* 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.
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          IT'S TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND, 2025, 5:00 PM WE'RE HERE IN THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS ROOM 1, 1 0 1 AT AUSTIN CITY HALL, LOCATED AT 3 0 1 WEST SECOND STREET, AUSTIN, TEXAS. 
          UM, I'M SUSAN SUMMERS AND I'M THE CHAIR OF THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, AND I'M CALLING THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING OF THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION TO ORDER. 
          WITH THAT, I AM GONNA TAKE ATTENDANCE TO ENSURE QUORUM. 
          UM, FOR THOSE COMMISSIONERS WHO MAY BE ATTENDING VIRTUALLY, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, UM, BE SURE TO EMAIL OUR STAFF LIAISON, UH, NATALIE LEON, AND LET HER KNOW THAT YOU ARE ATTENDING VIRTUALLY WITHIN THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES OF THIS MEETING. 
          IF YOU DO NOT, THEN YOU COULD BE AT RISK OF NOT BEING COUNTED PRESENT FOR THIS MEETING. 
          SO PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY, PLEASE EMAIL HER NOW. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          I'M GONNA TAKE, UM, ATTENDANCE. 
          UM, COMMISSIONER BUFFET FROM DISTRICT ONE, NOT PRESENT. 
          UH, DISTRICT TWO IS VACANT. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER ALVAREZ, I BELIEVE I SAW SHE WAS GOING. 
          SHE WAS ABSENT. 
          SHE LET US KNOW THAT. 
          I'M CHAIR SUMMERS FROM DISTRICT FOUR. 
          I'M HERE. 
          UH, PARLIAMENTARIAN KAMAN FROM DISTRICT FIVE IS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER CHEN FROM DISTRICT SIX PRESENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER PRASAD FROM DISTRICT SEVEN. 
          WE SEE HIM. 
          IT LOOKS LIKE HE MIGHT BE FROZEN. 
          WE'LL, WE'LL WORK THROUGH THAT. 
          I THINK HE'S TRYING TO BE HERE. 
          COMMISSIONER PRASAD, CAN YOU HEAR US? CAN YOU, ARE YOU, CAN YOU, UH, GET OFF MIC, GET ON MIC AND TELL US YOU'RE PRESENT? I DON'T THINK HE, I DON'T, IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE HE CAN HEAR US . 
          OKAY. 
          UM, COMMISSIONER JACOBSON, I BELIEVE I SAW, WAS ALSO GONNA BE ABSENT TODAY. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER SCHUMACHER, UH, VICE CHAIR SCHUMACHER, I SHOULD SAY FROM DISTRICT NINE HERE. 
          GREAT. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER, UH, SOREN FROM DISTRICT 10 PRESENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COMMISSIONER BROWN, OUR MAYORAL APPOINTEE. 
          I'M HERE. 
          EXCELLENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, MAYBE NATALIE, COULD YOU EMAIL, UH, COMMISSIONER PRASAD AND SEE IF HE CAN HEAR US OR SEE IF WE CAN SORT THAT OUT? UM, WE HAVE QUORUM WITHOUT HIM, BUT, UH, HE'S CLEARLY HERE, BUT I'M NOT SURE HE'S HEARING US. 
          [PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL]
UM, WITH THAT, THAT TAKES US TO OUR FIRST ITEM, AS ALWAYS, WHICH IS PUBLIC COMMUNICATION ON A GENERAL TOPIC, NOT ON OUR AGENDA. 
          SO WE WILL, UH, WORK THROUGH THAT. 
          AND WE DO HAVE ONE INDIVIDUAL SIGNED UP AT LEAST, UH, UH, PHILIP WILEY, AND LOOKS LIKE HE'S SITTING IN FRONT OF US HERE AND READY TO SPEAK. 
          YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, TH THANK YOU EVERYBODY. 
          I'M PHILIP WILEY. 
          I'VE LIVED DOWNTOWN SINCE, UH, 1992. 
          UM, I LOVE TALL BUILDINGS, AND I'M CURRENTLY SERVING AS THE DOWNTOWN AUSTIN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT, BUT I'M, I'M, UH, HERE, JUST SPEAKING ON MY OWN BEHALF TONIGHT. 
          UM, I HAVE THREE CHARTS I WANTED TO QUICKLY SHARE WITH YOU. 
          UH, FIRST OF ALL, THE, THE REQUIRED, UH, SUMMER VACATION SLIDE. 
          THIS IS FROM MANHATTAN. 
          UM, I WENT DOWN THERE. 
          I WANTED TO SEE THE, SINCE THE LAST TIME I WAS THERE, THE TWO TALLEST RESIDENTIAL TOWERS IN THE WORLD WERE, WERE PUT UP, UM, NEAR CENTRAL PARK, AND I WANTED TO GO SEE 'EM. 
          UM, AND ON THE LEFT AND, AND ON THE RIGHT, THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SEEING. 
          YOU CAN ALSO SEE THEY'RE INTERMIXED WITH DIFFERENT BUILDINGS OF DIFFERENT SIZES, BECAUSE THAT'S HOW DOWNTOWNS WORK. 
          UM, I, I WANTED TO MENTION I WAS A LITTLE SURPRISED. 
          THESE ARE NOT ON A CORRIDOR. 
          UM, THEY'RE NEAR CENTRAL PARK. 
          UH, THEY'RE CLOSER TO CENTRAL PARK THAN THEY ARE TO TRANSIT, BUT IF YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT 50 50 LOOKS LIKE, THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR. 
          SO THEY DO A LOT BETTER THAN 50 50 THERE. 
          AND I AM PARTLY HERE BECAUSE I AM REALLY MOTIVATED AND MOVED BY THE 50 50 GOAL. 
          AND WHAT IT REPRESENTS, UM, LET'S SEE, UH, SECOND CHART HERE. 
          UH, I AM A DATA DRIVEN, UH, DECISION MAKING, UH, ADVOCATE. 
          UH, I, I CUT MY TEETH ON DATA-DRIVEN DECISION MANAGEMENT BACK IN 1982. 
          WENT TO WORK FOR A LITTLE COMPANY THAT HAD 94% OF THE, THE MAINFRAME MARKET SHARE IN THE WORLD. 
          AND THEY WANTED TO FIND, UH, NEW CREATIVE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO WITH DATA AND, AND WITH COMPUTERS. 
          UM, THIS IS NOT MY CHART. 
          THIS IS A CHART FROM THE DOWNTOWN SEATTLE, UH, ASSOCIATION THAT'S COMPARABLE TO OUR DAA. 
          AND IF YOU LOOK AT IT, YOU CAN SEE THAT, UM, UH, ONE OF THE POINTS HERE IS THAT, YES, UH, AUSTIN DOES HAVE A LOT OF TOWERS GOING UP, AND WE HAVE HAD A LOT. 
          BUT AS OF LAST YEAR, SALT LAKE CITY HAD, UH, A LOT MORE TOWERS GOING UP IN THEIR DOWNTOWN 
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THAN WE DO. 
          AND THEY HAVE 200,000 PEOPLE IN THAT CITY. 
          SO THEY'RE ONE FIFTH THE SIZE OF US, AND HAD, UH, MORE GOING UP. 
          UH, DENVER HAS A LOT, HAD A LOT MORE, AND SEATTLE THAT I CONSIDER TO BE THE BEST PEER IN, IN OUR PEER SET. 
          UM, FOR MANY REASONS, THEY'RE 10 TO 15 YEARS AHEAD OF US, OBVIOUSLY ARE GONNA STAY 10 TO 15 YEARS AHEAD OF US, UH, AT THIS PACE. 
          UM, THE NEXT CHART IS REALLY, UM, WHAT, WHAT I CAME HERE FOR. 
          I SHOWED THIS SET TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION LAST TIME, AND WHEN I GOT TO IT, IT SAID I HAD 28 SECONDS LEFT, AND I HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH TIME I HAVE TONIGHT. 
          SO WE'RE NOT GONNA GET THROUGH IT. 
          I WANTED TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU. 
          THIS IS AN AI QUERY. 
          UM, AND IT GETS TO ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT YOU TO KNOW TO BE CONTINUED. 
          YOU CAN FINISH YOUR SENTENCE. 
          YEAH. 
          THIS IS, UH, ESSENTIALLY THE, THE QUERY IS TRYING TO GET TO WHERE WOULD YOU PUT DENSITY IN THE STATE OF TEXAS IF YOU WERE, IF YOUR GOAL WAS 50 50 MO SHARE, IF THAT WAS YOUR DRIVING FORCE, UM, IT WOULD BE BETWEEN THE UT MALL AND, UH, THE REPUBLIC SQUARE STATION. 
          AND, UH, THE NUMBERS ARE PRETTY ALARMING. 
          BUT, UH, THANK YOU. 
          AND I, I PROMISE I'LL BE BACK. 
          , WE'LL HOLD YOU TO THAT. 
          DEFINITELY THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT. 
          AND FEEL FREE TO EMAIL US AS WELL, IF YOU WANNA SHARE SOME MORE INFORMATION OR COME BACK IN THE FUTURE. 
          OKAY. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          [1. Approve the minutes of the Urban Transportation Commission REGULAR MEETING on August 5, 2025.]
ALL RIGHT, COMMISSIONERS. 
          SO THAT TAKES US TO ITEM ONE. 
          THAT BEING APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF OUR AUGUST MEETING. 
          UM, THOSE MEETINGS ARE IN THE PACKET FOR THOSE HERE. 
          I BELIEVE THEY WERE CIRCULATED, UH, VIA EMAIL FOR THOSE, UH, NOT PRESENT IN PERSON. 
          SO, UH, IF YOU HAVE A SECOND TO LOOK THROUGH THAT, I CAN ENTERTAIN A MOTION. 
          I'LL MOVE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES. 
          OH, WAIT, DID YOU MOVE? AND YOU NEED A SECOND? NO, YOU, YOU, YOU CAN HA YOU MADE THE MOTION. 
          OKAY. 
          SO YOU'RE GOOD THERE. 
          DO WE HAVE A SECOND? I'LL GO AHEAD AND I'LL SECOND, SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER CAVEMAN. 
          ANY DISCUSSION OR AMENDMENTS? ALL RIGHT, I'LL CALL FOR A VOTE ON THAT. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MINUTES IS CIRCULATED. 
          UH, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY, AYE, UM, LOOKS LIKE COMMISSIONER PRASAD, ARE YOU HEARING US? CAN YOU VOTE? OKAY, GREAT. 
          WE HAVE THAT AS UNANIMOUS OF THOSE PRESENT. 
          AWESOME. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO THAT'S GONNA BRING US TO ITEM TWO, WHICH IS A DISCUSSION AND PRESENTATION. 
          THESE ARE DISCUSSION ITEMS, DISCUSSION AND PRESENTATION REGARDING THE INTEGRATED BOND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY PLAN FROM, UM, ERIC BAILEY. 
          ERIC IS 10 MINUTES OUT. 
          HE'S STUCK IN FRONT. 
          [3. Discussion and presentation regarding the CapMetro 2035 Transit Plan and Metro Rapid]
OKAY. 
          UM, I'M GOING TO JUST MOVE ON TO ITEM, UM, THOSE WHO ARE PRESENTING FOR ITEM THREE. 
          UM, I HOPE YOU'RE READY. 
          IT LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE. 
          SO WE'RE GONNA TAKE ITEM THREE FIRST THEN, WHICH IS DISCUSSION AND PRESENTATION REGARDING THE CAP METRO 2035 TRANSIT PLAN AND METRO RAPID. 
          OUR PRESENTER IS ACTUALLY GONNA BE, UH, THIS IS A REVISION FROM THE CIRCULATED AGENDA. 
          LAWRENCE DIETER FROM CAP METRO. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          WELL, GOOD EVENING, UH, COMMISSIONERS. 
          I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE WITH YOU ABOUT, UH, TRANSIT PLAN 2035. 
          MY NAME IS LAWRENCE DIETER, AND I'M A PLANNER AT CAP METRO, AND I HELP LEAD THE, UH, TRANSIT PLAN. 
          I AM GOING TO NOTE THAT I RODE A CAP METRO BIKE SHARE HERE TODAY, AND I LEFT MY GLASSES BEHIND, AND NOW I HAVE, ARE PRESCRIPTION SUNGLASSES WITH ME, SO I CAN SEE MY NOTES IN FRONT OF ME, BUT THAT'S ABOUT ALL I CAN SEE. 
          SO AS YOU ASK QUESTIONS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, PLEASE, I MAY HAVE TO PUT MY GLASSES ON TO HELP OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 
          SO, UH, DIVING INTO THE REAL, UH, UH, MEAT OF WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR, UM, THE TRANSIT PLAN. 
          UM, IF YOU AREN'T FAMILIAR, THIS IS OUR ROADMAP CAP METRO'S ROADMAP AND VISION FOR SOLUTIONS THAT COULD BE IMPLEMENTED WITHIN THE FIRST FIVE YEARS, UH, 10 YEARS, AND THEN EVEN TIME BEYOND THAT. 
          THE PLAN INCLUDED EXTENSIVE DATA ANALYSIS ON OUR EXISTING CONDITIONS AND CURRENT TRANSIT NETWORK, UH, COMMUNITY INPUT AT MULTIPLE STAGES THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT. 
          AND WE'LL, UH, AND RECOMMENDS UPDATES TO OUR BUS, RAIL AND PICKUP SERVICE. 
          WE UPDATE OUR TRANSIT PLAN EVERY FIVE YEARS. 
          UM, THE LAST ONE WAS ACTUALLY IN 2017. 
          UM, IT WAS, UM, IT WAS, UM, IT WAS STARTED IN 2015 THOUGH, AND THAT WAS CALLED CONNECTIONS 2025. 
          IT LED TO CAP REMAP, OUR LARGEST SERVICE CHANGES WHEN CAP METRO CHANGED OVER 50% OF OUR ROUTES. 
          WE DON'T SEE THE SAME, UH, SCALE OF 
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CHANGES AS PART OF THIS ONE. 
          AND WE'VE BEEN, UH, WILLING TO, UH, WE'VE BEEN, UM, INCLUDING OUR STAKEHOLDERS ALL ALONG. 
          AND I REALIZE, JUST BECAUSE I CAN'T SEE, COULD YOU ADVANCE OR DO I HAVE AN ADVANCE? UH, IS THIS ONE THAT'S RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UH, UH, JUST A QUICK OVERVIEW OF WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROJECT. 
          WE KICKED OFF IN THE SPRING OF 2024. 
          UH, WE HAD A MASSIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFORT IN THE FALL OF 2020 OF 24. 
          WE WORKED THROUGH SPRING ON DEVELOPING OUR, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          UH, WE JUST ACTUALLY WRAPPED UP, UM, UH, TWO DAYS AGO OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, UH, SECOND ROUND, UH, A VERY BIG EFFORT. 
          AND NOW WE ARE PLANNING TO TAKE IT TO OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR APPROVAL THIS FALL. 
          WE HAVE LOTS OF MATERIAL TO RECOVER, TO COVER. 
          IN INTEREST OF TIME, I'VE TRIED TO KEEP THIS AS BRIEF AS POSSIBLE. 
          PLEASE KNOW, THERE'S A LOT MORE INFORMATION YOU CAN GET OUT ON OUR WEBSITE, WHICH IS WHAT THIS SLIDE BASICALLY SAYS. 
          WE HAVE, UH, RIGHT NOW THERE'S OUR ROUND ONE ENGAGEMENT REPORT. 
          SO YOU CAN READ ALL ABOUT OUR VERY SUCCESSFUL ENGAGEMENT THAT WHERE WE HAD ABOUT 8,000 TO 10,000 PEOPLE, UH, TALK WITH US. 
          AND THEN AN ONLINE, UH, EXISTING CONDITIONS VIRTUAL REPORT. 
          IT'S VERY COOL. 
          YOU CAN ZOOM INTO ALL THE MAPS. 
          YOU CAN CLICK ON TABLES, YOU CAN, YOU CAN JUST DO ALL TYPES OF STUFF. 
          IT'S NOT THE STATIC PDF THAT, UH, WE'RE SO USE HELPFUL OR USED TO AS PART OF THESE PLANS. 
          UM, SO AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE LOTS OF DATA TO HELP US MAKE, UH, DECISIONS ABOUT OUR TRANSIT SYSTEM. 
          AND WE'VE LOOKED AT THINGS SUCH AS POPULATION AND EMPLOYMENT DENSITY THROUGHOUT THE REGION. 
          WE'VE EVALUATED, UH, WHERE WE EXPECT GROWTH TO OCCUR, AND WE'VE IDENTIFIED POPULATIONS THAT WOULD BE MORE LIKELY TO RIDE TRANSIT, SUCH AS GROUPS OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T OWN A CAR, UH, HOUSEHOLDS WITH LOWER INCOMES, OR AREAS WITH LOTS OF STUDENTS OR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. 
          IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A DEEP DIVE, AS I JUST MENTIONED, YOU CAN LOOK INTO IT ON OUR WEBSITE, WE ALSO HAD THAT VERY SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WHERE WE TALKED ABOUT 8,000 PEOPLE, UH, THROUGH A SURVEY, UH, FOCUS GROUPS, UH, IN-PERSON EVENTS. 
          WE HAD A PUBLIC MEETING THAT WAS ATTENDED BY OVER 200 PEOPLE. 
          WE ALSO HAD, UH, UH, POPUPS ALL OVER THE AREA. 
          AND WE HAD, UH, OUR PAID COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS THAT WE CALL, UM, COMMUNITY CONNECTORS THAT HELP, UH, ENGAGE WITH PEOPLE THAT, UH, NORMALLY AREN'T REPRESENTED IN A STUDY LIKE THIS. 
          AND SO THAT INPUT WAS CRITICAL AND, UM, TO DEVELOPING THE PLAN. 
          AND THEN FINALLY, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WHEN TALKING ABOUT THESE PROPOSALS, UH, THAT YOU, THAT EVERYONE REMEMBER, UM, WHERE CAP METRO'S FUNDING COMES FROM, IS IT, WE ARE SALES TAX FUNDED AND SALES TAX IS NOT GROWING AS FAST AS IT WHAT USED TO THIS MEANS. 
          WE ARE LIMITED TO HOW MUCH WE CAN EXPAND AT THIS POINT IN TIME. 
          UM, WE DO HAVE SUPPORT FROM FEDERAL AND FAIRBANKS REVENUE, BUT THAT MAKES UP A VERY SMALL PART OF OUR, UM, OF OUR, UH, BUDGET. 
          IT REALLY ALWAYS DOES COME FROM THE TAXPAYERS, AND WE WANNA BE GOOD STEWARDS OF THEIR, UH, OF THEIR FUNDS. 
          SO THAT'S WHY WE ARE LOOKING TO BE, UM, FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE. 
          AND SO ULTIMATELY, WE COULD NOT INCLUDE EVERY RECOMMENDATION WE WANTED, UM, IN THIS PLAN, UM, ESPECIALLY IN THE ZERO TO FIVE SCENARIO. 
          UM, SO, BUT I WILL TALK ABOUT HOW SOME OF THESE, UH, PHASE OUT, UH, AS I GO THROUGH THE PRESENTATION. 
          SO THE TRANSIT PLAN IS, UM, AS WE DEVELOPED IT, WE, WE SAW THAT THERE'S THREE, THREE THINGS THAT WE'RE ALIGNING TO. 
          ONE IS OUR, UH, REVISED TRAVEL PATTERNS IN THE, IN THE REGION. 
          WE'RE ALSO PREPARING FOR HIGH CAPACITY TRANSIT, THAT'S LIGHT RAIL IN ADDITION TO OUR NEW RAPID LINES AND EXPLORING, UM, UH, REGIONAL EXPANSION, WHICH IS PART OF CAP. 
          MITCHELL'S RECENTLY ADOPTED STRATEGIC PLAN. 
          JUST AS A REMINDER, I ALLUDED TO THIS EARLIER. 
          THIS IS NOT, THIS IS A PLAN. 
          THIS IS NOT A SERVICE CHANGE. 
          WHEN WE GO TO ACTUALLY MAKE THESE CHANGES, WE WILL TAKE IT THROUGH OUR TYPICAL, UM, SERVICE CHANGE PROCESS THAT WE DO EVERY THREE YEARS. 
          SO MORE ENGAGEMENT AND MORE BOARD APPROVAL. 
          SO NOW LET'S, UH, START TO DIVE INTO WHAT'S IN THE, IN THE PLAN. 
          UM, LOOKING AT A VERY HIGH LEVEL, AT THOSE FIRST FIVE YEARS, WE ARE LOOKING, SO THIS IS BEFORE AUSTIN RAIL LAUNCHES. 
          WE'RE FOCUSED ON, UH, BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR BUDGET, AS I MENTIONED. 
          AND WE WANT TO GROW OUR RIDERSHIP AND HELP PEOPLE GET TO WHERE THEY NEED TO GO. 
          AND SO, SPECIFICALLY THIS PHASE IS GOING TO INCLUDE CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH BRINGING OUR NEW RAPID ROUTES EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHT THIRTY SEVEN TO THEIR FULL VISION, INCLUDING, UH, MORE FREQUENT SERVICE, UM, PARK AND RIDES 
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OPENING UP AND, UM, AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES ALONG WITH SOME ROUTE ADJUSTMENTS TO HELP, UH, FEED THOSE ROUTES. 
          AND THEN IN THE, UH, FIVE TO 10 YEAR OUTLOOK, WE ARE MO MUCH MORE, UH, THE CHANGES FOCUS ON, UH, O THE OPENING DAY OF AUSTIN LIGHT RAIL IN THIS PHASE, AND ALSO INCLUDE SOME OTHER, UH, GROWTH FOR OUR BUS NETWORK. 
          UM, SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING. 
          UM, IT IS A, AGAIN, A KIND OF A FISCALLY CONSTRAINED BUDGET OR, OR PROCESS. 
          SO, UM, WE HAD TO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, THE THINGS WE COULD DO, BUT, BUT THERE, WE DO HAVE SOME GROWTH IN THAT PLAN. 
          'CAUSE WE DON'T EXPECT SALES TAX TO BE FLAT FOREVER. 
          SO. 
          AND THEN FINALLY, OUR PLAN INCLUDES CONCEPTS FOR WHAT HAPPENS AFTER AUSTIN'S LIGHT RAIL IS LAUNCHED. 
          AND, UH, THESE ARE FISCALLY UNCONSTRAINED. 
          UM, THIS IS FOR 10 PLUS YEARS IN THE FUTURE, AND IT REALLY FOCUSES ON BUILDING A MORE CONNECTED REGION. 
          UM, AND WE'RE, IT INCLUDES A THINGS SUCH AS PROJECT CONNECT AILMENTS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN IMPLEMENTED YET. 
          UH, OTHER TRANSIT PLAN AILMENTS, UH, THAT REQUIRE PARTNERSHIPS AND INVESTMENT. 
          SO NOW WE'LL START, UH, WE WE'RE GONNA KIND OF WALK AROUND THE CITY AND, UH, TRY AND AT A HIGH LEVEL DISCUSS THE, UH, ACTUAL CHANGES WE HAVE, UM, IN THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST AREA. 
          UM, WE ARE SHOWING, UH, THE KEY CHANGES. 
          UH, IT SHOULD NOTE THAT THESE SLIDES DO NOT INCLUDE EVERY ROUTE. 
          THEY DO NOT NECESSARILY INCLUDE EVERY CHANGE. 
          SO FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU DON'T SEE THE ROUTE 10 ON THIS, ON THESE MAPS, IT'S BECAUSE THE ROUTE 10 IS NOT, THERE'S NO PROPOSED CHANGES TO IT. 
          SO WE DID A LOT OF COMMUNITY FEEDBACK. 
          AND WHAT WE HEARD IN THE NORTHWEST IS THAT OUR COMMUNITY WANTED BETTER EAST WEST CONNECTIVITY, PARTICULARLY IN THE WALNUT CREEK AND RUNDBERG AREA. 
          AND THEN BETTER, UM, BETTER CONNECTIONS TO THE, TO THE DOMAIN. 
          UM, IN ADDITION, UH, THE AREA NORTH OF 180 3, UM, HAS A LOT OF, UH, UH, POTENTIAL GROWTH IN IT AND PROP, UH, TRANSIT PROPENSITY. 
          UM, SO WE LOOKED AT THAT. 
          SO WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, WE ARE, UH, PROPOSING TO EXTEND ROUTE 3 92, WHICH CURRENTLY ENDS AT OUR KRAMER STATION, UM, UH, REDLINE STATION TO TO, TO, UH, TO THE DOMAIN. 
          UM, AND THEN IT WOULD GO THROUGH THE DOMAIN AND THEN END AT OUR NEW BROADMOOR STATION, WHICH IS GONNA BE JUST NORTH OF THE KRAMER STATION. 
          UM, IT WOULD REPLACE THE CURRENT, UM, THE CURRENT ROUTE 4 66, WHICH BETWEEN THIS AND THE WALNUT, UH, CREEK, UH, PARK, AND I, UH, PARK AND I, SORRY, PICKUP, IT WOULD BE COVERED. 
          AND THEN IN THE, UM, FIVE PLUS HORIZON, WE ARE PROPOSING A SERIES OF RESTRUCTURING THE ROUTE 3 25. 
          UM, THE CURRENT RUNS MOSTLY NORTH SOUTH, UM, ON METRIC WOULD, UH, CONTINUE SOUTH TO THE NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER. 
          UM, AND THEN, UM, ITS FREQUENCY WOULD BE ADJUSTED TO EVERY 30 MINUTES. 
          IT WOULD ALSO TAKE A FEW MORE DEVIATIONS TO GET TO ST. 
          DAVID'S NORTH AND AN HEB, UM, UP OFF OF MOPAC AND PALMER. 
          THEN WE PROPOSED TAKING THAT, UH, BERG PART OF THE, UH, 3 25 AND CREATING A NEW ROUTE CALLED ROUTE 3 26 THAT, UH, WOULD BECOME A MAJOR EAST WEST, UH, ROUTE, UH, TRAVELING FROM NORWOOD TRANSIT CENTER, UH, DOWN BERG TO THE GATEWAY TRANSIT CENTER. 
