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          ALRIGHT, GOOD. 
          IT IS CURRENTLY, UH, 1225. 
          AND WE'LL CALL THIS, UH, THIS MEETING IN THE ORDER. 
          UM, ONE OF THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AT THE CAPITOL, UH, METRO BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 
          UM, TODAY IS MONDAY, JUNE 27TH. 
          AND ONCE AGAIN, THE TIME IS 1225. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, SO 
          [II. Oath of Office]
HAVING BEEN CALLED THE ORDER, OUR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS TODAY, WE'LL BE FORMALLY TO CONFIRM OUR NEWEST BOARD MEMBER BY ASKING HIM TO TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE. 
          SO, UM, MR. HARRIS, WHY DON'T WE GO TO THE PODIUM? SO THE WORLD CAN SEE THAT'S MY FOLKS. 
          I CAN DO THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          THIS IS YOUR OATH OF OFFICE. 
          ARE YOU READY? I'M READY. 
          I STATE YOUR NAME. 
          I MATT HARRIS, DO SOLOMNLY SWEAR, SOLEMNLY SWEAR THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY EXECUTE THE DUTIES, EXECUTE THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICE OF BOARD MEMBER FOR CAP, UH, FOR THE CAPITAL METRO TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY AND THE OFFICE OF THE BOARD MEMBER OF THE CAPITAL METRO TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS STATE OF TEXAS, AND WILL TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY, THE BEST OF MY ABILITY PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND, PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION, CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND LAWS OF UNITED STATES AND OF THIS STATE AND OF THIS STATE. 
          SO HELP ME GOD. 
          SO HELP ME, GOD. 
          WELL, THANK YOU, SIR. 
          APPRECIATE IT. 
          WELL THAT WASN'T TOO BAD. 
          THE FUN HAS JUST BEGUN. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          [III. Public Comment]
UH, LET'S SEE. 
          UM, NOW WE WILL, UH, TAKE ON TODAY'S PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          UH, CAN WE START WITH, UH, DARRYL CRLS? UH, W WE WANNA, WE WANT FOLKS TO SEE HOW IT'S DONE. 
          UM, HELLO, EVERYONE. 
          PUSH YOUR BUTTON. 
          TURN YOUR MIC ON THERE, SIR. 
          YEAH, THESE ARE GENTLEMEN OF THE BOARD KEPT METRO BOARD. 
          UH, MR. VILLIAN CHAIR VICE-CHAIR, UM, I'M HERE TODAY AND, UH, AND ABSENCE FOR THE PRESIDENT BRAND PAIN. 
          UH, THE AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION. 
          I'M THE VICE PRESIDENT. 
          UM, I WAS INVITED BY, BY MR. TOBOGGAN, UM, TO SPEAK ON SOME ISSUES THAT YOU, YOU, YOU GONNA HAVE, UH, PRESENTING HERE LATER ON WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE, UH, POLICE CHIEF. 
          AND I JUST WANT TO GIVE MY OPINION ON IT. 
          I THINK THAT IS A BRILLIANT, UH, GREAT IDEA FOR CAPITAL METRO, UH, WHAT WE'RE EMBARKING ON, UH, FOR OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY, UH, FOR THE BUS OPERATORS AND, UH, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC COMING FROM AN OPERATOR STANDPOINT IN MY 20 YEAR CAREER, I'VE BEEN A VICTIM, UM, WHO HAS BEEN ASSAULTED ON THE, ON THE BUS. 
          AND I HAVE COME HERE MYSELF TO THE BOARD, UM, AND I'VE ASKED BEFORE TO ONE DAY CAP, METRO HAVE A POLICE AND HOW POLICE AT BUS STOPS OR RIDE ON THE BUS. 
          AND, UM, I THINK THAT IS A GREAT, GREAT TIME TO HAVE A POLICE FORCE. 
          I KNOW IT'S GOING TO TAKE TIME TO BUILD THAT AND THE ESTABLISHMENT AND IN, ON HIRING ALL THE, YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE THAT YOU NEED. 
          SO I'M JUST, AGAIN, THANK YOU, CAPTAIN METRO BOARD, UM, SECURITY TEAM, MR. TOBOGGAN DID AN AWESOME JOB. 
          WE JUST MET ON AN ASSAULT COMMITTEE LAST WEEK. 
          HE EXPLAINED, GAVE US SOME DETAILS. 
          WHAT ABOUT, UH, TAKE FORTH, UM, IT'S, IT'S AN NICE FEELING AND I'M SURE ONCE EVERYTHING GETS ESTABLISHED, THE OPERATORS AND THE PUBLIC WILL, WILL TAKE NOTICE OF IT. 
          I APPRECIATE Y'ALL FOR WHAT Y'ALL DOING. 
          GOOD. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          I APPRECIATE IT. 
          UH, REVEREND DR. 
          DARRELL HORTON PUTTING BOTH OF THOSE TOGETHER, REVEREND END DOCTORS. 
          WELL, GOOD AFTERNOON TO THE CHAIR, TO THE ENTIRE BOARD. 
          UH, MY NAME IS DARYL HORTON, AND I'M HERE JUST TO PROVIDE MY SUPPORT AS WELL. 
          UM, AND TO ENCOURAGE YOU THAT I THINK 
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YOU'RE MOVING IN A GREAT DIRECTION AND HAVING THE SECURITY FORCE IN PLACE, NOT JUST FOR THE SAFETY OF THE DRIVERS AND THE OPERATORS OF CAP METRO, BUT JUST FOR THE PUBLIC. 
          AND ALSO WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU THAT FROM THE INFORMATION I'VE RECEIVED AND FROM THE CONVERSATIONS I'VE HAD, I WANT TO APPLAUD YOU FOR INCLUDING THE COMMUNITY IN MAKING THIS DECISION. 
          THAT IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE DONE IN A VACUUM, BUT YOU'VE ALLOWED THE PEOPLE TO PROVIDE INPUT ON WHO SHOULD GIVE LEADERSHIP TO THIS FORCE AND WHAT IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE, BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE TO SUGGEST OR TELL YOU THAT WE ARE LIVING IN PERILOUS TIMES WHERE PEOPLE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT DON'T ALWAYS SEE EYE TO EYE. 
          AND SO INSTEAD OF THIS, BECOMING SOMETHING THAT THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE AFRAID OF, IT SHOULDN'T BE SOMETHING THAT THE PUBLIC CAN EMBRACE AND KNOW THAT IT IS FOR THEIR SAFETY AND FOR THEIR BETTERMENT. 
          AND SO, AGAIN, I JUST STAND HERE TO SHARE MY, UH, SUPPORT FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTINUE TO ALLOW THE PUBLIC, TO PROVIDE INPUT, CONTINUE TO BE VERY TRANSPARENT AND VISIBLE IN WHAT YOU'RE DOING WITH THIS PROCESS. 
          AND I THINK THAT THE COMMUNITY WILL PROVIDE THE SUPPORT THAT NEED. 
          AND SO AGAIN, JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO THIS POINT AND KNOW THAT YOU DO HAVE MY SUPPORT. 
          SO THANK YOU CHAIR. 
          I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. 
          THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT TODAY. 
          NOW I HAVE A QUINCY DUNLAP AS THE NEXT PERSON IS QUINCY IN THE AUDIENCE. 
          OKAY. 
          DON'T SEE HIM, BUT IF HE DOES MAKE IT HERE BEFORE THE COMMENTS ARE OVER, WE WILL BRING HIM UP AT THAT POINT. 
          UM, NEXT ON MY LIST IS, UH, SHERRY TAYLOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          TRISH PAVILION, UM, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, UM, I'M UPDATING TODAY, UH, AT THE HALF OF, YES, WE HAVE ANOTHER MISS MS. TAYLOR. 
          WHO'S SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          SO WE'RE GOING TO LET HER GO. 
          SURE. 
          SORRY. 
          THAT'S ALL RIGHT. 
          IT'S RIGHT HERE TO THE MIC AND YOU HAVE GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          MY NAME IS SHERRY LYNN TAYLOR. 
          I, UH, HAVE A DIFFERENT NAME. 
          SOPHIA SOPHIE. 
          I'LL BE RIGHT. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          MY NAME IS SHERRY TAYLOR. 
          I'M HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT OUR BUS ROUTE, UH, 3 35. 
          WE FEEL THAT THE BUS 3 35, IT COMES TO MUELLER IS A WONDERFUL JOB TO SUPPORT THE MUELLER BUSINESSES. 
          OR WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND THAT ROUTE ALONG BARBARA JORDAN, ALL THE WAY TO ONE BLOCK WEST OF LANCASTER THAT WOULD ALLOW THOSE WHO RIDE THE BUS TO GO DOWN WITHOUT THEIR CAR OR UNDERAGE DRIVERS TO RIDE THE BUS DOWN TO BEST BUY STAPLES FIVE AND BELOW. 
          CAN'T GET THERE NOW BECAUSE THE BUS TURNS TO 51ST STREET AT THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. 
          SO WHO DOES IT SERVE IF THERE'S NOT AN EVENT GOING ON AT THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER? SO WE WOULD LIKE IT TO BE EXTENDED? UM, I THINK IT WOULD BE A TREMENDOUS LINK WITH THE WESTIN AS IT IS FROM WALMART TO GET TO BERKMAN AND BARBARA JORDAN, AND THEN BE ABLE TO GO TO ANOTHER WALL AND MUELLER SAVE OUR MUELLER BUSINESSES AND, UH, SAVE US FROM WALKING IN THE HEAT OR THE WET OR YOU PURCHASE SOMETHING. 
          YOU DON'T WANT TO DRAG IT BACK FOUR BLOCKS BECAUSE THE BUS JUST DOESN'T GO THAT FAR. 
          SO IT USED TO GO ALL THE WAY THROUGH 9 35, THE IN FRONT OF DROVE, BUT THEN, UH, THE, THE ROUTE WAS CHANGED WHEN THE FRONTAGE ROAD WAS STOPPED. 
          SO NOW THAT WE KNOW HOW WE WANT THE TRAFFIC FLOW TO COME ONLY INTO MUELLER, BRING ALL THOSE BUSINESSES, ALL THOSE WONDERFUL SHOPPERS, BUT WE DON'T WANT THEM TO HAVE TO MISS OUT ON BEST BUY AND SUCH IS THAT, UM, I HAD SOME OTHER THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION AS WELL. 
          UM, I WAS JUST ON THE BUS. 
          THIS IS THE BEST TAXI IN TOWN. 
          I LEFT MY APARTMENT, UM, FIVE MINUTES TO 11, AND I GOT HERE IN TIME FOR THIS EVENT. 
          SO I WANT TO TELL YOU, I APPRECIATE Y'ALL, BUT I HAVE HAD AN INCIDENT EVEN THROUGH YESTERDAY OF BEING PASSED UP. 
          SO WHEN I SAY THIS, CAN I TURN THIS TO THE AUDIENCE? YES, MA'AM WHEN I ASKED FOR THE EXTENSION, UM, WHEN I ASKED FOR THE, AND I ASKED FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE BUS TO THE PASSENGERS, I'M SAYING, WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES YOU FOR THE BUS DRIVER TO LET YOU ON THE BUS? I JUST HAVE, I JUST HAPPENED TO HAVE WRITTEN A POEM BECAUSE I USE POETRY AS A TOOL. 
          THIS IS, UH, MY PASTOR'S DAUGHTER, AND SHE USES POETRY AS A TOOL FOR RECOVERY. 
          SO 
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I WROTE ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE IN GETTING PASSED UP ON THE BUS. 
          EVIDENTLY COMMON SENSE DOES NOT NATURALLY FLOURISH AND EVERYONE'S FAMILY TREE, WEDNESDAY 18, MAY I TRAVELED ON THREE BUS ROUTES TO ARRIVE FOR ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT APPOINTMENT, ESPECIALLY PRESCRIBED FOR ME. 
          IT WAS JUST TOO HOT OUTSIDE TO ATTEMPT TO ATTEND MY APPOINTMENT. 
          BUT THOSE PINPOINTS EACH WEEK DO MORE FOR ME, MY PAIN, THEN THAT STINKY APPOINTMENT APPOINTMENT APPOINTMENT. 
          ANYWAY, I'M TRYING TO RUN ACCOMPANIED BY MY WHEELCHAIR FRIEND. 
          WE TOOK BUS 3 35 NORTH TO BUS, 10 NORTH TO ROUTE 3 37. 
          THE AIR CONDITIONING, CALM VOICE OF THE ACUPUNCTURIST. 
          AND THE TIME SPENT WITH THE NEEDLES WAS A FIRST CLASS TRIP TO HEAVEN. 
          AFTERWARDS, MY BRAIN QUESTIONED ME AS I LEFT PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC TO CATCH THE BUS AND ALL OF THIS HEAT AND BRAIN SHOUTED CALL A TAXI YET. 
          I FOUND MYSELF PURCHASED ON THE BUS STOP SEAT ONE EASTBOUND 3 37 PASSED ME BY. 
          SO AFTER 35 MINUTES LATER, I BOARDED THE NEXT. 
          BUT THEN THE BENEFITS OF THE ACUPUNCTURE SESSION WAS HAD DEPARTED AS MY 1727 BRIARCLIFF ROAD SESSION HAD THE PARTIES, EXCUSE ME. 
          AT 9 1, 1 HEAT EXHAUSTION SEQUENCE OF EVENTS HAD JUST GOT STARTED. 
          SO, UM, ECONOMICALLY INFLUENCED THE TRAVELERS, KNOW THAT CAP METRO BUS SYSTEMS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS COMBINED COMFORTS OF TEMPORARY HOUSING AND TRANSPORTATION, TIMELY NETWORKS OF BUS DRIVERS, TRAFFIC PATTERNS, STRATEGIC NEGOTIATIONS OF INTERSECTIONS, WEATHER AND FLUCTUATING COMMUTER POPULATIONS ON CERTAIN ROUTES CAN INFLUENCE SAFE ARRIVAL AT EACH DESTINATION PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS RIDE FREE WHILE DISABLED AND SENIOR CITIZENS WITH CAP. 
          METRO CAN CLIMB BOARD WITH A DISCOUNTED RATE AND FREQUENT FLIGHT, FREQUENT RIDERS RATHER PURCHASE AFFORDABLE DAILY, WEEKLY, AND MONTHLY BUS TICKETS THAT EXPIRED ACCORDING TO THE DISPLAY PRINTED DATE, THE SHELTER FROM RAINS, NO TRAFFIC CRIME, MRS. TAYLOR, I HATE TO INTERRUPT YOU, BUT THE TIME HAS EXPIRED. 
          I WANTED TO BE RESPECTFUL AND LET YOU GET TO THE END. 
          IF YOU'VE, IF YOU CLOSE, WE CAN, WE CAN, BUT, UH, WE'VE GOT A COUPLE MORE, FEW MORE FOLKS WE NEED TO TALK. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT THERE ARE SOME POSITIVES ABOUT RIDING CAP METRO, AND THAT I USED POETRY TO JUST TO EXPRESS THAT. 
          AND I WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE ALL THE COMMUTERS TO DO THINGS THAT ARE PLEASANT TO HELP THE BUS DRIVERS HAVE A NICER DAY, BUT I DO WANT TO EMPHASIZE IT. 
          THE BUS DRIVERS WHO DON'T LET YOU OWN THE BUS CAN END UP HAVING LIKE MYSELF BEING HOSPITALIZED FROM THE 19TH OF MAY THROUGH JUNE 3RD, JUST BECAUSE WOULDN'T STOP. 
          SO I WILL GET MY REPORTS AND I DID REPORT THE THREE INCIDENCES, AND I GUESS I'LL GET MY REPORT AND FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED WITH THOSE DRIVERS. 
          SO, SO IF WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE DOCUMENT THIS PROPERLY, UH, YOU CAN WORK WITH ED AND ED WILL HELP YOU. 
          WALTER FROM MY OFFICE WILL, IS WALTER MUSE FROM MY OFFICE AS WELL. 
          UH, I WILL MAKE SURE IF, IF WE CAN HAVE A COPY OF THE POEM, WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT IT'S IN THE REALM OF YOUR POEM. 
          OH, SARAH LOVE MAKE SURE THAT THIS IN THE RECORD DIDN'T MEAN TO RUSH YOU, BUT NO, NO PROBLEM. 
          I JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, AT KAREN WAY. 
          YES, MA'AM THANK YOU FOR COMING DOWN AND PRESENTED TO THE BOARD TODAY. 
          THANK I JUST WANT TO SAY I AM A VETERAN AND, AND UT AND ACC. 
          WE DEPEND ON THOSE BUSES. 
          SO WE JUST CAN'T LET BUS DRIVERS PASS US UP. 
          IF WE'RE STANDING THERE, IT'S JUST NOT RIGHT. 
          YES. 
          MA'AM. 
          UM, I JUST HAD A QUICK QUESTION. 
          AND MAYBE FROM MS. WATSON DID, UH, I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE UNDERSTAND THE REQUEST FOR THE EXTENSION. 
          UM, I'M LOOKING AT THE MAP AND I'M NOT QUITE CERTAIN WHERE SHE WAS REQUESTING WHERE YOU, CAN YOU, ARE YOU AWARE OF WHAT SHE WAS REQUESTING? I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE TAKE A LOOK AT IT. 
          YEAH. 
          I'M FAMILIAR WITH THE AREA AND UNDERSTAND THAT THE REQUEST IS TO GET CLOSER TO THE SHOPPING AREA THAT INCLUDES THE BEST BUY. 
          AND WE'LL DEFINITELY TAKE A LOOK AT THAT INTO THE LAST POSSIBLE LIGHT WHERE THE BUS CAN TURN RIGHT, AND GO BACK TO 50 VIRTUALLY. 
          AND THAT'S LIKE LACK OF PASCALINE CATHETER AT STARBUCKS. 
          THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO LOVE TO SHOP AND WE COULD GET THAT YOUR BUSINESS. 
          WE GET THAT BUS CHANGE THAT. 
          SO MS. WATSON, CAN YOU JUST LET US KNOW WHAT YOU, WHAT YOU ALL DETERMINED? SORRY. 
          I THINK THE OTHER THING THAT IF SHE IS GOING TO HAVE MEDICAL ISSUES ADDRESSED AND WHAT NOT, UM, MAYBE WE SHOULD ALSO TALK ABOUT METRO ACCESS TO HER. 
          AND, AND IF THIS AREA IS WITHIN A PICKUP AREA, UH, THAT SHE'D BE AWARE OF THAT AS WELL. 
          SO, AND I JUST WANT TO ADDRESS THAT I DID APPEAL TO 
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METRO ACCESS AND MY DOCTORS WROTE LETTERS AND EVERYTHING. 
          BUT WHAT HAPPENS IS I WAS TOLD THAT THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST THAT IS HIRED BY Y'ALL GETS TO INTERVIEW PEOPLE WHO WANT METRO ACCESS. 
          WELL, THAT'S INSIDE OF A ROOM LIKE THIS. 
          THAT'S GOT PAINT ON THE WALL TO FACILITATE LIKE YOU'RE DOWNTOWN AND THEY GOT A FAKE BUS OVER HERE. 
          AND THEN SHE SEES HOW YOU MOVE AROUND, BUT THAT'S NOT THE SAME AS NEGOTIATING OUT IN THE HEAT. 
          AND SO I WAS DENIED AND I WAS, I APPEALED AND I WAS DENIED AGAIN. 
          SO LET'S LOOK, LET'S LOOK AT THE RECORD. 
          ALL RIGHT, RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UH, STEPHANIE WEB HI, I'M ONCE IN AUSTIN, CHRONICLE LEE LEFFINGWELL ACCUSED ME OF SAYING THAT THERE WERE EMPTY BUSES IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN, AND HE CONDESCENDINGLY SAID BUSES WERE FULL. 
          THIS FORMER MAYOR BASICALLY HAS PROBABLY NEVER BEEN IN A BUS IN WEST AUSTIN BECAUSE I NOW UNFORTUNATELY LIVING IN, IN WEST AUSTIN AND BASICALLY I SEE EMPTY BUSES ALL THE TIME. 
          THE REASON I CAME TODAY IS BECAUSE ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES WITH, UH, THE PROJECT CONNECT EQUITY ASSESSMENT TOOL BASICALLY HAS MADE THE SAME OBSERVATION THAT I HAVE ABOUT HOW PA, UH, HOW PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM HAS BEEN BEING WEAPONIZED BY WEST AUSTIN TO INSTIGATE RACIAL VIOLENCE AGAINST EAST AUSTIN. 
          BASICALLY YOU COULD START WITH THE FACT THAT EAST AUSTIN WAS DESIGNATED AS THE DESIRED DEVELOPMENT ZONES THAT PEOPLE COULD TEAR UP NEIGHBORHOODS AND GET INCOME PROPERTIES. 
          THEN YOU COULD CONTINUE WITH THE REALITY THAT WEST AUSTIN FAILS TO MAINTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE ACCESSIBLE TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, AND THAT ARE AFFORDABLE. 
          AND I KNOW THIS BECAUSE NOT ONLY DO I LIVE IN WEST AUSTIN, I WAS JUST ON JEFFERSON AND HARRIS. 
          ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE NEIGHBORHOODS, BASICALLY DOWNTOWN, NO BUS ROUTES. 
          AND FINALLY, WHENEVER YOU GO TO A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENT IN WEST AUSTIN, THE RESIDENTS CONSTANTLY NEED TO BE PROMISED THAT THEIR LIFESTYLES WON'T CHANGE. 
          EVEN THE, EVEN THOUGH WE'VE ALL SAID, LIFESTYLES NEED TO CHANGE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT TO BE HELPED. 
          BASICALLY IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN, WE KEEP BEING TOLD THAT EQUITY TAKES TIME, BUT WE CAN'T WAIT TO BOARD UP AND TEAR UP AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN NEIGHBORHOODS QUICKLY ENOUGH. 
          THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE TO WAIT ARE PEOPLE WHOSE YOU WANT TO PROTECT. 
          AND I REMEMBER A PARTICULARLY EGREGIOUS AND DISGUSTING EVENT WHEN I WENT TO THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND A COMMISSIONER DARE TO SAY THAT IT WAS ACCEPTABLE TO GET A BIPOD REPRESENTATIVE FOR A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE COMMUNITY SO THAT WE COULD PROTECT A WEST AUSTIN NEIGHBORHOOD, EVEN THOUGH PEOPLE WERE TEARING UP EAST SAAS AND NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          OF COURSE, AFTER I POINTED THAT OUT IN PUBLIC, THE EQUITY ASSESSMENT TOOL PROMPTLY WENT TO LEGAL AND PEOPLE THEN DECIDE AFTER WHICH POINT THE CITY COUNCIL LAVISHLY TOOK CREDIT FOR ALIENATING. 
          ALL OF US, BASICALLY WEST AUSTIN, ISN'T ON THE BUS. 
          SO WHY DO WE THINK THEY'LL RIDE TRAINS? THE ONLY BUSES THEY CONSISTENTLY RIDE ARE THE COMMUTERS. 
          AND WITH LIMITED THINGS, WE'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR A PARTY FOR WEST AUSTIN. 
          THEY MIGHT NOT NEED THE BUSES, BUT THE SERVICE WORKERS AND THE DELIVERY FOLKS WHO DO THEY NEED TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO SEE BEHIND WHAT THEY NEED. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, IF WE SEEN QUINCY DUNLAP YET FEES THAT HERE, THEN WE WILL GO TO OUR REMOTE REQUESTS HAS BEEN OFFERED ONLINE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO BEN OFFERED. 
          IT'S NOT ONLINE. 
          UH, WHAT ABOUT ZENOBIA JOSEPH? MS. JOSEPH, ARE YOU WITH US? THANK YOU, MR. EASTON. 
          THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR AND MEMBERS. 
          I'M GOING TO NO, BE JOSEPH. 
          I JUST WANT TO MAKE A FEW COMMENTS AS IT RELATES SPECIFICALLY TO TITLE SIX OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, WHICH PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE COLOR, NATIONAL ORIGIN TITLE SIX IS MENTIONED 103 TIMES IN THE 307 PAGE BOARD PACKET TODAY. 
          I JUST WANT TO READ FOR THE RECORD, THE DEFINITION OF DISCRIMINATION THAT WAS MENTIONED IN THE JUNE 15TH, 2022, 
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AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP MEETING, QUOTE DISCRIMINATION REFERS TO ANY ACTION OR INACTION, WHETHER INTENTIONAL OR UNINTENTIONAL IN ANY PROGRAM OR ACTIVITY OF A FEDERAL AID RECIPIENT. 
          SUBRECIPIENT OUR CONTRACTOR THAT RESULTS IN DISPARATE TREATMENT, DISPARATE IMPACTS ARE PERPETUATING THE EFFECTS OF PRIOR DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE, COLOR, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN ON POST THAT'S FROM FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION, CIRCULAR 47 0 2 0.1 B, WHICH IS DATED OCTOBER 1ST, 2012, CHAPTER ONE DASH TWO. 
          I MENTIONED THAT MR. CHAIR, BECAUSE I DO RECOGNIZE THAT YOUR AUGUST, 2022 SERVICE CHANGES SPECIFY THAT YOU DO NOT NEED A TITLE, SIX SERVICE EQUITY ANALYSIS. 
          HOWEVER, THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT IS OKAY TO CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN DISCRIMINATION AND SEGREGATION ON BUS ROUTES THAT ARE NOT THE U S 180 3. 
          AND SO OUR COUNCIL MEMBER KITCHEN IS CONCERNED ABOUT, WELL, 3 35 EXTENSION. 
          I WOULD ASK YOU TO RECOGNIZE THE NEED TO EXTEND RALPH 3 92, THAT TO THE ARBORETUM TARGET TERMINUS TODAY ON YOUR AGENDA, YOU ARE ACTUALLY CONSIDERING ONE SEED WIVES FOR THE LOW RIDERSHIP WHITE ROUTES IN SOUTHWEST AUSTIN, ROUTE 30 IN 19 FIVE AND SIX. 
          AND WHILE SIX DOES TRAVEL TO TANNEHILL AND WEBER ADVIL, IT LEAVES OUT THE 0.8 MILE WALK TO CRAIG WOOD WHERE BLACK PEOPLE WAIT 60 MINUTES. 
          IT IS DISCRIMINATORY TO TELL THE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING 60 MINUTES SINCE 2018, JUNE 3RD, 2018, THAT MID 2023 IS WHEN YOU'LL CONSIDER 30 MINUTES HEADWAY TO ROBERTO GONZALEZ RESPECTFULLY IT'S TIME FOR HIM TO RETIRE. 
          INTEGRITY IS IN YOUR CODE OF ETHICS. 
          AND SPECIFICALLY HE CALLED ROUTE 3, 3, 9. 
          NEW. 
          IT IS SIMPLY A RESTORED NUMBER FROM SERVICE PLAN 2020 IN 2010. 
          YOU WILL ALSO SEE ON YOUR AGENDA THAT YOU ARE CONNECTING ROUTE TWO AND 17. 
          IF YOU CAN CREATE ONE SEAT RIGHT IN THE CENTRAL AREA, THEN SURELY YOU CAN RESTORE A ROUTE IN NORTHEAST AUSTIN. 
          AND I WOULD ASK YOU TO RECOGNIZE THE NEED FOR PICKUP TO RUN FROM SAMSUNG TO APPLE. 
          EAST-WEST RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE NO CONNECTIVITY NORTH OF US, 180 3, BUT YOUR FYI 2022 BOARD PACKETS SPECIFIED MORE FREQUENT, MORE RELIABLE, BETTER CONNECTED ON PAGE ONE 90. 
          I WANT TO STATE MY OPPOSITION TO CROSSMARK AND ASSOCIATES THAT'S ITEM NUMBER THREE, THE $600,000 CONTRACT, WHICH IS WITH WILMATA. 
          IT'S A COOPERATIVE CONTRACT WITH RANDY CLARK FUTURE HOME. 
