READ THE AGENDA AND BRIEF US THREE, UH, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, BUT IT WAS, UM, IT KIND OF PUSHED IT INTO A WEEKEND AND IT JUST WAS UNFORTUNATE.
SO I, WE HAD TALKED IN DECEMBER ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF, UH, THE BOARD BEING ABLE TO GET THE BACKUP, WHICH WOULD ALSO PROBABLY MEAN POSTING A LITTLE BIT EARLIER, RATHER THAN WAITING FOR A FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR A MONDAY MORNING OR NOON MEETING.
WE WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO GET IT AT A MINIMUM OF 72 BUSINESS HOURS IN ADVANCE, BUT IF WE COULD EVEN GET IT THE MONDAY BEFORE THE MONDAY MEETING, WHICH IS HOW WE'RE GETTING A LOT OF OUR COMMITTEE DOCUMENTS AT THE CITY, UH, FOR OUR COUNCIL COMMITTEES, THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL.
AND THEN IT WOULD ALLOW OUR STAFF AND, UH, US ON THE BOARD A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO READ AND DIGEST THE INFORMATION IT GETS INCREASINGLY MORE COMPLICATED AND MULTI-LAYERED IS, SO THAT WAS SOMETHING WE BROUGHT UP IN DECEMBER.
I DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU'D HAD A CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT THAT WITH YOUR STAFF OR BE ABLE TO ADJUST.
REMEMBER, WE ARE ENDEAVORING TO DO THAT.
UH, I THINK THIS MEETING WAS A LITTLE MORE CHALLENGING, UH, SPECIFIC WITH OUR SMALL CITIES LEANDER TOPIC.
UH, OBVIOUSLY THEY HAD A MEETING AND THEN, SO WE WERE, UH, I DON'T WANNA SAY REACTING TO IT, BUT WE WERE WORKING COLLABORATIVE WITH LEANDER.
SO THAT PROBABLY HAD A LITTLE BIT TO DO THAT.
UH, THAT IS OUR GOAL TO, TO DO THAT.
SO APOLOGIES, WE DIDN'T HIT THAT GOAL THIS MONTH.
UH, BUT OUR GOAL IS TO CONTINUE TO GET BETTER AT THAT.
W MIGHT MENTION IS WE DO A LATE BACKUP AT THE CITY, SO THAT IF THERE'S LIKE A COUPLE OF PIECES THAT JUST AREN'T RIGHT YET ARE READY, WE GET ALL THE OTHER STUFF AND THEN WE CAN START MAKING INROADS ON THAT.
AND THEN OF COURSE GET, GET WHAT ISN'T AVAILABLE.
WELL, I THINK THAT'S THE STRATEGY GOING FORWARD IS TRYING TO GET AS MUCH AS AT ONE TIME AND THEN ALWAYS FEED YOU THE FINAL PIECES AS NEEDED.
I THINK ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES WOULD APPRECIATE HAVING MORE TIME.
AND THANKS TO STAFF FOR ADJUSTING.
I KNOW THAT WILL BE A BIG, A BIG ADJUSTMENT TO ALL OF, UNLESS THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER, WE WILL STAND ADJOURNED OUR TIME NOW IS 4 0 8.