          WE ALSO HAD SOME PROPOSED CHANGES FOR THE 3 83 TO ATTEMPT TO GET PEOPLE FROM NORTHWEST AUSTIN TO THE NORTH ELMAR TRANSIT CENTER QUICKER SO THEY CAN MAKE THOSE CONNECTIONS. 
          UH, THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE, UH, HEARD, HEARD A BIG REQUEST FOR. 
          UM, AN EXCITING, UM, PART OF THIS PLAN IS, UM, A ROUTE WE'RE CALLING TWO 11. 
          THAT'S ON CAMERON AND DESEO. 
          THIS IS BUILDING TOWARDS A PROJECT CONNECT RAPID LINE. 
          AND, UM, IT, IT SERVES AN AREA OF HIGH PROPENSITY THAT WAS IDENTIFIED THROUGHOUT THE AREA. 
          WE ALSO HAVE TWO NEW PICKUP ZONES PROPOSED IN THIS AREA. 
          ONE IN THE LAKE CREEK NEIGHBORHOOD AND ONE IN THE GEORGIA ACRES AREA. 
          LONG I 35 THAT A LOT OF US KNOW IS A REALLY HARD TO SERVE WITH TRANSIT. 
          CAN I ASK A QUICK QUESTION? YOU SURE CAN. 
          UM, SO I DIDN'T, THIS IS THE SECOND TIME I'VE HEARD YOU GIVE THE, GIVE THE PRESENTATION AND, UM, I DIDN'T ASK THIS THE FIRST TIME, BUT I CAN'T, UM, SEED MY CURIOSITY THIS TIME. 
          UM, AND IT'S FINE. 
          WHATEVER YOU ANSWER IS FINE. 
          UM, THE 4 66, I'M PROBABLY THE ONLY , I'M PROBABLY THE 4 66 IS NUMBER ONE FAN. 
          IT STOPS IN FRONT OF MY DOOR, BASICALLY. 
          SO, UM, IT'S KIND OF NOT STOPPING IN FRONT OF MY DOOR RIGHT NOW ANYWAY. 
          'CAUSE IT'S ON A 
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REROUTE. 
          YOU MAY BE AWARE OF THIS RIGHT NOW. 
          YEAH. 
          SO, UH, IT'S OKAY, HOWEVER YOU ANSWER. 
          BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS GREAT ABOUT THE 4 66 VERSUS THE PICKUP IS THE PICKUP CAN'T GO INTO THE DOMAIN RIGHT NOW. 
          IS THAT STILL THE CASE? MAYBE I SHOULD TRY AGAIN. 
          SO LIKE, IF I CALL PICKUP FROM MY HOUSE AND I WANNA GET TO THE 8 0 3 STOP, THEY CAN'T TAKE ME TO THE 8 0 3 STOP. 
          BUT THE 4 66 COULD TAKE ME TO THE 8 0 3 STOP. 
          ACTUALLY, IT TAKE ME TO THE PICKLE 8 0 3 STOP. 
          AND I WOULD ACTUALLY DO THAT. 
          I COULD GET FROM MY DOOR TO CAMPUS WHERE I WORK A UT CAMPUS SOMETIMES IN 35 MINUTES DOOR TO DOOR, WHICH IS SUPER, THAT'S SUPER CRAZY. 
          THAT'S REAL CRAZY WITH THE 4 66 WHEN I HAVE TO WALK TO THE 8 0 3 STOP. 
          I CAN'T, I CAN'T DO IT THAT FAST. 
          IT'S STILL PRETTY GOOD. 
          YEAH. 
          BUT MY, I MY QUESTION IS LIKE, HOW, LIKE, I GUESS MY QUESTION IS HOW YOU SEE THAT INTERACTION BETWEEN THE 3 92, THE REMOVAL OF THE 4 66 AND THE PICKUP ZONE. 
          LIKE WHAT, THAT'S WHAT THAT'S EXACTLY GONNA LOOK LIKE. 
          AND MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN TALK ABOUT OFFLINE, BUT WE, WE DEFINITELY CAN DISCUSS IT MORE. 
          UM, BUT, UH, SINCE MY TIME AT CAB METRO TO 4 66 HAS HAD LOW RIDERSHIP, IT'S KIND OF A CONFUSING ROUTE. 
          IT'S A FIGURE EIGHT BASICALLY. 
          TOTALLY. 
          UM, SO WE'RE TRYING TO STREAMLINE THAT IS THE LOGIC BEHIND THAT. 
          THE, UM, THE, UH, PICKUP, THERE IS NO PROPOSED CHANGES TO BRING IT MORE INTO THE DOMAIN, BUT I THINK YOU RAISED A GOOD POINT THAT WE COULD MAYBE LOOK AT. 
          CAN WE, CAN WE LOOK AT HOW THINGS CONNECT, DOMAIN PICKLE, UH, BROADMOOR STATION UP IN THAT AREA, AREA? WE CAN CONTINUE TO, TO EVALUATE THAT. 
          THERE'S DEFINITELY A LOT OF GENERATORS IN THAT AREA AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE RIGHT PATTERN OF CONNECTIONS IS SOMETIMES A BIT OF A CHALLENGE. 
          YEAH, NO, TOTALLY. 
          AND I THINK THE 4 66 IS SUPPOSED TO BE A RED LINE CIRCULATOR. 
          THERE'S JUST PEOPLE LIKE AT SOME OF THE APARTMENT COMPLEXES, INCLUDING MINE, THAT ARE KIND OF USING IT AS A NEIGHBORHOOD CIRCULATOR, UM, TO GET TO OTHER ROUTES OR TO GET TO THE DOMAIN. 
          AND SO, I MEAN, I CAN WALK TO THE DOMAIN. 
          I MEAN, IT'S JUST LIKE, IT'S SUPER NICE TO HAVE A SPEED CHANGE TO THE DOMAIN. 
          IT'S FINE EITHER WAY, BUT, UM, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WITH THE, WITH THE PICKUP, IT WOULD BE SO GREAT IF IT COULD GET EVEN A BLOCK INTO THE DOMAIN. 
          IT WOULD BE REALLY NICE. 
          AND IF PEOPLE NEED TO GO TELL THE DOMAIN THAT, UM, I CAN PROBABLY FIND PEOPLE TO TELL THE DOMAIN THAT. 
          SO I CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT. 
          ANYWAY, UM, THANKS FOR INDULGING MY QUESTION, BUT  NO PROBLEM. 
          OKAY, WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON, UH, UNLESS THERE'S ANY MORE QUESTIONS. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, MOVE ON TO NORTHEAST. 
          UM, AND THIS IS WHERE WE ARE PROPOSING A LOT OF CHANGES IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS AS WE WANT TO ADJUST OUR NETWORK TO SUPPORT THE RAPID LINES, UH, 800 PLEASANT VALLEY AND 808 37 EXPO TO THEIR FULL VISION. 
          UH, THIS FIRST OF ALL MEANS GETTING THEM UP TO THEIR EVERY 10 MINUTE, UH, SERVICE FREQUENCY LEVEL VERSUS THE CURRENT 20 MINUTES THEY'RE AT TODAY. 
          UM, THEN WE'RE LOOKING AT EX EXTENDING THE ROUTE 18 TO COMMUNITY FIRST. 
          UM, AND THAT WOULD, UM, BASICALLY TAKE OVER TO ROUTE 2 37. 
          WE HAVE PROPOSED ROUTE 2 33 AND 2 37 TO DISCONTINUE THEM. 
          WHAT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, WE'LL BE REPLACING 2 37 WITH AN EXTENDED 18, WHICH ACTUALLY MEANS COMMUNITY FIRST WILL HAVE EVERY, UM, 30 MINUTE SERVICE INSTEAD OF EVERY 60 MINUTE SERVICE. 
          SO THAT'S AN, THAT'S AN IMPROVEMENT. 
          AND THEN WHAT WE'VE SEEN FOR THE 2 33 IS PEOPLE REALLY ARE EXCITED AND LIKE TO RIDE THE PICKUP SERVICE. 
          WE'VE ACTUALLY SEEN 2 33 RIDERSHIP GO DOWN SINCE WE PUT INTO PICKUP BACK IN JANUARY. 
          AND THIS IS ONE OF OUR MOST, UH, SUCCESSFUL, UM, PICKUP SERVICES. 
          SO, UM, WE ALSO ARE LOOKING IN THIS AREA TO, UM, TO COMBINE ROUTES. 
          UM, ROUTE 3 23 AND 3 39. 
          UH, THIS WOULD INCREASE THE FREQUENCY OF THAT EASTERN PORTION THAT'S CURRENTLY TO 3 39 TO EVERY 30 MINUTES. 
          SO ANOTHER FREQUENCY, UM, BOOST OUT IN THAT AREA. 
          WE ARE LOOKING TO, UM, FOR THE ROUTE 20, WE ARE LOOKING TO SPLIT IT INTO TWO ROUTES. 
          WE'D SPLIT IT AT UT, SO THE NORTHERN PART, THE MAINOR PORTION WOULD BE, WOULD BE ROUTE THREE 20. 
          AND THEN THE SOUTHERN PORTION FROM UT DOWN TO THE AIRPORT WOULD CONTINUE TO BE TO 20. 
          IT WOULD OPERATE EVERY 15 MINUTES. 
          THE THREE 20 WOULD OPERATE EVERY 30 MINUTES AS WE TRY AND ADJUST THE APPROPRIATE SERVICE LEVELS, UH, GIVEN, GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF SERVICE WE HAVE ON THOSE STREETS. 
          AGAIN, THAT CHANGE COULD NOT HAPPEN UNTIL WE, UH, GET THE, UH, RAPID UP TO EVERY, UM, EVERY 10 MINUTES. 
          UM, AS, AS INTENDED. 
          THEN IN THE FIVE PLUS, UH, ERA TIMEFRAME, THERE'S FEWER CHANGES WE WOULD LOOK TO POSSIBLY EXCHANGE, EXPAND THE NORTHEAST, UM, AND MAINOR PICKUP ZONES AS SOURCES ALLOW. 
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AND THEN WE ARE LOOKING TO REROUTE THE ROUTE NINE 90 INTO, UH, A CC HIGHLAND. 
          WE HEARD A LOT FROM, UM, MAYNARD AND ELGIN RESIDENTS THAT THEY NEED TO CONNECT TO OTHER SERVICES AND JUST NOT GO TO UT AND DOWNTOWN. 
          ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON NORTHEAST? OKAY. 
          HEADING DOWN SOUTHEAST. 
          UM, A VERY SIMILAR STORY FOR THE NEAR TERM IN THAT WE WOULD BE LOOKING TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS, UM, TO MATCH UP WITH OUR, UM, WITH OUR, UH, RA UH, WRAP A RAPID LINE, UH, AS IT GOES UP TO EVERY 800 A DAY, 800 GOES EVERY 10 MINUTES. 
          WE'D LOOK TO ADJUST OUR ROUTES THREE 18 AND 3 33 TO SERVE THE NEW GOODNIGHT RANCH PARKING RIDE. 
          AND THEN WE WOULD ALSO, UH, LOOK TO MAKE SOME MINOR ROUTING TWEAKS ON THOSE. 
          WE CURRENTLY ARE PROPOSING TO EXTEND THE THREE 18 FURTHER, UH, WEST AND PICK UP A PORTION OF THE CURRENT 3 33. 
          AGAIN, THIS IS MATCHING THAT EAST WEST TRAVEL PATTERN THAT OUR DATA SHOWED US, UM, THAT PEOPLE TEND TO ARE, ARE TRAVELING MORE IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS AND NOT, NOT TOO DOWNTOWN. 
          SO WE'RE TRYING TO MATCH THAT. 
          WE HAVE SOME OTHER REALLY COOL CHANGES PROPOSED IN THIS AREA THAT WE'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF POSITIVE FEEDBACK ON. 
          UH, ONE IS, UH, THE ROUTE TWO 17, UH, MODIFYING THAT TO SERVE, UH, GROVE, UM, I'M SORRY, NOT GROVE. 
          I WAS A NICE BLANKED ON THE NAME OF THE STREET. 
          UM, SORRY ABOUT THAT. 
          UM, THAT'S THE ONE STREET E UH, EAST OF . 
          UM, BUT WE PUT SERVICE ON THAT STREET TO, UM, HELP, HELP OUT THE MIN WEST NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          UH, THE ROUTE THREE 10. 
          WE'RE LOOKING TO EXTEND THAT ULTIMATELY NORTH TO OUR EAST SIDE BUS PLAZA. 
          AND THEN, UH, WEST AS FAR AS, UM, THE MALL, UH, BARTON BARTON SQUARE MALL. 
          SO THAT, UM, BECAUSE WE ARE SEEING A BIG TRAVEL PATTERN FROM THE EAST SIDE OVER TO THE MALL, THAT'S PROBABLY, UM, MORE FOR, UM, EMPLOYMENT AND NOT AS MUCH FOR RETAIL, BUT I'M SURE THERE IS A MIX OF THAT IN THERE. 
          UH, THEN IF, AS WE LOOK INTO THE FUTURE, UM, WE ARE LOOKING, WELL, I SHOULD BACK UP. 
          WE, WE ARE LOOKING TO, IN THE FIRST FIVE YEARS, I FORGOT TO MENTION THIS ONE, THIS IS REALLY, UM, A WELL RECEIVED, UH, PROPOSAL ALSO IS INCREASING THE ROUTE THREE 50 TO EVERY 15 MINUTES. 
          UH, SO WE'D HAVE A, ANOTHER FREQUENT ROUTE. 
          AND THEN, UM, IN THE FUTURE WE'D LOOK TO EXTEND THAT ROUTE TO THE AIRPORT, UM, TO PROVIDE EAST SIDE ACCESS TO, UH, TO THE AIRPORT. 
          WE DEFINITELY HEARD A LOT OF REQUESTS FOR IMPROVED ACCESS FROM THE AIRPORT, UH, FROM MANY DIRECTIONS. 
          AND THEN FINALLY, AS PART OF, UH, LIGHT RAIL OPENING UP, UH, SINCE LIGHT RAIL COMMENCING SERVICE LOOK TO MODIFY SERVICES TO FEED IT AT PLEASANT VALLEY, UH, WE SEE PLEASANT VALLEY AS BEING THE SIGNIFICANT INTERSECTION OF OUR RAPID SERVICE LIGHT RAIL SERVICE AND SEVERAL LOCAL ROUTES. 
          AND SO WE, WE'D LOOK TO REALIGN THOSE ROUTES TO, UH, MATCH THEIR, AND BASICALLY WE WOULD COMBINE THE CURRENT SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE SEVEN AND THE NORTHERN PER PORTION OF THE 300 TO MAKE A MASSIVE, UM, EAST SIDE, UH, CROSSED OUT. 
          SURE. 
          ACTUALLY, CAN I, I'LL ASK THEM. 
          I LIKE THE IDEA OF DOING IT AS WE'RE HERE, IF THAT WORKS. 
          UM, SO I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS ON THE SOUTHEAST SECTION. 
          SO FIRST, UM, I, I'D BE, I'D BE CURIOUS TO HEAR ABOUT THE DECISION, UH, NOT TO HAVE A DEDICATED, UH, SORT OF RAPID ROUTE FROM, UH, YELLOW JACKET TO THE AIRPORT AND, AND, AND HAVING THAT 20 LINE. 
          YEAH. 
          UH, JUST 'CAUSE I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GONNA BE, YOU KNOW, TAKING IT TO YELLOW JACKET, ASSUMING WE'RE NOT ABLE TO GET IT TO THE AIRPORT, AND THEY'RE GONNA BE HOPING TO HAVE A A, A BUS RIGHT THERE THAT CAN TAKE THEM THAT LAST MILE. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND WE'RE CONTINUING THAT CONNECTION WITH THE ROUTE 20. 
          SO, BUT AGAIN, THE REAL THOUGHT PROCESS TOO, THAT IS WE WANNA GET PEOPLE OFF OF THE RAPID LINE, ALSO THE RAPID 800 TO THE AIRPORT MM-HMM . 
          SO ANY TYPE OF AIRPORT CONNECTION REALLY NEEDS TO COME FROM PLEASANT VALLEY, UH, STATION. 
          SO THAT'S THE, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S THE LOGIC BEHIND IT. 
          SO, AND, AND HOW FAR IS THE 20 GOING? IS IT, IS IT JUST GOING FROM THE AIRPORT TO PLEASANT VALLEY, OR IS IT GOING ALL THE WAY UP TO THAT? NO, IT'LL GO ALL UP TO UT ALSO ARE, ARE WE GONNA BE ABLE TO TIME THE 20 WELL, THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET OFF OF A TRAIN AND QUICKLY HAVE TO, THERE, THERE COULD POTENTIALLY BE A SHORT WAIT BECAUSE THE, UM, FREQUENCIES ARE NOT THE SAME. 
          THEY'RE LIGHT RAIL IS PROPOSED TO BE AT EVERY, UM, 10 MINUTES, AND THE 20 IS CURRENTLY AT EVERY, UH, EVERY 15. 
          THAT SAID, THIS IS IN THE FUTURE, WE'RE NOT PROPOSING ANY, UH, FREQUENCY 
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CHANGES MM-HMM . 
          TO THE, UH, TO THE 20, BUT, WE'LL, WE'LL, YOU KNOW, WE CAN LOOK AT TIMING WHEN WE GET MUCH CLOSER. 
          THAT ALSO LEADS UP TO A GREAT POINT THAT I DIDN'T MAKE IN MY EFFORT TO KIND OF GET THROUGH THIS INFORMATION QUICKLY. 
          WE WILL DO THIS SCHEDULE IF, OR THIS STUDY AGAIN IN FIVE YEARS MM-HMM . 
          IN FIVE YEARS, WE WILL KNOW A LOT MORE ABOUT THE LIGHT RAIL LAND USE CHANGES TO THE CITY AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          AND WE'LL REALLY HONE IN ON OUR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE, UH, TO, TO, TO OUR SERVICE PLAN FOR THE LIGHT RAIL. 
          SO, BUT RIGHT NOW WE'VE BEEN ASKED VARIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW ARE PEOPLE GONNA CONNECT TO THE AIRPORT AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          SO WE WANNA GIVE OUR BEST THINKING AT THIS POINT IN TIME. 
          THAT, THAT IS A GREAT POINT. 
          UM, AND THEN MY SECOND QUESTION IS ON THE 30, I REALLY LIKE THIS NEW ALIGNMENT FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS, BUT THE, THE ONE QUALM I SEE ABOUT IT AND, AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THIS IS JUST A HARD DECISION YOU GUYS HAVE TO MAKE, BUT, UM, CUTTING OFF SERVICE TO SPY GLASS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S AN AREA OF, OF MOSTLY MULTIFAMILY, MULTIFAMILY, UH, DEVELOPMENTS, UM, THAT ALSO DOESN'T REALLY HAVE GOOD CONNECTIVITY TO THE REST OF THE CITY EXCEPT FOR MOPAC. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, IS THERE, WAS THERE ANY THOUGHT ABOUT TRYING TO SERVE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE? IS IT A HIGH RIDERSHIP GENERATOR FOR YOU GUYS RIGHT NOW? AND WOULD THERE BE ANY POSSIBILITY OF SOME SORT OF PICKUP SERVICE THAT COULD SERVE THAT AREA? SO SPY GRASS DOES NOT GENERATE THAT MUCH RIDERSHIP FOR US TODAY. 
          UM, WE HAVE HEARD SOME SIMILAR COMMENTS, UH, ABOUT REMOVING SERVICE FROM SPY GRASS. 
          SO I THINK THAT'S ONE THAT WE, AS WE COLLECT ALL THIS GREAT FEEDBACK WE'RE GETTING, THAT WE WILL BE REVISITING AND, AND CONSIDERING AGAIN MM-HMM . 
          UM, THAT WE KNOW THERE ARE SOME CHANGES ALSO, UM, DESTINED FOR THAT AREA. 
          SO WE, SO WE JUST NEED TO KINDA KIND CONTI CONTINUE TO LOOK AT IT AND, AND, AND FIGURE OUT THE BEST THING TO PUT IN THE FINAL PLAN. 
          SURE. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS ON THE SOUTHEAST. 
          GREAT. 
          SO MO MOVING, OH, SORRY. 
          THIS IS JUST, UM, WHAT LED TO THE DECISION FOR THE 3 31 TO SORT OF JUST, UH, INSTEAD OF THAT 300 ROUTE THAT YOU HAVE TODAY THAT GETS YOU FROM WESTGATE TRANSIT CENTER, UH, AND THEN SWINGS YOU UP, UH, ON PLEASANT VALLEY OVER TO THE EAST SIDE, UM, WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT THE PLEASANT VALLEY INTERSECTION, THAT BUS PLAZA IS JUST GONNA BE LIKE A MAJOR TRANSIT HUB ENOUGH THAT STOPPING THE, LIKE THE 3 31 WILL WORK MAINLY AS A FEEDER FOR THE ROUTES THAT PICK UP THERE? YEAH. 
          UM, WE BELIEVE BETWEEN HAVING THE, UH, RAPID 800 AND THE, UH, ROUTE, UM, 300, THE, THE NEW 300 IS THE EAST SIDE. 
          CROSS DOWN THAT THERE, IT'LL BE VERY EASILY EASY TO MAKE A CONNECTION AND HEAD NORTH AND SOUTH, UH, DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU'RE HEADED. 
          UM, IF YOU, IF ANYONE IN THIS ROOM HAS A LONG MEMORY, UH, THE 3 31 WAS ACTUALLY THE OOR ROUTE PRIOR TO CAPARI MAP. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, IT WENT A LITTLE BIT FURTHER EAST, BUT WE'RE BASICALLY BRINGING THE, WE'RE PROPOSING TO BRING THE, UH, O 3 31 BACK. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YOU'RE WELCOME. 
          SO, MOVING TO SOUTHWEST. 
          UM, SO IN, IN THIS AREA, UM, I'VE ALREADY DISCUSSED A COUPLE ORDER CHANGES. 
          I GOT A LITTLE AHEAD OF MYSELF WITH THE, UM, WITH THE, IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS WITH THE 3 33 AND, AND THREE 18. 
          THE ONE I DID NOT DISCUSS IS AS WE EXTEND THE ROUTE THREE 10 OUT TO THE MALL, UM, SO THAT IT CURRENT, THE THREE 10 CURRENTLY ENDS AT SOUTH CONGRESS TRANSIT CENTER, WE WOULD, AND IT, IT WOULD COME TO WESTGATE BEFORE GOING TO THE MALL, OUR WESTGATE TRANSIT CENTER, BEFORE GOING TO THE MALL, WE PROPOSED TO SHORTEN THE ROUTE THREE 15, UH, TO WESTGATE TRANSIT CENTER. 
          NOW THE OTHER THING, UM, THAT DOES IMPACT, UH, A LITTLE BIT FROM THE NORTH AND MOSTLY FROM THE SOUTH, ARE OUR FLYER SERVICES. 
          AND THESE ARE SERVICES THAT ARE MAINLY FOR COMMUTING PURPOSES. 
          AND THEY RUN A FEW TIMES IN THE MORNING AND IN THE EVENING ONLY ON WEEKDAYS. 
          AND WHILE WE KNOW AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT PEOPLE ARE RETURNING TO THE OFFICE, WE ARE NOT SEEING RIDERSHIP RETURN TO, UM, THE FLYER ROUTES. 
          SO WE ARE PROPOSING TO ELIMINATE ALL OF OUR FLYER ROUTES. 
          UM, THAT'S 1 0 3, 1 0 5 1 11, 1 71, 1 42. 
          UM, AND, UM, AND WE WILL INSTEAD, UM, AND I FORGOT THE 1 35, UM, WE WANNA USE THOSE RESOURCES, UM, TO BETTER SERVE AND MEET THE INTER COMMUNITY NEEDS THAT WE'VE BEEN, UH, HEARING AND SEEING FROM OUR DATA. 
          UH, SO MA MEET THOSE TRIPS WITHIN, 
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WITHIN NEIGHBORHOODS INSTEAD OF JUST RUNNING A FEW TRIPS DOWNTOWN. 
          UM, SO, SO THAT, THAT IS A PROPO THAT IS PROBABLY THE MOST ROUTES THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED FOR DISCONTINUATION AS PART OF THIS PLAN. 
          UM, ALSO AS PART OF THIS PLAN, UM, WE ARE PROPOSING, I TALKED ABOUT THAT THREE 15 SHORTENING UP. 
          THAT IS ACTUALLY THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS, UH, BUILDING TOWARDS THE, UM, NEW RAPID SERVICE IN KO ENDOWMENT, CHAKA. 
          AND THE WAY WE LOOKING AT IT, UH, WE WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE TO START THIS IS WITH A RAPID ROUTE EIGHT 15. 
          AND SO THIS WOULD OPERATE ALONG TWO 90 AND THEN SOUTH, UH, ALONG MAN CHAKA TO WILLIAM CANNON. 
          IT WOULD START AT A FREQUENCY OF EVERY 20 MINUTES WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO GROW IN FREQUENCY AS RIDERSHIP AND LAND USE PATTERNS GROW TO SUPPORT THAT TRANSIT SERVICE. 
          NOW, RAPID EIGHT 15 IS NOT A COST NEUTRAL SERVICE. 
          IT REQUIRES US TO HAVE VEHICLES, OPERATORS, AND FUNDS. 
          UH, SO THAT'S WHY IT IS CURRENTLY IN THE FIVE TO 10 YEAR, UH, BUCKET ALSO IN FI TO 10 YEAR BUCKET IS INCREASING THE FREQUENCY OF THAT THREE 10 TO AN EVERY 15 MINUTE ROUTE. 
          AND I SHOULD SAY THESE INDIVIDUAL MAPS DO NOT DO A GREAT JOB OF PUTTING IT TOGETHER, BUT, YOU KNOW, IF THINGS GO AS WE WOULD HOPE THEY WILL, AND WE HAVE THE FUNDING AND RESOURCES TO EXPAND FREQUENCY, MOST OF CAP METRO'S ROUTES ARE GONNA BE OPERATING EVERY 15 MINUTES. 
          UM, VERY FEW LESS THAN EVERY, UH, 30 MINUTES AND ONLY A COUPLE AT EVERY 30. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY EXCITING, UH, FOR THE CITY, IT'S A, IT IS SOMETHING WE STARTED WITH CAP REMAP, WE SAW THAT IT WORKS, IT SET THE CITY UP FOR SUCCESS. 