          BUT AS YOU ARE REALLY AWARE OF THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA, TRANSIT AUTHORITY DID ACTUALLY GIVE ME A TWO RESPONSES. 
          THE 23RD OF MAY AND 26TH OF MAY ACKNOWLEDGING THAT I SENT MY REQUEST FOR THEM TO RESCIND HIS 400 $8,500 CONTRACT IN PART SIX IN HIS AVERSION TO BLACK PEOPLE RECORD ENDED UP NEEDING. 
          I WOULD SAY THE LACK OF INTEGRITY. 
          I WANT YOU TO BE AWARE AS WERE AS WELL THAT YOUR BACKUP MATERIAL DOES NOT MENTION THAT CROSSMARK AND ASSOCIATES WAS IN THE BOARDROOM IN 2017 WHEN FORMER VICE-CHAIRS SILAS STATED THAT SHE WOULD NOT CONSIDER A BLACK MALE FOR THAT POSITION OF CEO, THEY ARE BIASED. 
          I WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT THEY ALSO GAVE 50,000 TO THE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE MOBILITY FOR ALL ON SEPTEMBER 24TH, 2020, AND THEN MOBILITY FOR ALL LIVES OF BLACK PEOPLE. 
          A Z I K SO BIASED BECAUSE THEY INTERVIEWED RANDY CLARK WHEN HE WAS AN AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION EMPLOYEE AND GREG MOSER. 
          THE RECRUITER IS THE PERSON WHO RECOMMENDED HIM FOR THE CEO POSITION. 
          I JUST WANT TO CLOSE BY SAYING SPECIFICALLY THAT YOU HAVE WE HAD BLOCKED STOP CHINATOWN TO CVS PHARMACY. 
          AND I WOULD JUST ASK YOU TO RECOGNIZE ME TO MOVE. 
          THAT'S NOT BY SAYING THAT'S CRAZY. 
          YOU WILL SEE THAT THE SAFETY OFFICER HAS THAT IN A RAISED THE $170,000 TO 201,000 AND RESPECTFULLY MR. CHAIR, I WOULD JUST ASK YOU TO RECOGNIZE THE NEED TO NOT JUST TALK ABOUT SAFETY, BUT TO MOVE THE MID-BLOCK STOP, BECAUSE IT DOES NOT COST CAPITAL METRO, ANYTHING THAT MOVES TO BREAKER AND NORTH LAMAR BY THE CVS WALLACE. 
          AND I 
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WOULD JUST ASK MR. GARDNER, HEY MOM, I NEED TO SAVE LIVES. 
          IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL GLADLY ANSWER THEM AT THIS TIME. 
          NO QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          HAS MR. DUNLAP MADE IT IN? I DON'T SEE HIM. 
          SO THIS IS GOING TO CONCLUDE OUR PUBLIC COMMENT UNLESS THERE'S SOMEONE ELSE. 
          OH, WE DO HAVE ANOTHER PERSON WHO CAME INTO THE ROOM. 
          UM, MR. UH, OR IS IT, UM, MALERA FOR, UH, FRANCISCO MALARIA. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE REMINDER. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          MY NAME FRANCISCO ROSA. 
          I JUST WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, I WAS ASSAULTED TO RECEIVE MONEY ON THE BUS AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A MORE SECURITY ON THE BUS. 
          AND, UH, ME, I SAID, NO, I'M THE DRIVER. 
          YOU KNOW, WE DON'T SEE THAT WHEN SOMETHING LIKE THAT, HAVING NOBODY COME TO OUR HELP OR WHILE WE HAVE IT, JUST WHAT THE DISPATCH SAID, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, GIVE ME THE DISCRETION OR GIVE ME WHO IT IS, BUT WE CAN, WE CAN NOT DO THAT BECAUSE EVERYBODY FITS THE DESCRIPTION. 
          YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO SEE ACTIONS. 
          WE WANT TO SEE PURITY TO GO THERE AND I RIGHT AWAY SEND, YOU KNOW, LIKE YOUR ALL SUPERVISOR TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON, YOU KNOW, AND I'M LETTING HIM KNOW THAT I THINK WE NEED TO TRAIN, UH, RADIO DISPATCHES BECAUSE THEY TAKE TOO LONG TO THINK HELP TO US. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT'S WHAT I HAD SAY ON BEHALF OF OTHER DRIVERS. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR MAKING YOUR PRESENTATION TODAY. 
          UH, IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE WHO, UM, WANTED TO ADDRESS THE BOARD THAT, THAT, UH, IS IN THE THAT'S IN THE ROOM. 
          OKAY. 
          WANTED TO MAKE SURE. 
          OKAY, SO WE, OKAY. 
          SO WITH, WITHOUT HAVING ANYONE TO, UM, RAISE YOUR HAND TO MAKE PUBLIC COMMENT, WE WILL, UH, WE WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION, 
          [IV. Advisory Committee Update]
AND NEXT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR, UH, C SAC AND ACCESS BOARD ADVISORY COMMITTEE REPORTS. 
          MS. PAR, UH, WOULD YOU KICK THOSE OFF FOR US PLEASE? UH, GOOD AFTERNOON, CHURCH CIVILIAN, UM, VICE-CHAIR KITCHEN, PRESIDENT WATKINS AND BORDER, UM, AND BOARD MEMBERS. 
          MY NAME IS . 
          I'M THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MANAGER FOR CAP METRO AND THE STAFF LIAISON FOR THE ADVISORY COMMITTEES. 
          I'M HERE TO GIVE YOU THE JUNE COMMITTEE UPDATES FOR SEASICK AND ACCESS. 
          UM, AND ALSO LET YOU KNOW THAT WE WILL HAVE A PEACE SAC MEETING THIS WEDNESDAY. 
          UM, I'M ALSO HERE WITH CHAIR TAYLOR FROM C SAC. 
          UM, CHAIR HUNT CAN NOT BE WITH US TODAY, BUT I HAVE THE, UM, OVERVIEW OF WHAT WAS DISCUSSED IN ACCESS. 
          UM, SO I'LL START WITH THE UPDATES AND THEN I'LL PASS IT ON TO CHAIR TAYLOR, UM, THIS MONTH FOR ACCESS AND SEE SAC. 
          UM, WE MET JUNE 1ST AND EIGHTH, UH, RESPECTIVELY. 
          UH, WE RECEIVED AN INTRODUCTION, UM, BY MS. WATKINS ON HER NEW ROLE, UM, AND JUST THE TRANSITION TO BOTH COMMITTEES. 
          UM, ALSO, UH, KEVIN CONLIN CAME AND SPOKE ABOUT THE 2023 PROPOSED BUDGET. 
          UH, ROBERTO GONZALEZ DID AN UPDATE ON AUGUST SERVICE CHANGE, UM, AND ANDREW MURPHY, UM, ALSO HAD AN UPDATE ON E FLEET BUSES ACCESS HAD TWO SEPARATE PRESENTATION. 
          ONE WAS FROM THE CAC FROM, UH, THE CHAIR TO TRY TO RECRUIT SOMEONE TO REPRESENT FROM ACCESS TO THE CAC AND ALSO FROM METRO BIKE BY CHAD BALLANTINE. 
          UM, THAT'S IT FOR THE TWO COMMITTEES. 
          UM, I JUST, THE P SAC UPDATE IS THAT WE WILL HAVE A MEETING THIS WEDNESDAY. 
          WE WILL HAVE THE AGENDA AND ALL, UM, COMMITTEE MATERIALS ON OUR WEB PAGE. 
          UM, AND THAT WILL BE AT 11:00 AM. 
          I BELIEVE THIS WEDNESDAY WITH, UM, GARDNER TABLE. 
          I WILL PASS IT ON NOW TO CHAIR TAYLOR FOR ANY ADDITIONAL C-SAT NOTES. 
          AND I'M HERE. 
          IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, THANK YOU, EDNA. 
          UM, GOOD AFTERNOON BOARD MEMBERS OF KENT METRO. 
          UM, AS I MENTIONED, WE HAD AN UPDATE ON BUDGET DEVELOPMENT, AS WELL AS THE EAST BUS FLEET AND AUGUST SERVICE CHANGES. 
          UM, I WOULD ASK THAT THE BOARD AND GOING FORWARD, UM, CAT METRO WORK TO BETTER COMMUNICATE, UM, TRANSPARENCY IN TERMS OF RESTORATION OF SERVICES AND ONGOING CHALLENGES THAT THEY'RE FACING, UM, ESPECIALLY WITH REGARDS TO SERVICE LEVELS ON SPECIFIC ROUTES. 
          UM, I REALIZED THAT, UM, WE'RE STILL DEALING WITH COVID STAFF SHORTAGES, UM, SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES. 
          AND THESE HAVE ALL BEEN MENTIONED, UM, PREVIOUS 
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CONVERSATIONS, UM, WITH ROBERTA GONZALES, WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF CAP METRO AND SEESAW MEETINGS. 
          UM, BUT SOME OF THE ISSUES ARE STILL PRESENT AND ONE OF THEM IS MAINTAINING SORT OF CONSISTENT CONVERSATION AND TRANSPARENCY WITH THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, I WOULD MENTION THAT THERE'S A AUSTIN MONITOR ARTICLE OUT IN MAY THAT SPECIFIED THAT THERE HAD BEEN 156 NEW HIRES ACROSS, UM, ACROSS OPERATORS AND MAINTENANCE FLEET TEAMS. UM, AND YET WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT THERE BEING STAFF SHORTAGES, SHORTAGES ON BUSES BEING ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE HAVEN'T RESTORED SERVICE FULLY. 
          UM, AND THAT'S AN ISSUE TO ME, RIGHT. 
          UM, IT'S ALSO AN ISSUE TO OUR RIDERS WHEN WE'RE STILL REDUCING SERVICE LEVELS ON CROSSTOWN CONNECTORS, LIKE THE 3 35, UM, WHERE, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CAPRI MAP, WE TALKED ABOUT INCREASING THE NUMBER OF TRANSFERS IN ORDER TO PROVIDE A BETTER SERVICE LEVEL OF PROCESS, OUR SERVICE AREA. 
          WHEN YOU REDUCE THAT SERVICE LEVEL, WE NEED REDUCED FREQUENCY ON AN EAST-WEST ROUTE OR EVEN A NORTH SOUTH AROUND FOR THAT MATTER. 
          YOU'RE HAVING AN IMPACT, NOT JUST ON THAT ONE ROUTE, BUT ALSO ON PEOPLE WHO USE THAT TO CONNECT ACROSS THE CITY. 
          UM, SO I WOULD ASK THAT, YOU KNOW, REALIZING THAT THERE ARE THESE CHALLENGES THAT WE AT LEAST MAINTAIN TRANSPARENCY ON OUR COMMUNICATIONS AND THAT WE'RE NOT OVER PROMISING. 
          UM, ONE OTHER THING I'LL MENTION IS THAT C-SAT WILL BE IN RECESS FOR JULY. 
          AND SO THERE WON'T BE AN UPDATE FROM US, UM, IN JULY. 
          UM, AND LASTLY, I'D ASKED THE BOARD MEMBERS WHO HAVE A VACANCY ON SEASIDE WORK BACK WITH, UM, AN, A POWER WHO WILL BE REACHING OUT TO YOU FOLKS LATER ON TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THOSE FOLKS, THOSE SEATS FILLED SO THAT WE HAVE GOOD ATTENDANCE AND THAT WE'RE ABLE TO MAINTAIN FORUM FOR A MEETINGS WITH THAT. 
          UM, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, ANY QUESTIONS ON BOARD MEMBER KITCHEN? UH, YES. 
          I WAS CURIOUS, UM, HOW MANY VACANCIES DO WE HAVE ON C-SECTION OR DO WE HAVE VACANCIES DOWN? I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU MIGHT'VE BEEN SAYING. 
          YES. 
          I BELIEVE THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO VACANCIES THAT I KNOW OF. 
          UM, I BELIEVE ONE IS A SEAT FOR BECKY ROSS AND ANOTHER IS NOT LISTED ON THE WEBSITE AS A VACANCY, BUT LYNN REALLY, UM, MOVED, I BELIEVE FOUR OR FIVE MONTHS AGO AND IS STILL LISTED AS A COMMITTEE MEMBER. 
          UM, AND WE HAVE ONE OTHER ONE THAT IS POTENTIALLY A VACANCY, UM, MR. MANOJ, WHO HAS NOT COME TO MEETINGS. 
          SO I THINK WE HAVE THREE THAT WE'RE TRYING FILL. 
          UM, AND WE'RE PLANNING TO USE JULY SINCE WE DON'T HAVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS TO TRY TO RECRUIT, UM, KIND OF A SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN, EMAILS, NEWSLETTERS, DIRECT, UM, LIKE A REALLY STRONG EFFORT IN JULY TO GET YOU NOMINATIONS, HOPEFULLY BY THE END OF JULY OR MID AUGUST, AND THEN SOMEBODY FOR THOSE SEATS. 
          SO WHO ARE THE, UM, WHICH BOARD MEMBERS SEATS ARE THOSE? UM, SO THERE IS ONE FOR BECKY ROSS OR MEMBER ROSS. 
          UM, I BELIEVE ONE IS, UH, FROM BOARD MEMBER POOL. 
          UM, AND THEN I DON'T HAVE MR. MENEZ, BUT I THINK WE JUST NOMINATED HIM TERRY MITCHELL. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          AND SO WE ARE ACTUALLY MEETING WITH MR. EASTON NEXT, OR THIS WEEK, THIS TUESDAY, UM, COME UP WITH A PLAN. 
          UM, AND WE HAVE A NEW, UH, CE MEMBER, PETER BRAEDON, WHO'S GOING TO LEAD THE INITIATIVE. 
          SO, YEAH, I THINK IT'S ALSO POSSIBLE IF BOARD MEMBERS THAT ARE MAKING THOSE APPOINTMENTS HAVE SUGGESTIONS THAT THEY CAN MAKE THOSE SUGGESTIONS. 
          SO JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE FOR OUR BOARD MEMBER THAT HE'S AWARE THAT HE CAN MAKE A SUGGESTION IF HE WANTS TO. 
          SO. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          IS THERE ANY GOOD? YEAH. 
          UH, THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN, UH, IN, IN REFERENCE TO THE, UH, ISSUE ASSOCIATED WITH, UH, TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY, UH, ASSOCIATED WITH THE, UM, CONTINUING ISSUES WE'RE HAVING WITH, UH, UH, ON-TIME PERFORMANCE. 
          I, I'VE NOT PERSONALLY READ THE AUSTIN MONICA MONITOR ARTICLE, BUT I DO HAVE A QUESTION. 
          I THINK THIS WOULD PROBABLY BE THE BEST ADDRESS TO, UM, THE CEO WALK-INS I AM AWARE, AND I BELIEVE THAT THE, THIS WAS MADE HAS BEEN MADE PUBLICLY PREVIOUS MEETINGS, UH, TO THE BOARD AND OTHERS, UH, ABOUT THE RECENT HIRES AND BELIEVE THE REF NUMBER YOU REFERENCED WAS 156, UM, OPERATORS AND MECHANICS. 
          UM, DOTTIE, CAN YOU JUST ADDRESS IN GENERAL FROM THE TIME OF HIRE TO THE TIME THAT WE ACTUALLY CAN DEPLOY THOSE INDIVIDUALS TO THE FLEET TO ACTUALLY BE RUNNING A ROUTE OUT IN THE FIELD OR ACTUALLY 
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BE SERVICING THE BUS? WHAT IS, WHAT DOES IT USUALLY TAKE FROM THE TIME OF HIRE TO THE TIME OF ACTUALLY OUT THERE WORKING? YEAH, THAT CAN DIFFER A LOT DEPENDING ON WHETHER OR NOT THE PERSON IS ALREADY LICENSED WHEN THEY GET TO US, UM, SOMEONE WHO IS NOT LICENSED WHEN THEY GET TO US, WE'LL TAKE SIX WEEKS, AT LEAST, AND SOMETIMES UP TO EIGHT, DEPENDING ON HOW GREAT THEY ARE MEMORIZING INFORMATION AND PASSING WRITTEN TESTS, TO BE PERFECTLY HONEST, I'M SOMEONE WHO'S ALREADY LICENSED AND EXPERIENCED. 
          WE CAN GET THROUGH TRAINING IN A LITTLE OVER A MONTH IN ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE WEEKS. 
          SO ANYWHERE FROM FOUR WEEKS TO EIGHT WEEKS. 
          SO IF WE WERE HIRING, IF WE HAD A BUNCH OF NEW HIRES, COME ON BOARD, SAY BEGINNING TO MID MAY. 
          WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT STAFFING. 
          REALLY, PROBABLY NOT THE IMPACT OF THAT. 
          NOT REALLY BEING FELT UNTIL PROBABLY NEC I MEAN, AT THE MA AT MOST, PROBABLY SOMETIME NEXT MONTH THEN AT MOST. 
          SO WHAT WE EXPECT THAT BY THE 1ST OF JULY, WE WILL HAVE IN TRAINING EVERYONE WHO WE COULD POSSIBLY COUNT ON FOR THE AUGUST SERVICE CHANGE. 
          UM, WE'RE CURRENTLY PROJECTING SOMETIME IN THE FALL TO KIND OF LEVEL OUT TO WHAT WE NEED, UM, FOR NOW, BUT WE ARE EYEING NEXT SUMMER WHEN WE PLAN TO, UM, LAUNCH TWO NEW METRO RAPID ROUTES AND THE ADDITIONAL STAFFING NEEDED FOR THAT. 
          SO WE WILL NOT STOP HIRING, WE'LL CONTINUE TO HIRE AND TRAIN, UM, IN ADDITION TO CREATING KIND OF THE SHORTAGE ENVIRONMENT. 
          UM, COVID HAS ALSO, I THINK, ACCELERATED OUR RETIREMENT RATES. 
          I THINK A LOT OF FOLKS ARE WORN OUT. 
          AND SO WE ARE SEEING CONTINUED TO SEE HIGHER TURNOVER THAN WE HAVE IN THE PAST. 
          SO WHILE WE MAY HAVE HIRED, UM, I THINK NOW WE'RE PUSHING RIGHT AT ABOUT 200 PEOPLE SINCE THE START OF THE YEAR. 
          UM, WE ALSO, WE WERE, WE STARTED THE YEAR JUST OVER A HUNDRED PEOPLE SHORT AND WE'VE HAD SOME TURNOVER SINCE THEN. 
          SO WE ARE RELATIVELY WELL STAFFED FOR TODAY, BUT RECOGNIZING THAT WHAT WE'RE RUNNING TODAY, ISN'T THE FULL LEVEL OF SERVICE, UM, TO CHAIR TAYLOR'S POINT THAT WE WERE RUNNING BEFORE THE PANDEMIC HIT. 
          WE DO CONTINUE, UM, THE FULL COURT PRESS, UM, JUST TO REMIND ANYONE WATCHING OR LISTENING CAT METRO.ORG/JOBS. 
          IT'S NOT JUST A GREAT JOB. 
          IT'S A GREAT CAREER. 
          UH, JU JUST TO DOVETAIL ON THAT POINT THOUGH, AND TO CHAIR TAYLOR'S POINT, I THINK MAYBE IT COULD BE HELPFUL IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY EXPECTATIONS. 
          UH, I THINK THAT IT'S AMAZING THAT WE ARE ABLE TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE'VE HAD ALL OF THESE HIRES, BUT TO ALSO, UH, KIND OF PUT THE LITTLE CAVEAT ON THERE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, OKAY, YES, CAP METRO HAS HIRED A HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINE HUNDRED FIFTY SIX NEW STAFF MEMBERS IN THE MONTH OF MAY TO ALSO PUT ON THERE THAT ONCE TRAINING IS COMPLETE, WE EXPECT TO HAVE THESE NEW PEOPLE FULLY DEPLOYED BY, AND THEN HAVE THAT LIKE LATEST DATE IN THERE AS WE'RE ANNOUNCING THIS TO THE COMMUNITY, PUTTING IT OUT THERE IN OUR PRESS RELEASES ON THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS SO THAT WE CAN, AGAIN, TO, TO CHAIR TAYLOR'S POINT MANAGING THE EXPECTATIONS, BECAUSE JUST BECAUSE WE HIRE THEM DAY ONE DOESN'T MEAN THAT DAY TWO, THEY'RE GOING TO BE OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, MANNING THE ROUTES. 
          I WOULD HOPE THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE OUT OF THEIR DAY TO MANNING THEIR ROUTES UNTIL, I MEAN, EVEN IF THEY HAVE THE COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE AND WE HIRED HIM AWAY FROM DARK DRIVING A BUS, YOU STILL NEED TO PUT THEM IN THERE DRIVING THAT ROUTE AND BEING FAMILIAR WITH AUSTIN WITH WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CAP METRO DRIVER ON THAT ROUTE. 
          SO I THINK THAT IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL AND BENEFICIAL MAYBE JUST TO, TO ADD THAT LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA LANGUAGE SO THAT THE COMMUNITY PEOPLE IN AUSTIN AND IN OUR SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES, FOLKS IN THE CAP, METRO SERVICE AREA, UNDERSTAND WHAT THE LAG TIME'S GOING TO BE THERE FROM, YES, WE'VE GOT THE, THIS, THIS NEW HUNDRED AND 50, UH, ON BOARD, BUT WHAT THAT MEANS TO THEM DAILY, TO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ACTUALLY FINDING THE SERVICE DELAYS, IMPACTING THEM WHEN THEY CAN EXPECT THAT TO CHANGE. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          UM, YOU MAY RECALL THAT AT LAST MONTH'S BOARD MEETING OUR CEO, ANDY SCOTT, BELSKY PROVIDED AN OVERVIEW TO THE BOARD OF THE OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES WE'RE HAVING. 
          UM, HE HAS BEGUN PROVIDING AND WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE MONTHLY UPDATES ON THAT DATA, UH, TO THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE OF THIS BOARD. 
          UM, AND HE WILL ALSO BE AT THE AUGUST SISEP MEETING TO PROVIDE, TO KIND OF GET INTO THAT DATA WITH THE COMMITTEE, BUT WE ARE HAPPY TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION AND, UH, APPRECIATE THE REQUEST FOR MORE TRANSPARENCY. 
          AND I THINK WE PROBABLY NEED TO LOOK AT AT LEAST THREE DATA POINTS AND ONE OF THOSE DATA POINTS, UH, WOULD BE NEW HIRES. 
          UM, BUT ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE DATA POINTS, UM, MIGHT BE, UM, THE, THE NUMBER OF, OF, UM, MEMBERS THAT WE HAVE LOST, MEANING THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT ARE RETIRED OR, UM, ARE LEFT. 
          AND THEN THE THIRD DATA POINT, IT WOULD SEEM TO ME, UH, WOULD BE A NUMBER THAT TELLS US THAT PEOPLE THAT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RETIREMENT IN THOSE POSITIONS, BECAUSE THAT'LL GIVE US AN IDEA ABOUT WHO IS ELIGIBLE AND WHAT WE MIGHT NEED TO TRAIN TOWARDS IT, WHETHER EVEN IF THEY STAYED W IF THEY STAYED THE WONDERFUL, BUT AT SOME POINT WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE WILL SEPARATE. 
          SO, UH, WHAT ARE WE DOING IN PREPARATION FOR THAT? DO WE 
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KNOW THOSE NUMBERS? AND THEN AS WE LOOK AT THOSE THREE DATA POINTS, WE CAN SEE WHO'S COMING IN, WHO'S LEAVING AND BUILD PROGRAMMING, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE FULLY STAFFED. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          RIGHT. 
          UM, IS, UM, OKAY. 
          DO, UH, ARE WE GOING TO HAVE ANY PRESENTATION ABOUT THE, UM, THE ACCESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE? NO, JUST THE HIGH LEVEL. 
          HE DIDN'T PASS ANYTHING ON, UM, IF HE HAS ANYTHING, I'LL BE SURE TO SHARE THAT, BUT I THINK IT WAS JUST THE GENERAL PRESENTATION THIS MONTH. 
          ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS THAT I MISSED BOARD MEMBERS, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARING CHAIR TAYLOR FOR JOINING US AS ALWAYS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          CHAIR TAYLOR, AND I APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          [V. Board Committee Updates]
LET'S SEE. 
          UH, NEXT UP, WE'LL HAVE THE BOARD, UH, COMMITTEE UPDATES. 
          UM, LET'S SEE. 
          UM, WE WILL HAVE A CHAIR STRATTON, GIVE US THE OPERATIONS REPORT. 
          THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN, THE, UH, OPERATIONS PLANNING AND SAFETY COMMITTEE MET ON MONDAY, JUNE 13TH AT 12:00 PM, A LITTLE USUAL, UH, EARLIER THAN USUAL. 
          UH, WE CONSIDERED SIX ACTION ITEMS APPROVAL OF OUR MAIN MINI MEETING MINUTES. 
          UH, WE ALSO, UH, LOOKED AT AND APPROVE THE RESOLUTION, UH, AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT AND CEO TO IMPLEMENT THE AUGUST 22 SERVICE CHANGES. 
          SO PUT OUR STAMP AND SEAL OF APPROVAL ON IT TO, UH, BRING TO THE FULL BOARD AND THEN ALSO CONSIDERED ANOTHER, UH, FOR ACTION ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN SENT TO THE CONSENT AGENDA. 
          I'LL JUST NOTE HERE THAT THREE OF THOSE ACTION ITEMS ALL KIND OF ARE BUNDLED TOGETHER AND HAVE TO DO WITH IMPROVING THE ON-TIME PERFORMANCE, UH, AS PART OF THE, THIS, UM, SOFTWARE SYSTEM AND THE COMPANY TABLETS AND THE, UH, VERIZON, UH, MOBILITY, UH, WIRELESS SERVICE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT, UH, TO, TO HELP THE DRIVERS AND THE, UM, THE OPERATORS IN DISPATCH IMPROVE THEIR ABILITY TO FIGURE OUT WHEN THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE AT WHAT STATION AT WHAT POINT IN TIME, TO, TO PREVENT THE, UH, THE BUSES FROM, UH, FROM BUNCHING UP AND, AND ENSURING THAT THAT OUR RIDERS GET WHERE THEY NEED TO BE ON TIME. 
          AND, UH, THEN ONE FINAL RESOLUTION THERE IS AGAIN ON THE AGENDA CONSENT AGENDA WAS FOR, UM, UH, STATE OF GOOD REPAIR WITH LIGHTING AT THE, UM, LIGHT FIXTURES AT THE LAKELINE METRO PARK AND RIDE AND A RAIL STATION. 
          SO YOU'LL SEE THAT ON THE AGENDA TODAY. 
          THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. 
          WE WILL NOT HAVE A FINANCE COMMITTEE UPDATE UPDATE TODAY, BUT WE WILL GO DIRECTLY INTO THE CONSENT AGENDA. 
          UM, WE HAVE, UH, NO, GO AHEAD. 
          I MEAN, YOU'VE GOT, I THINK THE FINANCE COMMITTEE MET, DIDN'T IT? I THINK COUNCIL, UH, I THINK THE, UM, BOARD MEMBER POOL CHAIRED IT, IS THAT WHY WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE AN UPDATE BECAUSE SHE'S NOT HERE. 
          OKAY. 
          THANKS. 
          OKAY. 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO, UH, GIVEN THE FACT THAT BOARD MEMBER POOL, NOT MR. MR. CHAIR, I DO WANT TO ADD REAL QUICK THAT ALONG THE FACT THAT THE LINES OF, UH, BOARD MEMBER AND, UH, A BOARD MEMBER POOL NOT BEING HERE, UM, I WAS NOT EXPECTED TO BE HERE. 
          AND SO, UH, THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A HICCUP AND MISCOMMUNICATION WITH STAFF. 
          NORMALLY THE PUBLIC EXPECTS I'M SURE TO SEE AS PART OF BOARD COMMITTEE UPDATES, AN UPDATE FROM AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP THAT DID NOT MAKE IT ON THE AGENDA BECAUSE ME BEING THE ATP REPRESENTATIVE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN ATTENDANCE. 
          I WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO BE ON VACATION. 
          I DIDN'T END UP HAPPENING. 
          SO SINCE IT IS NOT ON THE AGENDA, WON'T BE HAPPENING. 
          I WILL PROVIDE A DOUBLE UPDATE, DOUBLE DOSE UPDATE TO THE PUBLIC AND MEMBERS OF, UH, PUBLICLY TO THE, UH, TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AT OUR NEXT MEETING. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          UM, MAKING SURE THERE'S NO, UNREADINESS THERE. 
          VERY GOOD. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          APPRECIATE THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, SO, UM, UNLESS WE HAVE ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE NEED TO COVER, WE'LL MOVE DIRECTLY INTO OUR CONSENT AGENDA. 
          UH, WE HAVE FIVE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA TODAY. 
          I'LL READ THOSE ITEMS AND THEN IF ANY BOARD MEMBERS WISH TO HAVE ANY OF THOSE ITEMS REMOVED, PLEASE SAY SO, AND, AND WE WILL, AND THEN WE WILL, UH, WE WILL GET THAT DONE. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO, UM, NOW, UM, I WILL READ THEM ONE BY ONE AND, UH, OR I GUESS WE CAN JUST GO THROUGH THE LIST ONE BY ONE. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UH, FOR CONSENT ITEM, UH, WELL, LET ME, LET ME DO THIS. 
          LET ME READ THROUGH THE HOME, UH, THE WHOLE GROUP, AND THEN WE'LL, UH, GO BACK AND CATCH THE, UH, AND VOTE ON THE CONSENT AGENDA ITSELF. 
          AND THE DAY, BECAUSE WE HAVE A BOARD MEMBER COMING IN REMOTELY, UH, THEN WE WILL TAKE 
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A VOICE VOTE, SO WE WILL TAKE A VOICE VOTE TODAY. 
          SO, 
          [VI. Consent Items]
UH, CONSENT ITEM ON NUMBER ONE IS APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM THE MAY 23RD, 2022 PUBLIC HEARING, AND MAY 23RD, 2022 BOARD MEETING. 
          KAY. 
          UM, ITEM TWO IS APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OR THEIR DESIGNEE TO FINALIZE AND EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH SWIFTLY INC FOR MOBILE ON-TIME PERFORMANCE EXPANSION, UM, SOFTWARE SYSTEMS FOR A BASE PERIOD OF 16 MONTHS WITH ONE, ONE YEAR OPTION PERIOD IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT, NOT TO EXCEED $493,728 ITEM THREE APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT AND CEO, UH, OR THEIR DESIGNEE TO FINALIZE AND EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH VERIZON DIR, UH, STATE OF TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION, RESOURCES FOR MOBILE ON-TIME PERFORMANCE EXPANSION CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT FOR A PERIOD OF 24 MONTHS IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $438,952 ITEM NUMBER FOUR APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT AND C, UM, OR THEIR DESIGNEE TO FINALIZE AND EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH CONNECTED SOLUTIONS GROUP, LLC FOR MOBILE ON-TIME PERFORMANCE EXPANSION, TABLET, HARDWARE FOR A BASE PERIOD OF THREE MONTHS, AND THE TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $279,440. 
          AND FINALLY, NUMBER FIVE APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OR THEIR DESIGNEE TO FINALIZE AN EXECUTED CONTRACT WITH TD INDUSTRIES FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF THE PARKING LOT LIGHT FIXTURES AT LAKELINE, UH, PARK AND RIDE WITHIN THE MOUNTAIN, NOT TO EXCEED $219,714. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, THE CHAIR WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION AND A SECOND, UH, ON THE CONSENT AGENDA. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, BOARD MEMBER COOPER IS THE MOTION. 
          IS THERE A SECOND? OKAY. 
          BOARD MEMBER STRAUS. 
          IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION UNDER THAT THOUGH? I'VE RENAMED. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          BOARD MEMBER STRATTON. 
          UH, AND SEE, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION HEARING? NONE. 
          UH, LET'S GO THROUGH A ROLL CALL, VOTE, UM, BOARD MEMBERS, STRATTON, UM, BOARD MEMBER, KITCHEN, UM, BOARD MEMBER COOPER. 
          I, I WAS GOING TO GIVE YOU ANOTHER NAME TOO. 
          UM, BOARD MEMBER, ROSS BOARD MEMBER HARRIS. 
          I, AND THE CHAIR WILL MAKE IT UNANIMOUS. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO THAT IS, OH BOY. 
          BOARD MEMBER ENTER IT. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, I LOOKED, I LOOKED OVER AND I LOOKED OVER AND ALL I SAW WAS A BOARD MEMBER STRATTON, SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE CASTING A BIG SHADOW THE BOARD AND, OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UH, IT'S, IT'S, UH, IT'S BEEN, UH, THE, THE, UH, CONSENT AGENDA HAS BEEN APPROVED. 
          SO, UH, LET'S CONTINUE NOW TO OUR ACTION ITEM AGENDA. 
          WE'RE POSTED FOR SEVEN ITEMS TODAY. 
          UH, SO, UM, LET'S SEE. 
          WE'LL, WE'LL START OFF TAKING, UH, FOUR ITEMS AND THEN WE'LL GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION AND THEN TAKE THE THREE ITEMS, THE THREE REMAINING ITEMS WHEN WE RETURNED FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          OKAY. 
          SO 
          [VII 1. Approval of a resolution authorizing the President & CEO, or their designee, to implement the August 2022 Service Changes.]
OUR FIRST ITEM WILL BE TO CONSIDER ACTION ON THE PROPOSED, UH, AUSTIN 2022 SERVICE CHANGES. 
          MR. GONZALEZ IS GOING TO BE WITH US REMOTELY. 
          AND WOULD YOU, UH, PRESENT THE ITEM? YES, SIR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND GOOD AFTERNOON, UH, CHAIR TREVELYAN BOARD MEMBERS, PRESIDENT WATKINS. 
          MY NAME IS ROBERTO GONZALEZ AND I AM WITH CAPITOL METRO'S PLANNING DEPARTMENT. 
          UH, WE HAVE FOR YOU TO PROPOSE AUGUST, 2022 SERVICE CHANGES, AND FOR, WE HAVE SEVERAL NEW BOARD MEMBERS ON A DAYAS, UH, TODAY. 
          SO FIRST SLIDE IS JUST AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT A SERVICE CHANGE ACTUALLY IS. 
          WE MAKE REGULAR SERVICE CHANGES, UH, TO, TO OUR SYSTEM. 
          IT 
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DEPENDS ON A NUMBER OF ITEMS. UH, WE'RE CONSTANTLY LOOKING AT WAYS TO IMPROVE OUR SERVICES. 
          UH, WE LOOK TO, TO MAKE SOME IMPROVEMENTS AND WE DEVELOP A PROPOSAL THAT WE THEN BRING FORWARD BEFORE THE PUBLIC, AS WELL AS TO THE BOARD FOR IT, FOR ACTION. 
          UH, WE ENGAGE WITH THE PUBLIC THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PROCESS OF THESE PROPOSALS, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE DONE TO THIS POINT. 
          AND THESE CHANGES OCCUR THREE TIMES A YEAR, THAT THEY OCCUR IN TIME FOR IMPLEMENTATION EVERY JANUARY, EVERY WHICH IS SUMMER AND EVERY AUGUST, WHICH IS FALL AND A CORRESPOND, OFTENTIMES WITH THE CHANGES IN OUR TRAVEL PATTERNS, AS EVERYONE KNOWS, UH, AUSTIN IS VERY HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY, BY THE COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF, UH, SCHOOL ACTIVITY, THE UNIVERSITY BEING ONE OF THEM, AUSTIN ISD, ANOTHER ONE. 
          UH, SO THOSE CHANGES CORRESPOND WITH THOSE PERIODS. 
          THE NEXT SLIDE IS KIND OF A LARGE, UH, FRAMEWORK AND AN OVERVIEW OF, OF HOW OUR SERVICE CHANGES WORK. 
          AND WE HEARD A FEW COMMENTS ALREADY, UH, THIS AFTERNOON FROM SOME OF OUR CONSTITUENTS IN THIS AREA. 
          SO THERE ARE A NUMBER OF PIECES AND PROCESSES THAT GO INTO PLACE. 
          UH, PRIOR TO A SERVICE CHANGE, WE START WITH, UH, TAKING CUSTOMER FEEDBACK, DOING SOME DATA ANALYSIS SUGGESTIONS FROM OUR OPERATORS, UH, AND LOOKING AT NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN AND AROUND OUR COMMUNITY. 
          WE TAKE THOSE ITEMS AND INPUTS AND DEVELOP A PROPOSAL, UH, THAT PROPOSALS OFTENTIMES, AND MAY SOMETIMES INCLUDE AN, UH, SOME ANALYSIS, INCLUDING A TITLE, SIX ANALYSIS. 
          THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE HEARD A LITTLE BIT EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON FROM ONE OF OUR CONSTITUENTS, THAT ANALYSIS OR SOME THRESHOLDS THAT DICTATE WHEN THAT ANALYSIS OCCURS. 
          UH, WHEN YOU MAKE A MAJOR SERVICE CHANGE, INCLUDING ELIMINATION OF ROUTES, DEVELOPING OF A NEW ROUTE, OR, OR CHANGE A ROUTE BY A CERTAIN THRESHOLD, A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE ROUTE BEING CHANGED YOU, WE DO OFFER, WE DO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS TO IDENTIFY WHAT DOES THAT CHANGE MEAN FOR CERTAIN POPULATIONS, UH, POPULATIONS, WHERE THERE ARE LOW INCOME AREAS, POPULATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR. 
          AND WE ANALYZE THOSE AND LOOK AT THE IMPACTS, AND THEN WE DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THOSE IMPACTS ARE DISPROPORTIONATE OR, OR NOT. 
          UM, UPON APPROVAL UPON REVIEW OF THAT, THAT ANALYSIS, WE THEN BRING BACK WHAT WE FOUND BACK TO THE BOARD AND THEN DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT WE NEED TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO THE ORIGINAL PROPOSALS TO MITIGATE ANY OF THOSE CHANGES. 
          WE CONTINUE WITH THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PROCESS. 
          DOES, CAN TAKE THE FORM OF MANY AVENUES. 
          IT COULD BE DIRECT OUTREACH, PUBLIC MEETINGS, UH, SOME VIRTUAL MEETINGS, MUCH LIKE WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW. 
          UH, WE ADVISE OUR DIFFERENT, UH, ADVISORY COMMITTEES, INCLUDING, UM, ACCESS AND SEE SAC. 
          YOU HEARD TODAY FROM CHAIR TAYLOR. 
          THAT WAS PART OF THE PROCESS. 
          AND EDNA MENTIONED THAT I HAD BEEN PRESENT AT BOTH OF THOSE COMMITTEES TO KIND OF GIVE THEM AN OVERVIEW AND IT GIVES THOSE COMMITTEES A CHANCE TO ASK A LOT MORE DETAILED QUESTIONS OF OUR STAFF AND MYSELF SO THAT THEY CAN BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING. 
          WE'VE ALSO GONE BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE. 
          WE WENT BEFORE A BOARD MEMBER, STRATTON BOARD MEMBER  AND BOARD MEMBER, UH, KITCHEN ON THE 13TH OF JUNE, WHERE WE PRESENTED THESE, THESE PROPOSALS TO THROUGH THE SUBCOMMITTEE PROCESS. 
          UH, WE ARE RIGHT NOW MOVING TOWARDS THE, THE FULL BOARD. 
          AND WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT REFINING THESE PROPOSALS BASED ON WHAT WE'VE HEARD. 
          AND IN PRESENTING THESE PROPOSALS TO YOU, TO YOU ALL FOR FINAL APPROVAL, UH, ONCE WE MAKE THESE CHANGES AND ONCE WE SEEK AND RECEIVE FINAL APPROVAL, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF STEPS TO CONTINUE FORWARD, UH, INTERNALLY WITH CAPITAL METRO AND, AND DESIGN OF, AND DEVELOPMENT OF VARIOUS MATERIALS FOR THE PUBLIC, UH, ORGANIZING OUR WORKFORCE TO BE READY FOR, UH, THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SERVICE AND JUST WORKING THROUGH THE FINAL PIECES SO THAT WE CAN BE READY FOR THAT IMPLEMENTATION. 
          SO FOR AUGUST, THAT WILL BE TOWARDS THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST OF IMPLEMENTATION. 
          AND LET ME GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF AN OVERVIEW OF WHERE WE'VE BEEN AND WHERE WE'RE GOING, UH, THROUGH HERE. 
          AND THIS IS A GOOD INFORMATION FOR A NUMBER OF BOARD MEMBERS WHO MAY NOT HAVE BEEN HERE WITH US DURING THE PORTION OF COVID. 
          AND WE'VE HEARD A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE CONDITIONS THAT WE'RE IN AND THE SITUATION WE'RE IN WITH OUR SERVICE. 
          SO WE ARE RIGHT NOW AT ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF THE RIDERSHIP LEVELS THAT WE WERE PRE PANDEMIC, OUR BUS, OUR METRO BUS, WHICH IS THE MAJORITY OF OUR SERVICE, IS THAT ABOUT RUNNING AT ABOUT 70% SERVING ABOUT 70% OF THE RIDERSHIP THAT WE USED TO SERVE BEFORE OUR EXPRESSES AND FLYERS, WHICH ARE LIMITED STOP AND COMMUTER SERVICES THAT COME FROM OUR, OUR OUTER ENDS ARE ONLY SERVING ABOUT 15% OF WHAT OUR NORMAL RIDERSHIP IS AT. 
          AND METRO RAIL AND METRO RAPID RESPECT OF THE, OR AT ABOUT HALF THE RIDERSHIP OF WHERE WE WERE PRE PANDEMIC IMAGE TO THE RIGHT AS A MAP. 
          AND IT IS A MAP SHOWING RIDERSHIP PRE AND RECENTLY JUST AT THE END OF A SPRING, A RIDERSHIP BY BUS STOP AND TRANSIT CENTERS. 
          AND WHAT YOU'LL NOTICE IS THE RED DOTS ARE THE RIDERSHIP PATTERNS ON A TYPICAL WEEKDAY THAT WERE OCCURRING PRE PANDEMIC. 
          AND THE YELLOW IS KIND OF WHERE WE'RE, WE'RE WHAT WE'RE SEEING TODAY AS OF THE END OF THE SPRING. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S STILL SOME AREAS THAT WE STILL HAVE NOT, UM, REBOUNDED BACK TO WHERE WE WERE PRE PANDEMIC. 
          UH, YOU'LL SEE THAT AT THE OUTER FRINGES, UH, THIS MAP SHOWS SOME OF THE POINTS TOWARDS 
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THE NORTH SHORE, INCLUDING TECH RIDGE PARK AND RIDE LAKELINE STATION AS FAR SOUTH, AS SOUTH PARK MEADOWS, AS FAR EAST, AS DEL VALLEY AND THE AIRPORT AND, AND THE CORE CENTER, YOU'LL SEE THE UNIVERSITY AND DOWNTOWN AREAS. 
          SO THOSE OF YOU THAT WERE WITH US, UH, DO YOU WANT TO START WITH PANDEMIC THAT MARCH PERIOD OF 2020 SAW IMMEDIATELY HOW THE SYSTEM CHANGED ALMOST OVERNIGHT? OUR RIDERSHIP ON THE COMMUTER ROUTES, INCLUDING EXPRESSES AND, AND RAIL ALMOST ALMOST ENDED IMMEDIATELY AS PEOPLE WERE NOT COMMUTING TO DOWNTOWN AREA FREE TO WORK, OR FOR SCHOOL THINGS HAVE CHANGED AND, AND GOTTEN A LITTLE BIT BETTER, BUT THEY'RE STILL NOT TO THE PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS. 
          AND, UM, WE WERE SITTING HERE ALMOST A YEAR AGO, UM, LOOKING FORWARD TO A, A NICE SUMMER IN 2021 AND LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FALL PERIOD AND IN TO TWO, UM, TWO WAVES OF THE COVID HIT US WITH BOTH THE DELTA VARIANT AND THE OMNICOM VARIANT, AND THAT CHANGED THE DYNAMICS OF WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO. 
          SO WE WERE, WE WERE PREPARED TO START RESTORING SOME PARTS OF SERVICE LAST FALL, AND WE HAD TO IMMEDIATELY LOOK AT CHANGING THOSE, THAT SYSTEM AT THAT TIME, BECAUSE THE LABOR FORCE WASN'T JUST WASN'T AVAILABLE AS WE HAD EXPECTED IT TO BE. 
          AND THINGS CHANGED IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          SO WE ARE HOPEFULLY OPTIMISTIC THAT THINGS ARE CONTINUING IN A POSITIVE TREND AS WE MOVE FORWARD TOWARDS FALL, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO OVERSTEP OUR BOUNDS. 
          AND AS CHAIR TAYLOR SAID, YOU KNOW, OVER-COMMIT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN'T DELIVER. 
          SO AS WE PROPOSE, UM, AS WE'RE LOOKING TOWARDS AUGUST, WE ARE RIGHT NOW IN SUMMER LEVELS. 
          SO WE'RE RUNNING FAIRLY WELL. 
          IF WE LOOK AT DAILY REPORTS OF HOW OUR SYSTEM IS PERFORMING, WE'RE PERFORMING VERY, VERY WELL BECAUSE WE'RE IN SUMMER LEVELS, WE'VE REDUCED OUR REQUIREMENTS ON THE UT, UH, SPECIFIC ROUTES BECAUSE UT ISN'T A SUMMER SEMESTER, THEY'RE NOT IN A FALL IN THE SPRING SEMESTER WHERE WE SEE MORE SERVICE IN PLACE. 
          AND THEN WE REDUCED A LITTLE BIT OF TRIP NEEDS ON SELECT ROUTES WHERE WE HAVE EXTRA SERVICE, UH, IN PLACE SO THAT WE CAN HELP WITH SOME SCHOOL OVERLOAD. 
          SO THOSE HAVE BEEN ADJUSTED BACK. 
          WE'VE MAINTAINED SERVICE LEVELS ON RAIL, RAPID EXPRESS, FLYERS, AND EBUS AS WE HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST, UH, TWO YEARS. 
          SO WE HAVEN'T ADJUSTED FROM THERE. 
          UM, AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO, TO AUGUST. 
          SO AS WE LOOK FORWARD TO AUGUST, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, THAT YOU ASKED, UM, PRESIDENT WATKINS RIGHT NOW, AND WHAT DO OUR, WHAT DOES OUR LABOR SITUATION LOOK LIKE? OR CURRENTLY WE HAVE LESS OPERATORS THAN WE DID PRE COVID. 
          SO WHILE WE ARE STAFFING UP, THERE IS A NORMAL ATTRITION THAT MS. WALK-INS TALKED ABOUT FEW RETIREMENTS SEPARATIONS, UH, UH, FROM THE WORKFORCE, EITHER VOLUNTARY OR INVOLUNTARY, THAT, THAT MAKE OUR, OUR NUMBERS FLUCTUATE, THE MARKET CONDITIONS AS ANY ONE OF, YOU KNOW, FROM YOUR RESPECTIVE AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS. 
          WE WERE ALL TRYING TO HIRE, UH, PERSONNEL RIGHT NOW. 
          AND IT IS A DIFFICULT MATTER, UH, NATIONWIDE IT'S, IT'S CHALLENGING AS WELL FOR OUR INDUSTRY SPECIFICALLY. 
          SO WE ARE NOT THE ONLY TRANSIT AUTHORITY THAT IS FACING THE SAME, UH, ISSUES. 
          AND WHILE WE CONTINUE TO ACTIVELY RECRUIT, HIRE, AND TRAIN, UM, IT'S NOT JUST WITH THE OPERATORS, BUT WITH THE VEHICLE MAINTENANCE, UH, TEAM MEMBERS. 
          AND OUR JOB IS TO, IS TO HAVE THE RIGHT NUMBER OF LABOR FORCES AVAILABLE SO THAT WE CAN DELIVER THE SERVICE AS WE'VE, AS WE'VE PROMISED. 
          AND SO WE STILL NEED ADDITIONAL OPERATORS, MECHANICS TO REBUILD OUR SERVICE. 
          WE'RE NOT THERE YET, BUT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS THAT. 
          , WE'RE LOOKING TO MAINTAIN OUR CURRENT SERVICE LEVELS SO THAT WE CAN ENSURE DELIVERY. 
          WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO, TO BUMP UP FROM WHERE WE WERE IN THE SPRING, BUT JUST MAINTAIN WHERE WE WERE IN THE SPRING. 
          AND THEN AS WE SEE MORE LABOR BECOME AVAILABLE, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT CHER TAYLOR ASKED RIGHT NOW. 
          AND HE ASKED ME AT THE TIME WHEN WE HAD C-SECTIONS, WHEN CAN WE SEE A RESTORATION OF SERVICES, UH, TO, TO PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS? I CAN'T TELL YOU WHEN THAT WILL BE. 
          ALL I CAN TELL YOU IS THAT AS WE START TO SEE MORE LABOR AVAILABLE, WE'LL BE STRATEGIC INTO WHERE WE CAN PLACE THAT LABOR, UM, INTO THE SERVICES. 
          AS WE START TO SEE, UM, VIABILITY EITHER IN ONE PARTICULAR ROUTE OR ONE PARTICULAR AREA OF OUR COMMUNITY, UH, WE HAD A PRETTY GOOD CONVERSATION WITH A SUBCOMMITTEE WHERE I WAS ASKED SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT SPECIFIC ROUTES OR SPECIFIC SERVICES. 
          IT ALL DEPENDS ON, ON WHAT THE FALL BRINGS TO US. 
          YOU CAN SEE, YOU MIGHT SEE A RESURGENCE OF PEOPLE COMING BACK TO THE OFFICES, BUT ALL INDICATIONS ARE THAT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WILL COME BACK, BUT THEY MAY NOT COME BACK FOR SOME TIME TO A FIVE DAY WORK WEEK. 
          THEY MAY STAY WITH, UH, UH, JUST A, UH, A SMALLER SET OF DAYS INTO THE OFFICE. 
          AND THAT SEEMS TO BE THE TREND. 
          AND WE SEE IT RIGHT NOW WITH OUR DAILY RIDERSHIP NUMBERS, WHERE WE SEE IT FLUCTUATE DEPENDING ON THE DAY OF THE WEEK. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE'LL CONTINUE TO MONITOR AS WE MOVE FORWARD TO THE FALL. 
          SO, AS WE GO INTO AUGUST, WE WILL BE LOOKING TO MAKE SOME VERY, VERY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO OUR SCHEDULES BASED ON RIDERSHIP AND TRAVEL CONDITIONS. 
          WE WILL RESTORE U2 ROUTES TO THE FALL SEMESTER LEVELS. 
          THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE NORMALLY DO AFTER WE COME BACK FROM SUMMER ON SELECT ROUTES. 
          WE'LL DO SPECIFIC TRIPS, UH, FOR SCHOOL NEEDS, AND THEN WE WILL NOT CHANGE OR ADJUST 
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A METRO RAIL RAPID EXPRESSES OR EBUS FROM WHERE WE STAND RIGHT NOW. 
          SO THERE IS NOT A NEED TO DO ANYTHING MAJOR IN TERMS OF THE BOARD'S PART OR OUR PART, BECAUSE THERE ARE NO MAJOR CHANGES. 
          THERE IS ONE ITEM THAT HAS BEEN BROUGHT UP, UH, RIGHT NOW AS, AS, UH, DIFFERENT CONSTITUENTS HAVE SPOKEN UP AND EVEN CHAIR, UM, UH, STRATTON PENSION, UH, FROM THE SUBCOMMITTEE. 
          AND THAT WE WERE LOOKING TO MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA AND, UH, AND, UH, PAIR UP SOME ROUTES THAT ARE RIGHT NOW OPERATING INDEPENDENTLY. 
          YOU'VE HEARD FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COMMUNITY AND INCLUDING OUR LABOR FORCE THAT RIGHT NOW, UH, THERE ARE SOME ITEMS THAT NEED TO BE WORKED OUT IN ORDER FOR US TO DO THAT. 
          SO WHILE THERE'S VALUE IN DOING THAT, WE'RE GOING TO DELAY THAT, THAT PORTION UNTIL AT LEAST A SPRING, IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT, THAT'LL GET US READY FOR THE LABOR FORCE AND GET US READY TO DO A NUMBER OF OTHER THINGS SUBSEQUENT TO THAT. 
          SO WE'RE NOT MAKING ANY ROUTE PAIRING CHANGES AS WE HAD ORIGINALLY PROPOSED. 
          WE'RE JUST GOING TO STAY THE COURSE AS WE WERE IN THE SPRING AND MOVE FORWARD IN AUGUST. 
          CONSEQUENTLY, THAT MEANS WE DO NOT RE TITLE SIX ANALYSIS IS NOT REQUIRED. 
          WE'RE NOT MAKING ANY MAJOR CHANGES TO OUR SYSTEM. 
          WE'RE JUST STAYING THE COURSE. 
          AND OUR CHANGES ARE VERY, VERY MINOR IN NATURE. 
          OUR PUBLIC OUTREACH HAS CONTINUED THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF JUNE. 
          WE'RE NOT HOLDING THE, WE DID NOT HOLD A PUBLIC, A FORMAL PUBLIC HEARING BECAUSE THERE ARE NO MAJOR CHANGES, BUT WE DID HAVE A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT PUBLIC FORUMS, WHICH TO SOLICIT INPUT. 
          AND THAT'S ALWAYS PART OF OUR PROCESS AND NOT, THIS IS ONE THING THAT, UH, PRESIDENT WATKINS ALLUDED TO AND SOMETHING THAT I MENTIONED TO DIFFERENT FOLKS, WE ARE STAYING THE COURSE AS WE ARE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT I MENTIONED ARE CONDITIONS IN OUR COMMUNITY WHILE LOOKING POSITIVE, A CHANGE ON US, OUR LABOR FORCE WHILE WE ARE HIRING ACTIVELY RIGHT NOW IS SLOWLY COMING BACK, BUT NOT IN THE, IN THE NUMBERS THAT, THAT WE HOPE TO SEE. 
          BUT AT SOME POINT WE'D LIKE TO SEE SOME BETTER NUMBERS, BUT WE'VE GOT TO LOOK FORWARD TO THE FUTURE AND THE WINTER, UH, THAT IS JANUARY OF 2023. 
          WE'LL LOOK TO CONTINUE TO MAKE SOME MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO SERVICES. 
          AND WE'LL LOOK TO SEE WHERE WE MIGHT SEE SOME, SOME, SOME ADJUSTMENTS MADE BASED ON STAFFING AVAILABILITY, INCLUDING, UM, CHANGES TO THE SINGLES, SINGLE, UH, ROUTES OPERATING DOWNTOWN AREA. 
          BUT WE'VE GOT TO LOOK FORWARD TO MID 20, 23. 
          AND THAT'S WHEN THERE'S A LARGE OUTLAY OF, OF SERVICES. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S BEING PROPOSED AT THAT WE HAVE ALL BEEN WORKING TOWARDS, AND THAT IS WHAT THE INTRODUCTION OF TWO NEW METRO RAPIDS, THE EXPO LINE, WHICH A NUMBER OF YOU WERE PRESENT AT OUR GROUNDBREAKING, UH, JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO THAT WILL TRAVEL FROM THE EXPO CENTER, UH, THROUGH THE LOYOLA, UH, AREA DOWN MAINER BOULEVARD INTO THE UNIVERSITY AND DOWNTOWN AREA AND IN THE PLEASANT VALLEY LINE, WHICH STARTS IN THE MUELLER AREA, TRAVELING TOWARDS THE EASTERN PART OF OUR COMMUNITY ALONG PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD. 