          AND, UM, AND SO WE'RE EXCITED TO SEE THAT CON CONTINUE NOW, I GOT A COUPLE OR ONE NOW DIVING CENTRAL ACTUALLY, SORRY, ACTUALLY, CAN I ASK SOME QUESTIONS ON SOUTHWEST? YEAH. 
          SORRY. 
          REMEMBER I CAN'T SEE YOU. 
          SO , UM, SORRY. 
          SO THE, THE ONE THING THAT I DIDN'T QUITE UNDERSTAND ON EIGHT 15 IS, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE PROMISED IN PROJECT CONNECT WAS AN EXTENSION OF THE 8 0 3, UM, TO OAK HILL AND, AND MANCHAC. 
          SO IT, IT, WHAT, WHAT, WHY IS THERE, WHY DO WE GO FOR THE DECISION TO HAVE A SEPARATE SERVICE INSTEAD OF EXTENDING THE 8 0 3, WHICH TO ME WOULD SEEM LIKE A MUCH BETTER SERVICE SINCE YOU'RE CONNECTING THE DOWNTOWN DOMAIN, ET CETERA. 
          YEAH, GREAT QUESTION. 
          SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE KNOW IS THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE ACTUALLY WITH BRANCHED ROUTES ISN'T GREAT. 
          MM-HMM . 
          WE HAVE THAT TODAY WITH THE 3 33, HOW EVERY OTHER TRIP GOES OUT TOWARDS OAK, KO AND PEOPLE GET ON THE WRONG BUS. 
          AND THEN OUR STUCK WAITING, UH, WAITING OR HAVING TO TRANSFER. 
          WE ALSO HAD THAT, UH, UH, WAY BACK ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO WHEN WE ENTER, BEFORE WE INTRODUCED RAPID 8 0 1, WE HAD THE ROUTE ONE L THAT WENT UP LAMAR AND THE ONE M THAT WENT UP METRIC, IT WAS NOT, IT WAS NOT, UH, A GREAT CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE. 
          SO WE'RE ACTUALLY TRYING TO FOCUS ON THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE AND IMPROVE RELIABILITY AS YOU CREATE VERY, VERY LONG, UH, ROUTES, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE RAPID, IT DOES IMPACT THE RELIABILITY. 
          SO I KNOW WE'RE ASKING PEOPLE TO TRANSFER, BUT WE'RE ASKING THEM TO TRANSFER OUR WESTGATE TRANSIT CENTER. 
          THERE'S SOME REALLY, YOU KNOW, IN ONE DIRECTION THERE WOULD, THERE'S ALMOST ALWAYS AN 8 0 3 SITTING THERE WAITING TO RECEIVE, UH, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE TRANSFERRING. 
          SO YOU WON'T BE OUT IN THE HEAT OR THE ELEMENTS GOING THE OTHER WAY. 
          UM, TRANSFERRING FROM THE 8 0 3 TO THE EIGHT 15, YOU MIGHT HAVE A SHORT WEIGHT. 
          UM, BUT THAT IS OUR, UM, THOSE ARE MANY OF THE THOUGHT PROCESSES THAT THAT WENT INTO, UH, DOING THAT. 
          AND AGAIN, THIS IS BUILDING TOWARDS, AS THINGS CHANGE, WE COULD STILL DECIDE, YOU KNOW, WHAT EXTENDING THE 8 0 3 IS THE RIGHT THING TO MOVE. 
          UM, IT KIND OF, THAT'S KIND OF OUR THEME IN THIS, IN THIS MM-HMM . 
          PLAN IS BUILDING TOWARDS ALL THOSE PROJECT CONNECT ELEMENTS. 
          THAT'S WHY WE EXTEND THE ROUTE 18. 
          UM, IT'S PROPOSED TO GO OUT PART OF THE ROUTE OF THAT MLK RAPID, THE NEW TWO 11, UH, TOWARDS THAT, THIS ALL RAPID LINE AND, AND THIS EIGHT 15 THAT, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO WORK TOWARDS AND, AND GET THE MARKET, UH, THERE. 
          AND THIS IS WHAT WE FIND CREATES A SUCCESSFUL, UH, RAPID SERVICE ONCE WE FINALLY GET THERE. 
          SO THAT MAKES SENSE TO ME. 
          BUT HAVE YOU HAVE, WE HAVE WE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH FOLKS IN OAK HILL IN SOUTH AUSTIN AND ASK THEM IF THEY'RE OKAY WITH THIS, YOU KNOW, TWO, TWO SEAT TRANSFER SITUATION RATHER THAN THE, THE BRANCH SITUATION THAT THEY WERE THINKING THEY WERE GONNA GET. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOTTEN, WE WERE OUT IN OAK HILL ON, I WAS PERSONALLY OUT IN OAK HILL ON SATURDAY MORNING. 
          UM, WE DIDN'T GET ANY NEGATIVE FEEDBACK THERE AT THAT MEETING. 
          MM-HMM . 
          UM, WE HAVE GOTTEN SOME COMMENTS THROUGH OUR ONLINE SURVEY OF PREFERRING A ONE SEAT RIDE. 
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UM, SO I DO THINK IT'S SOMETHING WE WANNA CONTINUE TO DISCUSS, UH, WITH PEOPLE AND JUST, YOU KNOW, JUST, JUST HAVE A GOOD DISCUSSION. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'LL CONTINUE TO, AS I'VE SAID A MULTIPLE TIMES, WE WE'RE INCORPORATING FEEDBACK RIGHT NOW. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          GREAT. 
          UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS. 
          UM, I JUST WANT TO, UH, THANK YOU FOR A COUPLE OF THINGS HERE THAT I THINK ARE REALLY GREAT. 
          LIKE HE SAID, 30, UM, I THINK YOU, UH, I'VE NOTICED THAT THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD MOVES FOR THAT EAST WEST CONNECTION 'CAUSE THE 30 ROUTE TO ME WASN'T PARTICULARLY USEFUL BEFORE, UM, GOING FROM SOUTHWEST AUSTIN. 
          BUT NOW THAT IT CONNECTS THROUGH DOWNTOWN AND GOES EAST, I THINK IT'LL BE MUCH MORE USEFUL. 
          AND ALSO TAKING RESOURCES AWAY FROM THE FLYER ROUTES. 
          I'VE TAKEN THE 1 0 5 BEFORE AND I HAD TO WAIT A LONG TIME BEFORE I COULD GET TO THE NEXT ONE, BACK SOMEWHERE. 
          SO I ENDED UP JUST WALKING OVER THE 10 AND IT WAS LIKE, NO PROBLEM AT ALL. 
          SO I, I DO THINK THAT LIKE INCREASING THE FREQUENCY OF THE MORE MAJOR ROUTES IS THE BETTER MOVE. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          I'M SEEING A LOT OF MOVES TOWARDS THESE RAPID LINES, UM, AND SOME IDEAS ABOUT 10 MIN, 10 MINUTE FREQUENCY ON SOME OF THESE 800 NUMBERED ONES, BUT THE ROUTE 10 GOES THROUGH SO MANY PEOPLE, AND IF YOU RIDE IT DURING COMMUTE TIMES, THAT THING IS PACKED. 
          AND I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN TRYING TO RING A LITTLE BELL, BUT I THINK THAT WOULD BE MAKE A LOT OF SENSE TO MOVE TO A 10 MINUTE FREQUENCY DURING PEAK TIMES THERE, BECAUSE THAT BUS DOES GET SO MUCH, UM, USE AND IT IS LIKE, I THINK ONE OF THE MOST, UM, YOU KNOW, CLEAR SHOTS FROM SOUTH AND EVEN FAR SOUTH AUSTIN INTO DOWNTOWN. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, UH, SO I GUESS THAT'S MY QUESTION IS HAS THERE EVER BEEN ANY THOUGHT ABOUT INCREASING THE FREQUENCY EVEN MORE ON THE 10? WE'RE IN SOUTH AUSTIN, WE ARE MONITORING, UH, FRE THE, UM, THE LOADS ON OUR, UM, OUR BUSIEST ROUTES, WHICH ARE THE 8 0 1 TO 300, THE SEVEN, UH, 20 AND 10, I THINK I GOT 'EM IN THE RIGHT ORDER MM-HMM . 
          UM, TO, SO WE HAVE A DASHBOARD THAT HELPS US LOOK AT OVERLOAD TRIPS, AND SO WE ARE CONTINUING TO KEEP AN EYE ON THAT. 
          UM, THERE'S NOT ENOUGH OF A PATTERN AT THIS POINT IN TIME, BUT WE DO SEE THOSE TIMES WHERE THEY'RE DEFINITELY ARE HEAVIER TRIPS AND, UM, AND SO WE, IT IS SOMETHING WE, WE ARE CONSTANTLY LOOKING AT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, AND THEN THE OTHER QUESTION IS THAT I AM OKAY WITH THAT TRANSFER, UH, FROM THE EIGHT, UH, THESE EIGHT FIFTEENS, UH, INTO THE 8 0 3 AND EVERYTHING. 
          ARE YOU WORKING TO MAKE THAT, UM, WORKING WITH LIKE A PD AND OTHER AND CITY OF AUSTIN AT THAT, UM, WESTGATE TRANSIT CENTER TO MAKE IT MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF A BETTER EXPERIENCE DOWN THERE? BECAUSE I CAN SEE THAT SPECIFIC AREA AND THE PROBLEMS THAT ARE RIGHT THERE UNDER THAT HIGHWAY, UH, BEING MAJOR BARRIERS FOR PEOPLE TO WANT BE MAKING A LOT OF TRANSFERS IN THAT AREA? YEAH, I DO KNOW THAT THAT IS A AREA THAT HAS SOME EXTRA ATTENTION, UH, FOCUS ON IT, BUT THOSE EXACT, UH, ACTIONS WOULD NEED TO COME FROM OUR PUBLIC SAFETY, UH, DEPARTMENT. 
          SO, BUT JUST THE, YEAH, THE FLAGGING AND THE RAISING AWARENESS OF IT WITH THEM FROM CAP METRO I THINK WOULD JUST BE GREAT, ESPECIALLY AS WE SEE LIKE THE INCREASED TRAFFIC THERE THAT WE EXPECT FROM THE TRANSFERS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GREAT. 
          UM, MOVING ON TO CENTRAL, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE PROPOSING IS TO CREATE, UH, A EAST SIDE, UH, CIRCULATOR BY, UH, EXTENDING ROUTE TWO UP SPRINGDALE SO THAT THERE'LL BE A BI-DIRECTIONAL, UH, CIRCULATING ROUTE. 
          AND THEN, UM, THE OTHER CHANGES IN THE CENTRAL AREA IS WE'RE PROPOSING FOR ROUTE 3 35 TO, UM, GO NORTH INTO THE HANCOCK CENTER. 
          UM, AND THEN WE ARE CURRENTLY PROPOSING A, FOR IT TO GO FURTHER EAST ON MAINOR ROAD, IT CURRENTLY GOES UP BERKMAN, UM, IT WOULD, UM, BUT IT WOULD INSTEAD GO UP MAINOR TO 51ST AND THEN TO OVER TO BERKMAN. 
          UM, WE ARE PROPOSING TO, UH, DISCONTINUE ROUTE 3 45 DUE TO LOW RIDERSHIP, AND IT GOES INTO THE HANCOCK SHOPPING CENTER. 
          AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE PROPOSING TO, UH, RUN THE 3 35 UP TO IT IN THE FUTURE. 
          WE'RE LOOKING TO HAVE OUR ROUTE 4 93, WHICH IS CURRENTLY A, UM, ONCE A DAY SENIOR ROUTE BECOME MORE, IT, IT ACTUALLY CONNECTS SOME GOOD, GOOD AILMENTS AND, AND WE HOPE AS, UH, LAND USE CHANGES AND RIDERSHIP GROWS THAT THEY CAN BECOME A, UH, LOCAL ROUTE, UM, OPERATING EVERY DAY. 
          AND THEN OUR NEXT ONE, UM, SORRY, 
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ACTUALLY, CAN I, SORRY, CAN I ASK, BECAUSE YOU ON CENTRAL, I I SHOULD HAVE JUMPED ON IT. 
          YEAH. 
          UH, SO THE ONE QUESTION I HAD LOOKING AT CENTRAL IS WHERE IS THE GOLD LINE, RIGHT? SO CAN YOU TOUCH ON HOW THE GOLD LINE IS INTERACTED WITH? SO THE GOLD LINE IS CURRENTLY SCHEDULED TO BE IMPLEMENTED AFTER LIGHT RAIL OPENS. 
          SO IT'S ON ONE OF MY LAST SLIDES HERE, OR NO, I'M SORRY. 
          IT WAS ON THAT PREVIOUS 10 PLUS YEAR SLIDE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          UH, IT'S PROBABLY REALLY HARD TO READ, BUT THE GOLDLINE IS, UH, SCHEDULED FOR IMPLEMENTATION AT THAT POINT. 
          SO WHEN WAS THAT DECISION MADE? BECAUSE IN THE, THE CONTRACT WITH THE VOTERS, IT HAS THE GOLDLINE COMING ONLINE AFTER THE OTHER METRO RAPIDS, BUT WELL BEFORE LIGHT RAIL. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, SO WE'RE CURRENTLY, WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING THROUGH THE, UH, SEQUENCING OF EVERYTHING AND, UM, JUST RIGHT NOW, IT, IT APPEARS THAT IT'S GONNA TAKE A LITTLE BIT LONGER TO BRING THE GO DOWN ONLINE, SO I UNDERSTAND WHERE IT IS WITHIN THE, UH, CONTRACT WITH THE VOTERS. 
          UM, AND SO WE, WE ARE AWARE OF THAT, BUT, SO WHAT ARE THE, THE BARRIERS? 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, I'M LOOKING AT IT AS, UH, MOST OF THE DOWNTOWN STOPS OVERLAP WITH THE, THE, UM, 8 37, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT A, A SIGNIFICANTLY LONG ROUTE. 
          IT OVERLAPS WITH THE SEVEN RIGHT NOW, WHICH IS A, A PRETTY GOOD RIDERSHIP ROUTE THAT ALSO HAS A LOT OF DELAYS, WHICH A, A RAPID ROUTE WOULD FIX. 
          SO, SO WHAT IS THE, THE FISCAL CONSTRAINT THAT IS MAKING IT SO THAT WE HAVE TO LOOK 10 PLUS YEARS OUT? YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE JUST, UH, REALLY, WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING THROUGH, UH, ALL THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE AND, AND, AND WORKING THROUGH TO PRIORITIZE, TO MEET THE IMMEDIATE NEEDS. 
          WE CAN, YOU KIND OF HIT ON SOME OF THE REASONS WHY. 
          UM, I MEAN, ALSO IN ADDITION TO SEVEN TO 10, IT'S DUPLICATIVE OF THE, UM, OF THE, UM, GO LINE. 
          SO THERE IS SERVICE IN THE CORRIDOR TODAY. 
          UH, THERE'S FREQUENT SERVICE IN THE CORRIDOR, UH, MULTIPLE FREQUENT SERVICES, HONESTLY. 
          SO THAT'S PART OF WHAT'S GOING INTO THE CURRENT THOUGHT PROCESS. 
          YEAH, I GUESS, YOU KNOW, WHEN SOMETHING'S A VOTER APPROVED ROUTE, THOUGH, TO ME, THAT KIND OF PUTS IT UP ON A, A HIGHER ECHELON THAN THE OTHER ROUTE. 
          SO I THINK IF CAP METRO IS GONNA MOVE FORWARD AND SAYING, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO, TO PUSH THIS BACK A GOOD NUMBER OF YEARS, I, I THINK IT'D BE GOOD FOR THE COMMUNITY TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THOSE CONSTRAINTS? HOW EXPENSIVE WOULD IT BE? HOW MUCH MONEY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? AND, AND ALSO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHY ARE WE NOT TALKING ABOUT MAKING CUTS TO CERTAIN LINES, UH, OR, OR CERTAIN SERVICES THAT ARE PROPOSED IN HERE. 
          RIGHT. 
          WHY ARE THESE BEING PROPOSED OVER, UH, GETTING THE GOLD MINE INTO SERVICE? I THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. 
          OKAY. 
          SO ONE OF THE MOST FREQUENT, UH, QUESTIONS WE'VE GOTTEN ASKED WITH THE STARTUP OF THE LIGHT RAIL WHEN IT STARTS IS WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO RAPID, UH, 8 0 1, 8 0 3, ALONG WITH ROUTES ONE AND THREE, BECAUSE THEY ARE, UM, VERY DUPLICATIVE OF A LOT OF THE LIGHT RAIL. 
          AND, UH, SO WE NEEDED TO GIVE THIS THOUGHT IN THIS PLAN, AND WE CAME UP WITH, UH, THREE SCENARIOS, UM, OR OPTIONS AS IT SAYS ON THIS SIDE. 
          AND I WILL SAY THERE'S NO WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THIS STAGE OF THE GAME. 
          UH, WE'RE JUST REALLY SEEKING, UH, PUBLIC FEEDBACK, WHAT, WHAT THE PUBLIC THINKS. 
          AND AGAIN, WE WILL SETTLE THE, UH, THE NEXT TRANSIT PLAN WILL PROBABLY BE THE TIME FOR SOME WINNERS AND LOSERS. 
          UH, BUT WE NEED THE INFORMATION ON WHAT THE PUBLIC LIKES, WHAT SOME OPTIONS WOULD BE SO THAT WE CAN INFORM OUR INTERACTIONS AS, UH, AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP IS, UH, IS DESIGNING, UH, THE LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM. 
          SO THE FIRST OPTION IS ONE WE CALL, UH, RAPIDS ON SAND JACK. 
          AND THIS CREATES A NEW PATH, UH, FOR, UM, THESE, UH, RIDERS ON THE EAST SIDE OF DOWNTOWN, UH, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THOSE, UH, RECENTLY INSTALLED TRANSIT PRIORITY LANES ON, UH, TRINITY AND SANJAC. 
          SO THEY'D MOVE OFF OF GUADALUPE, UH, AT DAN DEAN KEATON, AND THEN GO DOWN SANJA, UH, TO, UM, TO THE CONVENTION CENTER AREA, UH, BEFORE, UH, MOVING BACK OVER TO CONGRESS, THEN TO THEN GO SOUTH OF THE RIVER. 
          UM, THE ONE AND THE THREE WOULD STAY THE SAME OPERATING ALONGSIDE, UH, RAPID WITH, UM, UH, UH, ALONGSIDE, UH, LIGHT RAIL, SORRY, AT EVERY, UM, AT THEIR CURRENT EVERY 30 MINUTES. 
          THEN, UH, WE HAVE ANOTHER VERSION WHERE WE WOULD SHORTEN THOSE ONE AND THREE, AND THEY WOULD, UM, THEY, THEY WOULD END, UM, FROM THE SOUTH, UH, NEAR TO CONGRESS AVENUE STATION AND FROM THE NORTH, UH, NEAR TO 29TH STREET STATION. 
          UH, BUT PROBABLY COMING CLOSER TO DEAN KEATON TO TO END, UM, THIS OPTION, UH, KEEPS 
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STATE OH ONE AND 8 0 3 RUNNING ALONGSIDE THE, UH, UM, AUSTIN'S LIGHT RAIL. 
          AND, UM, IT WOULD, UM, CLEARLY HAVE POSSIBLY SOME COMPETING INTERESTS FOR RIDERSHIP THERE. 
          AND THEN THE FINAL ONE IS, UH, RAPIDS, UM, FEED, UH, FEED LIGHT RAIL. 
          AND THIS IS WHERE THE RAPIDS WOULD END AT A LIGHT RAIL STATION. 
          SO, UH, FOR THE 8 0 1, IT WOULD END AT THE SOUTH, AT THE OLD TORF STATION, AND AT THE NORTH 38TH STREET STATION, THE 8 0 3 WOULD END AT CONGRESS AVENUE STATION FROM THE SOUTH, AND THEN, UH, 38TH STREET STATION ALSO FROM THE NORTH. 
          THE, UM, SIGNIFICANT THING ABOUT ROUTES, THE OPTIONS TWO AND THREE IS THEY REQUIRE PLACES IN DOWNTOWN OR ON CAMPUS, UH, OR AT THE ENDS OF LINES OF THE STATIONS, DEPENDING ON WHICH OPTION WE'RE LOOKING FOR, FOR THOSE BUSES TO TURN AROUND AND LAYOVER. 
          SO THAT IS A CONSIDERATION THAT WE DO NEED TO HAVE AS WE GO FORWARD. 
          SO I, I SAID THIS TO YOU THE LAST TIME I HEARD THIS PRESENTATION, SO I'LL JUST SAY IT AGAIN. 
          I, I MEAN, I, I THINK OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS WE'RE ALL GONNA LEARN MORE, BUT MY INITIAL REACTION IS CERTAINLY TOWARDS NUMBER ONE, UM, TO HAVE A, YOU KNOW, NOT TO HAVE A LAYOVER, NOT TO HAVE A TURNAROUND. 
          WE KNOW THAT THOSE ARE MOMENTS THAT CAN HEAVILY IMPACT SERVICE, ESPECIALLY IF THERE'S ANY UNFORESEEN EVENT  GOING ON ON THE STREETS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT THOSE ARE MOMENTS WHERE SORT OF CAN MAKE OR BREAK A SERVICE OR A DELAY, SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR CUSTOMERS. 
          SO, UM, AND ALSO I THINK THERE IS SOME PROMISE TO OPENING UP A NEW SPINE AS WELL, UM, A LITTLE BIT FURTHER TO THE EAST WITH SANJA. 
          SO I THINK THAT OVERALL MY VOTE RIGHT NOW WOULD BE FOR NUMBER ONE. 
          I, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY , WE ALL GONNA LEARN MORE INFORMATION AS WE SEE THE SERVICE PLAN AND SEE SOME MORE DETAILS AS THINGS COME UP. 
          SO THAT'S JUST MY PERSONAL INITIAL REACTION. 
          I'M CURIOUS WHAT OTHERS ON THE GROUP THINK AS WELL. 
          WE'RE A CHATTY GROUP. 
          SORRY. 
          YEAH. 
          AND, AND OH, YOU GO AHEAD. 
          OKAY. 
          I JUST WANT, I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS I CAN'T SEE VERY WELL ON WHAT EAST WEST STREETS THAT THEY WILL BE MOVING OVER TO SAN JACK AND BACK ONTO, UH, GU WHAT ARE THE EAST, WEST STREETS ON THE SOUTH END AND THE TOP END, AND THEN OPTION ONE? YEAH, SO, UM, WE AT THE NORTH, WE'RE LOOKING TO MOVE EAST WEST ON DEAN KEATON ON THE SOUTH. 
          WE ARE EVALUATING, UM, THIS PARTICULAR MAP SHOWS CAESAR CHAVEZ, I CAN'T TELL YOU. 
          WE'RE ALSO EVALUATING, UH, FOURTH STREET AS AN EAST WEST, UH, MOVEMENT. 
          ALSO, THERE IS ANOTHER MAP ON ANOTHER WEBSITE THAT SHOWS FOURTH STREET. 
          SO IF YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, I, I JUST WANNA ADMIT THAT WE HAVE SOME INCONSISTENCY BECAUSE WE HAVE MM-HMM . 
          LOOKED AT TWO OPTIONS THERE. 
          SO I GUESS MY MAIN CONCERN WITH THOSE EAST WEST MOVEMENTS, WELL, FOURTH STREET, UM, I, THE AMOUNT OF RIGHT OF WAY THERE MAKES ME A LITTLE NERVOUS. 
          'CAUSE, UH, THEN YOU PROBABLY COULDN'T, I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU WOULD FIT IN A DEDICATED LANE IF THEY'RE ALSO PLANNING TO MOVE THAT LANE AREN'T ON BIKEWAY RIGHT AFTER LIGHT RAIL UP TO FOURTH STREET. 
          SO I THINK THAT THAT SORT OF WOULD BE CONFUSING. 
          BUT CAESAR CHAVEZ IS ALSO NOT GREAT. 
          SO THAT'S, ARE YOU HOPING TO HAVE DEDICATED LANES FOR THESE RAPIDS THROUGHOUT DOWNTOWN? IF, IF THEY WERE TO MOVE OVER TO, UH, SAN JACK? UM, WE HAVE NOT PROPOSED DEDICATED LANES ON, UH, THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRETY OF DOWNTOWN. 
          WE ARE LOOKING AND WORKING WITH THE CITY AS PART OF THE DOWNTOWN. 
          MM-HMM . 
          I'M GONNA GET THE NAME WRONG, I ALWAYS DO THE ACT BRAND, UM, YOU KNOW, AS, AS WE LOOK AT THAT TO IDENTIFY CORRIDORS FOR, UH, ADDITIONAL, UH, TRANSIT PRIORITY LANES. 
          UM, BUT YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALSO OTHER TRANSIT PRIORITY TREATMENTS THAT, THAT MM-HMM . 
          WE CAN HAVE OUT THERE TOO. 
          I JUST, I KNOW THAT LIKE, UM, GUAD AND LAVA ARE LIKE HUGE AND THERE ARE ALREADY HAVING, UH, DEDICATED LANES ON THOSE AND IT DOES SEEM TO MAKE LIKE A PRETTY BIG DIFFERENCE. 
          SO THAT'S MY ONLY CONCERN. 
          AND ALSO JUST LIKE WHAT SORT OF, UM, FISCAL SITU, LIKE, IS LIKE WHERE WOULD THE FUNDING, IS THIS GOING TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE EXPENSIVE? SO TO MOVE THAT OVER TO THE, AN EASTERN SPINE, UM, WE ESTIMATE THAT IT WOULD BE A LITTLE MORE EXPENSIVE. 
          OKAY. 
          BUT IT'S NOT, I WOULD NOT CALL IT SIGNIFICANTLY MORE EXPENSIVE. 
          THERE ISN'T A COST INVOLVED, UH, GIVEN OUR EARLY, UH, OUR EARLY, UM, ESTIMATES. 