          AND IT CONTINUES ALL THE WAY DOWN TOWARDS THE DOVE SPRINGS AREA AND ENDS UP AT THE GOODNIGHT RANCH, UH, DEVELOPMENT AREA JUST ON EAST SLAUGHTER LANE. 
          SO THOSE ARE TWO NEW LINES THAT WILL NOT REPLACE A LARGE PORTION OF OUR, OF OUR SERVICE ARE THESE WILL BE LINES THAT WILL BE IN ADDITION TO WHAT WE'RE OPERATING TODAY. 
          YOU HEARD A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, COMMUNITIES IN OUR NORTHEAST. 
          WE'RE GONNA TAKE ADVANTAGE AND LOOK TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OPPORTUNITIES IN THE NORTHEAST AS WE IMPLEMENT THESE SERVICES. 
          SO FOR INSTANCE, ON THE EXPO LINE, WHICH IS LOCATED AT THEREBY DECKER AND LOYOLA, WE'LL LOOK TO SEE HOW WE CAN STREAMLINE SOME SERVICES IN THERE SO WE CAN PROVIDE BETTER COVERAGE AND BETTER FREQUENCY FOR PARTS OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT ARE DISCONTINUOUS DUE TO THE STREET NETWORK PATTERNS THAT ARE OUT IN THAT AREA. 
          SO WE'LL LOOK TO INTRODUCE A PICKUP SERVICE IN THAT AREA TO REPLACE TO, UH, INFREQUENT ROUTES THAT ARE IN THAT AREA. 
          NOW, THOSE ROUTES ARE INFREQUENT BECAUSE THEY'RE A PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAVE WITH TRAVIS COUNTY. 
          THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH FUNDING TO PROVIDE SOME OF THESE AREAS. 
          SO IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TRAVIS COUNTY, WE WERE ABLE TO DO SOME THINGS IN COMMUNITY, OUT IN THOSE AREAS THAT ARE, THAT EXCEED CAPITOL METROS AREAS. 
          SO TRAVIS COUNTY PAYS FOR PORTIONS OF THAT SERVICE, BUT AS WE LOOK TO TRANSITION THAT WE'LL LOOK TO TRANSITION THOSE FUNDING SOURCES OVER TO A SERVICE THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE AVAILABLE TO US AT THE TIME WHEN WE IMPLEMENTED THOSE TWO, THOSE TWO ROUTES. 
          SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S AFFORDED US A BETTER OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND THEN WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT ROUTE 3 39. 
          THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, UM, MS. JOSEPH, ONE OF OUR CONSTITUENTS ASKED ABOUT, UH, IT'S AN INFREQUENT ROUTE. 
          IT RUNS EVERY 60 MINUTES. 
          IT'S ONE OF OUR, UH, LEAST FREQUENT ROUTES IN THE SYSTEM. 
          IT'S NOT BY CHOICE, UH, THAT WE WANTED TO DO THAT. 
          BUT AT THE TIME OF CAPRI MAP IN 2018, THERE WERE CERTAIN PARTS OF OUR ROUTE SYSTEM THAT WERE, UM, PROPOSED FOR ELIMINATION. 
          AND THAT WAS BASED ON VERY LOW RIDERSHIP. 
          UH, AND, AND OTHER FACTORS, ROUTE 3 39 WAS ONE OF THOSE AREAS THAT WAS LOOKED TO BE ELIMINATED, BUT WORKING THROUGH THE BOARD PROCESS, WE WORKED TO, TO, UH, RETAIN IT, BUT IT WAS RETAINED AT A 60 MINUTES SERVICE. 
          WE DON'T BELIEVE IN, IN 60 MINUTES, AS WE IDEALLY WANT TO SEE OUR SERVICES RUN AT 30 MINUTES OR BETTER, UM, BY MAKING 
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SOME CHANGES IN AND AROUND THE NORTHEAST AREA, WE BELIEVE THAT WE COULD BRING THAT, THAT ROUTE UP TO 30 MINUTE SERVICE, UH, WHICH IS WHERE WE, WE BELIEVE IT NEEDS TO BE GOING FORWARD INTO THE FUTURE, BUT THAT'S WHERE WE STAND TODAY WITH OUR SERVICES. 
          SO TODAY I'M HERE TO SEEK, UH, APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION THAT WOULD AUTHORIZE OUR CEO, THE AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE OUR AUGUST, 2022 SERVICE CHANGES, UH, THAT WOULD BEGIN AUGUST. 
          AND WITH THAT, I WILL TURN THIS OFF AND THEN I'LL HAND IT BACK TO CHAIR PAVILION. 
          SO THE BOARD OR ANYONE ELSE MAY ASK QUESTIONS SOUNDS GOOD. 
          UH, BOARD MEMBERS, UM, BOARD MEMBERS STRATTON, NOT STRAUSS. 
          THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. 
          UM, MR. GONZALEZ AT THE, UH, OPERATIONS PLANNING AND SAFETY COMMITTEE, AS PART OF THIS ORIGINAL PRESENTATION, THERE WAS AN, AN IN-DEPTH SECTION OF IT THAT DID ADDRESS THE, UH, CONCEPT OF THE COMBINING SINGLE SECTION OPERATING ROUTES THAT WERE ENDING IN DOWNTOWN. 
          UM, THE CONCEPT OF TAKING SOME OF THOSE EAST WEST, UH, THOSE EAS, UH, SPECIFIC SPECIFICALLY TAKING THOSE EAST REST WEST ROUTES AND COMBINING THEM INTO ONE ROUTE. 
          UH, SO THAT AMONG OTHER THINGS IT WOULD, AS I UNDERSTOOD IT, ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR, UH, COMMUTERS TO HAVE TO, TO, TO TRANSFER AND ALSO IN AN EFFORT TO ACHIEVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY AMONG OUR STAFF, OUR OPERATORS, COULD YOU EITHER YOU OR A CEO WALK-INS MAYBE, UH, PLEASE PROVIDE US A LITTLE BIT MORE CONTEXT AS TO WHAT CHANGED STAFF'S MIND BETWEEN THE TIME THAT THE COMMITTEE, THIS WAS PRESENTED COMMITTEE AND COMMITTEE VOTED TO SEND THE FULL SERVICE CHAIN CHANGE PLAN WITH THAT IN IT, TO THE BOARD, AND THEN THAT BEING PULLED OUT. 
          YEAH. 
          UH, MS. WALK-INS, I COULD TAKE A FIRST STAB AT THAT, BUT THANK YOU. 
          UH, REMEMBER STRATTON IT, THE CHANGES THAT WE ARE PROPOSING HAVE AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF VALUE. 
          THERE WAS SOME QUESTIONS THAT WERE RAISED BY, UM, OUR LABOR FORCE AS TO THE TIMING OF THOSE CHANGES, UH, BECAUSE IT, IT INTERFERED WITH SOME OF THE WORK ASSIGNMENTS THAT WERE CURRENTLY UNDERWAY BETWEEN OUR GARAGES. 
          AND TYPICALLY ONCE A YEAR, OUR LABOR FORCE HAS THE ABILITY TO SIGN UP FOR FOUR OR WORK ASSIGNMENTS BASED ON A, UH, NORTH GARAGE, WHICH IS LOCATED AT NORTH BURNETT AND THE SOUTH GARAGE, WHICH IS THE GARAGE IS LOCATED WHERE WE WERE AT AT 29 10. 
          UM, SO THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO ALLOW THE LABOR FORCE TO LOOK AT WHICH GARAGE THEY LIKE TO OPERATE COMING UP IN JANUARY, UH, MAKING THE CHANGE RIGHT NOW, UM, CAUSING AN ITEM OF CONCERN AT THAT TIME, UH, AT THIS TIME, UH, TO MAKE THAT CHANGE. 
          SO WE'RE GOING TO WORK THROUGH THAT PROCESS WITH OUR LABOR FORCE AND ATU, SO THAT WE CAN ENSURE THAT WE CAN PROCEED FORWARD WITH THESE CHANGES IN JANUARY. 
          AND WE NEED TO MAKE THESE THESE CHANGES, AND WE NEED TO MAKE THESE, THESE DECISIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS, UM, VALUABLE, UH, AT THIS TIME, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO MAKE CHANGES SUBSEQUENTLY MOVING FORWARD, AS I'VE POINTED OUT WITH THE, UH, THE MID 2023 CHANGES. 
          SO IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO RESOLVE, UM, THESE ITEMS OF CONCERN RIGHT NOW, UH, AS WE MOVE FORWARD, BECAUSE WE'VE GOT MORE CHANGES COMING UP TO OUR SYSTEM. 
          AND I DON'T KNOW MS. WATKINS, IF YOU WANT TO ADD ANYTHING ELSE TO WHAT I JUST SAID, I GUESS I WOULD JUST SUMMARIZE IT TO SAY, WE FIGURED OUT THAT INTERNALLY AND OPERATIONALLY, THE PAIRING OF THOSE ROUTES, CAUSE THEY'RE CURRENTLY OPERATED FROM DIFFERENT GARAGES, CAUSED SOME HICCUPS AND WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO. 
          AND SO WE NEED TO TAKE THE TIME TO IRON OUT THOSE PROCEDURAL INTERNAL ISSUES SO THAT WE CAN, UM, ACTUALLY MAKE IT WORK. 
          UM, WE DON'T WANT TO PROMISE SOMETHING AND NOT BE ABLE TO DELIVER IT. 
          AND SO, UM, WE DO THINK THERE IS VALUE IN THE, IN THE PROPOSALS AND WE WOULD EXPECT TO BRING THEM BACK TO THIS BOARD FOR APPROVAL, FOR INCLUSION IN OUR JANUARY SERVICE CHANGES. 
          WE JUST REALIZED THAT DOING IT FOR AUGUST WAS GONNA CAUSE MAYBE MORE HEADACHE FOR ON OUR OWN INTERNAL LOGISTICAL ISSUES THEN, UM, IT WAS, IT WAS PROBABLY WORTH IT THIS TIME. 
          CORRECT. 
          I UNDERSTAND, I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          I CAN COMPLETELY GET BEHIND THAT AS A BOARD MEMBER, AS THE CHAIR OF YOUR OPERATIONS PLANNING AND SAFETY COMMITTEE. 
          AND WHILE I DON'T WANT TO NECESSARILY SPEAK FOR THE OTHER MEMBERS ON THIS BODY THAT ARE PART OF MY COMMITTEE, BUT I WOULD SUBMIT THAT YOU MADE CHANGES TO WHAT WE WERE PRESENTED IN WHAT WE PASSED, AND IT WAS NOT BROUGHT TO ANY OF OUR ATTENTION. 
          I WAS EXPECTING WHAT WAS GOING TO BE IN FRONT OF ME HERE WAS THE EXACT SAME THING THAT WAS PRESENTED AT THE COMMITTEE. 
          IF YOU COULD PLEASE JUST DO US THE COURTESY OF SIN, IF NOTHING ELSE, SEND US A NOTIFICATION, JUST AN EMAIL AND SAY, HEY, BOARD MEMBERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU THE HEADS UP THAT THIS LITTLE BIT IS CHANGING. 
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AND HERE'S WHY, SO THAT IT JUST, JUST AS A, JUST AS A COURTESY TO US, I, I COMPLETELY GET BEHIND THIS. 
          EVERYTHING YOU'VE LAID OUT MAKES PERFECT SENSE. 
          WE DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING TO DISRUPT THE LABOR FORCE ISSUES. 
          I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S ADMIRABLE. 
          THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR US. 
          WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE TAKING CARE OF OUR OPERATORS AND WE GOT TO BALANCE THE OPERATORS WITH OUR CUSTOMERS. 
          AS WE'RE ROLLING THIS OUT, I HOPE I WOULD HOPE AND EXPECT THAT THIS WILL BE BACK ON THE AGENDA NEXT TIME AS Y'ALL ARE EXPECTING FOR OUR JANUARY CHANGE, THIS, THIS IS REALLY MORE, JUST AN INTERNAL MATTER AND JUST MAKING SURE AND I, AND I WOULD, I WOULD HOPE THE SAME THING GOING FORWARD WOULD BE TRUE OF ANYTHING, NOT JUST WITH, WITH SOMETHING LIKE THIS, BUT WITH ANY KIND OF THING THAT THAT WOULD BE PASSED BETWEEN A COMMITTEE MEETING AND THEN GOING FORWARD TO THE FULL BOARD THAT, THAT, THAT STAFF WOULD PLEASE CONSIDER INFORMING THE MEMBERS OF THAT COMMITTEE THAT HAD JUST SEEN IN PAST SOMETHING THAT, OH, HEY, WE'RE NOW GOING TO HAVE TO CHANGE SOMETHING BEFORE IT GETS TO THE FULL BOARD SO THAT THE EXPECTATION IS THERE, THAT WE ALL ARE ON THE SAME PAGE. 
          AND WE CAN APPRECIATE IT JUST TO PIGGYBACK ON THAT. 
          AND THEN I RECOGNIZED A BOARD MEMBER KITCHEN, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO BE IMPORTANT AS WE, AS WE DO, UH, LAY DOWN POLICY. 
          UH, WE ALSO IDENTIFY OUR KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS THAT WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, THAT WE KNOW EITHER IT'S A LEADING OR IT'S A LAGGING INDICATOR. 
          SO WE, SO THAT WE HAVE A GOOD EYE SO THAT WHEN WE LOOK AT ANY ITEM, WE LOOK AT IT AS A PILOT WHERE WE'RE IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM THAT WE'RE TRYING TO SOLVE, HOW WE'RE TRACKING THAT PROBLEM, WHAT WE LEARNED FROM THAT PILOT PROCESS, SO THAT AS WE GO FORWARD, UH, WE HAVE, UH, WE HAVE A GOOD IDEA FROM THE VERY BEGINNING WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. 
          AND THEN, AND THEN ULTIMATELY, UH, WE KNOW HOW WE'RE GOING TO MEASURE IT. 
          AND THEN AS WE GET TO A POINT WHERE WE HAVE TESTED IT FOR A WHILE, WE, WE, UH, WE EXPECT WHAT IT IS. 
          WE ULTIMATELY GET A BOARD MEMBER KITCHEN. 
          UM, YEAH. 
          SO A COUPLE OF THINGS I WOULD SAY. 
          UM, THANK YOU, UM, FORMER MEMBERS STRATTON FOR BRINGING THAT UP AND, AND, AND I HEAR YOU, UH, UM, MS. WATSON, PRESIDENT WATSON FOR, I HEAR YOU SAYING THAT YOU'VE HEARD THAT, UM, I WOULD JUST EMPHASIZE, I WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN, UM, UH, CAUSE I WOULDN'T HAVE REALIZED THAT IT WOULD MAKE THAT CHANGE. 
          SO I THINK IT'S, UM, YEAH, IT JUST, IT JUST CANNOT HAPPEN. 
          WE HAVE TO GET AN UPDATE BECAUSE WE VOTED ON SOMETHING. 
          SO TO CHANGE THE VOTE WITHOUT, WITHOUT BRINGING THAT TO OUR ATTENTION IS REALLY INAPPROPRIATE. 
          SO, SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP AND BOARD MEMBERS TO THAT. 
          AND THE OTHER THING IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THE REASONS FOR THE CHANGES TIED BACK TO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH. 
          SO, SO I JUST WANT TO ECHO THOSE POINTS. 
          SO I DO HAVE A QUESTION THOUGH, ABOUT ANOTHER ITEM. 
          UM, SO, UH, SO I, I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING ABOUT THE TIME FOR THE CHANGES WE'VE WE'VE HAD. 
          UM, WE HAD AT LEAST TWO SPEAKERS, UH, THIS MORNING, UH, SUGGEST AND ASK FOR SOME CONSIDERATION OF SOME CHANGES TO ROUTES. 
          SO I NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS IN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT YOU JUST SHARED WITH US. 
          UM, BECAUSE I THINK WE SAID THAT W I THINK WE JUST TOLD ONE OF OUR ONE, AT LEAST ONE OF OUR SPEAKERS AND SHOULD BE BOTH THAT WE WOULD CONSIDER, UM, AND ANALYZE WHAT IT WAS THAT THEY WERE ASKING FOR. 
          SO CAN, CAN I ASK THAT, THAT WILL THAT BE DONE? I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN WHAT THIS IS TELLING ME, CORRECT. 
          AND WE WILL LOOK AT YOU, UM, WITHIN THE PROCESS CHART THAT TALKS ABOUT HOW A SERVICE CHANGES DEVELOPED, UM, FEEDBACK FROM OUR CUSTOMERS AND THE COMMUNITY IS ONE OF THE KEY WAYS THAT WE IDENTIFY PAIN POINTS, UM, FOR OUR CUSTOMERS. 
          SO WE WILL BE LOOKING AT THOSE AS WE PUT TOGETHER, UPCOMING SERVICE CHANGE PACKAGES, UM, AND CAN PROVIDE INFORMATION SPECIFICALLY IN OUR BOARD FOLLOW-UP MEMO, UM, AS A FOLLOW-UP TO THOSE ITEMS THAT WERE BROUGHT TO YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS BOARD, UM, AND HOW THEY GET RESOLVED. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THAT WHAT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP TO US WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR JANUARY. 
          UM, EVEN THOUGH THIS IS, THIS DOCUMENT SAYS THAT WE'RE NOT CONSIDERING ANYTHING ELSE. 
          RIGHT? CORRECT. 
          WE'LL LOOK AT THEM WHETHER THEY MAKE SENSE FOR JANUARY OR A FUTURE SERVICE CHANGE, BUT WE'LL DEFINITELY DO THE ANALYSIS AND FIGURE OUT WHAT MAKES SENSE AND REPORT BACK. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, PRIOR TO THE JANUARY SERVICE CHECK. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THEN THE OTHER QUESTION I HAVE IS I HAD, I HAD THOUGHT THAT THERE WAS, WELL, FIRST OF ALL, LET ME SAY I'M, UM, I'M VERY, YOU KNOW, PLEASED AND EXCITED TO HEAR ABOUT THE NEW PICKUP SERVICE FOR THE NORTHEAST AREA. 
          I THINK THAT THAT IS GOING TO, TO ADDRESS A NUMBER OF ISSUES THAT WE'VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT THE, THE, UH, TIMEFRAME FOR SERVICE IN THAT AREA. 
          UM, I WAS ALSO UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE WAS A SUGGESTION OR A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW PICKUP SERVICE IN THE SOUTHWEST AREA. 
          UM, SO I WAS WONDERING WHAT THE STATUS OF THAT WAS. 
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DID YOU MEAN THE SOUTHEAST AREA? I'M SORRY. 
          I MEANT STOP. 
          NO, NO, NO, NO, I'M SORRY. 
          I'M IN SOUTHEAST. 
          SO WE WILL BE LOOKING AT THAT, UH, PROPOSAL AS WELL, TOO, IN THE, UH, IN THE ITEMS THAT YOU'LL RECEIVE SOON REGARDING THE, UH, THE FUTURE BUDGET CYCLE. 
          UM, YOU'LL SEE SOME, SOME ADDITIONAL RESOURCES THERE FOR SOME ADDITIONAL PICKUP STONES. 
          SO WE'VE NOT GONE BEFORE THE PUBLIC AT ALL, WITH ANY OF THESE DETAILS. 
          WE DID WANT TO SHARE THOUGH THAT ONE THAT WE DID, UM, HAVE IN MIND ON THE NORTHEAST, BECAUSE IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT FOR SOME TIME PLAYS IN SOME ROUTES, BUT THERE IS ANOTHER ONE AT LEAST BEING LOOKED AT FOR THE SOUTHEAST AREA AS WELL. 
          OKAY. 
          AND I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T QUITE UNDERSTAND THE TIMEFRAME, UH, FOR THE SOUTHEAST. 
          AND IT'S LOOK IT'S TO LOOK AT, UH, BRINGING BOTH OF THOSE ONLINE, UM, IN TIME FOR MID 20, 23, AND IN UNISON WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF METRO RAPIDS. 
          NOW THAT'S CONTINUED UPON AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES TO LABOR FORCE AND, AND, UM, VEHICLES. 
          THAT'S STILL AN ITEM THAT CONTINUES TO IMPACT NOT JUST OUR BUS SERVICE, BUT OUR PICKUP SERVICE AS WELL, TOO. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT ARE, THAT WE'LL BE WORKING THROUGH THE COURSE OF NEXT FEW MONTHS, BUT OUR GOAL IS FOR MIDDLE OF NEXT YEAR. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I'M NOT, I'M STILL NOT QUITE UNDERSTANDING WHEN THAT WOULD COME BACK TO THE BOARD. 
          SO THAT WOULD COME BACK TO THE BOARD AT SOMETIME IN THE SPRING OF 20, 23 OR ACTION, SO THAT WE CAN IMPLEMENT SOMETIME BETWEEN MID TO END OF 2023. 
          SO YOUR QUESTION TO ME TODAY IS IN THIS SUMMER TRYING TO ANTICIPATE WHAT WE MIGHT DO NEXT YEAR, BUT IT WOULD BE SOMETIME NEXT YEAR WHEN WE WOULD BRING THOSE FORWARD TO THE BOARD. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I'M, UM, YOU KNOW, I REALLY WOULD LIKE A BRIEFING ON THE, ON THE, UH, CONSIDERATION FOR THE SOUTHEAST PICKUP. 
          WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE NORTHEAST PICKUP FOR A WHILE, SO I'M FAMILIAR WITH THAT. 
          UH, BUT I WOULD LIKE A BRIEFING ABOUT THE SOUTHEAST PICKUP ZONE SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CONSIDERATIONS ARE AND WHAT THE, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT FOR IT TO COME TO US TO START IMMEDIATELY. 
          CAUSE I KNOW IT TAKES TIME FIRST OFF TO, TO, TO CONSIDER AND THEN TO FIGURE OUT WHEN IT, WHERE IT FITS, YOU KNOW, AS APPROPRIATE FOR BUDGET AND RIDERSHIP. 
          BUT I DON'T, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK WE'VE HAD A, I DON'T THINK WE'VE HAD A BRIEFING, AT LEAST NOT RECENTLY ABOUT, ABOUT WHAT'S BEING CONSIDERED FOR THAT AREA. 
          AND THAT'S REALLY ALL I'M ASKING. 
          RIGHT? YEAH. 
          YOU HAVE NOT HAD A BRIEFING TOWARDS THAT. 
          THIS HAS BEEN, UM, INTERNALLY AT THIS MOMENT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, I'D LIKE TO ASK FOR A BRIEFING, UM, UM, BOARD MEMBERS THREATENED. 
          COULD WE ASK FOR THAT BRIEFING ON, IN OUR OPERATIONS COMMITTEE, I WAS ABOUT TO SUGGEST THAT SEEMED LIKE THE MOST APPROPRIATE PLACE TO DO IT. 
          I, ALONG WITH THAT, I THINK JUST ALSO ALONG WITH THAT, JUST GENERALLY SPEAKING, I WAS WANTING TO DOVETAIL ON THAT. 
          CAUSE I KNOW WE WE'D RECEIVED A MEMO ABOUT ADDRESSING SOME OF OUR QUESTIONS PREVIOUS TO THIS MEETING, UH, AND ON THAT INVOLVED SOME OF THE, UH, THE, THE, UM, FUNDING AND, UH, THE SERVICE AREAS THAT, UH, THAT ARE ON THE, THE, UM, THE MAP. 
          AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAD TALKED ABOUT WAS, UM, ROUTING AND SERVICE WITHIN THE, THAT PRECINCT TOO. 
          AND ALSO THE, UM, THE, UH, THE SECTIONS OF UNINCORPORATED SECTIONS OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY. 
          I THINK THAT, THAT, FROM WHAT I SAW FROM OUR MEMO, THAT, THAT THE UNINCORPORATED AREAS OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY THAT INCLUDED JOLLYVILLE POND SPRINGS. 
          AND, UM, UH, WHAT WAS IT, UM, JOGGLE PALM SPRINGS AND ANDERSON MILL, UH, CURRENTLY DON'T HAVE ANY SERVICE AND HAVE NINE, I THINK, 19 MEMBERS THAT RECEIVED PARATRANSIT THAT'S COME UP BEFORE. 
          SO I I'D LIKE TO AS WELL, IF NOT THE SAME BRIEFING, AT LEAST PUT ON THE AGENDA FOR US TO MAYBE START THINKING ABOUT WHAT WE COULD KIND OF DO FOR, YOU KNOW, MAYBE FOR PICKUP OR SOMETHING FOR PEOPLE IN THAT AREA AS WELL. 
          I KNOW THAT THAT COUNCIL MEMBER, MCKINSEY KELLY STAFF HAS REACHED OUT TO ME ABOUT TRYING TO DO SOMETHING IN THAT KIND OF SERVICE DESERT. 
          AND THEY WERE INTERESTED IN POTENTIALLY DOING SOMETHING FOR A PICKUP ZONE THERE. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF CONVERSATIONS HAVE ADVANCED FURTHER ON THAT, BUT, UM, I THINK IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE YES. 
          TO, TO HAVE SOME SORT OF A BRIEFING OR SOME SORT OF AN, UH, AN ITEM TO HAVE DISCUSSIONS FURTHER ABOUT THESE, THESE PICKUPS ZONES. 
          CAUSE I, I RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS, THIS IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN OUR TRADITIONAL SERVICE PLANNING, UH, FUNDAMENTALLY THE WAY THAT WE BUILD THIS AND WE SET, WE SET SERVICE STANDARDS AS A BOARD, BUT, BUT NOW THAN THIS, BUT IT IS DIFFERENT THAN THE WAY WE DO OUR NORMAL PLANNING. 
          SO IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL TO HAVE THE OPS COMMITTEE GET SOME UPDATES ON THIS FROM TIME TO TIME. 
          YEAH, I THINK IT WOULD. 
          I MEAN, THERE'S A, UH, THERE'S A PROCESS FOR, UM, CONSIDERING AND ANALYZING, UM, CONSIDERING 
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PICKUP ZONE AREAS AND THEN ANALYZING EFFECTIVENESS. 
          SO I THINK WE VOTED ON THAT A YEAR AGO OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT, UM, BUT WHAT'S BEING CONSIDERED, UM, AND JUST WHERE IT IS IN THE PROCESS WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE A UPDATE IN THE OPS COMMITTEE. 
          SO MAYBE THE NEXT ONE, UM, WOULD BE GOOD. 
          YEAH. 
          WE'VE ACTUALLY ALSO BEEN WORKING ON A MEMORANDUM ON THIS TOPIC. 
          SO BECAUSE WE KNEW THE BOARD WAS INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING, UM, THE PICKUP PLANNING. 
          SO WE CAN LOOK TO DISCUSS THAT WITH THE COMMITTEE AND FOLLOW UP WITH A FULL BOARD WITH A MEMO ON WHERE WE ARE WITH OUR CURRENT PICKUP ZONES AND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT FOR FUTURE PICKUP ZONES AND REALLY HOW WE INTEND TO KIND OF FOLD THAT INTO THE OVERALL SERVICE PLANNING PROCESS. 
          UM, BECAUSE AS WELL AS YOU'LL SEE IN NORTHEAST AUSTIN, IT'LL ACTUALLY INVOLVE THE, UM, KIND OF TRADING OUT SOME FIXED ROUTES FOR PICKUP ZONES. 
          AND SO THAT WILL, YOU KNOW, WORK THROUGH OUR NORMAL SERVICE CHANGE PROCESS AND RECOGNIZING TOO WE'VE, WE'VE GOT TO IMAGINE THAT THERE'S SOME BUDGET TRADE-OFFS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT TOO, AND, AND, AND THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH IT AS WELL. 
          SO, OKAY. 
          NOW THAT I THINK IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR US TO LOOK INTO THAT. 
          UM, SO WE, WE CAN COORDINATE ON THAT AND FIGURE OUT WHEN THE TIME MIGHT BE APPROPRIATE, BUT GIVEN THE FACT THAT Y'ALL, OUR STAFF HAS ALREADY APPARENTLY WORKING, YOU SAID ON A MEMO. 
          YEAH. 
          WE'RE WORKING ON A MEMO ON THE PICKUP. 
          I THINK WE'RE ALSO DUE IN THE NEXT MONTH OR TWO TO PROVIDE TO THE OPS COMMITTEE, AN UPDATE HOLISTICALLY ON THE TWO METRO RAPID PROJECTS. 
          UM, WE ARE HOPING IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS TO BE ABLE TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE'VE SIGNED A GRANT AGREEMENT WITH THE FTA, UM, THAT'S IN THE WORKS. 
          WE SHOULD HAVE IT IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, BUT JUST PROVIDING AN UPDATE ON WHERE THOSE PROJECTS ARE, CAUSE THEY CONTINUE TO PROGRESS FORWARD. 
          UM, THERE ARE PROBABLY A LITTLE OVER A YEAR OUT FROM ACTUALLY STARTING REVENUE SERVICE. 
          SO BOTH OF THOSE ITEMS ARE ON OUR RADAR AS ITEMS TO BRING TO THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE, UM, IN THE, IN THE COMING MONTHS. 
          AND WE CAN, YEAH, I WOULD, I WOULD ASK THAT THEY BE THAT WE HAVE THE PICKUP ONE AT LEAST BY SEPTEMBER. 
          OKAY. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          I'M DEALING WITH THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN THERE, THEY'RE PROBABLY GOING TO BE A FEW ISSUES THAT, THAT, UM, THAT DO POP UP BECAUSE OF, UH, BECAUSE OF THE TRANSITION FROM A FIXED SET OF ROUTES TO A PICKUP ROUTE THAT WE SHOULD LOOK AT THINGS THAT WE ANTICIPATE, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, A, UM, HOW EARLY DOES THE SERVICE START? HOW LATE DOES THE SERVICE GO? DOES THAT SERVE FIRST AND SECOND SHIFT? UH, IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WEEKENDS, DOES IT, DOES IT SERVE THOSE, UH, WHO NEED TO GO TO THE GROCERY STORE, THE DR. CHURCH, ET CETERA. 
          IT'S THE THINGS THAT WE ANTICIPATE AND HOW WE MIGHT ADDRESS. 
          SO, ALL RIGHT. 
          I BELIEVE BOARD MEMBER, UH, ROSS WAS TRYING TO JUMP INTO. 
          OKAY. 
          BUT REMEMBER AUSTIN, SEE IT. 
          UM, PLEASE GO AHEAD. 
          UM, I THINK SHE WAS FROZEN. 
          OKAY. 
          IT MIGHT EXPAND YOUR BANDWIDTH IF YOU, WELL, I GUESS, CAN WE TURN OFF THE CAMERA TECHNICALLY? SO IF YOU TURN OFF YOUR CAMERA, IT MIGHT EXPAND YOUR BANDWIDTH, MR. CHEN, MR. CHAIR, THE MISSION. 
          SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE HIS WORK MOVING FORWARD AND CHANGING PROCESSES THAT ALL OF THOSE SMALL CITIES ARE REACHED OUT TO FOR FEEDBACK SPECIFICALLY, AS CHANGES ARE BEING MADE OR CONSIDERED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION. 
          UM, AND I DIDN'T SEE ANY OF THAT IN THE BACKGROUND. 
          I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S BEING DONE. 
          RIGHT? YEAH. 
          I THINK THAT THAT'S ANOTHER CRITICAL POINT TOO, IS THAT IS, IS RECOGNIZING FOR THOSE AREAS THAT ARE OUTSIDE THE CITY, PROPER THE CITY OF AUSTIN PROPER, THERE IS A, THERE, THERE FUNDAMENTALLY IS, OR I WOULD SUBMIT NEEDS TO BE A DIFFERENT PROCESS IN TERMS OF THE WAY CAP METRO INTERACTS WITH THOSE COMMUNITIES IN TERMS OF THE PICKUP ZONES, LIKE IN LAGO AND IN LEANDER, IN ANY CHANGES. 
          SO I REALIZED WE'RE KIND OF IN A SORT OF DUAL PROCESS HERE BETWEEN BOTH THINKING ABOUT EXPANDING OUR SERVICES INTO NEW AREAS THAT WE IDENTIFY THE NEED, BUT THEN ALSO WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE SERVICES AND THE EXISTING AREAS, AS WE'RE FINALLY HITTING SORT OF A POINT WHERE WE'RE REVIEWING THOSE AND LOOKING AT, OKAY, WHAT DO WE WANT TO DO? IS IT TIME TO EXPAND? IS IT TIME TO ADD A SERVICE? HOW DOES THAT WORK IN TERMS OF OUR BIG PICTURE AND ARE LOOKING AT THE, THE SERVICEABILITY, THE BUDGETARY RESOURCES, ALL THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. 
          I THINK THIS IS ALL PART OF THE BIG PICTURE BASED ON WHAT WE'VE ALREADY IDENTIFIED, WHERE SOME PRIORITIES, BUT NOW WE'VE GOT TO LOOK BACK AT WHAT WE HAD ALREADY DONE AND EVALUATE THOSE. 
          SO WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD PROBABLY CONSIDER, UH, BUILDING A STANDARD, UH, BRIEFING PACKET OR ARE THE BASIC QUESTIONS THAT WE WANT TO HAVE ANSWERED SO THAT WE KNOW THAT IN ADVANCE AND, AND, AND, UH, AND WE CAN PREPARE FOR, UH, HOW ANY JURISDICTION MIGHT BE IMPACTED OR ANY PART OF THE SERVICE AREA MIGHT BE IMPACTED. 
          SO, SO THAT WE KNOW THAT WHENEVER A TOPIC LIKE THIS COMES UP, THE EXPECTATION IS THAT THESE FIVE QUESTIONS WILL BE BRIEFED IN THE PROCESS. 
          AND LET'S MAKE SURE THAT, THAT WE, UH, PREPARE, UH, THE TYPES OF THINGS THAT WE NEED TO KNOW 
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IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF OUR CONSTITUENTS. 
          RIGHT, RIGHT. 
          UM, BOARD MEMBER ROSS, DID I, DID I MISS YOU ON ANYTHING? NO, I THINK THAT'S IT. 
          I MEAN, WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY IS I SPEAK, THINK A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE TO THIS IS IN LEANDER, OUR TWO LOWEST SOCIOECONOMIC APARTMENT COMPLEXES ARE NOT PART OF OUR PICKUP SERVICE, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT KEPT METRO WOULD NECESSARILY KNOW THAT. 
          AND I KNOW OUR, OUR PICKUP SERVICE DOES HAVE A LOT OF DOWNTIME. 
          AND SO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT I THINK BY REACHING OUT SPECIFICALLY TO THE CITIES, WE CAN, UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT CAN BE BROUGHT FORWARD AND MAY BE ABLE TO BE ADDRESSED WITHOUT ADDING EXPENSE OR ADDING, UM, REALLY ADDING ANYTHING IT'S JUST WORKING MORE EFFICIENTLY. 
          AND IF WE'RE NOT REACHING OUT TO THESE SMALL CITIES, THERE WOULD BE NO WAY FOR THAT TO BE ADDRESSED OTHERWISE. 
          AND SO I JUST, AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IT'S PART OF THE PROCESS AS AGREED UPON. 
          AND I THINK THAT IT WOULD BENEFIT THE WHOLE, IF WE, IF WE, UH, IF WE DOCUMENT WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN EACH JURISDICTION, FOR EXAMPLE, PFLUGERVILLE HAS MADE SOME INVESTMENTS AND SOME CHANGES, UH, THAT, AND, AND, UH, HAVE, HAVE SOUGHT TO DO CERTAIN THINGS THAT ADDRESS, YOU KNOW, THE HEALTHCARE AREA, GETTING PEOPLE TO JOBS AND WHATNOT. 
          AND MAYBE WE CAN IDENTIFY THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN OTHER AREAS THAT WERE EFFECTIVE TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY SHOULD BE A PART OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO AS WE GO FORWARD AND THE OTHER JURISDICTIONS. 
          SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE DOCUMENTING THE THINGS THAT WE DO SO THAT WE CAN HAVE LESSONS LEARNED AND USING INFORMATION TO, UH, TO BUILD POLICY GOING FORWARD. 
          RIGHT. 
          ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS. 
          OKAY. 
          IF, IF NOT, UM, LET'S SEE. 
          WE, UH, THE CHAIR WILL ENTERTAIN A, UH, AND WE'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THE APPROVAL OF APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER ONE. 
          SO MOVED. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          BOARD MEMBERS, STRATTON, NOT STRAUSS. 
          UH, IS THERE A SECOND, UH, BOARD MEMBER IN MARIA? IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, AND IF ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS HEARING NONE. 
          UM, LET'S SEE. 
          WE WILL, WE WILL WALK THROUGH THE ROLL CALL AGAIN. 
          UH, LET'S SEE, UH, BOARD MEMBER STRATTON. 
          OKAY. 
          BOARD MEMBER, KITCHEN BOARD MEMBER COOPER IS NOT ON THE DYESS, UH, BOARD MEMBER. 
          ROSS' BOARD MEMBER HARRIS, AYE. 
          BOARD MEMBER. 
          RAY. 
          I CAN SEE YOU NOW. 
          AND THE END OF THE CHAIR. 
          UH, WE'LL MAKE THAT UNANIMOUS. 
          RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          [VII 2. Approval of the Proposed Amendments to the CapMetro Bylaws. (Part 1 of 2)]
THAT MOVES US TO ACTION. 
          ITEM NUMBER TWO APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CAB METRO BYLAWS. 
          UH, MS. MS. LADY, WOULD YOU, UH, WALK US THROUGH THAT PRESENTATION? YES. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          CHAIR TREVELYAN VICE-CHAIR KITCHEN, BOARD MEMBERS AND PRESIDENT WATKINS. 
          UH, I AM VICKY LEIDY, I'M CHIEF COUNSEL FOR CAPITAL METRO. 
          UM, TODAY, BEFORE YOU, YOU HAVE AN ACTION ITEM, WHICH IS A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CAPITAL METRO BYLAWS BY WAY OF BACKGROUND, JUST LET ME REFRESH YOUR MEMORY THAT IN MAY OF, UH, MAY 23RD AT THE BOARD MEETING, I REMINDED Y'ALL THAT THIS WAS A TWO PART PROCESS. 
          THE FIRST PART IS REQUIRED BY ARTICLE BOTH PARTS ARE REQUIRED. 
          ARTICLE NINE OF THE BYLAWS. 
          THE FIRST IS THAT WAS SATISFIED AT THE MAY MEETING, WHICH IS THAT THE AMENDMENT MUST BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING TO THE BOARD AT A REGULAR BOARD MEETING AND THEN SUBMITTED FOR APPROVAL AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING. 
          SO WE'RE AT PART TWO FOR APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE I WAS TODAY. 
          IT REQUIRES A TWO THIRDS VOTE OF THE BOARD TO PASS AN AMENDMENT. 
          SO, SO YOU MAY RECALL FROM THE LAST MEETING, WE TALKED ABOUT HOW THE BYLAWS WERE LAST AMENDMENT MENDED IN DECEMBER OF 2017, A COPY HAS BEEN PROVIDED IN YOUR PACKET, AND YOU WILL RECEIVE ALL THAT. 
          ALSO, UH, THE BYLAWS ARE SUBJECT TO PERIODIC REVIEW EIGHT SECTION 8.6 OF THE BYLAWS REQUIRES, UM, A REVIEW OF THE BOARD'S POLICIES EVERY FIVE YEARS. 
          AND THAT SECTION HAS BEEN INTERPRETED AND INCLUDE THE BYLAWS. 
          ALTHOUGH WE BELIEVE THAT THE BYLAWS ARE CURRENTLY IN GOOD ORDER, UM, THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT WILL INFORM THEM TO EXISTING BOARD PRACTICES AND TO REFLECT ADDITIONAL BEST PRACTICES FOR GOVERNANCE. 
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IN ADDITION, YOU WILL SEE THAT THEY'VE ALSO BEEN REFORMATTED FOR EASY REFERENCE COPIES OF BOTH THE CLEAN AND REDLINE VERSIONS ARE IN YOUR MATERIALS WITH REGARD TO THE SUBSTANCE OF THE AMENDMENT. 
          IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT, UH, BESIDES THE RELEVANT STATUTORY REFERENCES AND FORMATTING CHANGES, WE HAD, UH, NO ADDITIONAL CHANGES REQUESTED OR MADE SENSE OF BOARD MEETING UNTIL TODAY. 
          AND, UH, BASED ON A DISCUSSION THAT I HAD WITH VICE-CHAIR KITCH KITCHEN, THERE WAS, UM, A COMMENT BROUGHT UP THAT SECTION 3.3 0.3, WHICH IS MEMBERSHIP ON THE RED LINE VERSION. 
          IT'S ON PAGE TWO. 
          AND THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE SAYS THE TERM CRITERIA ELIGIBLE ELIGIBILITY FOR MEMBERSHIP AND APPOINTMENT PROCESS ARE ESTABLISHED IN SECTION 4.45 1.502 OF THE TEXAS TRANSPORTATION CODE. 
          UH, THAT'S THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE WE HAD ADDED AND OTHER APPLICABLE SECTIONS OF THE CODE. 
          UH, VICE-CHAIR KITCHEN INQUIRED ABOUT WHAT THOSE APPLICABLE SECTIONS WOULD BE. 
          THEY RELATE TO, UH, SECTION FOUR OR FIVE, 1.505 OF THE TRANSPORTATION CODE RELATED TO THE TERM OF BOARD MEMBERS, SECTION 5, 4, 5, 1 0.507 OF THE TRANSPORTATION CODE THAT RELATES TO BOARD MEMBER ELIGIBILITY. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE TWO SECTIONS AND THERE'S, YOU KNOW, WHICHEVER WAY THAT THE BOARD CHOOSES, UH, TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE AMENDMENT, THE LANGUAGE AS IT'S AMENDED STAY THE SAME, AND THE BOARD COULD HAVE PROVED THAT THAT WAY OR ALTERNATIVELY, UM, CAP METRO LEGAL COULD CONFORM THE LANGUAGE TO IDENTIFY THE SPECIFIC SECTION REFERENCES. 
          SO I'LL LEAVE THAT FOR THE BOARD'S CONSIDERATION AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME, BUT ALSO JUST KIND OF REFLECTING ON WHAT THE OTHER SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES ARE. 
          WE HAD BASICALLY A HOUSEKEEPING BEST PRACTICE IN ARTICLE TWO WITH THE ADDITION OF A PRINCIPAL OFFICE, ADDITIONAL OFFICES, DOMICILE, AND SERVICE TO PROCESS SECTIONS, WHICH IS PRETTY STANDARD. 
          AND MOST BYLAWS. 
          IN ADDITION, YOU'LL SEE THAT SECTION 3.3 0.8, ALTHOUGH WE DIDN'T HAVE SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES TO THE ACTUAL LANGUAGE, THERE IS A CLARIFICATION THAT CAPTION THAT CAP METRO WILL DEFEND ITS BOARD MEMBERS RATHER THAN THE USE OF THE WORD INDEMNIFY, WHICH IS LEGALLY PROHIBITED. 
          IN ADDITION, SECTION 5.3. 
          AND, AND AS A REMINDER, THAT IS SIMPLY IN THE CAPTION. 
          UM, AND THEN SECTION 5.3, ALTHOUGH THERE WAS NO SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE TO ANY CONTENT FOR EASE OF REFERENCE AND ORGANIZATIONS, WE'VE IDENTIFIED THE THREE TYPES OF STATUTORY MEETINGS THAT COULD BE CALLED BY THE BOARD, REGULAR SPECIAL AND EMERGENCY. 
          THE SPECIAL MEETINGS WERE REFERENCED IN THE REFERENCED IN THE BYLAWS PREVIOUSLY, BUT IT'S BEEN MOVED TO THIS SECTION FOR EASIER REFERENCE. 
          AND THEN THE TRUE SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE FOR THIS PARTICULAR SET OF BYLAWS IS THE ADDITION OF A SECTION RELATED TO SEVEN DAY ADVANCED MEETING MATERIALS. 
          AND YOU MAY RECALL THAT THAT WAS A BOARD REQUESTED CHANGE, AND THAT HAS BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THIS PARTICULAR LANGUAGE. 
          AND SO ONE OTHER THING I WOULD NOTE IS FROM THE MAY 11TH OPERATION PLANNINGS AND SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING, WE HAVEN'T REINCORPORATED IT'S NEW SECTION 4.3 ON OFFICER REMOVAL, WHICH HAD BEEN AN INVERT ONLY DELETED IN THE ORIGINAL DRAFT THAT WAS PRESENTED FOR THE OPS COMMITTEE. 
          SO THE DRAFT THAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU TODAY IS THE DRAFT THAT WAS BEFORE THE BOARD AT LAST MONTH'S MEETING. 
          AND THE ONLY OUTSTANDING ITEM AT THIS PARTICULAR POINT IN TIME IS WHETHER OR NOT WE WANT TO LEAVE THE LANGUAGE AS IS FOR SECTION 3.33, OR WHETHER WE WANT TO HAVE IT CONFORMED TO REFLECT THE TWO DIFFERENT, ADDITIONAL STATUTORY REFERENCES. 
          THAT'S THAT'S AT THE BOARD'S PLEASURE KITCHEN. 
          UM, YOU, WOULD YOU LIKE EMOTION FIRST OR DO YOU WANT ME TO GO AHEAD AND CLICK IF YOU WANT TO ASK QUESTIONS? NO, I DON'T. 
          I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY YOU, YOU ANSWERED MY QUESTIONS AND SO, UM, I'M HAPPY TO GO FORWARD WITH, UH, WITH, AND I HAVE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE BYLAWS AS PROPOSED ENTERTAIN THE MOTION. 
          OKAY. 
          I MOVE PASSAGE OF ITEM NUMBER TWO APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CAP, METRO BYLAWS, UM, WITH THE, UM, VERSION THAT'S IN BACKUP FROM STAFF. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, IS THERE A SECOND BOARD MEMBER IN KOREA? GAY? IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION MR. CHAIR JUST HAD A QUESTION. 
          YES. 
          UH, THERE, THIS WAS NOT IN THE PROPOSED PROPOSED CHANGES. 
          THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT AND THEN REMEMBER IT AND I KEEP FORGETTING AND REMEMBERING, AND I FIGURED AS LONG AS I GOT YOU HERE, I'LL ASK YOU. 
          I WAS JUST CURIOUS, BECAUSE AS I READ THROUGH THIS, UM, UH, IN TERMS OF OUR OFFICERS, PRACTICALLY SPEAKING, WE KNOW WHAT THE SECRETARY DOES, THE SECRETARY BASICALLY, BECAUSE A LOT OF THE DUTIES ARE ALL ARE ASSIGNED AS IT SAYS THERE TO, TO THE STAFF. 
          AND SO THE SECRETARY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PRETTY MUCH JUST LOOKING BACK OVER SIGNS OF RESOLUTIONS AFFIRMS THAT, YES, THIS IS WHAT WE'VE DONE. 
          UM, VICE CHAIR. 
          THE ONE THING THAT I KEEP FORGETTING THAT STUCK OUT IN MY MIND IS THAT LAST SENTENCE IS THAT THE VICE CHAIR SHALL SERVE AS THE ETHICS OFFICER FOR THE BOARD RECEIVING AND RESPONDING TO POTENTIAL ETHICS, CONCERN RAISED BY MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND 
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OF THE BOARD OR THE PRESIDENT AND CEO, PRACTICALLY SPEAKING. 
          I WAS JUST CURIOUS WHAT THAT ACTUALLY MEANS. 
          AND YOU KNOW, HOW DOES THAT WORK? WE KNOW WHAT PRACTICALLY THE SECRETARY'S JOB LOOKS LIKE. 
          WELL, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? AND HAS THAT ACTUALLY EVER BEEN INVOKED THAT WE ARE AWARE OF? WELL, GIVEN THAT I'VE BEEN, I KNOW YOU KNEW THAT THAT MIGHT BE A QUESTION FOR, I SPEAK AS TO THE HISTORIC, UH, YOU KNOW, BACKGROUND ON THAT. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, BOARD MEMBERS, KERRY BUTCHER CAPITOL METRO'S CHIEF OF STAFF. 
          BUT FOR MANY YEARS I SERVED AS THE CHIEF COUNSEL AND THE ETHICS OFFICER FOR THE AGENCY. 
          RIGHT. 
          THAT'S WHY, CAUSE I KNOW, WE KNOW YOU WERE THE CHIEF ETHICS OFFICER, SO HOW DOES THIS PRACTICALLY SPEAKING, WHAT IS THE LANGUAGE YOU MEAN? UM, SO THE BOARD THAT STAFF AND OVERALL THE AGENCY HAS AN ETHICS OFFICER, BUT THE BOARD WANTED TO HAVE ITS OWN ETHICS OFFICER SO THAT INDIVIDUALS COULD FEEL WHO NEEDED TO REPORT SOMETHING OR DESIRE TO REPORT SOMETHING DIRECTLY TO THE BOARD. 
          THEY HAD AN AVENUE FOR DOING THAT. 
          IT, I HAVE, I SERVED IN THE ROLE. 
          I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE A DECADE. 
          I FORGET I LOSE TRACK OF THAT LONG. 
          I WAS IN THAT ROLE AROUND A DECADE, MAYBE MORE. 
          UM, AND I CAN THINK OF ONE OR TWO INSTANCES WHERE ONE BOARD MEMBER IDENTIFIED A POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST OR ETHICS ISSUE RELATED TO ANOTHER BOARD MEMBER. 
          AND THEY WANTED TO HAVE THAT EXPLORED. 
          AND IN THAT INSTANCE, A BOARD MEMBER COULD GO DIRECTLY TO THE BOARD ETHICS OFFICER RAISE THE ISSUE, THE ETHICS OFFICER DETERMINED WHETHER IT NEEDED TO BE EXPLORED WITH LEGAL COUNSEL OR, OR OTHERWISE. 
          UM, IT'S JUST AN ADDITIONAL AVENUE OTHER THAN THE, THE STAFF MEMBER, ETHICS OFFICER FOR REPORTING OF A POTENTIAL ETHICS, JUST THAT IT WAS MORE IDLE CURIOSITY WHEN YOU CAUSE THESE DOCUMENTS CAN GET SO BOGGED DOWN IN LEGAL EASE AND A LOT OF CASES, IT'S A MATTER OF, OKAY, WELL, PRACTICALLY SPEAKING, WHAT, WHAT DID THAT MEAN? AND IF IT DOESN'T HAPPEN VERY OFTEN, I WOULD HOPE NOT. 
          I CAN THINK OF MAYBE ONCE OR TWICE WHEN SOMEONE RAISED THEIR HAND AND SAID, I POTENTIALLY HAVE A CONFLICT OR AN ETHICS ISSUE I'D LIKE EXPLORED, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          THANKS. 
          SO AS THIS COVERED ALL OF THE ISSUES THAT WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING THE PROXY ISSUE, UH, FOR, UH, THE, UH, ATP BOARD MEMBERS, NO, THIS IS, THIS IS STRICTLY JUST FOR THE CAPITAL METRO BOARD AND, AND ONLY WITHIN THE CONFINES OF, OF THIS BOARD, NOT WITH THE REPRESENTATION OF THE ATP. 
          YEAH. 
          THAT, THAT WOULD BE, THAT WOULD BE COVERED BY ATP. 
          UM, UH, WE, WE DON'T TEND TO IN THIS ONE, NO, BECAUSE THOSE, THE BYLAWS WILL COVER JUST SIMPLY THE ACTIONS OF THE BOARD WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE WORK HERE AT THE BOARD, UM, THROUGH THE DISCUSSION THAT WE DIDN'T MISS. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          THAT'S A VERY VALID QUESTION, BUT THAT WOULD FALL UNDER SECTION 4.5 APPOINTMENT OF BOARD MEMBERS TO OUTSIDE BOARDS ORGANIZATIONS. 
          WOULD IT NOT TECHNICALLY, IT'S TRUE. 
          IT'S JUST GOING TO BE CONTINGENT UPON WHETHER OR NOT THE GOVERNING DOCUMENTS OF THE OTHER ORGANIZATION ALLOW FOR IT. 
          SO THAT'S KIND OF, SO IF YOU WANT US TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THAT AND SEE IF WE CAN DOVETAIL IT IN HERE, BUT ULTIMATELY EVERYTHING'S GOING TO REST UPON WHETHER IT'S PERMISSIBLE OR NOT AT THE ATP. 
          UM, BUT RELATED QUESTION TO THAT ARE PROXIES, ALLOWED AMONG US. 
          COULD WOULD, I MEAN, IF WE CHOSE TO, COULD WE STICK SOMETHING IN HERE ABOUT US PROXYING DOING PROXY VOTES. 
          I HAVE NOT LOOKED AT THAT PRECISELY, LIKE FOR THAT, BECAUSE I HATE TO GIVE A LEGAL OPINION FROM THE PODIUM ON THAT PARTICULAR ISSUE. 
          BUT IN TERMS OF, I KNOW WE HAVE LOOKED AT IT FOR THE ATP BOARD AND, BUT I, IN TERMS OF, I CAN TAKE THAT BACK AND COME BACK WITH A SUGGESTION FOR THAT, BUT I'M NOT POSITIVE. 
          THAT IS THAT THAT'S ABSOLUTELY PERMISSIBLE THAT I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK OUT OF TURN HERE AT THE D YOU KNOW, THE PODIUM, IT, MORE CURIOSITY. 
          I KNOW WE'VE BEEN HAVING SUCH CONVERSATIONS KIND OF OFFLINE ABOUT THE PROXY HAS COME UP BEFORE IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS. 
          AND I HAD PRETTY MUCH ASSUMED THAT THAT WAS NOT THE CASE FOR THE CAP METRO BOARD BECAUSE OF THE STATUTORY AUTHORITY UNDER THE STATE TRANSPORTATION CODE. 
          BUT YEAH, BUT WITH REGARD TO THE ATP BOARD, IN TERMS OF REPRESENTATION, THERE, THERE MAY BE SOME LATITUDE WITH REGARD TO THAT BECAUSE IT'S REPRESENTATION OF THE BOARD ITSELF. 
          AND SO THAT THERE MAY BE SOMETHING THAT COULD BE REVIEWED IN TERMS OF SEEING, I DON'T KNOW, IT COULD BE DONE. 
          I MEAN, WE COULD DO IT THROUGH THIS DOCUMENT THAT IT WOULD BE LIMITED IN TERMS OF, UM, WHAT THE GOVERNING DOCUMENTS OF ATP ALSO SAY THEY HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER ON THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DIDN'T MISS ON A, AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS AN ITEM THAT IS THAT. 
          AND, AND WHAT WE CAN DO WITH REGARD TO THAT IS ALSO LOOK AT THAT AND COME BACK, YOU KNOW, LET YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF, UH, IF WE, WE THINK THIS IS AN APPROPRIATE MECHANISM, LIKE THE THREE OF THE BYLAWS THEMSELVES, IF THAT'S APPROPRIATE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, 
          [01:40:01]
REMEMBER THE KITCHEN? YEAH. 
          I THINK THAT THIS PARTICULAR SECTION, WELL, NOW I'VE GOT A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER THIS SECTION I WAS READING THIS SECTION IS ONLY APPLYING TO, YOU KNOW, LIKE ASSOCIATIONS AND STUFF LIKE THAT, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THE CHAIR DOESN'T APPROVE OUR REPRESENTATION ON THE ATP BOARD. 
          THAT'S A VOTE OF ALL OF US. 
          SO, UM, CAUSE YOU KNOW, WHEN WE APPOINTED A BOARD MEMBER STRATTON, WE ALL VOTED ON THAT. 
          SO I AM READING THIS AS NOT APPLYING TO THE ATP BOARD. 
          YEAH. 