          SO I, I, I CAN SAY I I, I'VE BEEN GOING BACK AND FORTH ON ONE AND THREE, I WAS EVEN TRYING TO THINK ABOUT ON THE BIKE RIDE HERE, AND, AND I, I THINK THE QUESTION THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD REALLY GO A LONG WAY FOR ME, IT'S ONE THING WE'RE, WE'RE VERY CONSCIOUS OF ON THIS BODY AND, AND I THINK, UH, CAT METRO ALSO DOES A GOOD JOB OF BEING CONSCIOUS OF IS THIS MOST SIGNIFICANT POCKETS OF 8 0 1 RIDERSHIP ARE NORTH OF NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER. 
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AND SO I WOULD BE CURIOUS FOR THEM, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY OF THOSE TRIPS ARE GOING PAST ULT WHARF STATION OR GOING THROUGH DOWNTOWN OR OTHER DESTINATIONS ON DOWNTOWN, BECAUSE I CAN SEE FOR THOSE RIDERS HOW A TWO SEAT RIDE TRANSFERRING TO LIGHT RAIL, ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE ABLE TO TIME THE CONNECTIONS COULD, COULD BE BETTER THAN HAVING, YOU KNOW, THIS SORT OF SPINE LINE. 
          UH, BUT I CAN ALSO SEE IF THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THEM GOING FURTHER SOUTH THAN ALT WHARF. 
          UH, THEN YOU KNOW THAT PERHAPS HAVING THE SPINE AND HAVING A ONE SEAT RIDE WOULD DEFINITELY BE BETTER THAN HAVING A THREE SEAT RIDE. 
          WE'RE GOING BUST THE LIGHT RAIL BACK TO BUS. 
          YEAH. 
          AND I THINK THOSE ARE THINGS TO, UH, CONTINUE TO LOOK AT. 
          UH, WE WILL DO ANOTHER ORIGIN DESTINATION SURVEY. 
          WE DO ONE EVERY FIVE YEARS AT CAP METRO. 
          WE'LL DO ONE ABOUT THREE TO FOUR YEARS. 
          AGAIN, WE, WE USE THAT DATA, UH, TO HELP US ACTUALLY EVALUATE AND COME UP WITH THESE OPTIONS, UM, WHEN WE WERE DEVELOPING THESE. 
          BUT WE'LL ALSO KNOW MORE, I THINK WE'LL KNOW A LOT MORE ABOUT HOW THE LIGHT RAIL'S GONNA OPERATE. 
          AND THAT'S WHY IT'LL BE GREAT TO REALLY DIG INTO THE DETAILS FOR ESPECIALLY THE TRANSFER AND CONNECTION, UH, AS WE WORK, UM, WORK ON THE NEXT TRANSIT PLAN. 
          AND I SHOULD SAY AS WE WORK ON THE NEXT TRANSPLANT, IT DOESN'T MEAN WE EVER STOP, WE STOP PLANNING ALSO. 
          WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL BE CONSIDERING THOSE QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. 
          AND THEN OTHER, ONLY OTHER QUESTION I HAD IS, DOES IT CHANGE THE, THE, UH, RIDERSHIP MODELING FOR, UM, LIGHT RAIL AT ALL IF WE HAVE A SPINE THAT GOES THROUGH VERSUS FEEDING DIRECTLY INTO LIGHT RAIL? SO, UM, I CANNOT SPEAK TO ATP'S RIDERSHIP MODELING, BUT THEY DO HAVE, UH, THESE THREE OPTIONS TO, UM, TO, TO THEY, THEY'VE, THEY, THEY, THEY HAVE 'EM TO INCORPORATE INTO THEIR MODELING RUNS, AND I BELIEVE THEY ARE WORKING TOWARDS THAT OR HAVE ALREADY DONE THAT. 
          SO THAT WOULD BE A QUESTION TO ASK THEM, LIKE, WHICH, HOW DO THESE MODELS ULTIMATELY THE NEXT TIME THEY COME THROUGH, HOW DO THESE MODELS AFFECT YOUR RIDERSHIP MODELS FOR THE AUSTIN LIGHT RAIL? OKAY. 
          I GOT A COUPLE MORE SLIDES. 
          I DON'T KNOW HOW I'M DOING ON TIME THOUGH. 
          I KNOW I'VE BEEN UP HERE A LONG TIME. 
          Y YOU'RE, YOU'RE OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          WE'RE, WE'RE LONG, BUT I THINK THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THIS BODY, SO IT, WE APPRECIATE YOU. 
          IT'S GREAT CONVERSATION. 
          SO YEAH, I, I APPRECIATE THE TIME, UM, UP THERE. 
          SO, UM, WE BASICALLY HAVE UT AND RAIL LEFT. 
          THESE ARE SOME OF THE SHORTER SIDES, BUT, SO, UH, FOR UT, UM, THE MOST NOTABLE PROPOSAL IS THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT TRANSITIONING MOST OF UT SHUTTLES TO MAINLINE ROUTES THAT OPERATE FREQUENT SERVICE YEAR ROUND WITH WEEKEND AND LATE NIGHT SERVICE. 
          UH, SO THAT, UH, STUDENTS, UH, STAFF AND FACULTY HAVE, UH, GREATER CONNECTIONS TO THE BROADER CAP METRO NETWORK. 
          WE OFTEN HEAR FROM THE UT COMMUNITY THAT WHEN THE UT SHUTTLE, UM, ISN'T OPERATING, UM, IT'S VERY CHALLENGING TO TRAVEL. 
          ALSO THE, THE CHANGE IN SPAN FREQUENCIES, AND IT'S JUST SUNDAYS THEY DON'T OPERATE. 
          THERE'S NO SATURDAY SERVICE, LIMITED SUNDAY SERVICE, UH, ELEMENTS LIKE THAT. 
          UM, SO THEY'VE OVERWHELMINGLY SHOWN A SUPPORT FOR HAVING REGULAR SCHEDULED SERVICE. 
          UM, AND SO WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING IS TO CREATE TWO NEW ROUTES. 
          AND SO ALL THAT WOULD BE LEFT TO THE UT SHUTTLE SYSTEM IS THE ON-CAMPUS CIRCULATORS, THE 6 40, 40 ACRES AND THE 6 42 WEST CAMPUS. 
          AND WE MODIFIED THE 6 40 40 ACRES A YEAR AGO WHEN WE COMBINED IT WITH THE, UH, 6 41. 
          AND WE FOUND THAT TO ACTUALLY BE A REALLY SUCCESSFUL CHANGE. 
          UM, AND WE ACTUALLY JUST COMBINED SIX 70 AND 6 71 LIKE ABOUT A WEEK AGO. 
          UM, AND ACTUALLY RIDERSHIP IS OFF TO A GOOD START ON THAT. 
          AWESOME. 
          SO FOR WHEN IT COMES TO THE NEW ROUTES, THERE'S A ROUTE EIGHT THAT WOULD CONNECT, UH, NORTH CROSS, UM, UH, FAR WEST AREA, UM, AND KIND OF THE BULL CREEK AREA TO CAMPUS, AND THEN DOWNTOWN AND THEN OUT TO, UH, THE LAKE AUSTIN AREA. 
          AND THEN THERE'D BE A ROUTE THREE 70 THAT WOULD CONNECT, UH, THE PLEASANT VALLEY, THE RIVERSIDE AREA, PLEASANT VALLEY, UM, AND THEN, UH, GO UP TO THE INTRAMURAL FIELDS. 
          THIS WOULD RETURN, UM, ALL DAY, ALL, UH, DAILY SERVICE TO SPEEDWAY, WHICH HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE CAP REMAP. 
          UH, DOES INVOLVE THE, THESE ROUTES WOULD REPLACE THE 6 56 6 6 1, 6 63 AND SIX 70 AND 6 72. 
          I WILL SAY THAT WE'VE BEEN CHATTING WITH THESE CHANGES WITH UT UH, THEIR SHUTTLE BUS COMMITTEE, UH, SIMILAR TYPE COMMITTEE AS THIS, UH, THAT HAS OVERSIGHT OVER TO OVER THE, UM, SHUTTLES. 
          AND THEY ARE ACTUALLY, UH, EXCITED AND SUPPORTIVE. 
          THEY PASSED A AND INIT INITIALLY. 
          THEY ARE, UH, IN 
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A HUNDRED PERCENT SUPPORT OF, OF THE, UH, PLAN. 
          THEIR FORMAL, FORMAL VOTE COMES OUT LATER THIS, UH, YEAR. 
          SO, AND THEN RAIL. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, AS MANY KNOW THAT OUR, WE HAVE A RAIL LINE, A CAM COMMUTER RAIL LINE. 
          IT'S ALSO A FREIGHT RAIL LINE, AND FREIGHT IS REALLY IMPORTANT AS PART OF THAT, UH, STRUCTURE. 
          SO WE ARE PROPOSING SEVERAL CHANGES, UM, WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS TO THE RAIL. 
          FIRST OFF IS BROADMOOR STATION OPENING. 
          I MENTIONED THAT EARLIER. 
          THAT IS A STATION JUST NORTH OF OUR, UH, KRAMER STATION. 
          UM, WE ARE ALSO LOOKING TO DO SOME DOUBLE TRACKING IMPROVEMENTS OUT AT PLAZA SALTILLO, MAKING CHANGES TO OUR POSITIVE TRAIN CONTROL, UH, SYSTEM. 
          UH, THAT'S A FEDER, UH, MANDATED, UM, RAIL SAFETY SYSTEM. 
          AND THEN FINALLY, UH, PROBABLY THE, I MEAN, THE CHANGES THAT I THINK PEOPLE IN DOWNTOWN WOULD GET MOST EXCITED ABOUT IS EXTENDING SERVICE TO NINE O'CLOCK, UH, MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY, UH, SO THAT YOU HAVE MORE FLEXIBILITY AS TO WHEN YOU LEAVE WORK AND WHEN YOU LEAVE DOWNTOWN. 
          AND THEN A PROPOSAL TO START EARLIER ON SATURDAYS. 
          SO THAT, UM, WE DO KNOW A LOT OF FAMILIES THAT TRAVEL IN THAT EARLY TIMEFRAME TO DOWNTOWN. 
          AND SO THAT WOULD HELP THEM OUT IN THE FIVE PLUS YEARS WE'D LOOK AT, UM, CONTINUING OUR DOUBLE TRACKING. 
          UH, THEN, UH, WE, WE DO HAVE A NEW BRIDGE COMING OVER HERE, UM, AT I 35. 
          UM, ONCE ALL THAT'S DONE, UH, WE ARE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO INCREASE THE FREQUENCY OF OUR SERVICE ON WEEKDAYS AND SATURDAYS TO OPERATE EVERY 30 MINUTES. 
          AND THEN FINALLY IN THE FUTURE, WE'D LOOK TO, UH, HOPEFULLY OPERATE SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. 
          UH, RAIL CURRENTLY OPERATES ON SUNDAY, AND AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, RAIL IS A REALLY IMPORTANT PART OF OUR, OF OUR, UM, OF OUR SYSTEM. 
          AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE, UH, THAT THAT FREIGHT IS TAKEN CARE OF. 
          WE ALSO WOULD BE LOOKING TO START UP SERVICE ON THE GREEN LINE. 
          UM, ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE PROJECT CONNECT, UH, PROJECTS OUT THERE. 
          IF I CAN ASK TWO QUICK QUESTIONS YEAH. 
          ON RED LINE. 
          SO FIRST EVERY 30 MINUTES WOULD BE WOULD BE GREAT. 
          UM, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THE CURRENT BLOCK FOR 15 MINUTE SERVICES IS THE NEED FOR DOUBLE TRACKING GRADE SEPARATION AT CRESTVIEW WITH AIRPORT BOULEVARD. 
          NOW, OBVIOUSLY THIS ISN'T A CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PLAN, RIGHT? RIGHT. 
          BUT IF, YOU KNOW, LET'S SAY A COUPLE YEARS FROM NOW, THE CAMPO GOD SMILE UPON US AND WE HAVE THE MONEY TO DO GREAT SEPARATION AT, AT AIRPORT, WOULD THAT CHANGE CAP METRO'S OUTLOOK AS TO POSSIBLY DOING 15 MINUTE FREQUENCY? OR IS THERE A FISCAL CONSTRAINT THAT LEADS YOU TO 30? I AM NOT THE RIGHT PERSON TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION. 
          . 
          I I, I AM NOT IN THE WEEDS WITH, UH, RAIL OPERATIONS. 
          TOTALLY UNDERSTAND. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN, OH, THIS IS MORE PLANNING, SO HOPEFULLY THIS IS GOOD. 
          UM, SO I, I SAW, UH, A POTENTIAL HANCOCK STATION, I THINK IT WAS IN THE 10 PLUS YEAR, AND THAT'S ALSO ON THE MAP. 
          UM, IS THAT, IS THE LOCATION, IS THAT CAT METRO SAYING WE ARE EVALUATING THAT LOCATION RIGHT BY HANCOCK PLAZA? OR IS THAT MORE JUST CAT METRO SAYING, HEY, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN I 35 AND HIGHLAND, WE'LL LOOK AT AN INFILL STATION TO BE DETERMINED IT'S CLOSER TO THE LADDER. 
          YEAH. 
          THAT WE'RE LOOKING, UH, LOOKING FOR THE, UH, BUS LOCATION FOR THAT STATION THAT IS STILL UNDERGOING EVALUATION, BUT WE DO PLAN TO HAVE, UM, ONE OR TWO PROPOSED INFILL STATION AS PART OF THE FINAL PLAN. 
          SO I GUESS STAY TUNED, UH, FOR AN ANSWER ON THAT ONE. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WAIT, SORRY. 
          WHEN YOU SAY FINAL PLAN, YOU MEAN FINAL TRANSPLANT? 35. 
          WHEN WE, WHEN THE BOARD ADOPTS THIS PLAN LATER THIS FALL. 
          SO, SO CAT MITCHELL WILL SAY, THESE ARE THE TWO, WE'RE GONNA EVALUATE THESE, THESE ARE, THESE ARE THE LOCATIONS WE'RE LOOKING FOR INFO TO. 
          THAT IS VERY INTERESTING. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YEAH. 
          AND THAT WOULD OF COURSE, REQUIRE STATIONS ARE NOT CHEAP TO BUILD. 
          YEAH. 
          SO WE'D BE PROBABLY LOOKING FOR GRANT FUNDING AND AILMENTS LIKE THAT, THAT THAT'LL PROBABLY BE THE HEAVY CAVEAT ON ANY INFO STATIONS. 
          WELL, WE REALLY WANNA THANK YOU FOR TAKING ALL OF OUR QUESTIONS AS, AS YOU GAVE THE PRESENTATION AND, AND SPENDING A LOT OF TIME. 
          UM, I THINK YOU DID GREAT LEADING US THROUGH IT. 
          WE ARE, WE'RE JUST A GROUP THAT TENDS TO BE REALLY FULL OF QUESTIONS, SO WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. 
          UM, I ESPECIALLY WANNA LOOK TO ON ANY OF OUR ONLINE PARTICIPANTS. 
          IT LOOKS LIKE COMMISSIONER BUFFO IS HERE NOW. 
          HELLO. 
          JUST ACKNOWLEDGING YOU. 
          UM, IF ANYONE HAS ANY QUESTIONS THAT DIDN'T GET ANSWERED, I'M GONNA ASK FOR THOSE NOW. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          IT WAS REALLY MY PLEASURE. 
          REALLY. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU FOR HAVING US. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO THAT DOES CONCLUDE ITEM THREE. 
          UM, 
          [2. Discussion and presentation regarding the Integrated Bond Program Development and Delivery Plan.]
WE DID SKIP ITEM TWO 'CAUSE OUR PRESENTER WAS NOT YET HERE, BUT I BELIEVE HE IS HERE NOW. 
          THAT IS GONNA BE ERIC BAILEY FROM CAPITAL DELIVERY SERVICES. 
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SO WE'LL NOW TAKE UP ITEM TWO AND TO READ INTO THE RECORD THAT IS DISCUSSION AND PRESENTATION REGARDING THE INTEGRATED BOND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY PLAN. 
          GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. 
          HOW ARE GLAD TO SEE EVERYBODY AGAIN. 
          UH, MY NAME IS ERIC BAILEY. 
          I'M THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CAPITAL DELIVERY SERVICES. 
          I'M HERE TODAY TO PRESENT A, A QUICK UPDATE ON, UM, THE 2026, UM, INTEGRATED BOND DELIVERY PROCESS AND WHERE WE'RE AT AND ALL OF THAT. 
          SO, UM, QUICK AGENDA, UH, OVERVIEW OF CAPITAL DELIVERY SERVICES. 
          WHAT IS A GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND PROGRAM? UM, WHAT WE'VE DONE TO IMPROVE THE BOND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, UH, FOR 2026 STAFF WORK THAT'S BEEN COMPLETED TO DATE, THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES, TECHNICAL CRITERIA, AND SCORING MATRICES THAT WE'RE EVALUATING THE PROJECTS UNDER, AS WELL AS SOME UPCOMING MILESTONES AND, AND, UH, NEXT STEP, UH, ITEMS. SO, UM, FIRST OF ALL, CAPITAL DELIVERY SERVICES IS A DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, PROJECT MANAGERS AND INSPECTORS THAT WAS CREATED FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF REDUCING DELIVERY TIME FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS FOR THE CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          WE PARTNER WITH CONSULTANTS, CONTRACTORS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS TO DELIVER ASSETS FOR THE CITY. 
          AND CD S'S ROLE, IMPORTANTLY IN THE 2026 BOND IS TO CONVENE THE CITY'S DEPARTMENTS TO DEVELOP AN OVERALL DEPARTMENTAL NEEDS ANALYSIS, GUIDE THE PROCESS TO ENSURE THAT THE PROJECTS ARE VETTED FOR SCOPE, SCHEDULE, BUDGET, AND BOND ELIGIBILITY, AS WELL AS COORDINATING THE PROJECTS ACROSS DEPARTMENTS TO ACHIEVE MUTUAL BENEFITS. 
          UH, THE PROCESS HAS BEEN, UM, UNDERWAY FOR ABOUT 14, 15 MONTHS NOW, GETTING VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS TOGETHER, DEVELOPING THE GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE AND CREATING THAT NEEDS ASSESSMENT. 
          UM, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, UM, YOU KNOW, THE TYPICAL GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND PROJECTS INCLUDE, YOU KNOW, FLOOD AND EROSION CONTROL CITY FACILITIES, WHICH INCLUDES, UM, NEW REPLACEMENT REHABILITATION HOUSING, STREETS, PARKS, PUBLIC SAFETY, AND, UH, LAND PURCHASES. 
          UM, THERE ARE SEVERAL IMPORTANT THINGS THAT ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE IN A GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND, UM, INCLUDING ROUTINE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE WORK, UH, IMPROVEMENTS TO, TO LEASE SPACE CODE ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYEE SALARIES. 
          AND IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT AUSTIN ENERGY AND AUSTIN WATER ARE FUNDED THROUGH ENTERPRISE REVENUE BONDS RATHER THAN GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS. 
          AND THAT MEANS THAT THEY FUND THEIR PROJECTS, UH, VIA BONDING ON THE REVENUE FROM THE UTILITY OPERATIONS. 
          SO THOSE ARE NOT GONNA BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE THIS 2026 GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND PROGRAM. 
          UM, SO THE BOND DELIVERY PROCESS, UM, FOR 2026, AND TALKING ABOUT, UM, WHAT'S DIFFERENT, WHAT ARE WE DOING NEW THIS TIME? UM, IN THE PAST WE'VE PACKAGED THE PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN ON A CONCEPTUAL LEVEL INTO A BOND PROPOSITION. 
          AND THEN AFTER THE BOND PASSES, WE'VE UNDERTAKEN THE PRELIMINARY WORK TO FULLY DEVELOP SCOPE, SCHEDULE, AND BUDGET FOR A PROJECT IN THE PAST THAT'S LED TO SITUATIONS WHERE, UH, BOND PROPOSAL FOR SAY, A $5 MILLION NEW LIBRARY. 
          UM, BUT AT THE END, THAT LIBRARY DIDN'T END UP COSTING $5 MILLION. 
          'CAUSE THE COST ESTIMATE DIDN'T INCLUDE THINGS LIKE LAND ACQUISITION AND OTHER, UM, UH, ANCILLARY, UH, PIECES MORE THAN JUST THE BUILDING. 
          AND SO LET'S SAY THAT PRICE THEN GOES UP TO $8 MILLION, AND THEN, THEN WE HAVE A BIG PROBLEM BECAUSE YOU CAN'T DELIVER AN $8 MILLION LIBRARY FOR $5 MILLION, AND WE HAVE TO SCRAMBLE TO, UH, EITHER REDUCE SCOPE OR FIND OTHER FUNDING SOURCES. 
          SO REALLY WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IS WE'RE MOVING THAT BROWN, UH, BOX THAT'S IN THE YELLOW PIECE THERE ABOUT PROJECT PLANNING, UM, TO DEVELOP THE SCOPE, SCHEDULE AND BUDGET, REALLY MOVING THAT TO BEFORE, UM, THE BOND ELECTION TAKES PLACE. 
          SO WE'RE GETTING THOSE PROJECTS FULLY VETTED BEFORE THEY, UM, GO TO THE VOTERS. 
          AND SO THAT WAY WE CAN HIT THE GROUND RUNNING WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS AND REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATION. 
          SO WE'VE GOT A FULLY DEFINED PROJECT, UM, THAT, THAT MOVES FORWARD. 
          UH, AS I PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, CDS HAS CONVENED CITY DEPARTMENTS TO DEVELOP A GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION CRITERIA TO PREPARE STAFF COUNCIL AND THE PUBLIC FOR THE BOND ELECTION IN 2026. 
          UM, THOSE ITEMS INCLUDE NINE DIRECTORS ROUNDTABLE MEETINGS, 13 SPECIAL ACTION COMMITTEES, UH, 11 PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM MEETINGS WHERE WE'VE BEEN GATHERING, UH, EXPERTS, UH, FROM THE DEPARTMENTS TO MEET AND GO OVER THE PROJECT NEEDS ASSESSMENT. 
          12 INTEGRATED BOND DEVELOPMENT TEAM PLANNING MEETINGS. 
          UM, SO SINCE MAY OF 2024, STAFF HAS PARTICIPATED IN 40 PLUS MEETINGS RELATED TO BOND DEVELOPMENT, WHICH IS REALLY A, A BIG EFFORT. 
          AND THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE, UH, BOND ELECTION ADVISORY TASK FORCE MEETINGS THAT HAVE BEEN TAKING PLACE SINCE, UM, OCTOBER OF 2024. 
          SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE DONE BY CONVENING ALL THE DEPARTMENTS TOGETHER IS WORKING ON THESE GUIDING PRINCIPLES, TECHNICAL CRITERIA, AND SCORING MATRICES, WHICH IS THE METHODS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE USING TO EVALUATE THE PROJECTS, UM, AS THEY MOVE FORWARD. 
          UM, AND SO WE'VE TAKEN THE, THESE ARE ALL BASED ON THE CITYWIDE 
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STRATEGIC PLAN, UM, AS WELL AS RELEVANT DEPARTMENTAL SPECIFIC PLANNING DOCUMENTS. 
          SO THIS ISN'T JUST US GOING INTO A ROOM AND CREATING A BUNCH OF CRITERIA. 
          THIS IS BASED ON ALL THE GREAT WORK THAT ALL THE STAFF HAS DONE, UM, YOU KNOW, ACROSS ALL THE DEPARTMENTS. 
          AND USING THAT TO DEVELOP THE TECHNICAL, TECHNICAL CRITERIA AND SCORING MATRICES BASED ON DEPARTMENTAL NEEDS AS WELL AS THEIR EXPERTISE. 
          AND THEN WE USE A PROJECT CHARTERING PROCESS, WHICH WILL, UH, FURTHER DEVELOP THE SCOPE, SCHEDULE AND BUDGET, WHICH WE CAN USE TO PRIORITIZE THOSE PROJECTS. 
          UM, THESE ARE THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR THE 2026 BOND PROGRAM. 
          ALL OF THEM, UH, ARE TAKEN FROM THE CITYWIDE STRATEGIC PLAN, UH, EQUITY, AFFORDABILITY, INNOVATION, SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE, PROACTIVE PREVENTION AND CUSTOMER TRUST AND RELATIONSHIPS. 
          AS WE LOOK INTO, UM, WHAT WE'VE DONE, WHAT'S BEEN COMPLETE TO DATE, UM, DEPARTMENTS HAVE PRESENTED THESE GUIDING PRINCIPLES, TECHNICAL CRITERIA, AND THE MATRICES TO THE RESPECTIVE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. 
          UH, WE'VE OUTLINED THE SCHEDULE HERE SHOWING THE MAJOR MILESTONES, INCLUDING THE BOND ELECTION ADVISORY TASK FORCE UPDATE TO CITY COUNCIL IN JUNE OF 2025, UM, AND THE PRESENTATION OF THE DEPARTMENTAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT IN JULY OF 2025. 
          UM, WE'RE GONNA BE, UM, PURSUING ADDITIONAL UPDATES TO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS THIS SUMMER AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH, UM, ON THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT THROUGH THE FALL OF 2025. 
          THE SCHEDULE'S PIVOTED A LITTLE BIT HERE DUE TO THE TAX RATE ELECTION THAT'S GONNA BE COMING IN NOVEMBER. 
          WE DON'T WANT FOLKS TO GET KIND OF CONFUSED OF BOND VERSUS TAX RATES, SO WE'RE GONNA KICK THAT OFF, UM, IN EARLY NOVEMBER AFTER THE TRE UM, HAS MOVED FORWARD. 
          UM, AFTER THAT THERE'S GONNA BE A REDUCTION, UM, IN THAT THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT LIST, UM, WHEN IT WAS FIRST SUBMITTED WAS ABOUT $10 BILLION. 
          THE CURRENT REDUCED LIST IS AT $4.9 BILLION. 
          AND THAT REDUCTION WAS REALLY BASED ON BOND ELIGIBILITY AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          UM, THAT NUMBER IS GONNA HAVE TO GET DOWN CLOSE TO 700 MILLION, WHICH IS ABOUT 15% OF THE PROJECT LIST NOW. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE REALLY GOING THROUGH, TAKING IN THE COMMUNITY INPUT. 