          IT'S IF YOU LOOK AT SECTION 0.3 0.1 AND I'M DOING THIS OFF THE CUFF UP HERE IS BASICALLY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE AUTHORITY THAT HAS CAP METRO SHALL BE THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF CAP METRO AND ITS PROPERTIES AS VESTED IN THE BOARD MEANS. 
          SO THIS DOCUMENT IS REALLY, I MEAN, TRADITIONALLY, MOST BYLAWS ARE INTENDED TO CONTROL THE ORGANIZATION ITSELF WITH REGARD TO ANY KIND OF, UM, I THINK THERE'S OTHER GOVERNING DOCUMENTS THAT WOULD COME INTO PLAY WITH ATP. 
          OKAY. 
          SO GIVEN BY THE JOINT LOCAL GOVERNMENT CORPORATION, THAT IT IS, OKAY, SO SECTION 4.5 DOES NOT APPLY TO THE CAPITAL METRO BOARDS APPOINTMENT OF OUR REPRESENTATION ON THE ATP BOARD. 
          IT, IT DEPENDS ON WHAT, UM, HOW THAT'S INTERPRETED. 
          I WOULD SAY CAMPO WOULD BE KIND OF THE SAME THING TOO, CAUSE CAMPOS AN OUTSIDE BODY. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, IT'S, IT'S MORE ABOUT THE REPRESENTATION. 
          SO CAN, CAN THE BOARD DESIGNATE SOMEONE TO REPRESENT THE BOARD AND AT OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, BUT ULTIMATELY EACH IT'S JUST, UH, EACH GOVERNING BODY WILL BE GOVERNED BY THE DOC GOVERNING DOCUMENTS, WHETHER IT'S ARTICLES, WHETHER IT'S VIOLENT. 
          YEAH. 
          BUT TH TH THOSE GOVERNING DOCUMENTS LIKE CAMPO, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, WELL, I CAN'T REMEMBER, BUT IT PROBABLY JUST SAYS CAP, METRO APPOINTS A BOARD MEMBER TO, TO CAMPO IT DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT HOW CAP METRO MAKES THAT APPOINTMENT. 
          WELL, TYPICALLY IT WOULD BE, I WOULD IMAGINE THROUGH RESOLUTION TO THE BOARD AND IT'S LIKE, SO REQUESTS FOR MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. 
          AND SO IN TERMS OF DOES THE BOARD HAVE IT WITHIN ITS AUTHORITY TO BASICALLY VOTE AND RESOLVE THROUGH RESOLUTION, TO APPOINT SOMEBODY AS, AS ITS OFFICIAL, UH, REPRESENTATIVE TO ANOTHER BOARD. 
          AND SO YOU COULD DO SO WITH REGARD TO, UM, FOR EXAMPLE, THE ATP GOVERNING DOCUMENTS ALLOW FOR A CAP METRO BOARD REPRESENTATIVE TO SIT ON THE BOARD AS A VOTING DIRECTOR. 
          IN THAT CASE, THE BOARD WOULD HAVE TO MAKE A SELECTION AS TO WHO WOULD BE REPRESENTING IT AT THE ATP. 
          I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS LANGUAGE IS INTERPRETED. 
          THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO BOARDS I'M AWARE OF IS ATP AND CAMPO. 
          I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS LANGUAGE IS INTERPRETED, NOT INTERPRETED TO APPLY TO CAT METRO'S APPOINTMENTS TO THOSE BOARDS, CAN'T MATCH THOSE APPOINTMENTS TO THE ATP AND CAMPO. 
          AND MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST ADD A SENTENCE TO MAKE THAT CLEAR, BUT THE CAT METRO'S APPOINTMENTS TO THE ATP AND CAMPO BOARDS ARE DONE BY A VOTE OF THE BOARD. 
          WE CAN NOT BE. 
          I MEAN, WHEN THAT DOES MAKE IT MORE CLEAR, BECAUSE THIS IS KIND OF UNCLEAR TO ME. 
          SO YOU WOULD BASICALLY SAY THAT, UM, ANY APPOINTMENTS, UH, BY THE CAP METRO BOARD TO, UM, AS REPRESENTATIVES ON THE ATP OR CAMPO BOARDS SHALL BE DONE BY BOARD RESOLUTION OR ABOUT SHELBY. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, VOTE OF THE BOARD BY A VOTE OF THE BOARD. 
          I ONLY THINK THOSE, THOSE TWO, I DON'T THINK WE'D DONE IT THOUGH. 
          WELL, THAT'S HOW HE DID IT. 
          IT HASN'T BEEN BY BOARD, BUT WAS IT A BOARD, A BOARD RESOLUTION? WAS IT LIKE WHEN, WHEN, WHEN TERRY MITCHELL WAS, WAS NAMED BACK TO, WAS NAMED BACK TO CAMPO, WAS IT NO, IT WAS AN ACTION ITEM, BUT WAS IT VOTED OUT, BUT THAT'S VOTED BY THE ENTIRE BOARD. 
          IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT JUST THE CHAIR SAYING I'M GOING TO NAME TERRY IT'S, IT'S VOTED BY, IT'S VOTED ON BY THE WHOLE BOARD. 
          RIGHT. 
          BUT TECHNICALLY SPEAKING WHEN RIGHT NOW, LIKE I KNOW WE HAVE AN ITEM TODAY THAT ONE OF OUR NEXT ITEMS DOWN THE ROAD ON TODAY'S AGENDA IS THE NAMING OF, UH, OF, OF THE DESIGNATION OF OUR NEWEST MEMBER TO A COMMITTEE AND NAMING AND NAMING THE, THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE THAT TYPICALLY ACCORDING TO THE, ACCORDING TO THE BYLAWS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE CHAIR'S DISCRETION. 
          NO, THE CHAIR NOMINATES. 
          YEAH. 
          THAT'S A DIFFERENCE. 
          OH, THAT'S A DIFFERENT, IS THAT THE CHAIR NOMINATES AND THEN THE BOARD, THE BOARD OF P OKAY. 
          THAT'S WHERE I'M GETTING IT CONFUSED. 
          YEAH. 
          SO I THINK TO YOUR POINT, IN TERMS OF THE AMBIGUITY ABOUT SECTION 4.5, IS THAT IN TERMS OF TALKING ABOUT OUTSIDES 
          [01:45:01]
OUTSIDE BORDER ORGANIZATIONS, THAT PROBABLY SHOULD BE, UM, MORE SPECIFIC IF THERE ARE CONCERNS ABOUT THE ATP AND CAMPO THE THING THAT NEEDS TO BE, UH, IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S DIFFERENT THAN OKAY. 
          UM, WAY TO NAN, YOU, YOU BOTH WANT TO GO TO APTA THIS YEAR AND BE ON NBR REPRESENTATIVES YEAH. 
          OR BE, UH, OR EVEN HAVE A OFFICER POSITION IN ANY OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS ON BEHALF OF CAP MENTOR. 
          SO THAT MAKES THAT'S PR THAT SEEMS APPROPRIATE TO ME FOR THE CHAIR TO POINT, BUT NOT FOR ATP AND CAMPUS. 
          AND THEN I THINK, UH, BOARD MEMBER STRATTON TO YOUR COMMENT ABOUT, UH, THE BOARD COMMITTEES THAT'S ADDRESSED BY ARTICLES SEVEN AND, UM, BASICALLY THAT 7.1 0.1, UM, ON THERE, WHICH IS SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION, THAT'S IT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO CAN WE JUST, CAN WE TAKE CARE OF IT NOW AND JUST ABSOLUTELY. 
          AND SO WHAT YOU KNOW, WITH WHAT THE, IF YOU'RE WILLING TO GIVE DISCRETION TO THE CAP, METRO LEGAL TO FIND AN ARTFUL WAY TO ADDRESS THAT, UM, THE INTENT OF WHATEVER VERBIAGE WE PUT IN THERE WILL BE BASICALLY THAT, UM, ANY APPOINTMENT, UH, YOU KNOW, TO THE ATP AND CAMPBELL BOARD SHALL BE DONE, UH, SHALL BE ACHIEVED BY A VOTE OF THE BOARD TO BASICALLY BE BASED A BOARD RESOLUTION. 
          I MEAN, THERE'S GOTTA BE A MORE ELEGANT WAY OF SAYING THAT, BUT, UH, IF YOU'LL ALLOW US THAT DISCRETION WITH THAT INTENT, WE CAN TAKE IT BACK AND, AND WORK THAT LANGUAGE. 
          THAT'S OKAY WITH ME. 
          I MEAN, I THINK YOU CAN WRITE THIS SENTENCE, SO I DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THAT. 
          I DO WANT TO SAY DOESN'T COME UP A LOT, BUT THERE ARE SOME CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE WE HAD MORE MEMBERS WHO WANTED TO HAVE A ROLE AT APTA. 
          UH, YEAH. 
          REMEMBER SILAS WAS PRETTY ACTIVE IN APTA FOR A WHILE AND THERE MAY BE SOME OTHER TRENDS THAT ORGANIZATIONS WHERE BOARD MEMBERS WANT TO PURSUE. 
          AND THERE SHOULD BE SOME, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT RISES TO THE LEVEL OF THE FULL BOARD HAVING TO DEAL WITH IT, BUT THE CHAIR MIGHT WANT TO INTERVENE. 
          IF YOU THINK SOMEBODY HAS SERVED TOO LONG, YOU SAID, IT'S A PROBLEM, GET PEOPLE TO DO IT. 
          BUT IN THE EVENT IT BECAME SOMETHING WHERE MORE AND MORE, MORE PEOPLE WANTED TO HAVE THAT ROLE THAN THE CHAIRS SOMEBODY MIGHT NEED TO. 
          YEAH. 
          AND THIS KEEPS THAT, YEAH, I'M FINE WITH THE PROPOSED LANGUAGE AS WELL, OR, BUT THE CONCEPT AND SEND IT BACK TO LEGAL TO CARVE THOSE OUT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO DO I NEED TO ACCEPT THAT AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT THEN, OR MAKE THAT AMENDMENT WELL, AND IT SEEMS TO BE FRIENDLY. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UH, IS THAT IS ACCEPTABLE FOR THE MOVER AND ACCEPTABLE FOR THE SECOND, AS WELL AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          I'M UNCLEAR AS THE AMENDMENT IS THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO MAKE THE CHANGE OR TO SEND IT TO LEGAL, TO MAKE THE CHANGE. 
          THOSE ARE TWO. 
          I SAID, IT'S ILLEGAL TO MAKE THE CHANGE FOR THE INTENT OF THE SENTENCE THAT WE JUST SO WILL WE APPROVE IT ONCE WE SEE THE DRAFT OR WHAT WE APPROVE IT? HEY, HOW ABOUT THIS? I KNOW WE'RE GOING INTO TO EXECUTIVE EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          YOU'VE GOTTA BE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION, SO I WON'T GO. 
          NEVERMIND. 
          THAT'S FINE. 
          WE HAVE COME BACK. 
          IF, IF YOU WANT, UH, ME TO CRAFT SOME LANGUAGE RIGHT NOW, WE CAN DO IT AND HAVE A VOTE ON IT AFTER EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          AND GIVE ME ENOUGH TIME JUST TO CRAFT SOME, AND WE'LL JUST TABLE THIS ITEM UNTIL YOU GET AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE LANGUAGE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I WILL TELL YOU THE LIGHT INTO, AND UNTIL WE GET THE PROPOSED LANGUAGE, 
          [VII 3. Approval of a resolution authorizing the President & CEO, or their designee, to finalize and execute a contract with Krauthamer and Associates for Executive Recruiting Services in an amount not to exceed $600,000 for two base years and two one-year options]
LET'S SEE, UH, LET'S MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER THREE. 
          UH, THEY, TERRY THOMAS IS GOING TO PREVENT, UH, IS GOING TO PRESENT ITEM NUMBER THREE. 
          OKAY. 
          APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OR THEIR DESIGNEE, THE FINALIZE AND EXECUTED CONTRACT WITH KRAUTHEIMER AND ASSOCIATES FOR EXECUTIVE RECRUITING SERVICES IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $600,000 WITH TWO BASE YEARS AND TWO ONE-YEAR OPTIONS. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, BOARD. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY CEO ACTING CHAIRMAN DOTTIE WATKINS. 
          THIS AFTERNOON, WE BRING TO THE BOARD, THE RECOMMENDATION TO ESTABLISH A CONTRACT WITH THE FARM TO LIST THE SERVICES FOR BRINGING A RECRUITMENT FARM FOR THE CEO AND OTHER EXECUTIVE. 
          THIS POSITION IS FROM WE'VE HAD A LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP WITH, UH, WE HAVE VETTED THEM OUT AND WE BELIEVE THERE WOULD BE A RECOMMENDED APPROVAL TO LOO FORWARD WITH THIS. 
          [01:50:07]
OKAY. 
          SO THIS IS THE ITEM FOR THE, UM, FOR THE CONTRACT ITSELF. 
          UH, THE, ARE WE GOING TO HAVE A DISCUSSION IN EXECUTIVE SESSION ABOUT THE ACTUAL, UM, UH, PROCESS AND, UM, YOU KNOW, PROCESS AND JOB DESCRIPTION AND THOSE SORTS OF THINGS. 
          SO WE'RE NOT APPROVING THE JOB DESCRIPTION OR THE TIMELINE OR THE PROCESS WITH THIS, RIGHT. 
          WE'RE JUST APPROVING, WE'RE JUST APPROVING THE CONTRACTS. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          I I'LL JUST NOTE THAT, THAT WE MUST BE GETTING A PRETTY DAGGUM, GOOD HIRING EXECUTIVE HIRING FROM IF WE'RE TAKING THE SAME HIRING FIRM THAT JUST TOOK RANDY AWAY FROM US. 
          SO I'M GAME WITH IT. 
          I'M GLAD TO MAKE THE MOTION WE'VE USED THEM, UM, IN THE ENGAGEMENT OF BRANDY AND OTHERS AND AS HAVE ATP. 
          AND IT'S MY VIEW THAT THESE GUYS REALLY REALLY KNOW THE MARKETPLACE AND KNOW ALL THE PLAYERS IN THE MARKETPLACE. 
          SO IT'S INTERPRETED THAT AS THEY BROUGHT HIM AND HE TOOK HIM THE ONE, WE SHOULD BE GETTING A FREEBIE HERE, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION. 
          AND IF YOU DO HAVE A SECOND, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION HEARING, NONE, I, I, TO TURN MY MIC ON, EXCUSE ME, 
          [X. Executive Session]
THERE WERE INITIALLY THREE ITEMS THAT WE WERE GOING TO TAKE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          UM, WE WILL ADD ITEM NUMBER FOUR TO THAT. 
          SO LET ME, UH, LET ME READ, UH, THE FOUR ITEMS THAT WILL BE TAKEN INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          UH, ONE IS ACTION ITEM FOR APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING A NEW BOARD MEMBER, MATT HARRIS, UH, AND HIS APPOINTMENT TO THE FINANCE AUDIT AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE. 
          AND, UM, LET'S SEE, WE WILL ALSO, UH, HAVE ITEM NUMBER FIVE, WHICH IS, UH, APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OR THEIR DESIGNEE TO FINALIZE AND EXECUTE A CONTRACT, UH, WITH THE STATE OF TEXAS ACTING BY AND THROUGH THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE SALE OF APPROXIMATELY 0.0138 ACRES OF CAP METRO PROPERTY LOCATED AT 35 AND TECH RIDGE PARK AND RIDE IN TRAVIS COUNTY FOR A TEXTILE HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT, THE AMOUNT OF $11,382. 
          WE WILL ALSO, UM, DISCUSS NUMBER SIX, THE APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OR THEIR DESIGNEE, THE VACATE, THE EASEMENT COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS THE MCCALLA OR JJ PICKLE RAIL SPUR BETWEEN CAP METRO RAILROAD RIGHT OF WAY, AND, AND BURN IT ROAD IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, AND TO TAKE ALL ADDITIONAL ACTIONS NECESSARY OR ADVISABLE TO VACATE THE EASEMENT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, NEGOTIATING, AND EXECUTING ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS NECESSARY OR ADVISABLE ALLOWING FOR THE REVERSION TO THE GRAND TOUR PURSUANT TO CERTAIN QUICK CLAIM DEEDS AND, UH, FINALLY ITEM NUMBER SEVEN APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING ALL ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS DONE ARE INITIATED BY THE CAPITOL METRO TRANS, UH, TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, ITS EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND ATTORNEYS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF A FEE SIMPLE TITLE INTEREST IN A 0.8285 ACRE PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED 
          [01:55:01]
AT 1 0 6 1 2 DELTA DRIVE, AUSTIN, TEXAS THROUGH PURCHASE, OR BY THE PROCESS OF EMINENT DOMAIN FOR THE PUBLIC PURPOSE OF DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE MCCOLLOUGH STATION FOR CAP METRO'S METRO RAIL RED LINE REGIONAL RAIL SERVICE. 
          SO WE WILL TAKE UP THESE ITEMS IN EXECUTIVE SESSION AND WILL BE VOTED ON UNTIL WE COME BACK OUT AS A, AS A FULL, UM, AS A, AS A FULL, UH, COMMITTEE. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          DID I MISS ANYTHING? UH, COUNCIL, DID I MISS ANYTHING? ALRIGHT. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          SO WE'LL, WE WILL BE IN RECESS AND GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          THE ORDER AFTER THE EXECUTIVE SESSION, WE ARE GOING TO START, UH, WITH ITEM NUMBER FIVE, ACTION ITEM NUMBER FIVE, KEN CARTWRIGHT, WILL YOU MAKE THE PRESENTATION PLEASE? GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          CHAIRED CIVILIAN BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT CEO WATKINS. 
          I'M KEN CARR VICE-PRESIDENT OF CONSTRUCTION AND FACILITIES AT CAPITAL METRO. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCING THIS AGENDA ITEM. 
          AND I WILL JUST READ IT BRIEFLY, ALTHOUGH YOU DID READ IT EARLIER, I'LL READ IT AGAIN. 
          THIS FIRST ONE IS APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OR THEIR DESIGNEE TO FINALIZE AN EXECUTED CONTRACT WITH THE STATE OF TEXAS ACTING BY AND THROUGH THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE SALE OF APPROXIMATELY 0.0138 ACRES OF CAPITAL METRO PROPERTY LOCATED AT INTERSTATE 35 AND THE TECH RIDGE PARK AND RIDE IN TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS FOR A TEXTILE HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR A NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT OF $11,382. 
          AND I JUST HAVE A SLIDE HERE ON THIS PARTICULAR ITEM HERE, JUST TO PROVIDE YOU WITH REFERENCE REGARDING THIS AREA. 
          SO THIS AREA IS SHOWING OUR TECH RIDGE, UH, PARK AND RIDE LOT HERE. 
          AND I'LL NOTICE THIS, THIS IS THE PARK AND RIDE LOT HERE. 
          AND THIS IS A NARROW EXTENSION THAT WE HAVE GOING TO INTERSTATE 35, WHICH WAS ACQUIRED WITH THE ORIGINAL LAND TRANSACTION. 
          I'LL NOTE THAT OUR INGRESS AND EGRESS ARE ACTUALLY ON THIS SIDE OF THE PROPERTY TO ONE OF THESE BACK STREETS. 
          WE'RE JUST SOUTH OF HOWARD LANE, WHICH IS UP HERE AND I 35 HERE. 
          SO TXDOT IS INITIATING A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT THAT WE'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH WIDENING  AND THEY WANT TO TAKE JUST A SLIVER HERE AND I'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE OF THIS. 
          SO IT'S APPROXIMATELY 60 FEET IN LENGTH BY ABOUT 10 FEET WIDE. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE HERE THIS LITTLE RED RECTANGLES, A VERY SMALL PORTION, AND YOU'LL SEE THE CAPITAL METRO WILL RETAIN HIGHWAY FRONTAGE EVEN AFTER THE, UM, THE PROPERTY IS ACQUIRED. 
          SO AGAIN, THIS PRESERVES THE RIGHT FOR A FUTURE ACCESS POINT. 
          IF CAPITAL METRO EVER CHOOSES TO PROVIDE DIRECT ACCESS TO INTERSTATE 35, BUT TEXTILES DID CONTACT US. 
          AND I WILL POINT OUT WE HAVE OUR REAL ESTATE DIRECTOR, VINCENT SANDOVALL HERE WITH US AS WELL AS TERRY MORGAN. 
          UM, OUR REAL ESTATE CONSULTANT WHO ARE WORKING ON ALL OF OUR ACQUISITIONS RELATED TO THIS. 
          TEXTILE DID PROVIDE US AN APPRAISAL. 
          OUR REAL ESTATE STAFF REVIEWED THE APPRAISAL TO DETERMINE THAT IT, UH, IT IS FAIR MARKET VALUE AND THEIR RECOMMENDATION IS TO, UM, SELL THIS SMALL PIECE OF PROPERTY TO TEXTILE. 
          AND WITH THAT, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. 
          DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS BOARD MEMBERS I'M SEEING NO QUESTIONS ON THE CHAIR WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO, TO APPROVE THE ITEM. 
          SO MOVED RIGHT. 
          SECOND IS TO, YES. 
          WITH A SECOND FROM THIS DISTRACTION. 
          IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, THIRD TIME FOR POSTERITY? IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION HEARING? NONE. 
          LET'S GO AHEAD AND, AND, UM, AND TAKE A VOICE VOTE ONCE AGAIN. 
          UH, LET'S SEE. 
          UH, STRATTON KITCHEN COOPER IS AWAY FROM THE DYES ROSS HARRIS. 
          I RENTER MARIA BLESS YOU. 
          AND THE CHAIR WILL MAKE THAT UNANIMOUS WITH AN I AS WELL. 
          [02:00:02]
ITEM NUMBER FIVE IS APPROVED. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE ALSO HAVE THE ORDER AFTER THE EXECUTIVE SESSION, 
          [VII 5. Approval of a resolution authorizing the President & CEO, or their designee, to finalize and execute a contract with the State of Texas, acting by and through the Texas Department of Transportation, for the sale of approximately 0.0138 acres of Capital Metro property located at Interstate 35 and the Tech Ridge Park and Ride in Travis County, Texas, for a TxDOT highway construction project, for a not to exceed amount of $11,382.]
WE ARE GOING TO START, UH, WITH ITEM NUMBER FIVE. 
          ACTION ITEM NUMBER FIVE, KEN CARTWRIGHT. 
          WILL YOU MAKE THE PRESENTATION PLEASE? GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          CHAIRED CIVILIAN BOARD MEMBERS, PRESIDENT CEO, WATKINS. 
          I'M KEN VICE VICE-PRESIDENT OF CONSTRUCTION AND FACILITIES AT CAPITAL METRO. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCING THIS AGENDA ITEM. 
          AND I WILL JUST READ IT BRIEFLY, ALTHOUGH YOU DID READ IT EARLIER, I'LL READ IT AGAIN. 
          THIS FIRST ONE IS APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OR THEIR DESIGNEE TO FINALIZE AN EXECUTED CONTRACT WITH THE STATE OF TEXAS ACTING BY AND THROUGH THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE SALE OF APPROXIMATELY 0.0138 ACRES OF CAPITAL METRO PROPERTY LOCATED AT INTERSTATE 35 AND THE TECH RIDGE PARK AND RIDE IN TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS FOR TXDOT HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR A NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT OF $11,382. 
          AND I JUST HAVE A SLIDE HERE ON THIS PARTICULAR ITEM HERE, JUST TO PROVIDE YOU WITH REFERENCE REGARDING THIS AREA. 
          SO THIS AREA IS SHOWING OUR TECH RIDGE PARK AND RIDE LOT HERE. 
          AND I'LL NOTICE THIS, THIS IS THE PARK AND RIDE LOT HERE. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THIS IS A NARROW EXTENSION THAT WE HAVE GOING TO INTERSTATE 35, WHICH WAS ACQUIRED WITH THE ORIGINAL LAND TRANSACTION. 
          I'LL NOTE THAT OUR INGRESS AND EGRESS ARE ACTUALLY ON THIS SIDE OF THE PROPERTY TO ONE OF THESE BACK STREETS. 
          WE'RE JUST SOUTH OF HOWARD LANE, WHICH IS UP HERE AND I 35 HERE. 
          SO TXDOT IS INITIATING A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT THAT WE'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH WIDENING  AND THEY WANT TO TAKE JUST A SLIVER HERE AND I'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE OF THIS. 
          SO IT'S APPROXIMATELY 60 FEET IN LENGTH BY ABOUT 10 FEET WIDE. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE HERE THIS LITTLE RED RECTANGLES, A VERY SMALL PORTION, AND YOU'LL SEE THE CAPITAL METRO WILL RETAIN HIGHWAY FRONTAGE EVEN AFTER THE, UM, THE PROPERTY IS ACQUIRED. 
          SO AGAIN, THIS PRESERVES THE RIGHT FOR A FUTURE ACCESS POINT. 
          IF CAPITAL METRO EVER CHOOSES TO PROVIDE DIRECT ACCESS TO INTERSTATE 35, BUT TEXTILES DID, UH, CONTACT US. 
          AND I WILL POINT OUT WE HAVE OUR REAL ESTATE DIRECTOR, VINCENT SANDOVALL HERE WITH US AS WELL AS TERRY MORGAN. 
          UM, OUR REAL ESTATE CONSULTANT WHO ARE WORKING ON ALL OF OUR ACQUISITIONS RELATED TO THIS. 
          TEXTILE DID PROVIDE US WITH AN APPRAISAL. 
          OUR REAL ESTATE STAFF REVIEWED THE APPRAISAL TO DETERMINE THAT IT, UH, IT IS FAIR MARKET VALUE AND THEIR RECOMMENDATION IS TO, UM, SELL THIS SMALL PIECE OF PROPERTY TO TEXTILE. 
          AND WITH THAT, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. 
          DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS BOARD MEMBERS, UM, SEEING NO QUESTIONS ON THE CHAIR WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO, TO APPROVE THE ITEM. 
          SO MOVED RIGHT. 
          SECOND IS TO, WITH A SECOND FROM THIS DISTRACTION, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, THIRD TIME FOR POSTERITY? IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION HEARING? NONE. 
          LET'S GO AHEAD AND, AND, UM, AND TAKE A VOICE VOTE ONCE AGAIN. 
          UH, LET'S SEE. 
          UH, STRATTON KITCHEN COOPER IS AWAY FROM THE DYES, ROSS HARRIS. 
          I RENTER MARIA, LES, YOU AND THE CHAIR WILL MAKE THAT UNANIMOUS WITH AN I AS WELL. 
          ITEM NUMBER FIVE IS APPROVED. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          [VII 6. Approval of a resolution authorizing the President & CEO, or their designee, to vacate the easement commonly referred to as the McKalla or J.J. Pickle rail spur, between Capital Metro railroad right of way and Burnet Road in Austin, Texas, and to take all additional actions necessary or advisable to vacate the easement, including without limitation, negotiating and executing any other documents necessary or advisable, allowing for the reversion to the Grantor pursuant to certain quitclaim deeds.]
WE ALSO HAVE, WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED BY MR. CARTWRIGHT. 
          ALSO, PLEASE PROCEED. 
          UM, THIS ACTION ITEM, AS YOU READ PREVIOUSLY IN THE MEETING IS, UH, APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OR THEIR DESIGNEE TO VACATE THE EASEMENT EASEMENT COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS THE MCCALLA OR JJ PICKLE, RAIL SPUR BETWEEN CAPITAL METRO RAILROAD, RIGHT OF WAY, AND BURNET ROAD IN AUSTIN, TEXAS. 
          AND TO TAKE ALL ADDITIONAL ACTIONS NECESSARY OR ADVISABLE TO VACATE THE EASEMENT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, NEGOTIATING, EXECUTING, ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS NECESSARY OR ADVISABLE 
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ALLOWING FOR THE REVERSION TO THE GRANTOR GRANTOR PURSUANT TO CERTAIN QUICK CLAIM DEEDS, AND ALSO HAVE A FEW SLIDES ON THIS ONE AS WELL. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO, AND, AND IT'S REALLY JUST THIS ONE AERIAL TO SHOW YOU THE LOCATION OF THIS RAIL SPUR EASEMENT, AND I'LL PROVIDE YOU WITH SOME ORIENTATION HERE. 