          AND THEN STAFF IS GONNA COME FORWARD WITH A STAFF RECOMMENDATION BASED ON THE COMMUNITY INPUT, UM, AND THEN HAVE FURTHER PUBLIC, UM, ENGAGEMENT AROUND THAT STAFF RECOMMENDATION. 
          DID WE GET THAT RIGHT? AND THAT'LL HAPPEN IN THE SPRING OF 2026. 
          AND THEN FINALLY, THERE'LL BE A, A B TIFF RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL LATER IN THE SPRING. 
          AND THEN THE COUNCIL CALLING FOR A BOND ELECTION IN THE SUMMER OF 2026. 
          SO THIS IS A ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT THE WORK THAT WE'VE COMPLETED TO DATE. 
          UM, IT SHOWS THE BOND ELECTION TASK FORCE MEETING SCHEDULE. 
          UM, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, THAT INITIAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT WAS SENT TO COUNCIL IN JULY IN A, IN A MEMO, UM, AND ADDITIONAL PUBLIC OUTREACH TAKING PLACE THIS FALL. 
          AND THEN IN 2026, THE BIFF WILL BE MEETING TWICE A MONTH, UM, AS THAT 4 BILLION NEEDS ASSESSMENT GETS REDUCED DOWN TO THE APPROXIMATELY $700 MILLION, UH, BOND PACKAGE. 
          SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE, UM, AS WE LOOK THROUGH THIS AS WELL AND INTO THE SCHEDULE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, ALL THE PROJECTS THAT ARE PUT BEING PUT FORWARD IN THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT, UM, AND FOR EVALUATION, MEET ALL OF THE, UM, VARIOUS CRITERIA, PARTICULARLY THE CRITERIA THAT RELATE TO, UM, SUSTAINABILITY. 
          UM, AND SO ALL THE PROJECTS THAT ARE IN THERE MEET ALL THE COUNCIL DIRECTIVES. 
          AND AS WE MOVE FORWARD THROUGH THIS PROCESS, UM, YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION AT THE 2026 BOND DEVELOPMENT WEBSITE. 
          I MEANT TO INCLUDE THE LINK HERE, BUT IT'S AUSTIN TEXAS.GOV/DEPARTMENT/ 2026 BOND DEVELOPMENT. 
          OR IF YOU GOOGLE AUSTIN 2026 BOND, IT'LL COME UP THERE. 
          IT'S THE CITY'S SITE THERE. 
          SO WITH THAT, I'LL OPEN IT UP TO, UH, QUESTIONS. 
          SO I, I ADMITTEDLY, UM, I'M AWARE OF THE PROCESS TIMELINE, BUT I HAVEN'T BEEN FOLLOWING ALL THE, THE BIFF MM-HMM . 
          UH, MEETINGS CLOSELY OR THEIR AGENDAS, ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 
          SO, UM, I'M GONNA APOLOGIZE IF I ASK SOME SILLY QUESTIONS, BUT, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT, AND IT COMES OUT OF SOME CONVERSATIONS WE'VE HAD ON THIS BODY AND IN INCLUDING WITH YOU , UH, ABOUT, UM, WHAT WE'VE LEARNED FROM PAST BOND CYCLES IS LIKE, IT REALLY STRIKES ME LIKE I HAVE THIS CONCERN THAT THINGS ARE, THAT ARE VERY, VERY COMPLEX AND ALSO VERY, VERY EXPENSIVE, MAY ALSO BE VERY, VERY IMPORTANT. 
          MM-HMM . 
          AND LIKE, HOW DO WE, LIKE, IT'S REALLY EASY TO SAY LIKE, WE ARE GONNA DO THESE THINGS. 
          LIKE WE CAN GET A LOT MORE THINGS DONE FOR LESS MONEY, LIKE WHEN WE'RE PUTTING THIS TOGETHER IN THE BOND. 
          AND LIKE, IT'S ALL ABOUT LIKE THESE PRIORITY MATRICES THAT WE CREATE AND HOW DO WE WEIGH THINGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          BUT THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS AND, AND IT'S NOT GONNA SURPRISE YOU TO LEARN THAT. 
          I'M THINKING A LOT ABOUT NORTH LAMAR. 
          I'M REALLY GRIEVED ABOUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST BOND CYCLES. 
          UM, THE SAFETY CONCERNS, JUST THE DAY-TO-DAY, LIKE QUALITY OF LIFE CONCERNS THAT COMMUNITY HAS, JUST WALKING AROUND, GETTING TO THE BUS SAFELY, YOU KNOW, AND, YOU KNOW, NEGOTIATING, 
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CROSSING THE STREET, THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          UM, I FEEL, I REALLY DEEPLY FEEL, AND I AM THE DISTRICT FOUR REPRESENTATIVE TO THIS BODY, I REALLY FEEL THAT WE PROMISED THAT COMMUNITY SOME CHANGES AND WE WEREN'T ABLE TO DELIVER FOR THEM. 
          AND IT'S, WE'VE LEARNED, AND YOU'VE EXPLAINED TO US BEFORE, HOW EXTRAORDINARILY COMPLEX WITH WATERSHED RIGHT OF WAY, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT COMPETING INTERESTS IN THAT ISSUE, HOW COMPLICA COMPLEX THAT THAT AREA IS. 
          AT THE SAME TIME, I JUST FEEL HONESTLY SICK TO MY STOMACH. 
          LIKE WE JUST, THERE'S CERTAIN THINGS THAT ARE JUST SUPER, SUPER IMPORTANT THAT ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE AND COMPLICATED. 
          AND I'M JUST CONCERNED MAYBE YOU COULD SPEAK TO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PRIORITIZATION MATRIX, BECAUSE MY CONCERN IS THAT WE'RE GONNA, YOU KNOW, IF WE CAN ONLY DO 700 MILLION, THAT'S REALLY JUST A DROP IN THE BUCKET. 
          I COULD, WE COULD GO AHEAD AND SPEND 700 MILLION JUST ON SIDEWALKS, RIGHT? LIKE, WE COULD JUST QUEUE THAT UP AND JUST SPEND 700 MILLION ON SIDEWALKS IN A SECOND. 
          SO LIKE, UM, I GUESS I'M, I'M CURIOUS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW YOU'RE PRIORITIZING THAT AND MAYBE IF LIKE, THINGS THAT WERE PROMISED BEFORE, IF THAT SOMEHOW GETS A PRIORITY IN THE MATRIX AS WELL. 
          UM, YEAH, SO TO EXPAND ON THAT, FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA START OFF BY SAYING THAT WE ARE DOING WORK ON NORTH LAMAR. 
          WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN ON NORTH LAMAR IN TERMS OF FILLING IN SIDEWALK GAPS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          IT'S NOT THE FULL PROMISED VISION OF WHAT THAT WAS GOING TO LOOK LIKE IN THE 2016 BOND, BUT WE'RE IN THE PROCESS NOW OF, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A SERIES OF, I THINK THREE PEDESTRIAN HYBRID BEACONS THAT ARE GONNA BE GOING IN THERE IN THE NEXT COUPLE YEARS, AS WELL AS, UM, YOU KNOW, SIDEWALK, UM, IMPROVEMENTS AND FILLING IN GAPS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          NOW TO YOUR POINT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, PROMISES MADE AND, AND THAT IS ACTUALLY AN EVALUATION CRITERIA WHEN YOU GET INTO THE FULLY BUILT OUT EVALUATION MATRIX, UM, AS YOU MENTIONED, $700 MILLION CAN GO PRETTY QUICKLY, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE SPREADING IT ACROSS A LOT OF DEPARTMENTS AND THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT PRIORITIES IN THE CITY. 
          SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE REALLY GONNA BE GOING OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY AND LISTENING FOR HERE, ESPECIALLY IN, UM, YOU KNOW, THE NOVEMBER TIMEFRAME. 
          AND THEN AGAIN IN THE SPRING, ONCE THE ACTUAL PROJECTS ARE KIND OF IDENTIFIED SPECIFICALLY ON NORTH LAMAR. 
          UM, I KNOW COUNCIL MEMBER VELA SHARES YOUR OPINION AS WELL AS WE DO TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS, UH, TDOT, UM, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE THAT'S INVOLVED IN THAT AREA REALIZES THAT IMPROVEMENTS NEED TO BE MADE. 
          AND SO WE'RE HAVING, UM, YOU KNOW, ONGOING MEETINGS WITH TXDOT BECAUSE THAT IS A TDOT RIGHT AWAY. 
          UM, AND SO THERE'S A PIECE THERE FOR SURE THAT WE NEED TO WORK WITH THEM AND PARTNERING ON WHAT WE CAN DO THERE, UM, AS WELL AS WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS IN, IN WATERSHED AND, AND TPW TO, TO COME UP WITH A PLAN FOR THAT PROJECT. 
          AND THAT'S REALLY A GREAT EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING WHERE IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE TO FUND SORT OF THE INITIAL PLANNING AND DESIGN PHASE OF IT IN ONE BOND PROGRAM, AND THEN HAVE THAT ROLLOVER INTO THE NEXT ONE TO ACTUALLY FUND THE CONSTRUCTION. 
          BECAUSE THAT PROJECT IS SO BIG, SO COMPLICATED, IT'S GONNA TAKE YEARS TO JUST COMPLETE THE DESIGN. 
          AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE WORKING ON FOR 2026 IS SORT OF RESETTING ON WHAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED IN A SIX YEAR BOND TIMEFRAME. 
          AND INSTEAD OF DOING BONDS EVERY TWO YEARS OR FOUR YEARS, GETTING BACK ON A REGULAR SIX YEAR CYCLE OF, OF DOING THE BONDS AND HAVING A MORE COMPREHENSIVE BOND PROGRAM, RATHER THAN DOING, YOU KNOW, 2016 WAS MOBILITY AND 2018 WAS HOUSING AND 2020 WAS BACK TO MOBILITY AND JUST KIND OF JUMPING AROUND LIKE THAT, SETTING IT SO IT'S ON A MORE REGULAR CADENCE AND SHOWING THE, THE DELIVERY THAT WE CAN DELIVER THOSE PROJECTS ON THAT CADENCE. 
          I HEAR THAT, BUT I MEAN, IF WE FUND THE ENGINEERING AND DESIGN IN 2026 MM-HMM . 
          AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER BOND CYCLE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AFTER 2032 MM-HMM . 
          TO CHANGE THAT, THAT, AND THAT'S, THAT'S THE REALITY OF, OF WHERE WE'RE AT, UNFORTUNATELY. 
          AND LIKE I SAID, NOTHING IS SET IN STONE RIGHT NOW IN TERMS OF PROJECTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          THAT'S PART OF THE PROCESS THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW IS EVALUATING THOSE PROJECTS AND THE NEEDS ASSESSMENTS THAT, THAT COME FORWARD. 
          BUT WE'RE REALLY, AS YOU KNOW, THAT OUR, YOU KNOW, OUR CHALLENGE IS, IS BALANCING THE LIMITED AMOUNT OF FUNDS AVAILABLE AND MAKING SURE, UM, THAT WE'RE ABLE TO, TO DELIVER ON THOSE PROJECTS IN THAT SIX YEAR TIMEFRAME. 
          SURE. 
          I'LL, UH, LOOK AROUND FOR OTHER QUESTIONS. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER KAMAN. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, I NOTICED IN THE, THE INITIAL REQUEST LIST AND THAT, I THINK IT'S THE $4.9 BILLION SPREADSHEET THAT, UM, EVERY SINGLE THING IN THE TRANSPORTATION BESIDES THE ACT PLAN WAS A FUNDING A PROGRAM, RATHER ANY RATHER THAN SETS OF PROJECTS MM-HMM . 
          AND WHEN THOSE, WHEN WE'RE TRIMMING DOWN AS WE GET INTO WHAT'S GONNA BE THE FINAL RECOMMENDATION TO GO BEFORE VOTERS, ARE WE GOING TO KEEP WITH THE IDEA THAT WE'RE FUNDING THINGS PROGRAMMATICALLY BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE NAME PROJECTS AND THEN YOU CAN GET LIKE 20% OF THE WAY DONE AND YOU ONLY HAVE A MILLION DOLLARS, WELL, YOU CAN'T START CONSTRUCTION. 
          SO THAT MILLION DOLLARS CAN'T REALLY BE USED ON ANYTHING ELSE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          YOU KNOW. 
          YEAH. 
          BUT, UM, ARE WE GOING TO HAVE LIKE A LIST OF THINGS WITHIN THOSE PROGRAMS THAT ARE LIKE PRIORITIES OR ARE WE JUST GONNA BE, OH, LIKE WITH URBAN TRAILS AND SIDEWALKS, THEY'VE, WE'VE 
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LIKE ALREADY APPROVED PLANS THAT TIER ONE, TIER TWO, IT, AND SO WITH THE NON YES. 
          . 
          SO, TO, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, BOTH REALLY. 
          I MEAN, IN THE MIX OF PROJECTS THERE'S GONNA BE NAMED PROJECTS THAT ARE IN THERE AND THERE'S GONNA BE PROGRAMMATIC BUCKETS. 
          LIKE WE'VE ALWAYS DELIVERED THINGS. 
          SIDEWALKS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE WHERE THEY HAVE THE SIDEWALKS PROGRAM, BUT THEY HAVE A LIST OF PROJECTS THAT ARE THEIR PRIORITIES. 
          AND SO THAT'S GONNA BE INCORPORATED INTO THAT. 
          IT'S LIKE, OKAY, WELL WE'RE FUNDING, YOU KNOW, THE 200 SIDEWALKS THAT ARE IN THERE AND WE WON'T BE ABLE TO FUND ALL OF THEM. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, HERE'S THE PRIORITIES AS WE GO THROUGH THOSE. 
          SO THERE WILL BE PROGRAMMATIC BUCKETS IN THERE, BUT THE PROGRAMMATIC BUCKETS ARE GONNA BE A LITTLE BIT MORE DEFINED IN TERMS OF WHAT THE ELIGIBLE PROJECTS ARE, AND THEN FIGURING OUT HOW FAR WE CAN GET DOWN ON THAT LIST. 
          AND IF YOU GET TO PROJECT FIVE AND IT'S LIKE, WELL, PROJECT FIVE NEEDS RIGHT AWAY ACQUISITION AND ALL THESE OTHER KIND OF THINGS, IT'S LIKE, WELL, LET'S MOVE ON TO PROJECT SIX AND FIGURE OUT WHAT WE CAN DO WITH PROJECT FIVE AND KIND OF MOVE THROUGH THE, THE LIST THAT WAY. 
          ON THE PROGRAMMATIC SIDE, I THINK THAT SOUNDS GREAT. 
           , I THINK THAT'S A, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT WAY TO DO IT BECAUSE I THINK THE BIG, UM, DOUGHERTY ART CENTER MM-HMM . 
          YEAH. 
          WAS THE, THE ONE THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO ANYTHING WITH OR DO ANYTHING WITH THAT MONEY. 
          SO YEAH, I WOULD REALLY HOPE THAT WE CAN AVOID THAT SITUATION. 
          YEAH. 
          WELL, AND JUST TO BE CLEAR ON THE DO TO ART CENTER, THE EARLY ARTS CENTER IS ACTUALLY A GREAT EXAMPLE OF A PROJECT THAT WE SAID, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ACTUAL NUMBER WAS, BUT, YOU KNOW, $50 MILLION TO BUILD THIS FACILITY. 
          BUT THEN WE GOT TACKED ON WHERE WE HAVE TO BUILD A PARKING GARAGE. 
          NOW IT'S LIKE, WELL HOLD ON, THAT 50 MILLION DIDN'T INCLUDE THE PARKING GARAGE. 
          THAT'S ANOTHER 20 ON TOP OF IT. 
          AND SO THEN WE GET CAUGHT IN THIS EXACT SITUATION WHERE, UM, WE UNDERFUND THE PROJECTS AND THEN WE CAN'T DELIVER ON 'EM. 
          'CAUSE WE HAVE TO EITHER SCRAMBLE TO FIGURE OUT A KIND OF FRANKENSTEIN PROJECT TO PUT TOGETHER TO DELIVER FOR THE MONEY THAT WE HAVE, OR GO BACK AND TRY AND FIND ADDITIONAL FUNDING PLACES. 
          SO THAT'S A GREAT EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO AVOID WITH THIS PLANNING UPFRONT. 
          AND IF WE COME DOWN TO IT AND, YOU KNOW, THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD AND PEOPLE SAY, WELL, I WANT A PARKING GARAGE HERE, AND I WANT THIS TO BE 10,000 SQUARE FEET BIGGER AND I WANT THIS AND I WANT THAT, IT'S LIKE, WELL, OKAY, THAT'S FINE, BUT THAT MEANS THAT PRICE IS GOING UP, WHICH MEANS YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO MAKE REDUCTIONS FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE TO MAKE THE BUDGET WORK. 
          SO, YEAH. 
          UH, UH, VICE CHAIR, UH, SCHUMACHER, WHATEVER YOU WANNA CALL  . 
          SO I, OKAY. 
          I HAD SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT SOME OF THE PROGRAMS LISTED UNDER TP W'S, UH, UM, NEEDS WERE. 
          I WAS WONDERING IF THAT'S BETTER DIRECTED TO YOU OR IF I SHOULD SHOOT AN EMAIL ON OVER TO PROBABLY SHOOT AN EMAIL ON OVER. 
          I'M NOT, THEY KNOW MUCH MORE ABOUT THE DETAILS OF THEIR PROGRAMS. FAIR ENOUGH. 
          LEMME JUST ASK YOU ONE SUPER SPECIFIC QUESTION THAT I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT. 
          WHEN, WHEN PEOPLE ARE LISTING THEIR DEPARTMENT PRIORITY IS ONE HIGH OR IS 10 HIGH, ONE IS HIGH, ONE IS THE HIGHEST PRIORITY, 10 IS THE LOWEST. 
          SO IF YOU NOTICE SOME OF THEM IN THE LIST, ALL WERE NUMBER ONE PRIORITIES. 
          YEAH. 
          WHICH, AS WE ALL KNOW, IF EVERYTHING'S A PRIORITY, NOTHING'S A PRIORITY. 
          SO IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE WORKING THROUGH AS WE GO THROUGH TO GET THAT REDUCED LIST IS FIGURING OUT, OKAY, WELL, I, I GET IT, EVERYTHING'S A PRIORITY, BUT WHAT IS THE REAL PRIORITY? IF YOU ONLY HAVE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE $200 MILLION IN NEED, BUT YOU ONLY HAVE $50 MILLION TO SPEND, WHAT, WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO? YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE SUGGESTION THERE? AND, AND SO LET ME ASK YOU THIS TOO. 
          SO WE, UM, WE'RE PLANNING ON, ON DOING A RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOND ADVISORY TASK FORCE ON THE TRANSPORTATION ITEMS MM-HMM . 
          AS YOU GUYS ARE ALSO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, PURSUING YOUR PARALLEL PATH. 
          WOULD THAT BE HELPFUL TO ALSO ADDRESS TO YOU IN TERMS OF WHAT THIS BODY THINKS SHOULD BE A PRIORITY GOING FOR? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. 
          IN, IN AN IDEAL WORLD, ALL OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE ALL GONNA COME TOGETHER AND ALIGN, AND IT'S ALL GONNA BE THE SAME PROJECT. 
          NOW, IN THE REAL WORLD, IT'S PROBABLY NOT GONNA HAPPEN, BUT WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO GET AS CLOSE AS WE CAN AND TAKING IN THAT, THAT INPUT IS, IS REALLY HELPFUL. 
          AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW, IS WORKING ON GATHERING THAT INPUT NOT ONLY FROM, YOU KNOW, ALL THE VARIOUS BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, BUT ALSO FROM THE PUBLIC TO SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT, HERE'S THE LIST. 
          WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK ABOUT IT? AND SO I KNOW THE, THE BTA, IS THAT WHAT WE'VE SETTLED ON CALLING THEM THE B TAF, B DIFF B DIFF I KNOW THE, THE B DIFF, UH, I, I KNOW THEIR TIMELINE. 
          YEAH. 
          I'M JUST GONNA CALL THE ADVISORY TASK FORCE. 
          THAT'S FINE. 
          I KNOW THEIR TIMELINE. 
          WHAT'S YOUR TIMELINE IN TERMS OF WHEN FEEDBACK WOULD BE HELPFUL TOWARDS CS? WHENEVER YOU CAN, WHENEVER YOU GET IT TO US IS, IS FINE. 
          UM, LIKE I SAID, WE'VE GOT THAT, THAT SAME LIST WE'RE WORKING THROUGH KIND OF INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS, UM, AND SCORING THOSE, EVALUATING THOSE INTERNALLY. 
          UM, BUT YEAH, WHENEVER YOU CAN GET IT TO US, OBVIOUSLY BEFORE, YOU KNOW, JANUARY WOULD BE GREAT. 
          UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE TOMORROW OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 
          SO YEAH, COMMISSIONERS, OTHERS HAVE QUESTIONS, ESPECIALLY THOSE ONLINE. 
          I FEEL LIKE I'M ALWAYS WORRIED ABOUT NEGLECTING ONLINE PEOPLE IF ANYONE HAS A QUESTION FOR OUR PRESENTER. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          I THINK WE MIGHT BE DONE. 
          THANK YOU AS ALWAYS FOR YOUR TIME. 
          I WILL SAY TOO, JUST TO ADD, YEAH, THE BT TIP DOES HAVE A MOBILITY, UH, WORKING GROUP. 
          AND SO IF YOU'RE NOT AWARE OF THAT, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE, UM, UPCOMING MOBILITY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS. 
          SO THAT'D BE ALSO A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR Y'ALL TO GET IN FRONT OF THEM AND KIND OF SHARE YOUR, UM, INPUT AND EXPERTISE THERE AS WELL. 
          EXCELLENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANKS. 
          AWESOME. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THAT DOES 
          [4. Discussion and presentation regarding the Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Overview and Update]
BRING US TO ITEM NUMBER FOUR, 
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WHICH IS DISCUSSION AND PRESENTATION REGARDING THE CLIMATE. 
          LET ME START OVER. 
          CLIMATE POLLUTION REDUCTION, GRANT OVERVIEW AND UPDATE. 
          AND OUR PRESENTER IS KRISTEN PIPKIN FROM TPW, I THINK, I THINK I'M MAKING SURE I'VE GOT THIS RIGHT. 
          UM, ALL MY, MY PIECES TOGETHER HERE. 
          UM, HI, MY NAME IS, UH, KRISTEN PIPKIN. 
          I AM THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR, UH, FOR THE CLIMATE POLLUTION REDUCTION GRANT PROGRAM. 
          I AM JOINED HERE TODAY BY, UH, JACOB, UH, BARRETT. 
          HE IS A SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT AND THE LEAD OF OUR TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AS WELL. 
          UH, JACOB WILL BE HERE IF THERE'S IT'S CERTAIN KIND OF SUBJECT OR EXPERTISE THAT WE NEED. 
          JACOB WILL BE HERE TO BE ABLE TO HELP PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THOSE QUESTIONS AS WELL. 
          UH, TODAY I AM, I'M GOING TO SHARE A FOCUSED UPDATE ON THE AUDIENCE RESEARCH STUDY, WHICH IS A, A COMPONENT OF THE CLIMATE POLLUTION REDUCTION GRANT. 
          UM, AND WE ARE EXCITED TO KIND OF GET STARTED AND KIND OF DIVE INTO THIS WITH Y'ALL. 
          OKAY. 
          TODAY'S PRES PRESENTATION, WE'LL PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE GRANT, AND THEN WE'LL KIND OF DIVE IN AND HAVE THAT FOCUS DISCUSSION SPECIFICALLY ON THE AUDIENCE RESEARCH STUDY. 
          BUT SINCE THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE'VE COME TO THIS BODY TO PRESENT, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE AND PROVIDE THAT HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF OVER WHAT THE CLIMATE POLLUTION REDU REDUCTION GRANT IS. 
          SO WHAT IS THE, WHAT IS CPRG OR THE CLIMATE POLLUTION REDUCTION GRANT? IT IS A FEDERALLY FUNDED PROGRAM THAT IS ADMINISTERED THROUGH THE EPA TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT PLANS THAT HAVE TO DO WITH CLIMATE POLLUTION REDUCTION. 
          THERE ARE TWO PRIMARY FUNDING PROGRAMS THROUGH THE EPA. 
          THERE ARE PLANNING GRANT PROGRAMS AND THERE ARE IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS THANKS TO COUNCIL SUPPORT AND THE WORK OF OUR CITY LEADERS. 
          IN 2023, UH, THE OFFICE OF CLIMATE ACTION AND RESILIENCE SUCCESSFULLY APPLIED FOR A PLANNING GRANT TO DEVELOP THE CLIMATE OR THE PRIORITY CLIMATE ACTION PLAN. 
          BECAUSE OF THIS WORK, UH, LAST YEAR, UH, IN THE WORK OF THE GREAT CITY, UH, THIS ENABLED THE AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION, AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS TO SUCCESSFULLY APPLY FOR A $47.8 MILLION IMPLEMENTATION GRANT. 
          AND THIS GRANT IS CALLED MOVING CENTRAL TEXAS. 
          A VISION LIKE THIS CAN'T BE DONE ON ITS OWN. 
          IT DOES TAKE A VILLAGE. 
          IN THIS CASE, A SEVEN AGENCY PARTNERSHIP WENT TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE THIS GOAL. 
          THE AGENCIES ARE SHOWN ON THE SCREEN, BUT I'LL KIND OF WALK THROUGH 'EM AS WELL. 
          UH, THIS INCLUDES TDOT CAP, COG CARTS, CAMPO CAP, METRO MOVABILITY, AND THE CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          OUR VISION IS TO REDUCE THE VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED IN THE, IN THE SHORT TERM, WHILE OUR REGION DEVELOPS A PREMIER MULTIM MOLAR MULTIMODAL, UH, TRANSPORTATION NETWORK, LEVERAGING THIS MOMENT TO CREATE A NEW SUSTAINABLE RIDERSHIP GROUP IN CENTRAL TEXAS. 
          AS WE'VE KIND OF PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED AND THINKING ABOUT THE WORK THAT THE BOND PROGRAM IS, IS DOING AS WELL, YOU CAN SEE THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT OUR CITY IS DO DOING, UM, OVER THE NEXT DECADE. 
          SPECIFICALLY, YOU KNOW, MOBILITY. 
          SHORT-TERM CHALLENGES INCLUDE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH I 35, THE OAK HILL PARKWAY, AND PROJECT CONNECT AND PROJECT CONNECT, WHICH LIMITS THE CAPACITY ALONG ALL OF OUR CENTRAL TEXAS ROADWAYS. 
          THROUGH THESE SHORT TERM CHALLENGES, THE GRANT WILL LEVERAGE THIS MOMENT TO ADVANCE THE OPTIONS TO REDUCE THE DEMAND ON OUR ROADWAYS NOW AND TO SUPPORT OUR FUTURE MOBILITY NEEDS. 
          SO HERE, THIS SLIDE KINDA PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF THE, OF THE, OF THE GRANT PROGRAM. 
          UH, THE GRANT PROGRAM, UH, KICKED OFF IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR. 
          IT IS A FIVE YEAR PROGRAM THAT WILL END AT THE END OF DECEMBER, 2029. 
          AT A HIGH LEVEL, THE GRANT INCLUDES TWO PRIMARY PHASES. 
          IT'S, UH, A PLANNING PHASE AND AN IMPLEMENTATION PHASE. 
          AND THAT'S KIND OF DETAILED ON, ON THE SCHEDULE ITSELF. 
          THROUGH THE FULL GRANT TERM, OUR TEAM WILL BE WORKING CLOSELY WITH OUR COALITION PARTNERS TO COLLABORATE AND COORDINATE ON THE KEY DELIVERABLES 
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OF THE GRANT, WHICH INCLUDES THINGS LIKE, UH, IMPROVING ACCESS TO TRANSIT, ACCESS TO THE BIKE SHARE SYSTEMS, RIDE SHARING, AND OTHER TOOLS THAT SUPPORT A MORE MULTIMODAL C CITY IN REGION. 
          ONE OF THE KEY COMPONENTS OF THE GRANT IS THE MARKETING STRATEGY. 
          THE GRANT INCLUDES APPROXIMATELY 9 MILLION OF THE $47 MILLION GRANT FOR THESE SERVICES AND THE MATERIALS THAT WE NEED TO, TO DO A REALLY ROBUST MARKETING CAMPAIGN. 
          THE MARKETING STRATEGY INCLUDES TWO PRIMARY SCOPE AREAS. 
          IT INCLUDES THE AUDIENCE RESEARCH THAT WE'LL WE'LL TALK HERE TODAY ABOUT, AND THEN ALSO CREATIVE MARKETING SERVICES. 
          THE AUDIENCE RESEARCH CONSULTANT IS RELLI, AND THEY WERE ONBOARDED IN JULY OF THIS YEAR. 
          SO WHAT AND WHY ARE WE, UH, CONDUCTING THE AUDIENCE RESEARCH WORK? THE THREE PRIMARY REASONS WE ARE DOING THIS IS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW PEOPLE TRAVEL IN CENTRAL TEXAS. 
          WE ALSO WANNA UNDERSTAND WHY OR WHY NOT PEOPLE ARE CHOOSING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AS A SERVICE. 
          THESE FINDINGS WILL HELP US, WILL HELP INFORM OUR FUTURE MARKETING CAMPAIGN THAT WILL FOSTER A SHIFT TOWARD, TOWARDS MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION. 
          THE DATA WILL BE COLLECTED THROUGH SURVEYS AND FOCUS GROUPS THROUGHOUT THE CENTRAL TEXAS REGION. 
          AND I'M GONNA FOCUS ON THAT POINT SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION THAT TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS HAVE WITH HAS WITHIN OUR CITY, BUT WITHIN THE KIND OF FIVE, SIX COUNTY REGION OF CENTRAL TEXAS, THAT DATA IS MORE LIMITED. 
          SO THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING AS PART OF THE GRANT IS GOING TO GO OUTSIDE OF THE CITY LIMITS AND LOOK AT THE, THE REGIONAL GROUP AND THE AUDIENCES THAT USE, UH, OUR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS. SO KIND OF LOOKING AT THE SCHEDULE ITSELF, UM, THE SCHEDULE, AGAIN, EVERYTHING ON THE GRANT IS MOVING AT A VERY, UH, AGGRESSIVE PACE. 
          UH, WE KICKED OFF THIS CONTRACT IN JULY AND THROUGH JULY. 
          IN AUGUST, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH OUR CONSULTANT ON GETTING EXISTING RESEARCH DATA THAT'S AVAILABLE, DEVELOPING THE SURVEY INSTRUMENTS THAT WE NEED, AND PREPARING THE OUTREACH MATERIALS FOR THE AUDIENCE RESEARCH, MARKETING WORK AT THIS POINT. 
          AND REALLY AS OF TONIGHT, UH, WE ARE SHIFTING TO DOING OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WORK. 
          REALLY EXCITED TO REPORT THAT, UH, TONIGHT WE'LL LAUNCH OUR SURVEY INSTRUMENT AND, AND THE MARKETING WORK THAT WE WILL BE DOING WITH THAT. 
          UH, BUT THE MATERIALS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE, AND I'LL PROVIDE THE CODE HERE IN A SECOND. 
          BUT WE WANT TO USE THIS OPPORTUNITY IN YOUR BOARD, IN YOUR NETWORKS TO START TO ADVANCE THE WORK THAT WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO GET THE FEEDBACK FROM OUR COMMUNITY. 
          ON THE, UM, THE POINTS THAT WE HAD ALREADY MENTIONED, THIS, UH, SURVEY AND THE FOCUS GROUPS, THIS WORK WILL CONTINUE, UH, THROUGH MID-NOVEMBER. 
          SO JUST BEFORE THANKSGIVING, UH, WE THOUGHT THIS, THIS, THIS TIME IS REALLY A GOOD TIME TO KIND OF GET PEOPLE ENGAGED IN THIS WORK AS PEOPLE GO BACK TO SCHOOL. 
          ALL OF THE FALL PROGRAMS AND THE COMMUNITY EVENTS TAKE PLACE, WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GREAT OP, A GREAT WAY TO BE ABLE TO KIND OF LEVERAGE THIS MOMENT TO GET A, TO GET A MORE ROBUST RESPONSE ON THE SURVEY RESULTS THAT WE NEED. 
          AFTER MID-NOVEMBER, WE WILL WE'LL, UH, TURN INTO KIND OF DATA ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPING THE REPORT, WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE, UM, ABOUT MID-JANUARY. 
          AND THAT INFORMATION FROM THE REPORT WILL THEN BE TURNED AROUND TO OUR CREATIVE MARKETING CONSULTANT WHO WILL USE THAT TO, TO DEVELOP MORE KIND OF TARGETED MARKETING CAMP, UH, CAMPAIGNS IN THE NEW YEAR. 
          SO WHAT AUDIENCES ARE WE TARGETING? YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I'VE MENTIONED BROADLY THAT IT IS PEOPLE WITHIN THE CENTRAL TEXAS REGION. 
          UH, WE HAVE THREE KIND OF PRIMOR PRI OR I GUESS, PRIORITY GROUPS OF PEOPLE THAT WE ARE, THAT WE ARE LOOKING TO GET, UH, FEEDBACK RESPONSES FROM, UH, WITHIN GROUP. 
          UH, ONE INC IT INCLUDES THE REGIONAL COMMUTERS, SO PEOPLE THAT ARE TRAVELING FROM MAYNARD ELGIN, IF YOU'RE TRAVELING IN FROM ANO OR BASTROP INTO AUSTIN TO WORK, WE WANNA HEAR FROM THOSE PEOPLE AND WE WANNA UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEIR LIMITATIONS ARE TO USING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AS AN OPTION. 
          IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE WANNA, WE WANNA TARGET YOUNG PROFESSIONALS. 
          UH, WE WANNA LOOK AT THE GIG WORKERS AS WELL, LIKE WHAT ARE PEOPLE DOING TO KIND OF GET INTO THE CITY. 
          UH, THE THIRD GROUP IS THAT THE TOURISTS, THE, UH, THE KINDA THE RECREATIONAL USERS OF, UH, OF OUR, OF OUR SYSTEMS AND STUDENTS AS WELL. 
          BUT THOSE ARE KIND OF, WE REALLY ARE LOOKING KIND OF FAR AND WIDE AT A BROAD RANGE OF USER GROUPS TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND HOW PEOPLE MOVE THROUGH OUR CITY AND LOOKING AT KIND OF 
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THE QUESTIONS THAT WE'LL BE COLLECTING. 
          SO, UH, AS PART OF THE, SO I MENTIONED THAT THERE'S GONNA BE A SURVEY AND THERE'S ALSO THE FOCUS GROUPS ON THE SLIDE. 
          RIGHT NOW WE'RE SHOWING YOU KIND OF WITHIN KIND OF THREE BUCKETS OF, OF QUESTIONS THAT WE HAVE, SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT FOR OUR FOCUS GROUPS. 
          AND WE'LL BE FOCUSING, WE'LL BE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, QUESTIONS THAT RELATE TO, YOU KNOW, GETTING FEEDBACK ON COMMUNITY VALUES ON THEIR, SPECIFICALLY ON THE USER'S KIND OF CURRENT COMMUTES, AND THEN ALSO THE COMMUNITY PREFERENCES. 
          SO THAT'S SOME OF THE INFORMATION WE'LL BE COLLECTING THROUGH OUR FOCUS GROUPS. 
          AND THEN WE'LL HAVE KIND OF OUR MORE DETAILED ONLINE SURVEY. 
          AND SO AS OF TONIGHT, AS OF FIVE O'CLOCK THIS EVENING, THIS QR CODE IS LIVE AND YOU CAN CLICK ON IT AND YOU CAN TAKE YOUR PHONE OUT RIGHT NOW AND YOU CAN ACCESS IT AND START TO KIND OF WORK YOUR WAY THROUGH THE SURVEY. 
          I REALLY HOPE THAT YOU WILL SHARE THIS WITH YOUR NETWORKS AS WELL TO HELP US START SPREADING THE WORD. 
          'CAUSE WE ARE LOOKING TO GET A VERY ROBUST PIECE OF FEEDBACK, AND THERE'S NO LIMITATION ON WHAT WE CAN DO. 
          I THINK THE MORE DATA WE CAN COLLECT, THE BETTER, AND IT WILL NOT ONLY SERVE THE PURPOSE OF OUR GRANT, BUT I, IT WILL DEFINITELY SERVE THE PURPOSE OF OUR REGIONAL PARTNERS AS WELL. 
          'CAUSE AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT CARTS, WE HAVE CAP METRO, AND THEY ARE INTERESTED IN THIS INFORMATION. 
          UH, TXDOT CAP COG, WE HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHO WANT THIS FEEDBACK AS WELL FOR THEIR ONGOING OPERATIONS AS WELL. 
          BUT IT ALL STARTS WITH KIND OF THE, THE CLICK OF THE QR CODE AND GETTING IT OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY. 
          SO PLEASE SHARE, PLEASE SHARE THIS, UH, WITH YOUR NETWORKS. 
          UH, AND THEN KIND OF TO, TO KIND OF START TO KIND OF WRAP THIS UP, YOU KNOW, FROM THE, FROM, UH, THE AUDIENCE RESEARCH, YOU KNOW, OUR FINDINGS WILL HELP US BETTER UNDERSTAND WHY OUR COMMUNITY CONTINUES TO RELY ON SINGLE OCCUPANCY VEHICLES TO TRAVEL AND HELP OUR TEAM BE STRATEGIC WITH OUR MARKETING CAMPAIGN. 
          AND ULTIMATE LEADING TO A MORE SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME OF THE GRANT AND HELPING US MOVE THE NEEDLE ON OUR LONG-TERM TRENDS. 
          BECAUSE AS WE KNOW, THE, THE GRANT LASTS FIVE YEARS, BUT WE ARE REALLY TRYING TO LEVERAGE THIS OPPORTUNITY OF PEOPLE HAVING TO NAVIGATE SOME REALLY TOUGH COMMUTE SITUATIONS. 
          WITH EVERYTHING GOING UNDER CONSTRUCTION, WE'RE TRYING TO LEVERAGE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO GO, THERE MIGHT BE A BETTER WAY TO TRAVEL. 
          THE PEOPLE MIGHT BE MORE OPEN-MINDED TO THIS. 
          SO IF WE CAN DO THIS WORK AS PART OF THE GRANT, UH, WITH O THE WORK OF THE, THE CONSTRUCTIONS PROJECTS DON'T STOP AFTER FIVE YEARS. 
          IT'S GONNA LAST FROM 10 TO 15 YEARS. 
          SO WE'RE HOPING THAT THIS SETS THE STAGE FOR THOSE LONGER TERM TRENDS AFTER THE GRANT IS OVER AS WELL. 
          ALSO, DURING THIS TIME, WE HAVE TO ALSO RECOGNIZE OVER A PERIOD OF 10 TO 15 YEARS YOU DO HAVE WORKFORCE TURNOVERS. 
          DURING THAT TIME, THERE ARE GONNA BE PEOPLE KIND OF COMING INTO THE WORKFORCE THAT THIS MIGHT BE THE ONLY WAY THAT THEY KNOW TO TRAVEL. 
          AND SO THAT WILL HELP KIND OF BUILD THAT CULTURE OF A MORE KIND OF PUBLIC, YOU KNOW, TRANSPORTATION KIND OF TRANSIT TYPE CULTURE WITHIN THE CI WITHIN THE CENTRAL TEXAS REGION AS WELL. 
          AND THAT IS OUR HOPE, AND THAT'S KIND OF THE GOALS OF THE GRANT TOO. 
          SO, UH, AGAIN, NEXT STEPS. 
          I THINK I'VE KIND OF MADE THIS COMMENT WITH THE QR CODE ALREADY, BUT YOU KNOW HOW YOU CAN HELP ABOUT YOUR INPUT MATTERS. 
          UM, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE, PLEASE TAKE THE SURVEY. 
          UH, PLEASE SIGN UP FOR A FOCUS GROUP. 
          THE SAME QR CODE WILL TAKE YOU TO BOTH, UH, LINKS AND ABILITIES TO, UH, TO SIGN UP, UH, WITH THE FOCUS GROUPS. 
          I'LL KIND OF MENTION IF YOU, IF YOU GO TO THAT PAGE TO SIGN UP, YOU'LL ALSO SEE, UH, THAT THERE IS A LOTTERY FOR, UH, A HUNDRED DOLLARS HEB GIFT CARD. 
          IF YOU PARTICIPATE IN IT, THERE'LL BE A CHANCE FOR YOU TO ALSO WIN THAT, WHICH, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY, EVERYBODY LOVES HEB AND IT'S ALWAYS A, A GREAT THING TO HAVE AVAILABLE TO YOU. 
          UM, BUT THAT, THAT PARTICIPATION WILL HELP US AS WELL. 
          UH, AND THEN ALSO AS I MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, SHARING IT WITH YOUR, WITH YOUR NETWORKS TO BROADEN THE OUTREACH, UH, YOU'LL BE SUMMING IT, BE SEEING SOME OF OUR MARKETING, UH, MAR UH, OUR MARKETING OF THIS WORK GO OUT OVER THE NEXT MONTH AS WELL. 
          UH, AND SO YOU'LL SEE THAT IN THE MOBILITY NEWSLETTER AND OTHER, OTHER, UH, OTHER I GUESS NEWS MEDIUMS THAT, THAT OUR DEPARTMENT HAS TO SHARE THIS INFORMATION, BUT WORD OF MOUTH IS ALWAYS THE BEST. 
          SO, UM, WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT AND WE'LL ALSO KIND OF JUST OPEN UP THE FLOOR TO ANY QUESTIONS NOW. 
          YEAH, I HAVE A, UH, SOME QUESTIONS. 
          SO I THINK THIS IS, UM, EXCITING WORK. 
          INTERESTING WORK. 
          I, I DEFINITELY AGREE. 
          IT, IT FEELS LIKE WE DON'T KNOW PROBABLY THE PERCEPTIONS OR, YOU KNOW, VIEWPOINTS OF PEOPLE THAT MAY LIVE OUTSIDE THE CITY OF AUSTIN OR PARTICULARLY MAYBE OUTSIDE THE CAP METRO SERVICE AREA. 
          MM-HMM . 
          OR SOME OF THE CONTRACTED SERVICE AREAS THAT THEY HAVE. 
          UM, UH, AS WE MOVE FARTHER OUT, PROBABLY WE KNOW LESS, I IMAGINE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, WORKING AT UT, WHICH IS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE OFTEN, YOU KNOW, TO SORT OF WITH THE SALARIES AT UT AUSTIN AND YOU KNOW, TO GET A SINGLE FAMILY HOME, A LOT OF TIMES I'M TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO'VE MOVED, YOU KNOW, PRETTY, PRETTY 
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FAR OUT WHEN THEY MOVED TO THE AREA OR WHEN THEY DECIDED TO BUY A HOME. 
          AND I THINK THAT, I THINK THAT THERE'S A, UM, UH, A SORT OF A LACK OF INFORMATION OR LIKE REALISTIC INFORMATION AT THE TIME OF WHEN THEY PURCHASE THEIR HOME OR DECIDE TO RENT A HOME AS LIKE, OF WHAT THAT COMMUTE IS REALLY GONNA BE LIKE. 
          MM-HMM . 
          AND ESPECIALLY FOR PEOPLE WHO'VE MADE A DECISION TO BUY SOMETIMES IN A PRETTY FAR AREA, WHEN THEY START REALIZING WHAT THAT'S REALLY LIKE. 
          AND SO SOMETIMES WHEN I'VE BEEN INTERVIEWING YOUNGER EMPLOYEES AND THEY TALK ABOUT WHERE THEY MIGHT RENT, I'M LIKE, WHY DON'T YOU TRY THAT OUT? LIKE, WHY DON'T YOU LIKE GO THROUGH A RUN THROUGH AND SEE WHAT THAT'S REALLY LIKE, YOU KNOW? 'CAUSE MY ADVICE IS LIVE CLOSER IN AND TAKE THE BUS, YOU KNOW? UM, AND SO PEOPLE REALLY JUST DIDN'T LIKE, THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT WHAT'S AFFORDABLE. 
          THEY'RE ONLY LOOKING AT THE HOUSE, BUT THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE THE HOUSING PRICE, BUT THEY'RE NOT LOOKING AT THE TOTAL HOUSEHOLD AFFORDABILITY, WHICH INCLUDES LIKE DRIVING ON A TOLL ROAD EVERY DAY OR MAINTAINING THEIR CAR, OR YOU KNOW, PAYING CAR INSURANCE OR, YOU KNOW, ALL THOSE, THOSE PIECES. 
          THEY'RE NOT REALLY CALCULATING THAT INTO, UH, THE TIME THAT THEY'RE WASTING ON THE ROAD, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          AND SO LIKE, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN PLACES AND THEY MIGHT TELL US WHEN WE ASK THEM, THEY MIGHT TELL US WE WANNA USE TRANSIT, BUT LIKE OUR OPTIONS TO SERVE THEM ARE LIMITED. 
          RIGHT? WE JUST HEARD A PRESENTATION FROM CAT METRO THAT TALKED ABOUT THEIR SERVICE PLAN CHANGES AND SOME OF THE CONSTRAINTS THAT THEY'RE DEALING WITH IN TERMS OF THEIR FUNDING. 
          AND I'M SURE I KNOW THAT THAT'S GONNA GO FOR CARTS AND ANY KIND OF ENTITY THAT'S DOING ANY KIND OF FUNDING OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRANSIT. 
          AND I'M NOT SURE, YOU KNOW, EVEN IF WE ENTER DIFFERENT ECONOMIC TIMES JUST WITHIN THE STATE THAT WE LIVE IN, THAT'S JUST OUR REALITY IS GONNA BE CONSTRAINED, I THINK. 
          SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FIX THAT, BUT I DO THINK THAT THERE'S A LACK OF INFORMATION THAT PEOPLE HAVE WHEN THEY, AT THE TIME OF DECIDING WHERE TO LIVE. 
          AND I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO LIKE FIX THAT INFORMATION WISE FOR PEOPLE. 
          I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FIX THAT, BUT I THINK THAT STARTING TO FIND OUT WHAT PEOPLE'S RATIONALE, LIKE THE QUESTION OF LIKE, WHY DO YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA, I THINK IS A GREAT ONE TO START WITH. 
          AND IF IT WAS LIKE, I COULDN'T AFFORD A HOME IN AUSTIN, WELL, I THINK THAT THAT JUST GIVES US A LOT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WE NEED TO BUILD MORE HOMES WHERE PEOPLE COULD, YOU KNOW, TAKE TRANSIT IF THAT'S THEIR INTEREST. 
          SO ANYWAY, UM, THAT'S PROBABLY NOT WITHIN THE SCOPE OF YOUR PROJECT, BUT YOU CAN RESPOND OR NOT. 
          I JUST, I GUESS A LONG-WINDED COMMENT FROM ME, BUT WOULD YOU LIKE, ANYWAY, TALK ABOUT CARDS? YEAH, SO I THINK, UM, THAT REALLY GETS TO A LOT OF OPTIONS. 
          SO WE DO HAVE THE DATA EVEN FIVE YEARS AGO. 
          WE KNOW THAT WHEN A PERSON LIVES 15 MILES OUTSIDE OF AUSTIN, THAT'S WHEN THE ACTUAL, UM, FLIP IS IN TERMS OF COST OF AFFORDABILITY VERSUS HOUSEHOLD AFFORDABILITY OF, UH, THE COMBINED HOUSING PLUS MOBILITY ACTUALLY FLIPS IT'S 15 MILES. 
          UM, SO, UH, THERE ARE OPTIONS OUTSIDE OF CAP METRO'S SERVICE AREA, AND I THINK A LOT OF THEM ARE REALLY UNDERUTILIZED IN AUSTIN, PARTICULARLY CARPOOLING. 
          OUR CARPOOLING RATES IN THIS CITY, IN THIS REGION ARE HALF OF WHAT DALLAS AND HOUSTON ARE. 
          UM, VAN POOLING IS A GREAT OPTION FOR FOLKS WHO LIVE IN FAR-FLUNG AREAS. 
          WE HAVE VAN POOLS FOR CITY EMPLOYEES COMING FROM AS FAR SOUTH AS SAN ANTONIO, COMING AS FAR NORTH FROM KILLEEN. 
          BUT THOSE OPTIONS, A LOT OF PEOPLE WHEN THEY MOVE OUT, THEY DON'T REALIZE THAT THEY HAVE THEM. 
          SO THIS RESEARCH REALLY GETS TO THOSE COMMUNITIES. 
          THE BAS DROPS, THE SAN MARCOS, THE KILLS THE TAILORS, AND REALLY GOES INTO THOSE COMMUNITIES AND SAYS, OKAY, WHAT ARE THESE BARRIERS? AND THEN WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT, UM, REALLY WE HAVE TO PROVIDE IN TERMS OF EDUCATION AND RESOURCES TO GET YOU TO THE TABLE TO SAY, OH, THIS IS AN OPTION THAT I COULD DO. 
          RATHER THAN DRIVING EVERY SINGLE DAY, FIVE DAYS A WEEK, EVEN VAN POOLING OR CARPOOLING ONE OR TWO DAYS THAT WILL DO A HUGE, UM, SERVICE TO THE CONGESTION THAT WE'RE GONNA BE HAVING ON OUR ROADWAYS. 
          AND ALSO MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE, PARTICULARLY IN VMT REDUCTIONS FOR OUR REGION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL RESPONSE. 
          UM, QUESTIONS FROM, I'M SORRY, CAN YOU REPEAT THE 15 MILE THING YOU JUST SAID, WHAT HAPPENS AT 15 MILES OUT? YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          SO THAT'S WHEN THE COST OF, UM, HOUSING AFFORDABILITY ACTUALLY, UH, OUTWEIGHS THE TRANSPORTATION, UH, OR MOBILITY INVESTMENT OF A HOUSEHOLD. 
          SO, UM, ESSENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, YOU BUY A $200,000 HOUSE, ONCE YOU, UM, GET OUTSIDE OF THAT 15 MILES, THAT'S WHEN YOUR TRANSPORTATION COST FOR EVERY ADDITIONAL DOLLAR YOU SAVE ON YOUR HOUSING COST, YOUR MOBILITY COST ACTUALLY INCREASES, WEAR AND TEAR ON YOUR VEHICLE INSURANCE. 
          UM, ALL THOSE KIND OF, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, COSTS OUTWEIGH 
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THE HOUSING SAVINGS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS? YEAH. 
          UM, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          IT'S REALLY INTERESTING. 
          UH, MY FIRST QUESTION IS, DO YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND A SOURCE FOR THAT 15 MILE CLAIM? I'D JUST LOVE TO READ MORE UP ON THAT. 
          UM, THAT WAS FROM GRAD SCHOOL FROM FIVE YEARS AGO, BUT, UM, IT'S, UH, THE LBJ SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS. 
          WE DID A RESEARCH OR A RESEARCH PROJECT WITH SHERRY GREENBERG ON THE COST OF MOBILITY, HOUSING, HEALTHCARE, UM, UH, SHOULD BE ON THE POLICY RESEARCH PROJECT, UM, PORTAL, UH, FOR THE LBJ SCHOOL. 
          BUT I CAN GET YOU THE EXACT REPORT IF YOU WOULD LIKE. 
          WE CAN FOLLOW UP WITH THAT. 
          I WOULD LOVE THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND MY SECOND QUESTION AS I'M GOING THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION, I'M TRYING TO GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING IF I'M UNDERSTANDING THIS CORRECTLY. 
          IT SOUNDS LIKE WHAT WE'RE USING THIS GRANT FOR IS TO CONDUCT RESEARCH AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT PREVENTS PEOPLE FROM USING OTHER FORMS OF TRANSPORT THAN SINGLE OCCUPANCY VEHICLES. 
          AND THE FINAL OUTPUT OF THIS IS A MARKETING EFFORT TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO THEM AS WELL AS PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS TO CITY COUNCIL. 
          IS THAT RIGHT? THE PRESENTATION TODAY WAS JUST TO FOCUS IN ON ONE COMPONENT OF THE GRANT. 
          SO THIS IS ABOUT $9 MILLION OF THE $47 MILLION PROJECT. 