          YOU CAN SEE THIS IS THE NORTH BURNETT AREA. 
          THIS IS BREAKER LANE HERE. 
          THIS IS BURNETT ROAD HERE, AND THEN WE HAVE MOPAC OFF HERE IN THE DISTANCE, BUT YOU CAN SEE THE Q2 STADIUM HERE AND RIGHT IN THIS VICINITY IS WHERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUILDING A NEW RAIL STATION. 
          WELL, AS PART OF THE ORIGINAL QUICK CLAIM DEED FROM THE CITY OF AUSTIN TO CAPITAL METRO WITH ALL THE RAILROAD RIGHT OF WAY, THERE WERE MULTIPLE RAIL SPURS INCLUDED IN THAT, INCLUDING THIS ONE THAT'S DESIGNATED IN YELLOW HERE, UM, AS THE MCCALLA RAIL SPUR. 
          AND SO, UM, CAPITAL METRO HISTORICALLY HAS NOT USED THIS RAIL SPUR. 
          UM, AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE'VE REMOVED, REMOVE THE SWITCH TO THE RAIL SPUR. 
          SO, UH, ESSENTIALLY RENDERING IT INACTIVE AND UNUSABLE AT THIS POINT IN TIME. 
          AND SO, UH, WE REALLY HAVE NO FURTHER PURPOSE FOR THIS RAIL SPUR AND CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL AGREEMENTS WERE RECOMMENDING THAT WE VACATE THIS EASEMENT. 
          UM, UM, SINCE WE HAVE, UH, NO, UH, FUTURE PURPOSE IN MIND FOR THAT. 
          AND I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE REGARDING THIS PROPOSED. 
          OH, IT MEMBERS ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY. 
          UH, CHAIR WILL ENTERTAIN THE MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM SIX. 
          I REMEMBER. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, BOARD MEMBER RENTERIA, A SECOND BOARD MEMBERS STRATTON SECOND. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UH, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION HEARING? NONE. 
          UH, LET'S GO TO A VOICE VOTE AGAIN. 
          UH, BOARD MEMBERS, STRATTON BOARD MEMBER, KITCHEN BOARD MEMBER. 
          COOPER'S OFF THE DYES BOARD MEMBER ROSS. 
          OKAY. 
          BOARD MEMBER HARRIS. 
          HI BOARD MEMBER RENTERIA, AND THE CHAIR WILL MAKE IT UNANIMOUS. 
          UM, ITEM SIX HAS BEEN APPROVED. 
          SO ITEM 
          [VII 7. Approval of a resolution authorizing all acts and proceedings done or initiated by the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, its employees, agents and attorneys for the acquisition of the fee simple title interest in a 0.8285 acre parcel of land located at 10612 Delta Drive, Austin, Texas, through purchase or by the process of eminent domain for the public purpose of the development and construction of the McKalla Station for Capital Metro’s MetroRail Red Line regional rail service.]
NUMBER SEVEN, YOU'VE DRAWN THE INSIDE STRAIGHT. 
          HAPPY, HAPPY TO CONTINUE. 
          YES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THIS IS REQUESTING APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING ALL ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS DONE OR INITIATED BY THE CAPITOL METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, ITS EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND ATTORNEYS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF THE FEE SIMPLE TITLE INTEREST IN A 0.8285 ACRE PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED AT 1 0 6 1 2 DELTA DRIVE, AUSTIN, TEXAS THROUGH PURCHASE OR BUY PROCESS BY THE PROCESS OF EMINENT DOMAIN FOR THE PUBLIC PURPOSE OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE MCCALLA STATION FOR CAPITAL METRO'S, METRO RAIL, RED LINE, REGIONAL RAIL SERVICE. 
          AND AGAIN, JUST A FEW SLIDES FOR THIS PARTICULAR ONE AND BOARD MEMBERS. 
          AS YOU RECALL, WE'VE DISCUSSED THE MCCALLA RAIL STATION PROJECT A NUMBER OF TIMES. 
          AND, UH, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE NEED FOR AN ADDITIONAL LAND ACQUISITION RELATED TO THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE IN THE ILLUSTRATION THERE, THE PROJECT THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING IS IN THE RED OVAL THERE, AND IT WAS DETERMINED THAT WE, UM, WERE COMPELLED TO BUILD THIS RAIL STATION DUE TO THE RAPID GROWTH OF THE NORTH BURNET, UH, AREA. 
          AND THE FACT THAT, UH, WE NEED TO BETTER SERVE THAT AREA WITH RAIL SERVICE. 
          SO IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA, WE'RE PROPOSING TO ADD A SECOND TRACK AS WELL AS A, UH, STATION, WHICH IS COMPRISED OF A NORTHBOUND PLATFORM AND A SOUTHBOUND PLATFORM. 
          AND, AND THEN CONNECT, UH, PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIVITY, UH, ACROSS THE TRACK HERE OVER TO THIS IS DELTA DRIVE. 
          AND SO THE AREA JUST EAST OF THE STATION OR TO THE RIGHT HERE OF THE STATION IS UNDERGOING AN IMMENSE REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. 
          UM, AS WELL AS IT SERVES A NUMBER OF BUSINESSES AT THIS POINT IN TIME WHO FREQUENTLY ACCESS THE Q2 STADIUM. 
          SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PROVIDE PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY. 
          SO ALL OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS REQUIRE THE ACQUISITION OF THIS ADDITIONAL TRACT BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE A 50 FOOT RAIL RIGHT OF WAY. 
          AND THIS POINT IN TIME, AND WE'D BEEN IN DISCUSSIONS WITH THE LANDOWNER REGARDING THIS SINCE 2019. 
          SO, UM, TO THAT END, WE DID ALL OF OUR PROPERTY DUE DILIGENCE. 
          OUR SURVEYS, OUR APPRAISALS PROVIDED THAT INFORMATION TO THE LANDOWNER GOT APPROVAL FROM THE FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION 
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ON THE PROPOSED OFFER AMOUNT TO THE LANDOWNER AND PRESENTED THAT TO THEM AND, UH, REQUESTED A RESPONSE BY MAY 20TH AND NO RESPONSE WAS PROVIDED AT THAT TIME FROM THE LANDOWNER. 
          SO BY VIRTUE OF THAT, WE'RE, UH, UH, RECOMMENDING THAT WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THE EMINENT DOMAIN PROCESS ON THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT. 
          AND WE ARE MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE PROTECTING THE LANDOWNER'S, UM, INTERESTS BY FOLLOWING THE FEDERAL UNIFORM ACT, UH, JUST TO MAKE SURE, UH, THE GOAL OF THE UNIFORM ACT IS TO PROVIDE THE INTEREST, UH, PROTECT THE INTEREST OF, UH, PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS. 
          SO WE WILL BE USING LOCAL FUNDS FOR THIS, BUT THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR A FUTURE FEDERAL FUNDS ON THIS AS WELL. 
          JUST A COUPLE OF OTHER QUICK SLIDES. 
          THIS IS A SURVEY SHOWING THE, THE AREA OF THE PROPERTY AREA HERE IN THE YELLOW DIAGONAL UNIT. 
          YOU'LL NOTICE THAT IT WAS PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS THE RAILROAD DOCKING AREA. 
          SO IT WAS PREVIOUSLY A RAILROAD PLATFORM. 
          AND THEN THIS IS JUST A SITE PLAN ILLUSTRATION, WHICH YOU MAY HAVE SEEN IN THE PAST. 
          SO THIS IS THE Q2 STADIUM UP HERE. 
          THIS IS THE SOUTHBOUND PLATFORM THAT'S PROPOSED THE NORTHBOUND PLATFORM HERE. 
          THE TWO ATTRACTS IN THE MIDDLE HERE, THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING AND YELLOW HERE, AND THEN THE ACCESSIBLE ROUTES IN PINK. 
          THEY'RE, PURPLE-ISH PINK, THEY'RE DOWN TO DELTA DELTA DRIVE HERE. 
          SO ALL, UH, THE MAJORITY IS, UH, IMPROVEMENTS ON THIS SIDE. 
          YOU CAN SEE THE OUTLINE OF THE PROPERTY IN THIS, THIS RED, UM, HATCHED LINE HERE. 
          SO WE'RE TAKING UP THE ENTIRE AREA OF THAT PROPERTY WITH THIS PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE TRADITIONAL MARDI GRAS COLORS WHEN THEY'VE DONE THAT IN MARCH, I THINK A LITTLE MORE THAN PURPLE AND THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN OKAY. 
          SO, UH, WHAT WE'RE REQUESTING HERE TODAY IS THAT, UH, WE, UH, REQUESTED THE BOARDS, UH, BY VIRTUE OF THIS RESOLUTION TO MOVE FORWARD AND AUTHORIZE, RECOGNIZE THE NECESSITY OF THIS PROPERTY, UH, TO BE UTILIZED FOR THE RAIL STATION PROJECT, A PROJECT TO ALLOW US TO ACQUIRE AN INTEREST IN THIS PROPERTY AT 1 0 6 1 2 DELTA DRIVE, AND BY VIRTUE OF YOUR AUTHORITY TO, UH, FOLLOW THEM AND A DOMAIN PROCESS UNDER THE TEXAS TRANSPORTATION CODE, SECTION FOUR 50 ONE.ZERO FIVE EIGHT C. 
          UH, WE ARE REQUESTING, UM, YOUR APPROVAL OF THIS RESOLUTION, UH, TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS PROCESS. 
          AND I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. 
          YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FROM BOARD MEMBERS HEARING NONE. 
          THE CHAIR WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM NUMBER SEVEN. 
          I ACTUALLY DO DO HAVE ONE QUESTION, MR. CHAIR, PLEASE PROCEED. 
          UH, MR. UH, CAR, RIGHT. 
          IF YOU COULD JUST, UH, REFRESH YOUR MEMORY. 
          UM, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THAT CAPITOL METRO HAS UTILIZED THE EMINENT DOMAIN POWER? THE, UM, THE LAST TIME WE UTILIZED, IT WAS IN THE ACQUISITION OF THE PROPERTY, UM, OR REQUIRED TO BUILD OUR NORTH OPERATIONS FACILITY. 
          THERE WAS A VERY SMALL TRACT, UH, I BELIEVE ON OLD MCNEIL ROAD IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT DEVELOPMENT. 
          UM, THAT WAS A PRIVATE PROPERTY OF SOME SORT OF VIDEO STORE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, UM, THAT WE HAD TO EXERCISE EMINENT DOMAIN. 
          SO THAT WAS PROBABLY ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO. 
          OKAY. 
          SO IT'S BEEN A WHILE. 
          UM, IS SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE FORESEE, IS THIS SOMETHING WE'RE GOING TO BE SEEING MORE OFTEN, PERHAPS THIS EMINENT THAT THIS, THIS BOARD BOARD REQUIRED IMMINENT DOMAIN USE? W WE MAY, UH, UH, I'M GOING FORWARD AS PROJECT CONNECT, AS YOU'RE AWARE IS OBVIOUSLY A VERY LARGE PROGRAM WITH A LOT OF LAND ACQUISITION INVOLVED AND CER CERTAINLY AWARE IT BECOMES NECESSARY TO EXERCISE EMINENT DOMAIN CAPITAL METRO WOULD BE, UH, LEADING THAT PART OF THE EFFORT FOR THOSE TYPES OF LAND ACQUISITION. 
          OKAY. 
          DOES, DOES, UH, AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP ATP HAVE EMINENT DOMAIN AUTHORITY TO YOUR KNOWLEDGE? THEY DO NOT. 
          SO, OKAY. 
          SO ATP DOES NOT HAVE AN EMINENT DOMAIN. 
          SO FOR PROJECT CONNECT TO ADVANCE, IT WILL BE THIS BOARD, UH, NOT ATP'S BOARD THAT WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGING A LOT OF THE, UH, MANAGING IMMINENT DOMAIN, UH, LAND ACQUISITION CASES. 
          THEN THAT IS CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          JUST, JUST WANTED TO MAKE, MAKE SURE I UNDERSTOOD THAT AND MAKE THAT CLEAR FOR THE PUBLIC, ANY OF THE PUBLIC THAT MIGHT BE LISTENING OUT THERE AS WELL. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH, KEN. 
          I APPRECIATE IT. 
          THANK YOU ANY FURTHER, ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS? UM, CHERYL ENTERTAIN, A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM SEVEN, SOME MOVED BOARD MEMBER STRATTON WITH THE MOTION BOARD MEMBER KITCHEN WITH THE SECOND. 
          IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, 
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ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION HEARING? NONE. 
          UH, LET'S TAKE A VOICE VOTE AGAIN. 
          UM, BOARD MEMBERS, STRATTON BOARD MEMBER, KITCHEN, BOARD MEMBER COOPERS AWAY FROM THE DICE BOARD MEMBER, ROSS BOARD MEMBER HARRIS, AYE. 
          BOARD MEMBER RENTERIA, AND THE CHAIR WILL MAKE IT UNANIMOUS. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          ITEM SEVEN HAS BEEN APPROVED. 
          UM, THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, YES, 
          [VII 2. Approval of the Proposed Amendments to the CapMetro Bylaws. (Part 2 of 2)]
BOARD MEMBER KITS. 
          UM, I PROPOSED THAT WE TAKE UP ITEM TWO. 
          UM, AGAIN, I THINK WE PUT IT ON THE TABLE BEFORE. 
          I'M NOT SURE WHAT WE DID, SO I'M, I'M PREPARED TO, UM, I'M NOT SURE IF THIS IS PROCEDURALLY THE WAY TO GO, BUT, UH, TO MAKE, UH, A, UH, EMOTION WITH, UM, I THINK WE HAVE SOME, UM, SOME LANGUAGE THAT OUR COUNSEL MAY BE READY TO READ IN THAT I WOULD BE, UH, WILLING TO ACCEPT ON MY MOTION. 
          I GUESS, TECHNICALLY WE DID HAVE A MOTION. 
          IT WAS TABLED, BUT IT IS APPROPRIATE TO AMEND THAT MOTION WITH ANY CHANGES THAT ARE APPROPRIATE. 
          UH, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG ATTORNEYS. 
          AND SO, SO WE WILL, WE WILL PRESENT A SUBSTITUTE MOTION. 
          UM, BOARD MEMBER GETS MOVED PASSAGE OF THE, UM, THE, UH, AMENDMENTS TO THE CAP, METRO BYLAWS AS PRESENTED IN OUR BACKUP WITH, UM, ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE, WHICH OUR COUNSEL WILL NOW READ INTO THE RECORD. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, SECTION 4.5 OF THE BYLAWS, UM, CURRENTLY HAS ONE SENTENCE, UH, IN IT, UH, IN THAT PARAGRAPH, IN THAT SECTION, AND THIS WOULD BE ADDED TO THAT SECTION THAT IS, THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO THE APPOINTMENT AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD TO THE AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP BOARD OF DIRECTORS, UM, OR THE CAPITOL AREA, METROPOLITAN PLANNING, ORGANIZATION, TRANSPORTATION, CAMPO, POLICY BOARD, OR OTHER GOVERNMENTAL BODIES, COMMA, WHICH SHALL REQUIRE THE MAJORITY VOTE. 
          UM, MAJORITY VOTE OF THE BOARD PERIOD AT THE DIRECTION OF THE BOARD COMMA. 
          THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO THE APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, PERIOD, AND THIS AS, AS AT THE FULL MOTION. 
          YES. 
          OKAY. 
          IS THERE A SECOND FOR THE MOTION OR, OR I SHOULD SAY, UH, THE, THE, UH, FIRST MOTION WAS MADE BY KITCHEN SUBSTITUTE MOTION WAS MADE BY KITCHEN. 
          IT WAS SECONDED BY RICHARD MARIA, UM, BOARD MEMBER, RENTER. 
          MARIA, WOULD YOU BE THE SECOND ON THE SUBSTITUTE? W WOULD YOU BE THE SITE? WOULD YOU, UH, WOULD YOU BE THE SECOND ON THE SUBSTITUTE? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          BOARD MEMBER RENTERIA IS THE SECOND UNDER SUBSTITUTE. 
          SO WE HAVE THE SAME MEMBERS WHO VOTE, WHO MADE THE FIRST MOTION, WHO ARE NOW SUBSTITUTING MAKING THE SECOND WITH THE ADDITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE, UH, BY OUR GENERAL COUNCIL. 
          OKAY. 
          IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION MR. CHAIRMAN, JUST TO CLARIFY SOMETHING, PLEASE. 
          I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT THAT FINAL SENTENCE OR FINAL CLAUSE, THE PURPOSE OF THAT WAS TO ADDRESS A BOARD MEMBER COOPER'S POINT THAT IF, BASICALLY THAT THAT'S JUST TO GO BACK TO THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE THERE, CORRECT. 
          THAT BASICALLY IN THE VENT THAT YOU'VE GOT BOARD MEMBERS UP HERE FIGHTING, JUMPING UP AND DOWN OVER. 
          I WANT TO BE THE APTAR REPRESENTATIVE. 
          I WANT TO BE THE AFTER REPRESENTATIVE THEN ULTIMATELY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS COULD TAKE A VOTE TO OVERRIDE AND DECIDE. 
          OKAY, LET, LET'S JUST SETTLE THIS AMONGST OURSELVES. 
          YES, THAT WAS THE INTENT. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          PERFECT. 
          APPRECIATE YOUR WORK ON THIS ONE. 
          OKAY. 
          ANY FURTHER CLARIFICATION, FURTHER DISCUSSION, FURTHER DISCUSSION HEARING NONE. 
          UH, LET'S TAKE A VOICE VOTE ON THIS ONE AS WELL. 
          A BUTTON NUMBER, NUMBER STRATTON, BOARD MEMBER, KITCHEN, BOARD MEMBER, COOPER, BOARD MEMBER. 
          ROSS' BOARD MEMBER HARRIS BOARD MEMBER IN KOREA AND, AND, UH, THE CHAIR, WE'LL IT UNANIMOUS? UH, ITEM TWO HAS PASSED, RIGHT. 
          SO WE HAVE, UM, 
          [VII 4. Approval of a resolution confirming new board member Matt Harriss’ appointment to the Finance, Audit and Administration Committee for the remainder of 2022 and naming him as Chair of the Committee.]
LET'S SEE, WE HAVE GONE THROUGH 1, 2, 3. 
          THE ONLY THING THAT'S LEFT ON OUR ACTION ITEMS IS ITEM NUMBER FOUR. 
          WE WORKED THROUGH OUR LANGUAGE ON ITEM NUMBER FOUR. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, SHELL, LET'S SEE, UH, SHALL WE READ IT INTO THE RECORD SO THAT WE CAN ANY LANGUAGE FOR, WE WERE JUST GOING TO MAKE A MOTION. 
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I CAN MAKE THAT MOTION IF YOU'D LIKE OR OKAY. 
          UM, GO AHEAD AND MAKE THE MOTION. 
          WELL, THE FIRST THING, I THINK IT MIGHT BE USEFUL FOR US TO SEPARATE THE MOTION, PERHAPS. 
          UH, SO I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NEW BOARD MEMBER, MATT HARRIS, HIS APPOINTMENT TO THE FINANCE AUDIT AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE FOR THE REMAINDER OF 2022. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          IS THERE A SECOND FOR THAT MOTION? SECOND BOARD MEMBER STRATTON. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, LET'S SEE. 
          IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? NO FURTHER DISCUSSION. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          LET'S TAKE A VOICE VOTE ON THAT AS WELL. 
          UH, BOARD MEMBER, STRATTON, BOARD MEMBER, KITCHEN, BOARD MEMBER COOPER, AYE. 
          BOARD MEMBER, ROS BOARD MEMBER HARRIS, AYE. 
          BOARD MEMBER RENTERIA, AYE. 
          AND THE CHAIR WILL MAKE IT UNANIMOUS. 
          SO ITEM FOR THE FIRST PORTION OF ITEM FOUR HAS BEEN APPROVED. 
          UM, SHALL WE, UM, MAKE THE SECOND PORTION IF YOU'D LIKE ME TO, I CAN GO AHEAD. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, I MOVE APPOINTMENT OF, UM, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT BOARD MEMBER, MATT HARRIS IS DECLINING, UH, BEING NAMED AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE. 
          SO THAT CORRECT? UH, YES, MA'AM, UH, GIVEN THE FACT THAT I'M JUST NOW COMING ONTO THE BOARD. 
          I DON'T THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT I SERVE AS THE CHAIR AT THIS TIME. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL THEN, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE, UH, THAT WE NAME, UM, WADE COOPER AS INTERIM CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE. 
          I'M SAYING I'M USING THE TERM INTERIM TO MEAN THAT HE HAS ALL THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHAIR OF THAT COMMITTEE. 
          I'M USING THE TERM INTERIM IN ORDER TO ALLOW WITHIN, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE OF MONTHS, UM, OTHER MEMBERS WHO MAY BE INTERESTED TO BE CONSIDERED FOR CHAIR. 
          UM, I KNOW WE HAVE ANOTHER MEMBER WHO, UM, MS. POOL, UH, BOARD MEMBER POOL, WHO'S BEEN INTERESTED. 
          THERE MAY BE OTHERS THAT I'M NOT AWARE OF. 
          UM, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO ASK, UM, MR. COOPER OF HE'LL DO THIS ON A INTERIM BASIS. 
          AND IF ACCEPTABLE TO THAT, THEN THAT'S THE MOTION I'D LIKE TO MAKE. 
          UH, THANK YOU. 
          UH, I FEEL LIKE A SCENE IN THE GODFATHER WHERE HE I'M TRYING TO  SIR, I'M ADVISED BY A CHAIR LONG OF A CAMPO THAT SHE CAN'T REPLACE IT. 
          WE CAN'T REPLACE ME UNTIL THE LATTER PART OF THE FALL. 
          SO YES, I WOULD BE PLEASED TO DO IT ON AN INTERIM BASIS. 
          UH, BOARD MEMBER COOPER. 
          YOU'RE REPLACEABLE. 
          THANK YOU, BOARD MEMBERS. 
          SO THAT'S MY, THAT'S MY MOTION. 
          SECOND BOARD MEMBER STRATTON. 
          UM, SO, UH, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, ANY FURTHER, FURTHER DISCUSSION HEARING? NONE. 
          UH, LET'S TAKE A VOICE VOTE. 
          UM, BOARD MEMBERS, STRATTON, UH, BOARD MEMBER, KITCHEN, UM, BOARD MEMBER COOPER. 
          YEAH, I VOTE I WITH THE CONDITION THAT IT NOT BE IN THE RECORD SO THAT MRS. COOPER COULD HEAR THAT, UH, BOARD MEMBER, ROSS, UH, BOARD MEMBER HARRIS, I, UH, BOARD MEMBER RENTERIA, UH, IN A, IN ANOTHER GODFATHER S FASHION, I WILL SAY I, AND, AND, AND I WILL ADD, UH, JUST WHEN I THINK I'M OUT, THEY PULL ME BACK. 
          SO, SO, UH, THANK YOU FOR BEING WILLING TO BE PULLED BACK. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UH, I THINK THAT TAKES CARE OF ALL OF THE ITEMS THAT WE HAVE ON THE, UM, ON OUR ACTION AGENDA, UH, THAT LEAVES 
          [VIII. Discussion Items]
ITEMS FOR OUR, UH, FOR DISCUSSION ITEMS. SO LET'S, LET'S GO WITH, UH, THE, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY PROGRAM UPDATE FROM GARDNER TO BONE OR SH, OR AS WE SAY, UH, BARRY WHITE OF AUSTIN, TEXAS WELL, GOOD EVENING. 
          UH, I'M SORRY. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIRMAN TREVELYAN, UH, CO-CHAIR VICE-CHAIR, UH, KITCHEN BOARD MEMBERS AND, UM, STAFF PRESENT, UH, AS WELL AS INTERIM CEO, UH, 
          [02:25:01]
DANNY WALK-INS. 
          SO THIS AFTERNOON, I WON'T BE BEFORE YOU VERY LONG. 
          UH, I'LL BE JUST DOING THE, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY PROGRAM UPDATE, BUT I HAVE SOME AMAZING NEWS TO SHARE WITH YOU. 
          SO WE'LL BE GOING THROUGH THE PROGRAM, AS I SAID, TIMELINE, MILESTONES, ET CETERA, AND, UH, GIVING YOU PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES AS WELL. 
          BUT IN LIGHT OF THE TIME, I'VE GONE TO KIND OF SKIM OVER A FEW ITEMS. CERTAINLY IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, BE MORE THAN WILLING TO, UH, TO ANSWER THEM, BUT I KNOW YOU WANT TO BE OUT OF HERE BEFORE SEVEN, SO WE'LL, UH, WE'LL MOVE IT ALONG. 
          UH, PUBLIC SAFETY AMBASSADORS. 
          I BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY DO WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MAYBE MR. HARRIS, WHOM I'LL BE HAVING A DISCUSSION WITH WE'LL BE GOING ALL OVER OUR PUBLIC SAFETY AND SAFETY PROGRAMS, JUST TO, UH, BRING YOU UP TO SPEED. 
          SO GREAT NEWS, THE TEAM AND I HAVE, UH, OBTAINED THE TALENTS OF, UH, MR. ERIC ROBBINS. 
          HE IS A 30 YEAR VETERAN, UH, FROM, UH, CITY OF SUGAR LAND, TEXAS, UH, BORN AND RAISED IN HOUSTON. 
          I COMES TO US WITH AN AMAZING, UH, REPUTATION IN LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS SERVED OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS AS THEIR CHIEF OF POLICE. 
          HE IS NOW RETIRED FROM, UH, SUGAR LAND AND WILL BE MAKING HIS WAY TO US ON AUGUST 1ST TO BEGIN HIS SERVICE AS OUR CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR TRANSIT POLICE, A REASON WHY HE IS NOT GOING TO BE CHIEF OF POLICE IS BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
          YET. 
          ONCE WE ARE CERTIFIED BY A TEXAS COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT, HE WILL THEN BECOME OUR VERY FIRST CHIEF OF POLICE. 
          WE'RE VERY, VERY EXCITED TO HAVE MR. ROBBINS ON BOARD. 
          UM, HE'S FAR EXCEEDED OUR EXPECTATIONS WITH REGARD TO QUALIFICATIONS BACKGROUND CHECKS THAT WERE NUMEROUS, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY HICCUPS ALONG THE WAY, BUT WE ARE SO PLEASED TO HAVE, UH, MR. ROBBINS ONBOARD. 
          AND SO, UH, BUDGET ASSUMPTIONS, NOT EVERYTHING YOU SEE WILL BE MOVED INTO 23, BUT THESE ARE SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT WILL BE THE LATTER PART AT THE VERY LEAST OF, UM, OUR FISCAL YEAR 23. 
          SO, UH, AS THE LIST INDICATES, WE'LL HAVE, UH, UH, TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES, RECRUITMENT PROGRAM VEHICLES FOR PURCHASE, UH, UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT AND INSURANCE AND OTHER ITEMS, BUT THEY WILL COME THROUGHOUT THE PROGRAM. 
          AND PERHAPS THE LATER, OR, UH, A PORTION OF FISCAL YEAR 23 AS MR. ROBBINS AND HIS STAFF, UM, ESTABLISHED THE DEPARTMENT, THERE ARE NUMEROUS, UH, UH, ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE TO TAKE PLACE BEFORE, UM, A FEW OF THE, UH, THESE ITEMS AND MOVE FORWARD. 
          BUT, UH, A FEW OF THESE ARE ACTUALLY A PART OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT, SUCH AS, UH, UH, IT, AND, UM, UH, IT EQUIPMENT AND UNIFORMS AND INSURANCE AND SUCH. 