          THERE ARE, UH, WE DIDN'T GO INTO THIS TODAY, BUT THERE ARE ACTUALLY THREE MEASURES TO THE GRANT. 
          AND SO THE FIRST MEASURE IS ABOUT $17.5 MILLION. 
          THAT'S LOOKING AT ENHANCING TRANSIT SERVICES. 
          SO THAT'S WHERE OUR PARTNERSHIPS WITH CARTS AND CAP METRO COME IN. 
          AND THERE ARE, THERE IS WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING AS PART OF THEIR SERVICE CHANGE PROCESS THAT WILL USE THESE FEDERAL DOLLARS TO ENHANCE EXISTING SERVICES. 
          SO INCREASE FREQUENCY RELIABILITY OF SERVICES. 
          SO, UH, THAT'S ONE THAT, SO THAT'S MEASURE ONE. 
          THE SECOND MEASURE IS ABOUT IS DOING TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE, AND THERE'S ABOUT $7.5 MILLION, I THINK $7.5 MILLION IN, IN MEASURE TWO. 
          AND MEASURE TWO IS, IS BUILDING OUT, UH, RE MOBILITY HUBS WITHIN OUR REGION. 
          AND THEN IT'S ALSO LOOKING AT, AT DELIVERING BIKE AND PED COUNTERS FOR, FOR DATA COLLECTION AS WELL. 
          SO IT'S, IT'S TA USING, THERE'S CERTAIN TOOLS THAT WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO REPORT BACK TO THE EPA ON HOW THE GRANT IS PERFORMING. 
          SO LIKE THE BACK, THE BIKE AND PED COUNTERS WILL PROVIDE THAT TYPE OF SERVICE FOR US AND DATA COLLECTION. 
          BUT THE MOBILITY HUBS ARE, YOU KNOW, ARE AN EXCITING PIECE OF THE GRANT. 
          WE ARE LOOKING AT, UH, YOU KNOW, APPROXIMATELY 50 THROUGHOUT THE REGION TO FIND WAYS TO GET, YOU KNOW, PLACES WHERE DIFFERENT, UH, TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS KIND OF COME TOGETHER AT A SPOT FOR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO CHANGE MODES OF TRAVEL. 
          SO, UH, YOU KNOW, A BUS MIGHT TAKE YOU THERE AND THEN YOU'RE ABLE TO PICK UP A, YOU KNOW, A BIKE FROM ONE OF THE BIKE SHARE STATIONS THAT CAP METRO HAS. 
          SO IT PROVIDES THAT TYPE OF THE, THAT TYPE OF, I GUESS, INFRASTRUCTURE AND KIND OF A, A, A PLACE FOR PE A NEXUS FOR PE FOR WHERE THOSE SERVICES COME TOGETHER. 
          SO THAT IS MEASURE TWO. 
          AND THEN MEASURE THREE IS, IS APPROXIMATELY $22.5 MILLION. 
          AND THAT MEASURE, THAT IS WHERE THE FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM AND THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING LIVES. 
          BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, AND IN ADDITION TO THIS WORK, WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT BUILDING OUT A REGIONAL PLATFORM. 
          SO THERE IS AN A, THERE IS A PLATFORM CALLED CTX GO THAT IS BEING PUT TOGETHER TO, TO DO, UH, TO PROVIDE, UH, INFORMATION ON CONSTRUCTION WITHIN OUR REGION AND WITHIN THAT PLATFORM WE ARE ALSO GOING TO BE PROVIDING A SPACE FOR YOU TO DO TO, FOR, FOR A, FOR THE, FOR A COMMUNITY MEMBER TO GO TO, TO GO, I WANNA GET FROM BASTROP TO DOWNTOWN AUSTIN, AND IT WILL SUPPORT YOUR TRIP PLANNING SERVICES FOR THAT. 
          AND THEN IDEALLY THROUGH THIS WORK, THROUGH ONE ACTION, YOU'RE ACTUALLY ABLE TO PURCHASE YOUR TICKET TO BE ABLE TO GO FROM A CARTS BUS TO A CAP METRO BUS OR BIKE SHARE, WHATEVER IT MAY BE WITH ONE TRANSACTION FOR THE END USER. 
          WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE THIS AS EASY ON THE END USER AS POSSIBLE TO BE ABLE TO SHIFT BETWEEN THOSE MODES. 
          UH, SO WE WILL BE DOING THAT WORK AS PART OF THE GRANT AS WELL, ALONG WITH, ALONG WITH OFFERING INCENTIVES. 
          SO ON A DAY WHERE, YOU KNOW, CONGESTION IS GOING TO BE HIGHER, SAY THERE'S MORE CONSTRUCTION INTO CERTAIN AREA, WE'LL BE KIND OF, WE'LL BE KIND OF FOCUSING IN ON THOSE AREAS AND SAYING, HEY, IF YOU TRY THE BUS TODAY, YOU'LL GET, YOU KNOW, A $5 TO YOUR WALLET, YOUR PERSONAL WALLET, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          SOME WAY TO KIND OF MOTIVATE PEOPLE TO CHANGE AS WELL. 
          UH, SO THE GRANT IS DOING MORE THAN THIS RESEARCH WORK, IT'S JUST ONE PIECE THAT WE NEED TO BE DOING TO DO ALL THE WORK OF THE GRANT AS WELL AND, AND WITH OUR PARTNERS. 
          IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE MORE 
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SPECIFICALLY? YEAH, NO, I THINK THAT'S, UM, THAT'S PRETTY WELL SAID. 
          AND REALLY THAT THIRD MEASURE OF, UM, THE GRANT IS YOUR BREAD AND BUTTER, TRANSPORTATION, DEMAND MANAGEMENT, THE INCENTIVES, THE TRIP PLANNING, THE EDUCATION, THE MARKETING. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE, I MEAN, THIS, FINDING THE POINTS OF FRICTION AND FINDING WHAT REALLY RESONATES WITH PEOPLE AND WHAT'S GOING TO MOTIVATE THEM TO MAKE THOSE CHANGES, UM, IS REALLY THE PIECE THAT IS GONNA HELP US, UM, ACHIEVE THE MOST GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTIONS, BUT ALSO, UM, MOVE US FASTER TOWARDS THAT 50 50 MO SHARE GOAL THAT OUR COMMUNITY HAS. 
          GOT IT. 
          SO TO REPHRASE WHAT I UNDERSTOOD, IT SOUNDS LIKE THE GRANT IN TOTAL IS THE RESEARCH FOR HELPING US IDENTIFY PLACES WHERE WE CAN IMPROVE OUR INFRASTRUCTURE, INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS, NOT JUST PHYSICAL, BUT DIGITAL AS WELL, MARKETING TO HELP PEOPLE USE IT, AND THEN ALSO THE INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGH DATA COLLECTION TO MEASURE THE SUCCESS OF THE CHANGES. 
          IS THAT RIGHT? YOU'VE GOT IT. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COMMISSIONERS. 
          ANY OTHER, UM, YEAH, I JUST WANNA ASK A ONE QUESTION JUST, UH, BUILDING OFF OF WHAT COMMISSIONER CHEN WAS ASKING. 
          SO ONE OF THE, UM, THE SLIDE THAT LISTS OUT THE DIFFERENT PARTNERS. 
          I'M CURIOUS OUTSIDE OF THE, IF YOU'VE ENGAGED ANY PARTNERS, UH, IN THIS PLANNING PROCESS OUTSIDE OF, UH, PUBLIC SECTOR OR NONPROFIT SECTOR. 
          SO FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE PRIVATE SECTOR COMPANIES. 
          AND THE REASON I'M ASKING THAT IS BECAUSE OF THE DIGITAL ELEMENTS THAT YOU WERE JUST JUST MENTIONING, UM, AND SEEING AS HOW SOME OF THAT EXPERTISE MIGHT BE HELPFUL KIND OF IN THIS INITIAL, I KNOW YOU'RE FARTHER IN THE INITIAL STAGE, BUT LIKE IN, IN THIS, IN THIS STAGE THAT YOU'RE IN RIGHT NOW. 
          SO CURIOUS IF THAT THERE'S ANY OF THOSE PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS IS SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN DISCUSSED. 
          SO YEAH, MOVABILITY IS A KEY PIECE FOR THIS FOR US. 
          SO THEY PROVIDE THAT KEY CONNECTOR FROM THE CITY TO A LOT OF THE PRIVATE EMPLOYERS IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          SO WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM, UM, ACTUALLY ON THIS AUDIENCE RESEARCH, RESEARCH EFFORT TO CONNECT THEM TO LARGE EMPLOYERS THAT ARE BRINGING IN LARGE WORKFORCES, UM, THAT CAN REALLY HAVE A DISPROPORTIONATE EFFECT ON OUR CONGESTION. 
          SO, UM, WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM ON CONNECTING WITH PRIVATE SECTOR, BUT ALSO WE'RE WORKING WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT THE KITTY OR THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY, UM, TRAVIS COUNTY, UH, BEING ONE WE'RE WORKING WITH, UM, CAP COG AND CLEAN AIR FORCE. 
          UH, WE'RE WORKING WITH ST. 
          ED'S, WE'RE WORKING WITH, UM, A VARIETY OF SMALL NONPROFITS, GIALLO INITIATIVE, REDLINE PARKWAY, UM, AND OTHERS. 
          YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO GET AS MANY CONNECTIONS AS WE POSSIBLY CAN TO REACH AS MANY PARTS OF THE COMMUNITY AS WE CAN, UM, TO MOTIVATE EVERYBODY REALLY TO SHIFT SOME OF THEIR TRIPS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I, I, I THINK I, I'M ASKING LESS ABOUT KIND OF EMPLOYER PARTNERSHIPS AND MORE ABOUT, UM, TECHNICAL CAPACITY, UM, THAT MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN, IN THIS PLANNING PROCESS. 
          I MEAN, AT THIS TIME WE, WE HAVEN'T, WE HAVEN'T PARTNERED WITH LIKE A PRIVATE EMPLOYER TO HELP US WITH LIKE THE TECH COMPONENT OR, OR THE APP RIGHT NOW. 
          UH, BUT I DO APPRECIATE THE COMMENT AND, AND, AND, AND HEAR WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM THAT THAT FEEDBACK WOULD BE HELPFUL. 
          Y YEAH, AND, AND TO, TO CLARIFY WHERE IT'S COMING FROM IS, UM, YOU KNOW, FROM, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, THE SOONER THAT YOU CAN GET CRITICAL STAKEHOLDERS, YOU KNOW, IN, IN THE ROOM TOGETHER, AND IT'S, YOU'VE GOT A GREAT GROUP ORGANIZED RIGHT NOW, UM, BUT PARTICULARLY FROM THAT, THAT DIGITAL AND TECHNICAL SIDE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE BETTER. 
          RIGHT? AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, ONE THING THAT AUSTIN COULD DO A BETTER JOB IN MY VIEW IS LIKE HOW WE ENGAGE, UM, THE PRIVATE SECTOR, PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT ALL THOSE, THOSE THINGS. 
          AND SO I DIDN'T SEE THOSE REPRESENTED ON, ON THAT SLIDE, AND THAT'S WHY I WAS, I WAS BRINGING IT UP. 
          UM, YEAH, SO IF THERE'S ANYTHING TO ADD, UM, WE'D LOVE TO HEAR IT, BUT IF NOT, UH, THANK YOU FOR, FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          WELL, I, I THINK JUST ONE THING TO NOTE IS THAT THE, THE ORGANIZATIONS LISTED ON THE SLIDE OR JUST OUR FORMAL PARTNERS THAT WE HAVE, AS IN OUR APPLICATION WITH THE EPA, THERE ARE MANY COMMUNITY PARTNERS THAT ARE BEYOND THE, YOU KNOW, BEYOND THE PARTNERS THAT WE HAVE LISTED HERE, UH, THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH AND GETTING INPUT FROM FOR VARIOUS COMPONENTS OF THE GRANT. 
          UH, ANOTHER ONE TO HIGHLIGHT IS THE DAA AND THE CHAMBER AS WELL, UH, FOR DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE GRANT TOO. 
          UH, BUT I, BUT SO I THINK THAT THOSE ARE SOME OF THE KEY PLAYERS THAT WE'VE HAD TO DATE. 
          UM, AND IF AN OPPORTUNITY PRESENTS ITSELF, WE WE'RE, WE'RE THINKING A PRIVATE PARTNER, UH, WOULD BE HELPFUL. 
          I MEAN, THAT, THAT WILL DEFINITELY, DEFINITELY BE SOMETHING WE'LL BE, WE'LL BE DOING TOO. 
          [01:55:03]
GREAT. 
          UM, ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS WITH QUESTIONS FOR OUR PRESENTERS? UH, YEAH, THIS IS, UM, VARUN, UH, JUST REALLY QUICK OBSERVATION. 
          UM, I, I STILL LET YOU SURVEY, UM, JUST A, UH, UH, FEEDBACK. 
          UM, QUESTION SEVEN REFERS TO SOMETHING THAT QUESTION SIX DOESN'T DO, SO YOU MIGHT WANNA LOOK AT THAT, UM, AND JUST EDIT THAT QUESTION. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I WILL TAKE A LOOK AT THAT. 
          ANYTHING ELSE FROM OUR COMMISSIONERS? ALL RIGHT. 
          SEEING NONE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          THANKS FOR, FOR WAITING AS WELL. 
          WE APPRECIATE YOU. 
          AWESOME. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THAT DOES CONCLUDE ITEM FOUR. 
          AND WE'RE 
          [5. Discussion and approval of a Right of Way Vacation for 1109 S Lamar Boulevard.]
GONNA BE MOVING TO ITEM FIVE, UM, WHICH IS DISCUSSION APPROVAL OF A RIGHT OF WAY VACATION FOR 1 1 0 9 SOUTH LAMAR BOULEVARD. 
          PRESENTATION IS GONNA BE, UH, CHRISTOPHER BECKER FROM TPW. 
          AND, UM, JUST FOR AWARENESS, OUR NEXT TWO ITEMS ARE GONNA BE, UM, RIDE OF WAY VACATIONS, BOTH ITEM FIVE AND SIX. 
          AND THOSE ARE FOR DISCUSSION AND ACTION. 
          YEAH. 
          GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS. 
          HOW ARE YOU TODAY? HOPE EVERYONE'S DOING WELL. 
          I'M CHRISTOPHER BUCHAR WITH THE LAND DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING DIVISION AT TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. 
          UH, AND I'M HERE TODAY TO PRESENT TWO SISTER FILES OF RIGHT OF WAY VACATION REQUESTS FOR TWO HALVES OF AN ALLEY. 
          AND THE FIRST APPLICATION IS, UH, ALLEY RIGHTWAY VACATION APPLICATION ABUTTING 1109 SOUTH LAMAR BOULEVARD. 
          UH, IT'S LOCATED IN DISTRICT NINE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THE, A BUDDING PROPERTY OWNER IS G-S-G-B-L, UH, LP. 
          UH, AND YOU CAN SEE THE CALL OUT OF THE ABUTTING ALLEY JUST RIGHT NEXT TO GIBSON STREET AND SOUTHMORE BOULEVARD. 
          SO THE ALLEY IS AN UNPAVED UNDEVELOPED ALLEY RIGHT OF WAY, AGAIN, ABUTTING 1109 SOUTH LAMAR BOULEVARD. 
          WE HAVE A PICTURE OF THE STREET VIEW, SO THE VACATION TRACK IS APPROXIMATELY 502 SQUARE FEET. 
          ALL PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN 300 FEET OF THE VACATION AREA. 
          UH, WERE SENT PUBLIC NOTIFICATIONS ON MAY 21ST, 2025, AND NO PUBLIC OBJECTIONS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AS OF THE DAY OF THIS PRESENTATION. 
          ALL AFFECTED CITY DEPARTMENTS AND EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS REVIEWED AND RECOMMENDED THE APPROVAL OF THIS RIGHT OF WAY VACATION APPLICATION, UH, WHICH IS SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS LISTED ON THE MASTER COMMON REPORT SUBMITTED WITH THIS PRESENTATION. 
          UH, AND THE CITY WILL RETAIN A WASTE ORDER LINE EASEMENT OVER THE ENTIRE VACATION TRACT. 
          WHEN ASKED THE APPLICANT HOW THEY'D LIKE TO DEVELOP THE, UH, VACATION AREA, HE SAID THE AREA PROPOSED TO BE VACATED WILL BE INCORPORATED WITH THE ADJACENT PROPERTY AT 1109 SOUTHMORE BOULEVARD AND DEVELOPED CONSISTENT WITH THE ZONING DISTRICT. 
          AND THERE IS NO ACTIVE SITE PLAN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS APPLICATION. 
          HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU GUYS HAVE ON THE RIGHT OF WAY VACATION PROCESS. 
          AND I DO SEE WE HAVE SOME SPEAKERS SIGNED UP. 
          I ASSUME THEY'RE THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE, UH, PROPERTY OWNERS OR DEVELOPERS, UH, FROM, UH, DREW, RAFAEL AND ASH, ASHLEY FISHER. 
          I'M SORRY IF I, UM, MESSED UP THOSE NAMES, BUT I THINK Y'ALL, Y'ALL ARE HERE IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS. 
          UM, AND THESE ARE CONNECTED, UM, AS WELL. 
          SO IT LOOKS LIKE, MAKE SURE I'M UNDERSTANDING, IT KIND OF LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE TWO SIDES OF A MIDLINE OF A ALLEY. 
          THAT'S CORRECT. 
          YEAH. 
          SO THERE'S, UH, TWO PROPERTIES. 
          UM, I DUNNO IF YOU'RE ABLE TO KIND OF, YEAH. 
          CAN WE PULL UP THE ONE WITH SORT OF THE, AND I'LL GO INTO THE, IT, IT ALSO, YOU KNOW, GOES INTO IT IN THE NEXT PRESENTATION FOR THE NEXT APPLICATION AS WELL. 
          BUT JUST TO KIND OF GIVE YOU SOME PERSPECTIVE. 
          SO ESSENTIALLY THIS APPLICATION IS WHERE THAT IS TO VACATE THE ALLEY, WHICH IS THE RED BOX ABUTTING THE PROPERTY AT 1109 SOUTHMORE BOULEVARD. 
          AND THE SISTER APPLICATION THAT I WILL BE PRESENTING IN JUST A MOMENT IS FOR THE OTHER HALF. 
          THAT IS CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT IS A BUDDING, UH, 1200 
          [02:00:01]
WEST GIBSON STREET. 
          I HAVE A QUESTION. 
          WHY IS THIS SPLIT UP IN BETWEEN TWO RIGHT AWAY VACATIONS? IT'S A GREAT QUESTION. 
          SO, UM, IT, IT CAN HAPPEN IN MULTIPLE WAYS, BUT MAINLY IF THERE ARE PROPERTY OWNERS THAT ARE DIFFERENT ON EITHER SIDE OF THE RIGHT OF WAY, UM, THEY COULD BOTH PURSUE THEIR OWN VACATION APPLICATION. 
          AND THAT'S THE CASE IN THIS SITUATION. 
          THERE ARE OTHER SITUATIONS WHERE ONE OF THE PROPERTY OWNER ISN'T INTERESTED IN PURSUING THEIR OWN VACATION, SO THEY WILL RELINQUISH THEIR RIGHTS WITH LIKE A QUICK CLAIM DEED. 
          AND THEN THE OTHER PROPERTY OWNER THAT IS INTERESTED IN VACATING WILL REQUEST THAT WHOLE VACANCY. 
          WHAT IS THE, UM, DEVELOPMENT OR LAND USE THAT'S CURRENTLY AT 1109 SOUTH LEMAR BOULEVARD? WHAT, LIKE, WHAT IS THAT STRUCTURE THERE AND YEAH, I DON'T KNOW. 
          USUALLY WE JUST HAVE, WE HAVE YOU SIGN UP AS PRESENTERS, BUT, OR COMMENTERS, BUT USUALLY WE JUST KIND OF PLAY SOME QUESTIONS OFF OF YOU, IF THAT'S FINE. 
          YEAH. 
          YOU TELL US WHAT YOU WANNA DO, BUT ABSOLUTELY. 
          YEAH. 
          MY NAME IS DREW RAEL AND YOU DID A GREAT JOB OF  PRONOUNCING MY NAME. 
          A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T DO THAT, UM, HERE ON BEHALF OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS. 
          UM, THE CURRENT LAND USE AT 1109 SOUTH LAMAR IS A, IT'S A COCKTAIL BAR. 
          IT'S CURRENTLY GIBSON STREET. 
          AND CAN YOU GIVE US ANY PREVIEW OF WHAT, UM, I KNOW THAT IT, WE GET THIS A LOT AND THERE'S NO CURRENT SITE PLAN. 
          WE KNOW THAT, UM, IT WILL BE, UH, DEVELOPED INTO THE PROPERTY DEVELOPED CONSISTENT WITH THE ZONING DISTRICT. 
          DO YOU HAVE ANY SENSE LIKE OF WHAT THAT MIGHT BE IN IN THE FUTURE? SO THE PROPERTY OWNER AT 1109 HAS ACQUIRED, UM, 1200, UH, WEST GIBSON STREET. 
          AND SO, UM, THE PROPERTY WILL, IT'LL ALLOW FOR THE EXTENSION OF, OF GIBSON STREET BAR ONTO, UM, 1200 WEST GIBSON. 
          WE DON'T HAVE A SITE PLAN 'CAUSE WE'LL HAVE TO HAVE A, A NEW SITE PLAN. 
          RIGHT NOW WE'RE STILL IN THE MIDST OF REZONING 1200 WEST GIBSON SO THAT THE ZONING MATCHES AND IT'S CONSISTENT. 
          WOULD THAT BE REDEVELOPING THE WHOLE STRUCTURE OR SORT OF CONNECTING THEM INTO USING THE EXISTING STRUCTURES OR, AND CONNECTING THEM INTO SORT OF AN INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT OF SOME KIND? IT WOULD BE TO CONNECT THE TWO PROPERTIES AS AS THEY ARE RIGHT NOW. 
          OKAY. 
          ANYONE ELSE WITH QUESTIONS? YEAH. 
          UM, SO I WAS JUST LOOKING AT STREET VIEW AND I DON'T THINK IT'S NECESSARILY A PROBLEM 'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT DIRECTLY ABUTTING THE ALLEY, BUT IT'S MORE JUST CURIOUS IF EITHER OF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY, HAD ANY CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PROPERTY OWNERS AT 1105 SOUTH LAMAR BOULEVARD, THAT COFFEE SHOP THERE? 'CAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE USING THE ALLEY FOR DUMPSTER SERVICE. 
          WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY CONVERSATIONS THAT I'M AWARE OF. 
          I MEAN, I DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM, YOU KNOW, VACATING IT BECAUSE THERE PROBABLY DOESN'T A, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THEY WERE JUST KIND OF ENCROACHING A LITTLE BIT ON THE OTHER, UH, PROPERTY. 
          BUT IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL JUST TO GIVE THEM A HEADS UP THAT THEY NEED TO START PLANNING FOR, UH, MOVE THEIR, YEAH, MOVE THEIR DUMPSTER TO THE OTHER SIDE. 
          I MEAN, I'M SURE WE'RE STILL, YOU KNOW, A FEW GETS AWAY FROM, UH, THEM HAVING TO DO THAT, BUT IT MIGHT JUST BE HELPFUL BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE GETS POSTCARDS AND KIND OF THROWS THEM AWAY. 
          IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL IF THE CITY JUST REACHES OUT AND SAY, HEY, THIS IS GONNA HAPPEN AT SOME POINT. 
          I THROW AWAY A LOT OF POSTCARDS. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          . 
          SO GUILT GUILTY. 
          YES. 
          OTHER QUESTIONS? YEAH, THEY THEY WERE DEFINITELY INCLUDED WITHIN THE NOTIFICATIONS BEING SENT OUT FOR SURE. 
          SO, YEAH, OF COURSE. 
          UM, OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS? I'M LOOKING ONLINE. 
          OKAY. 
          LET'S, SO JUST TO, YEAH, SORRY, I HAVE A QUESTION. 
          NO, YOU'RE FINE. 
          HI, IT'S HEATHER. 
          UM, TO CLARIFY, UH, THE HONORS IN 1109 HAVE ALREADY ACQUIRED 1200 GIBSON OR INTEND TO REPORT. 
          I BELIEVE THAT THEY'RE IN THE PROCESS IF THEY'VE NOT ALREADY CLOSED ON IT. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THE, UH, CHRIS, THE NEXT REQUEST WE'RE GONNA SEIZE IS FROM THE CURRENT OWNERS OF THAT PROPERTY. 
          THEY SEEM RELATED. 
          SO BEFORE WE RUN MR. ANDERSON? THAT'S CORRECT. 
          YEAH. 
          THE, THE NEXT PRESENTATION WOULD BE WITH, I BELIEVE THE CURRENT SLASH OLD OWNERS, I GUESS AT THIS POINT, MAYBE. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEY'RE REQUESTING THE ABUTTING VACATION? CORRECT. 
          WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF A TRANSACTION? YEAH. 
          FOR, UH, THAT'S ABUTTING 1200 WEST GIBSON. 
          IS THAT FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE TRANSACTION IF IT'S NOT COMPLETED? I THINK CHRIS, UH, TOUCHED ON IT A LITTLE BIT, BUT BECAUSE, UM, WE'RE REQUESTING TO VACATE OUR PORTION OF THE ALLEY, UM, THE OTHER PROPERTY OWNER WOULD EITHER, UH, VACATE AND ACQUIRE THEIR HALF OF THE ALLEY. 
          UM, OR IT WOULD ALL BE QUICK CLAIM DEED OVER TO, UH, ONE OVER OWNER. 
          AND IN THIS CASE IT'S, 
          [02:05:01]
IT'S SORT OF THE LATTER, EXCEPT THAT NOW ONE OWNER OWNS BOTH PROPERTIES, SO IT WOULD ALL BECOME A PART OF ONE PROPERTY WHEN THEY ARE CONNECTED. 
          OKAY. 
          IF THAT MAKES SENSE. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, KIND EXPENSE. 
          WE, WE CAN ONLY VACATE AND REQUEST OUR HALF UNLESS WHEN WE, WHEN WE STARTED THIS, THEY, THEY, UM, GAVE AWAY THAT, BUT SINCE ONE OWNER'S ACQUIRED IT, IT'S ESSENTIALLY THE SAME OWNER FOR THE, THE PORTION THAT MATCHES THEIR FRONTAGE ON THE ALLEY. 