          SO, UH, STAY TUNED FOR MORE ON THAT, UH, COMMUNITY INTERVENTION SPECIALISTS. 
          UH, AS YOU KNOW, WE ESTABLISHED THE PROGRAM, UH, LAST YEAR WE HAVEN'T BEEN IN, WE HAVEN'T ACTUALLY BEEN, UH, A PROGRAM FOR EIGHT YEARS, BUT, UH, THEY'VE SHOWN US TIME AND TIME AGAIN, WHY THIS PROGRAM IS A HUGE VALUE, NOT ONLY TO CAPITAL METRO, BUT TO ITS, UH, CONSTITUENTS ITS CUSTOMERS, ITS UM, THE INDIVIDUALS WHO MAY BE EXPERIENCING, UH, HOMELESSNESS AND CERTAIN MENTAL, UH, CHALLENGES. 
          AND WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO, AS YOU CAN SEE, REALLY MAKE SOME INROADS IN THE COMMUNITY AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 
          UM, SO WE'RE VERY, VERY PROUD OF THIS PROGRAM, EVEN IF IT'S IN ITS INFANCY, SO TO SPEAK. 
          BUT UH, WE HAVE A MAGNIFICENT STAFF, I BELIEVE YOU'VE MET THEM OR AT LEAST BEEN INTRODUCED TO THEM. 
          AND UH, WE LOOK TO, UM, EVEN GREATER WORKS FROM THEM IN THE NEAR FUTURE, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY AMBASSADORS, UM, UH, BOARD MEMBER, KITCHEN REMARKED, I BELIEVE IN OUR LAST BOARD MEETING, UH, AFTER SHE HAD MET THEM AND GOT TO KNOW, UH, SOME OF THEIR, UM, UH, OUTCOMES AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND SUCH HOW GREAT OF A JOB THEY WERE DOING WELL WHILE WE DON'T NECESSARILY LET ME REPHRASE THAT DATA. 
          WE LIKE, BUT DATA DOESN'T TELL THE ENTIRE STORY OF HOW THEY'RE MAKING AN IMPACT AND HOW THEY'RE TOUCHING. 
          THERE ARE SOME, UH, INTANGIBLE ITEMS THAT DON'T SHOW UP IN DATA, BUT WE WANT IT TO BRING YOU SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN KIND OF TAKE AWAY 
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FROM ALL OF THEIR ACTIVITIES. 
          AND WE FEEL LIKE, AGAIN, I PROGRAMMED THAT IS SO YOUNG, UH, IS, IS REALLY MAKING AN IMPACT WITH, UM, OUR FRONTLINE EMPLOYEES, BUS OPERATORS AND SUCH AS WELL AS OUR CUSTOMERS THAT THE ENGAGE INFORM AND THAT THEY EDUCATED. 
          SO WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THIS PROGRAM AS WELL. 
          UH, PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEE, WE'VE ACTUALLY, UH, BEEN DOING VERY WELL WITH THE, UH, THE ADDITION OF MR. POWELL AND FOSTER AS CHAIR AND VICE-CHAIR RESPECTIVELY, OUR NEXT MEETING AS EDNA INDICATED EARLIER, WE'LL BE IN A COUPLE OF DAYS AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO IT AND ADVANCING, UM, UH, THOSE EFFORTS AS WELL. 
          UH, PARTICULARLY AS WE BRING ON BOARD, UH, MR. ROBBINS. 
          UM, AND SO IN RECORD TIME, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE? WELL, WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME, BUT IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE BE MORE THAN WILLING TO TAKE THEM THROUGH THAT. 
          I JUST, JUST WANTED TO COMMENT THAT, UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE AMBASSADORS AND THE CONNECTIONS THAT ARE MAKING IN THE NUMBERS RELATED TO THAT. 
          THAT'S VERY, VERY HELPFUL. 
          UM, AND I WANTED TO PARTICULARLY NOTE THAT THE AMBASSADORS ARE ACTUALLY CONNECTING PEOPLE TO SOCIAL SERVICES. 
          THAT'S AN A, THAT'S NOT AN EASY THING TO DO, BUT IT'S ALL, BUT IT'S, IT'S WHAT'S NEEDED BECAUSE IT TAKES THEM ALL THE WAY FROM THE CONTACT TO REFERRING AND CONNECTING THEM TO SOMEONE. 
          SO APPRECIATE THAT. 
          I WOULD ALSO INVITE IT, YOU KNOW, AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE, IF IT'S APPROPRIATE, I KNOW THAT OUR AMBASSADORS, BECAUSE THEY'RE TALKING DIRECTLY TO INDIVIDUALS, THEY MAY HAVE SOME INSIGHTS FOR US, UM, IN TERMS OF THE TIME, UH, KINDS OF ISSUES THAT, UM, CUSTOMERS ARE EXPERIENCING. 
          SO I WOULD JUST INVITE AT ANY TIME THAT IT SEEMS APPROPRIATE TO JUST, YOU KNOW, SHARE WITH US WHAT YOU GUYS ARE, ARE SEEING IN TERMS OF WHAT THOSE ISSUES MIGHT BE. 
          SURE. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY HAPPY WITH, UM, COMMUNITY INTERVENTION SPECIALISTS AS WELL, WHO ARE PROVIDING A, UH, A POSITIVE PATH FORWARD THAT'S OKAY. 
          THAT'S ALREADY BECAUSE THEY WORK AS A TEAM, THEY WORK AS THERE'S OTHER FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE AND THEN YOU HAVE THE INTERVENTION SPECIALISTS IN CASE THERE'S A LITTLE BIT MORE THAT'S NECESSARILY FOR. 
          YEAH. 
          SO THEY, UM, THEY OFFER A POSITIVE PATH FORWARD WHETHER, AND YOU'LL SEE YOU'VE SEEN IN THE, IN THE DATA WHERE SOME TAKE THEM UP ON IT AND THERE ARE OTHERS WHO DECLINED, WHICH IS IT'S NORMAL, BUT AT LEAST WE'RE THERE WE'RE ENGAGING AND AWARE. 
          THERE COULD BE A POLICE OFFICER'S JUST ENGAGING THEM AT LEAST WHERE THEY'RE ON A GOOD PERCENTAGE OF TIME, NOT EVERY TIME, BUT, UH, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF THE EFFORTS. 
          AND THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR, UH, FOR MAKING THOSE REMARKS. 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS THAT WE HAVE, ANY OTHER COMMENTS? AND THEN I JUST WANT TO SAY IT IS, IT IS POWERFUL, UM, TO, TO HAVE FOLKS THAT ARE RIDING THE BUSES, ASK WHETHER I CAN HELP. 
          IS THERE SOMEPLACE I CAN GUIDE YOU? IS THERE SOMETHING THAT YOU NEED, UH, SO THAT PEOPLE ARE MEN AS COMMUNITY MEMBERS FIRST, AND IF THERE'S A NEED TO ESCALATE, WE ESCALATE. 
          IF THERE'S A NEED TO, IF THERE'S A NEED TO GET MORE, UH, MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS. 
          AND, UH, AND, AND WE ARE LEARNING THAT THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF INTERVENTIONS. 
          DO I HAVE ACCESS TO THE MEDICATIONS THAT I NEED? IS THERE SOMEPLACE THAT I NEED TO BE, UM, SOME CLINIC THAT I NEED TO BE AT THAT I CAN'T GET TO RIGHT NOW? I THINK THOSE ARE POWERFUL THINGS. 
          WE MEET THEM WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S GOING ON AND HOW CAN I HELP? AND I THINK THAT, UH, THAT IS GOING TO BE IN FACT REVOLUTIONARY WHEN WE'RE MEETING THEM, NOT AS WARRIORS, BUT AS PROTECTORS. 
          FOR SURE. 
          SO, UH, SO THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE. 
          YOU'VE DONE EXEMPLARY WORK, ANOTHER JUVE, YOU'VE TRAVELED A LOT. 
          YOU'VE TALKED TO PEOPLE, YOU'VE MADE SURE THAT WE'VE HAD THE, THE BEST, MOST APPROPRIATE VOICES IN THE ROOM. 
          SO YOU SHOULD BE COMMENDED FOR THE WORK IS, WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          AND, AND THE TEAM, AGAIN, I HAVE TO APPLAUD THEM AND THEIR EXPERTISE THAT THEY BRING TO THE TABLE. 
          SO, YEAH, IT'S, IT'S BEEN A GREAT EFFORT. 
          AH, I DID JUST WANT TO JUMP IN REAL QUICK GARDNER, YOU WERE LOOKING AT ME, YOU'RE LIKE, OKAY, I'LL GET SOMETHING IN HERE. 
          JUST PLAYING. 
          THAT WAS A REASONABLE EXPECTATION. 
          I DIDN'T WANT TO SAY DITTO AND KUDOS TO FROM WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE HAS SAID, BUT, BUT, UH, THEN HONE IN, HONING IN ON, UH, ON CHIEF ROBIN'S, UH, AMAZING, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT WORK. 
          YOU AND THE TEAM PUT IN TO FIND HIM. 
          I HAD A, A VERY, UH, VERY PRODUCTIVE AND AMAZING CONVERSATION WITH HIM. 
          I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO HIM COMING TO THE TEAM AND, 
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UM, HIS VISION FOR WHAT THIS IS AND FOR WHAT, UM, FOR WHAT THE COMMUNITY HAS WANTED AND FOR WHAT WE, THE WHOLE TEAM YOU, YOU AS STAFF AND WHAT WE, AS A BOARD HAVE PUT INTO THIS AND SAID THAT WE WANTED THIS TO BE THIS PROGRAM TO BE, UM, I ASKED, I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO ENGAGE WITH HIM AND ASK HIM SOME POINTED AND DETAILED QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS. 
          AND JUST SEEING WHERE MY MAIN QUESTION WAS, WELL, WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO LEAVE SUGAR LAND TO COME TO AUSTIN, TEXAS FOR THIS? AND, AND JUST, JUST HEARING WHERE HE'S COMING FROM AND WHERE HIS HEART IS AND HIS PASSION AND HIS 30 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE STARTING AS A BEAT COP, WORKING HIS WAY, ALL THE WAY UP TO THE TOP OF THE LINE. 
          AND NO ONE WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD NOW, AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD SOMETHING NEW AND RE AND BASICALLY BUILDING, BUILDING OUT A POLICE FORCE WITH A BACKBONE TO WHERE THE POLICE OFFICERS ARE, NOT THE F ARE NOT SO MUCH THE FRONTLINE FOR EVERYTHING, BUT THE END OF THE LINE FOR THE REAL TRUE PUBLIC SAFETY NEEDS, BECAUSE WE'VE GOT THAT OTHER BACKBONE OF THE FORCE THERE, THE PUBLIC SAFETY AMBASSADORS AND THE INTERVENTION SPECIALISTS, I'M REALLY EXCITED TO SEE HIM AND TO HEAR WHAT WE'VE GOT COMING, COMING DOWN THE LINE WITH THAT. 
          SO, SO THANK YOU FOR THAT AND ALL THE WORK THAT YOUR TEAM HAS COMING IN. 
          I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING HIM, UH, GET INVOLVED IN, GET, GETTING, GETTING, GOING, HIT BOOTS ON THE GROUND. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THERE, THERE IS A LARGER CONVERSATION THAT IS, THAT IS, UH, IS GOING ACROSS THE COMMUNITY, UH, WHERE WE ARE WORKING DIRECTLY WITH, UH, SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES, CONSTABLES MEMBERS OF APA, UH, TO BEGIN TO REACH OUT INTO COMMUNITY AND TALK TO FOLKS ABOUT PERCEPTIONS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE. 
          WHAT OFFICERS THINK ABOUT COMMUNITIES, WHAT COMMUNITIES THINK ABOUT OFFICERS, WHEN THAT HAPPENS, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE ALL ARE A PART OF THAT DISCUSSION. 
          SO I WILL KEEP YOU INFORMED AS TO WHEN WE ARE ACTUALLY IN THE FIELD. 
          APPRECIATE THAT VERY MUCH. 
          YES. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, ANY FURTHER UPDATE? UH, NO, SIR. 
          NOT AT THIS TIME. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          WE APPRECIATE IT TAKES US. 
          OKAY. 
          WE'RE ACTUALLY GONNA SLIP PAST THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AGENCY. 
          SAFETY PLAN, ED, SORRY. 
          YEAH. 
          OH, OH, IS LESS TO NO KNOW, I KNOW. 
          EXCELLENT IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, WE'LL, WE'LL BRING THAT INFORMATION TO THE BOARD NEXT MONTH. 
          UM, BUT DID HAVE A FEW ITEMS TO GO OVER IN THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. 
          UM, FIRST OFF IS SOME GOOD NEWS. 
          WE ARE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE BEEN AWARDED AWARDED JUST UNDER $800,000 IN GRANTS, UM, FROM THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN, UH, RESTORATION GRANT PROGRAM. 
          UM, THIS IS A PROGRAM DESIGNED TO HELP SUPPORT TRANSIT AGENCIES AS THEY CONTINUE TO RESTORE THEIR SERVICES, UM, KIND OF POST PANDEMIC. 
          UM, THIS WILL HELP US, UM, REALLY STAND UP AND PROFESSIONALIZE OUR TRAINING PROGRAMS. AND WE RECOGNIZE THAT A, UH, FIRST CLASS TOP-NOTCH TRAINING PROGRAM IS NECESSARY NOT JUST TO, UM, GET GOOD EMPLOYEES, BUT ALSO, UM, IMPROVE RETENTION AND BE ABLE TO RETRAIN EMPLOYEES. 
          UM, WE'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF THIS WORK TO DATE IN HOUSE TO GET US STARTED, BUT THIS GRANT WILL HELP US JUMPSTART THIS PROGRAM TO BE ABLE TO MOVE IT BEYOND JUST OUR BASIC BUS OPERATOR TRAINING, BUT TO ALSO DEVELOP ADDITIONAL TRAINING FOR OUR SUPERVISORS, OUR DISPATCHERS, UM, AND REFRESHER TRAINING FOR OUR OPERATORS. 
          SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY AND WOULD LIKE TO THINK, UM, OUR CONGRESSMAN LLOYD DOGGETT FOR HIS SUPPORT, UM, IN HELPING US PURSUE THIS GRANT. 
          AND ALSO, UM, MANY THANKS TO OUR STAFF, INCLUDING MUCH OF THE PLANNING TEAM, UM, WHO HELPED US COME UP WITH A CREATIVE IDEA FOR HOW, UM, TO, TO PITCH THIS GRANT, UM, AND SUCCESSFULLY WIN-WIN NEXT UP IS JUST A RECOGNITION. 
          WE ARE CAPITAL METRO IS ALWAYS A PROUD SUPPORTER OF THE JUNETEENTH EVENT, AND IT WAS ANOTHER FUN ONE, EVEN IF IT WAS HOT, REALLY HOT. 
          UM, WE HAD APPROXIMATELY 40 VOLUNTEERS FROM THE CAT MOTOR TEAM AND THEIR FAMILIES. 
          YOU CAN SEE A MINI GENERATIONS OF FOLKS THERE READY TO SUPPORT THE PARADE. 
          IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST WELL ATTENDED JUNETEENTH PARADES IN AUSTIN. 
          UM, AND PEOPLE RESPONDED WITH A LOT OF ENTHUSIASM ABOUT OUR ELECTRIC BUS. 
          IT WAS GREAT TO HAVE THE ELECTRIC BUS OUT THERE, UM, BECAUSE IT WAS COOL, NOT JUST ON THE INSIDE, BUT THE OUTSIDE, WE WEREN'T TRYING TO WALK NEXT TO A HOT DIESEL BUS. 
          UM, IT WAS A GREAT EVENT AND A LOT OF FUN. 
          UM, EVEN IF IT TOOK ME A DAY AND A HALF TO PHYSICALLY RECOVER FROM MY PARTICIPATION AND SAID, BRAID, I HOPE THAT MENTIONED IN THE RUN ON A KID. 
          NO, ACTUALLY WE, WE DID, WE DID GIVE AWAY ALL OF THE CANDIDATES WE GAVE AWAY ALL OF THE, EVERYTHING, INCLUDING THE EXTRA T-SHIRTS WE HAD, UM, FOR OUR STAFF. 
          SO IT WAS A GREAT EVENT AND IT WAS ALWAYS JUST SUCH A GREAT TIME TO GET OUT IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          SO SPEAKING OF GETTING OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, THERE'S A LOT ON THIS SLIDE AND I WON'T GO THROUGH IT IN GREAT DETAIL, BUT THE HIGHLIGHT YEAR IS THAT QUEBEC CAP METRO IS PREPARED 
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TO SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY. 
          UM, OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS TEAMS ARE REALLY STEPPING UP TO PROVIDE SERVICES THROUGHOUT THE REGION. 
          UM, WE WILL, WE'VE RECEIVED REQUESTS FOR SUPPORT FOR A LOT OF EVENTS. 
          AND SO WE'LL BE SUPPORTING, UM, THE AUSTIN SYMPHONY IN A CONCERT AND FIREWORKS SHOW DOWN AT AUDITORIUM SHORES IN AUSTIN. 
          WE'LL ALSO BE PROVIDING SHUTTLES IN BOTH LEANDER AND LAGO VISTA AND SUPPORT OF THEIR RESPECTIVE EVENTS. 
          UM, AND THIS YEAR, OUR, OUR FRIENDS AT Q2 STADIUM ARE HOSTING THE WILLIE NELSON 4TH OF JULY PICNIC. 
          AND SO WE'LL BE RUNNING THIS THE SAME SERVICES THAT WE TYPICALLY PROVIDE TO SUPPORT A Q2 STADIUM, UM, SOCCER GAME. 
          UM, THIS'LL BE, UH, THE SAME LEVEL OF SERVICES WE'LL HAVE, METRORAIL PICK UP, UH, METRO RAIL SERVICE, A SPECIFIC METRO ACCESS PICKUP AND DROP OFF POINT, UM, AS WELL AS ADDITIONAL FREQUENCY ON SOME OF OUR BUS SERVICES TO SUPPORT THE STADIUM EVENTS. 
          SO, UM, IT'S GOING TO BE A VERY EXCITING AND BUSY, UH, WEEKEND FOR US COMING UP. 
          UM, AS ALWAYS, WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE FOLKS THAT ARE GOING TO THESE EVENTS TO LEAVE THE DRIVING TO US AND TAKE CAP METRO. 
          UM, IT'S A GREAT WAY TO STAY OUT OF THE TRAFFIC, UM, AND, UH, JUST ENJOY THE EVENT. 
          UM, AND JUST A REMINDER THAT CONSISTENT WITH OUR, UM, BOARD ADOPTED FAIR POLICIES ON THE 4TH OF JULY, WE OFFER FREE SERVICE AFTER 5:00 PM ON ALL OF OUR SERVICES. 
          SO THAT ALLOWS THE COMMUNITY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL OF THESE WITHOUT PAYING A FAIR, UM, NEXT UP A LITTLE BIT OF ADMINISTRATIVE, BUT ACTUALLY EXCITING ADMINISTRATIVE, UM, UPDATE. 
          SO THE CAP METRO BOARD HAS RECENTLY REQUESTED, AND WE'VE BEEN VERY INTERESTED FOR A WHILE AND HAVING A BETTER MECHANISM TO TRACK THE MEMOS THAT ARE PROVIDED TO OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 
          UH, MEMOS ARE A GREAT WAY TO GIVE DETAILED BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON ITEMS, UM, TO KEEP THE BOARD MEETINGS MOVING SMOOTHLY. 
          UM, AS OF TODAY, THERE ARE THREE MEMOS NOW IN OUR ONLINE ARCHIVE, IF YOU GO THIS THE SAME ONLINE ARCHIVE WHERE OUR BOARD AGENDAS ARE ARCHIVED, UM, WHICH IS A SEARCHABLE DATABASE, WE WILL NOW BE, UM, POSTING THE MEMOS. 
          AND SO IF YOU ACTUALLY LOOK AT TODAY'S AGENDA, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THE END OF THE AGENDA, IT HIGHLIGHTS, UM, THE MEMOS THAT HAVE BEEN, UM, ADDED TO THE PORTAL AS PART OF THE PACKET, UM, FOR THIS BOARD MEETING. 
          SO THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE GOING FORWARD. 
          WE, UM, NO, THIS PRESENTS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO NOT ONLY SUPPORT THE BOARD AND STAFF AND BEING ABLE TO FIND THESE MEMOS, BUT ALSO OUR MEDIA PARTNERS, OUR CUSTOMERS, AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON AND CERTAINLY LAST, BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST. 
          I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO MY NEW FRIEND, MEEP MEEP STANDS FOR MOBILE ENGAGEMENT AND EVENT POP-UP AND MEEP IS A FULLY ELECTRIC ENGAGEMENT VEHICLE, UM, REALLY HELPED DESIGNED TO HELP US MEET PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE, UM, MEET, OPENS UP AND HAS SCREENS INSIDE SO THAT WE CAN LITERALLY BRING THE COMMUNITY MEETING TO YOU. 
          UM, IT WAS BUILT HERE LOCALLY AND WILL ALLOW US TO REALLY ENGAGE FOLKS. 
          UM, IT'S A FUN VEHICLE, UM, AND IT'S ESPECIALLY EXCITING BECAUSE WE ARE FOCUSED ON TRYING TO REDUCE THE BARRIERS OF ACCESS FOR THE COMMUNITY, UM, TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS ALL OF THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT THAT WE DO. 
          AND SO MEAT LITERALLY ALLOWS US TO MEET THEM WHERE THEY ARE IN PERSON, INSTEAD OF ASKING THEM TO COME TO US, WE HAVE, IN, IN PAST YEARS, TRIED TO DO THIS WITH A FULL-SIZED TRANSIT BUS, UM, WHICH CAN BE DIFFICULT BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A TV ON TRANSIT BUSES WHERE YOU CAN DISPLAY INFORMATION. 
          AND FRANKLY, UM, ANDY WILL APPRECIATE, WE NEED ALL THE TRANSIT BUSES TO RUN TRANSIT SERVICE. 
          AND SO, UM, NAEP WAS A GOOD IDEA THAT WE FINALLY BROUGHT TO, UM, INTO FRUITION, UH, TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. 
          UM, IT HAS NOT HIT THE STREET YET, UM, BUT WE ARE EXCITED TO DEPLOY IT SOON. 
          UM, AND WE'LL LET YOU GUYS KNOW WHEN WE HAVE IT OUT IN THE WORLD. 
          UM, AND THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR ATTENTION TODAY. 
          CAN I PICK THAT FOR A JORDAN? UM, SEE, I SEE NOW THAT I'M GETTING VERY NERVOUS, MR. MR. CHAIR, CAN I, CAN I ASK A DOTTY ONE, ONE QUESTION ABOUT THE, UH, THE POSTING OF THE, UH, UM, THE MEMOS AND OUR PACKETS AND EVERYTHING, WHERE DO YOU, HOW DO YOU ACCESS THAT ON THE PUBLIC WEBSITE? SO IT'S THE MEMOS ARE NOW PART OF THE COMPLETE AGENDA PACKET, INCLUDING ALL THE BACKUP. 
          UM, AND SO ON THE PUBLIC WEBSITE, YOU'LL TYPICALLY SEE A LINK FOR THE AGENDA AND THE AGENDA PACKET. 
          IT'S PART OF THE AGENDA PACKET. 
          ALL OF OUR AGENDA PACKETS ARE SEARCHABLE. 
          AND SO, UM, THERE IS A SEARCH SCREEN WITHIN THAT AGENDA PACKET PORTAL. 
          I'LL ADMIT IT WORKS BETTER ON A COMPUTER THAN A MOBILE DEVICE, UM, THAT WILL ALLOW YOU TO KEYWORD SEARCH. 
          AND CHEYENNE IS THE POWER BEHIND MAKING THAT HAPPEN. 
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SHE SEEMS TO HAVE SOMETHING TO SHARE, UH, TRY AND CROWLEY. 
          I'M THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR CAPITAL METRO. 
          AND THIS WAS A TEAM EFFORT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE RESPONDING TO YOUR REQUESTS AS WELL AS OUR MEDIA PARTNERS IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, ALL OF OUR BOARD PACKETS ARE POSTED TO THE BOARD PORTAL, WHICH IF YOU CLICK STREAMED LIVE OR VIEWED LIVE, UM, THAT PULLS UP A SEPARATE WEBPAGE ON OUR LEDGER STAR SYSTEM. 
          YOU CAN PULL UP INDIVIDUAL ITEMS THERE FOR OUR BOARD PACKET, AS WELL AS ALL OF ALL OF THE MEMOS. 
          YOU CAN SEARCH IT BY DATE. 
          SO IF YOU WANT TO JUST SEE WHAT WE'VE SENT IN THE LAST MONTH, WHICH IS ALL YOU WILL SEE RIGHT NOW, YOU WILL PULL UP EVERY MEMO WE'VE SENT IN THE LAST MONTH. 
          IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN MEMOS THAT WE SENT ON PROJECT CONNECT, IT WILL PULL UP THOSE MEMOS THAT WERE, HAVE BEEN SENT WITHIN THE LAST MONTH OR WITH ALL ENTIRETY ON PROJECT CONNECT. 
          SO IT IS PART OF THAT LEDGER STAR SYSTEM. 
          UM, THIS IS PHENOMENAL. 
          FANTASTIC, AMAZING. 
          THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH. 
          IT'S A HUGE STEP FORWARD FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND TRANSPARENCY. 
          IF I COULD JUST MAKE ONE REQUEST, UM, BECAUSE, UM, I, I HAVE TROUBLE FINDING IT. 
          LIKE I WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN WHEN YOU SAID, OH, CLICK THE STREAM LIVE. 
          CAUSE I'M THINKING IN MY HEAD CLICK STREAM LIVE, I'M GOING TO GET THE LIVE LITTLE MONITOR SCREEN OR WHATEVER. 
          MAYBE JUST THINK ABOUT ON THE WEBSITE, MASSAGING THAT LANGUAGE WITH THE LINK THAT SAYS THAT, YOU KNOW, ACCESS TO PREVIOUS MEETINGS, INFORMATION AND LIVE STREAM CAN BE FOUND HERE. 
          JUST SOMETHING THAT MAKES IT A LITTLE BIT MORE CLEAR SO THAT IT'S NOT JUST TO ACCESS THE LIVE STREAM, BUT EVERYTHING THAT YOU JUST SAID THAT WAS PHENOMENAL. 
          ALL OF THAT IS UNDER THAT ONE LINK. 
          JUST MAKE THAT, THAT A LITTLE BIT CLEARER ON THAT PUBLIC FACING SIDE OF THE WEBSITE. 
          SO PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GETTING WHEN THEY CLICK THAT PARTICULAR LINK. 
          THANK YOU, BOARD MEMBERS STRIDE. 
          AND WE DO WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR FOR THE COMMUNITY SO THAT THEY KNOW WHERE TO ACCESS IT. 
          AND I'LL WORK WITH ED. 
          YOU'RE A BOARD LIAISON TO MAKE SURE THANK YOU. 
          AND AGAIN, APPRECIATE IT. 
          THIS IS PHENOMENAL AND AWESOME AND A GREAT STEP FORWARD AND TRANSPARENCY, AND I APPRECIATE Y'ALL BEING ABLE TO GET TO IT SO QUICKLY FOR US ALL. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UH, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE NEED TO COVER TODAY? I THINK THAT WE'VE COVERED THE ENTIRE AGENDA. 
          SO I WANT TO THANK STAFF. 
          I WANT TO THANK THE BOARD MEMBERS FOR GIVING THEIR TIME TODAY AND SPECIAL. 
          THANK YOU TO OUR NEWEST BOARD MEMBER, MATT HARRIS. 
          WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING YOUTUBE. 
          I'LL BE WORKING WITH YOU. 
          SO, UM, AND, AND, UH, WITH THAT, WE WILL STAND ADJOURNED AT 4 32. 
          THANK YOU. 
          BOARD MEMBER ROSS.
* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.