          AND, AND IT WOULDN'T BE UNPRECEDENTED FOR TO, UH, A POTENTIAL BUYER AND A POTENTIAL SELLER, SELLER TO COORDINATE A VACATION SORT OF AS PART OF THE TERMS OF THEIR SALE. 
          RIGHT. 
          LIKE THAT'S, THAT'S, SO THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE. 
          YEAH. 
          IF THAT HELPS. 
          THAT'S WHAT I WAS WONDERING. 
          YEAH. 
          AND IN A LOT OF CASES THAT KIND OF HAPPENS BEFORE THE APPLICATION IS SUBMITTED, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE IT HAPPENED DURING THE APPLICATION PROCESS KIND OF CONCURRENTLY ISH. 
          YEAH, FOR SURE. 
          UH, OTHER COMMISSIONERS WITH QUESTIONS, MAKING SURE TO LOOK ONLINE. 
          OKAY. 
          I'M GONNA CALL FOR A VOTE ON ITEM FIVE PORTION OF THIS, WHICH IS TO, YOU'RE ALWAYS GONNA HAVE TO HELP ME RECOMMEND WHAT IS THE, UH, RE RECOMMEND APPROVAL. 
          YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. 
          RECOMMEND APPROVAL. 
          SO I'LL MOVE THAT WE MOVE APPROVAL OF ITEM FIVE, WHICH IS THE FIRST PORTION OF THIS. 
          I'LL SECOND THAT MOTION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO, UH, MOTION BY ME. 
          UH, SECOND BY VICE CHAIR SCHUMACHER. 
          ANY OTHER DISCUSSION OR QUESTIONS? OKAY, I'LL CALL FOR A VOTE OF THAT. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVAL OF THIS RIGHT OF WAY VACATION FOR ITEM FIVE. 
          PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. 
          THAT IS UNANIMOUS OF THOSE PRESENT. 
          UM, I 
          [6. Discussion and approval of a Right of Way Vacation for 1200 W Gibson Street.]
THINK YOU SHOULD TAKE US QUICKLY THROUGH ITEM SIX PRESENTATION, AND THEN WE CAN DO PROBABLY WORK THROUGH THAT RATHER QUICKLY ONCE, UH, NOW THAT WE'RE FAMILIARIZED, SO THANK YOU. 
          UNDERSTOOD. 
          WILL DO. 
          SO, YEAH, THIS IS THE OTHER HALF OF THE ALLEY THAT'S BEING REQUESTED TO VACATE. 
          UH, AGAIN, ABUTTING 1200 WEST GIBSON STREET, ALSO LOCATED IN DISTRICT NINE. 
          IT'S A BIRD'S EYE VIEW. 
          THE OTHER HALF OF THE VACATION AREAS, I BELIEVE HIGHLIGHTED IN BLUE IN THIS ONE. 
          UH, THE ABUTTING PROPERTY OWNER, AT LEAST AT THE TIME OF THE APPLICATION SUBMISSION, UH, WAS SOME SAME, BUT DIFFERENT LLCA TEXAS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. 
          THAT'S THE NAME OF THE LLC. 
          THAT'S NOT LIKE, THAT'S CORRECT. 
          THAT IS THE, THAT IS THE ACTUAL, IT TOOK ME A LITTLE WHILE. 
          I WAS LIKE, I EVEN GOOGLED IT JUST TO MAKE SURE. 
           UM, . 
          SO AGAIN, THIS IS AN UNPAVED UNDEVELOPED ALLEY, UH, RIGHT OF WAY VACATION. 
          WE HAVE OUR STREET VIEW. 
          UH, THE VACATION TRACK IS APPROXIMATELY 501 SQUARE FEET ON THIS SIDE. 
          UH, PROPERTY OWNERS WERE NOTIFIED WITHIN 300 FEET OF THE VACATION AREA ON MAY THE 21ST. 
          NO OBJECTIONS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE PUBLIC AS OF THE DAY OF THIS PRESENTATION. 
          UM, THE CITY DEPARTMENT'S EXTERNAL TAKE STAKEHOLDERS HAVE REVIEWED RECOMMENDED APPROVAL FOR THIS VACATION REQUEST, SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS ON THE MASTER COMMENT REPORT SUBMITTED WITH THIS PRESENTATION. 
          AND AGAIN, THE CITY WILL RETAIN A WASTEWATER LINES EASEMENT OVER THE ENTIRE VACATION TRACT AS WELL. 
          UH, THE APPLICANT HAS STATED THE AREA TO BE VACATED, UH, WILL BE INCORPORATED WITH THE ADJACENT PROPERTY AT 1200 WEST GIBSON STREET AND DEVELOPED CONSISTENT WITH ZONING DISTRICT. 
          AND THIS APPLICATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH SITE PLAN. 
          SP 20 23 0 3 1 OH, SORRY. 
          OH 5 1 3 C. 
          HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. 
          SO THIS ONE DOES HAVE A SITE PLAN ALREADY. 
          THIS ONE IS ASSOCIATED WITH A SITE PLAN. 
          CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT, UH, ITEM SIX FOR EITHER, UH, OUR TPW PARTNERS OR, UM, THE, UH, REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE DEVELOPER OWNER, I SHOULD SAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SCENE NONE. 
          I'LL MOVE APPROVAL OF THIS VACATION OF RIGHT OF WAY AS WELL. 
          I'LL SECOND. 
          OKAY. 
          AGAIN, I'M, I, I HAVE THE MOTION AND, UH, VICE CHAIR SCHUMACHER HAS A SECOND. 
          UM, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT. 
          I'LL CALL FOR A VOTE ON THAT. 
          ALL THOSE APPROVED, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY, AYE. 
          GREAT. 
          I CAN SEE THAT IS UNANIMOUS OF THOSE PRESENT. 
          EXCELLENT. 
          THANK YOU EVERYONE. 
          THANKS FOR THANK YOU EVERYONE WAITING AS WELL. 
          CHRIS, I HAVE A QUICK FOLLOW UP QUESTION. 
          IS IT JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT YOU ARE THE PERSON I, I BELIEVE BY THE PERSON I'VE SEEN THESE  VACATIONS? IS THAT PART OF YOUR JOB THAT, I'M SORRY, CAN YOU REPEAT YOUR QUESTION? 
          [02:10:01]
I, I DON'T RECALL. 
          I FEELS LIKE YOU'RE THE ONLY PERSON I'VE SEEN IN THIS MEETING TO DO . 
          YEAH. 
          THEY LIKE TO THROW ME OUT HERE. 
          UH, WELL, YEAH. 
          I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE, BUT I I USUALLY AM THE ONLY ONE AVAILABLE. 
          THAT'S CORRECT. 
           . 
          AND, AND WE WILL, WE MIGHT DISCUSS THIS A LITTLE BIT MORE DURING FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS AS WELL TO GET A BETTER HANDLE ON SOME OF THIS AS WELL, SO, ABSOLUTELY. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          I THINK WE'VE PROBABLY REACHED OUT TO YOU AT THIS POINT, MAYBE, I'M SURE. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          BUT WE'LL, WE'LL TALK ABOUT LITTLE BIT THAT OF COURSE. 
          YEAH. 
          LET'S KNOW, REACH OUT ANYTIME. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          [7. Establish a Working Group to update the by-laws of the Urban Transportation Commission.]
SO THAT BRINGS US TO ITEM SEVEN, WHICH IS ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP TO UPDATE THE BYLAWS OF THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION. 
          I'LL PREVIEW THIS JUST A SECOND. 
          THIS WAS AN ITEM THAT WE, UM, INCORPORATED INTO OUR, UM, YEARLY REPORT, UM, AS A GOAL FOR THE COMING YEAR. 
          SO, UM, WE WANTED TO DO THAT. 
          WE WANTED TO DO IT, ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF A COUPLE THINGS. 
          ONE, ARE SOME ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES, AND THAT OUR BYLAWS REALLY, UM, SORT OF PREDATE THE PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COUNCIL AND THE, UH, BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL. 
          UM, AND JUST SORT OF UPDATING FOR SOME OF THE MORE, UM, RECENT GOINGS ON IN THE CITY. 
          OUR BYLAWS ARE PRETTY OUT OF DATE, SO THIS WAS A GOAL THAT WE HAD, BUT WE NEED A WORKING GROUP TO HELP US WORK THROUGH THAT AND GET READY FOR THAT LATER THIS YEAR. 
          UM, I'M GONNA, I KNOW, UM, VICE CHAIR SCHUMACHER HAS BEEN KEENLY INTERESTED IN THIS, SO I'M GONNA LET HIM SORT OF FACILITATE THE REST OF THE DISCUSSION. 
          YEAH, YEAH. 
          AND SO FOR THOSE OF YOU GUYS WHO WEREN'T HERE, UH, CHAIR SUMMERS TOUCHED ON THIS, BUT WE, WE DID A, A RECOMMENDATION ABOUT, UH, WHEN CITY COUNCIL WAS CONSIDERING WHAT TO DO WITH THE PEDESTRIAN, UH, BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL. 
          WE SAID WE WOULD UPDATE OUR BYLAWS, UM, TO BETTER DEFINE WHAT OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THAT BODY IS. 
          UH, 'CAUSE IT'S NOT WELL DEFINED IN OUR BYLAWS NOW, UM, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF, UH, I, I, I WOULD ALSO LIKE THE, THE WORKING GROUP TO CONSIDER TWO OTHER THINGS. 
          UM, ONE WOULD JUST BE A GENERAL UPDATE TO THE PURPOSE OF, IN THE DUTIES OF THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION. 
          THIS IS SOMETHING THE UTC ACTUALLY TRIED TO DO BACK IN 2014, AND THEN I GOT CAUGHT UP IN A BUNCH OF 10 PLUS ONE THINGS. 
          BUT OUR, OUR BYLAWS ARE VERY OLD AND DON'T REALLY TOUCH ON WHAT WE ACTUALLY DO. 
          SO BASICALLY JUST GOING THROUGH CODE PLACES WHERE CITY COUNCIL HAS DELEGATED AUTHORITY TO US, PUTTING THAT IN OUR BYLAWS AND STRIPPING OUT SOME OF THE STUFF THAT, UM, WE DON'T REALLY DO ANYMORE. 
          UM, AND, AND THEN THE THIRD THING THAT I WOULD MAYBE LIKE THIS GROUP TO CONSIDER IS, UM, UH, PERHAPS SOME RULES FOR RIGHT AWAY VACATION DISCUSSIONS AND OTHER PUBLIC HEARINGS THAT WE DO. 
          UM, 90% OF THE TIME THEY'RE NOT CONTENTIOUS, BUT THE 10% OF THE TIME THEY ARE, UH, THEY CAN GET QUITE CONTENTIOUS. 
          SO IT, IT MAY BE HELPFUL IF WE SET UP RULES SIMILAR THAT THE, THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAS ZONING AND PLATTING ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION, UM, JUST ON LIKE HOW MANY MINUTES, YOU KNOW, EACH SIDE GETS HOW QUESTIONS WORK AND THOSE KIND OF THINGS. 
          I WAS IN CONTACT WITH THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE. 
          UM, WE ARE GONNA HAVE TO ALSO UPDATE OUR BYLAWS. 
          EVERY COMMISSION IS GOING TO HAVE TO UPDATE THEIR BYLAWS BECAUSE OF A, UH, UH, STATE LAW, UH, CHANGING THE POSTING REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE OPEN MEETINGS ACT. 
          SO THEY REACHED OUT AND ASKED US NOT TO DO IT BEFORE OCTOBER 15TH. 
          UM, FINE. 
          RIGHT. 
          YEAH, NO PROBLEM. 
          . 
          YEAH, . 
          UM, SO, UH, THEY'RE, THEY'RE GOING TO THE AUDIT AND FINANCE COMMITTEE, AND THEY'RE GONNA GET SOME MORE DIRECTION ON HOW TO DO THAT AND A FEW OTHER THINGS. 
          UM, SO, UH, THAT MAY MAKE IT REALLY TIGHT FOR US TO BE ABLE TO TURN AROUND AND DO THIS, UH, FOR THE OCTOBER MEETING. 
          SO MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS IN NOVEMBER. 
          UH, BUT IT'S ON OUR AGENDA ANYWAY, SO WE CAN CREATE THE WORKING GROUP. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, I GUESS, UM, I, I, I FEEL LIKE YOU'RE THE OBVIOUS PERSON TO LEAD THIS WORKING GROUP, SO I ASSUME THAT YOU'RE GONNA BE ON THIS WORKING GROUP. 
          UM, THE BIGGEST THING WITH THE WORKING GROUP IS IT MUST BE A SUB QUORUM. 
          SO, UM, A QUORUM IS GONNA BE SIX PEOPLE, RIGHT? SO, UM, WE CAN HAVE A MAXIMUM OF FIVE PEOPLE ON THE WORKING GROUP. 
          SO, UM, IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED, UM, PLEASE SPEAK UP AND LET US KNOW. 
          AND THEN WE CAN JUST DO A MOTION TO APPOINT EVERYBODY UP TO FIVE INDIVIDUALS AND ALSO SAY, I WOULD IMAGINE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS SOLELY OVER EMAIL. 
          NO NEED TO ACTUALLY MEET. 
          YEAH. 
          I ALL, OH, UH, THAT WAS, UH, COMM, COMMISSIONER CHEN, COMMISSIONER CHEN, COMMISSIONER PRASAD, AND COMMISSIONER BUFFO ARE ALL INTERESTED. 
          IS THAT WHAT I'M SEEING? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT GIVES US A GOOD FOUR PEOPLE. 
          ANYONE ELSE? I I CAN ADD MYSELF. 
          THAT'S FINE. 
          AND THAT TAKES US TO FIVE, WHAT A POPULAR WORKING GROUP. 
          YEAH, I'M REALLY THRILLED WITH THIS GROUP. 
          SO, UM, LET'S, UM, I WILL GO AHEAD AND MAKE A MOTION TO ESTABLISH THE WORKING GROUP. 
          UM, WE'LL MAKE, UH, VICE CHAIR SCHUMACHER, THE CHAIR, ALSO APPOINTING COMMISSIONER CHEN, COMMISSIONER PRASAD, COMMISSIONER BUFFO, AND MYSELF, CHAIR SUMMERS TO THIS WORKING GROUP. 
          THAT'S MY MOTION. 
          I'LL SECOND. 
          GREAT. 
          [02:15:01]
ANY DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT. 
          WE'LL TAKE A VOTE. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPOINTING THIS WORKING GROUP, UH, AS STATED INTO THE MOTION THAT IS UNANIMOUS OF THOSE PRESENT. 
          THANK YOU EVERYBODY. 
          I'M GONNA WRITE DOWN THE PEOPLE IN THE WORKING GROUP, BECAUSE THAT IS AN IMPORTANT THING TO DO. 
          AND, UH, WE WILL AIM FOR NOVEMBER, OR, YOU KNOW, IF WE GET PUSHED TO DECEMBER, I DON'T THINK THAT'S A PROBLEM FOR US NECESSARILY. 
          YEAH. 
          SO BY THE END OF THE YEAR, LET'S SAY, I THINK IDEALLY WE PROBABLY WANNA DO ONE BYLAW CHANGE. 
          SO IT, IT MAY BE, UH, WE MAY HAVE TO WAIT ON THE CITY CLERK TO GET THEIRS READY, AND THEN WE CAN DO IT ALL AT ONCE. 
          EXACTLY. 
          PERFECT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          AND THAT TAKES US THROUGH ITEM SEVEN. 
          UM, SO, 
          [8. Discussion and possible action regarding an appointment to the Downtown Commission (one vacancy).]
AND Y'ALL ARE GONNA ACTUALLY HAVE TO REMIND ME. 
          THIS BRINGS US TO ITEM EIGHT, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING APPOINTMENT TO THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION. 
          AND, UM, LAST TIME WE DISCUSSED THIS, COMMISSIONER CHEN WAS INTERESTED. 
          YES. 
          IS THAT RIGHT? YES, THAT'S RIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          ARE YOU STILL INTERESTED? I AM STILL INTERESTED AND I DID SOME DIGGING INTO IT AND I'D LOVE TO BE ON THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION. 
          UH, SO IF THAT SEAT'S STILL OPEN, I'D LOVE TO TAKE IT. 
          I'D LOVE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPOINT, UH, COMMISSIONER CHEN AS THERE A REPRESENTATIVE ON THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION. 
          I WILL SECOND THAT. 
          THANK YOU GUYS. 
          WE HAVE A MOTION. 
          ANY DISCUSSION? I'M GONNA CALL FOR A VOTE ON THIS. 
          AGAIN, THAT IS TO APPROVE COMMISSIONER CHEN AS THE, UH, URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION APPOINTEE TO THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY, AYE, THAT IS UNANIMOUS OF THOSE PRESENT. 
          COMMISSIONER CHEN, I JUST WILL REMIND YOU AS WELL, WE'RE ABOUT TO GO INTO OUR COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE UPDATE SECTION OF OUR AGENDA, BUT THERE WILL BE IN THE FUTURE. 
          NOW, UM, ONCE YOU'RE, YOU DO HAVE TO GO THROUGH, UM, MY STAFF ARE GONNA HAVE TO HELP ME HERE, BUT THERE'S A, A, YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH APPROVAL WITH COUNSEL, RIGHT? IT'S NOT, YES, THAT'S RIGHT. 
          UM, WE'LL PROBABLY BE ABLE TO GET THAT ADDED ON FOR OCTOBER, I THINK. 
          SO WITH, WITH THE POSTING CHANGES THAT CHANGED THINGS WITH POSTING AND, AND DRAFT AGENDAS FOR CITY COUNCIL AS WELL. 
          SO I'LL FOLLOW UP, UM, TO, TO LET YOU KNOW FOR SURE WHEN THAT'LL BE ABLE TO HAPPEN BECAUSE I, MY HEAD'S NOT WRAPPED AROUND THAT RIGHT NOW. 
          YEAH. 
          BUT BASICALLY WHAT I'M SAYING IS BEFORE THE, UM, CITY CLERK WILL LET YOU PARTICIPATE AS A FULLY APPOINTED MEMBER OF DOWNTOWN COMMISSION, IT HAS TO APPEAR ON A CITY COUNCIL AGENDA. 
          SO YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS. 
          AND THEN ONCE IT'S AGENDA AND IT GOES THROUGH COUNCIL, THEN YOU CAN BE APPOINTED AND ATTEND. 
          NOW YOU CAN STILL LIKE, ATTEND VIRTUALLY AND LISTEN TO THEIR PROCEEDINGS AND LIKE FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH THEIR AGENDAS AND, AND ALL OF, LIKE ANY MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY COULD IN THE MEANTIME. 
          BUT YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE ON THE COMMISSION UNTIL THAT PROCESS IS COMPLETED. 
          BUT NATALIE WILL GUIDE YOU ON THAT, AND THEN YOU'LL BE NOTIFIED WHEN YOU'RE APPOINTED, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. 
          UNDERSTOOD. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION. 
          AWESOME. 
          OKAY. 
          VERY GOOD. 
          OKAY, SO THIS DOES 
          [9. Update from Commissioner Prasad from the Joint Sustainability Commission regarding actions taken at the August 27, 2025, meeting.]
BRING US INTO THE, UM, COMMITTEE UPDATES SECTION OF THE AGENDA. 
          SO, UM, THE FIRST ONE IS GOING TO BE, UM, A, UH, UPDATE FROM COMMISSIONER PRASAD REGARDING THE JOINT SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN AT THEIR AUGUST 27TH, 2025 MEETING. 
          HI THERE. 
          UH, YEAH, THERE WERE NO ACTIONS TAKEN AT THAT MEETING PER SE. 
          UM, AND THE ONLY, UM, BESIDES THE SORT OF PROFORMA ONES OF APPROVING THE MINUTES AND STUFF, UM, BUT UH, THERE WASN'T ALSO, THERE ALSO WASN'T MUCH REALLY IN THE WAY OF TRANSPORTATION. 
          UM, DISCUSSED THERE, THERE WERE SOME CITY UPDATES PRESENTED. 
          PERHAPS THE MOST RELEVANT ONE THAT I HAVE IN MY NOTES HERE IS THE CITY IS APPROVED A BUDGET FOR, UH, AN ELECTRIC LAWNMOWER, UH, SOMETHING TO THE TUNE OF $300,000. 
          UM, SO THAT'S A FORM OF TRANSPORTATION, I GUESS, ALBEIT WITH A VERY LIMITED RANGE. 
          UM, YEAH, THAT'S THE ONLY UPDATE THAT I HAVE FOR, FOR THIS BODY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT DOES TAKE 
          [10. Update from Commissioner Schumacher from the Bicycle Advisory Council regarding actions taken at the August 19, 2025, meeting.]
US TO ITEM 10, WHICH IS AN UPDATE FROM COMMISSIONER SCHUMACHER FROM THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN AT THEIR AUGUST 19TH, 2025 MEETING. 
          YEAH, IT WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A LONG MEETING, BUT I THINK I'M JUST GONNA DRAW, UM, FOLKS' ATTENTION TO ONE, UM, ITEM THAT I THINK IS, IS PROBABLY WORTH FOLKS READING. 
          UM, WE'VE TALKED BEFORE, THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL LOVES TO DO RIDE AND REVIEWS WHERE, UH, THE COUNCIL GO OUT, RIDE A PIECE OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND KIND OF PICK OUT THINGS THAT, THAT CAN BE MADE BETTER ON THAT IN FUTURE ONES. 
          UM, THE, THE ONE THEY, UH, DID THIS LAST TIME WAS, UH, PLEASANT VALLEY, WHICH OF COURSE, UH, HAS, UH, BRAND NEW BIKE LANES THANKS TO PROJECT CONNECT AND THE BIKEWAYS, UH, PROGRAM. 
          UH, AND MAYBE THE 
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QUARTER PROGRAM, NO, IT WASN'T QUARTER TO RIGHT. 
          I DUNNO, SOMEONE COULD CONGRAT ME LATER ON THAT. 
          UH, BUT YOU KNOW, I THINK, UH, BOTH THERE ARE A LOT OF GREAT TAKEAWAYS FOR, FOR FUTURE INFRASTRUCTURE, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO ROUNDABOUTS, UM, AND INTERSECTIONS WITH, UH, UH, UH, UH, BUS ROUTES. 
          UH, I ALSO THINK IT'S, UH, A, UH, A REALLY GREAT, UH, CORRIDOR NOW, UH, REALLY SURPRISED ME HOW WELL, UH, THE CITY, UH, BUILT OUT THE BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          THERES IN SOME PARTS, SO I THINK IT'S DEFINITELY WORTH THE READ. 
          GREAT, THANK YOU. 
          UM, THAT 
          [11. Update from Commissioner Kavelman from the Pedestrian Advisory Council regarding actions taken at the August 3, 2025, meeting.]
BRINGS US TO ITEM 11, WHICH IS UPDATE FROM COMMISSIONER KAMAN REGARDING THE PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COUNCIL REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN AT THEIR AUGUST 3RD, 2025 MEETING. 
          UM, WE GOT, THEY HAD A, UH, I 35 CAP STITCH UPDATE AND THEY, UM, DECIDED ON THEIR SUBCOMMITTEES. 
          COOL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          [12. Update from Chair Somers from the Community Advisory Committee for Austin Transit Partnership Board regarding actions taken at the August 14, 2025, meeting.]
UM, NEXT IS, UH, UPDATE FROM ME CHAIR SUMMERS, UH, FROM THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP BOARD REGARDING ACTIONS TAKEN AT OUR AUGUST 14TH, 2025 MEETING. 
          SO, UM, WE, UM, ONE THING THAT PEOPLE IN THIS GROUP MIGHT BE INTERESTED ABOUT, SO AUSTIN LIGHT RAIL, UM, WHEN RIGHT AFTER PROJECT CONNECT, THERE WERE TWO GROUPS. 
          ONE WAS THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE, WHICH, UM, I'M A PART OF AND A FORMER MEMBER OF UTC RUBEN BROOKS IS A PART OF. 
          AND THEN THERE WERE THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES WITH PEOPLE WITH TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES. 
          THERE WERE SEVERAL OF THEM. 
          THEY WERE LAID DOWN AND THEY'VE BEEN REFORMATTED INTO A LIGHT AUSTIN LIGHT RAIL ADVISORY GROUP AND WHICH IS PEOPLE WITH TECHNICAL EXPERTISE. 
          UM, AND SO THAT GROUP WAS, UM, IS BEING RECONSTITUTED. 
          SO I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S PRETTY GOOD TO BE AWARE OF, UM, TO MONITOR THAT AND WATCH OTHER PROCEEDINGS. 
          BUT, UM, THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE IS HAVING AN APPOINTEE TO THE LIGHT RAIL ADVISORY GROUP. 
          SO WE WORKED, WE, UH, DID THAT. 
          WE ALSO MADE SOME BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS PRIMARILY FOR AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP IN CAP METRO BECAUSE WE WERE PRETTY OUTSIDE THE CITY BUDGET CYCLE. 
          AND THAT GOT KIND OF INTERESTING. 
          AND THEN WE HAD A BRIEF UPDATE ABOUT THE NEPA, THE, UM, ENVIRONMENTAL, UH, PROCESS FOR, UM, UH, AUSTIN LIGHT RAIL, UM, WHICH IS MOVING TOWARDS CONCLUSION IN THE FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT, REALLY THIS, THIS FALL BY THE END OF THE YEAR. 
          UM, AND THEN WE ALSO SAW BASICALLY THE SAME PRESENTATION WITH THE CAP METRO, UH, TRANSIT PLAN 2035. 
          WE WERE PRETTY TIME CONSTRAINED OUR AGENDA. 
          THEY REALLY KEEP THOSE MEETINGS TO TWO HOURS. 
          SO I THINK WE'RE ACTUALLY GONNA HAVE A DEEPER DIVE MEETING, LIKE, UM, IF YOU WANNA WATCH AND TUNE INTO OUR UM, SEPTEMBER MEETING, I THINK WE'RE ACTUALLY GONNA GO MUCH MORE IN DEPTH ON THAT. 
          UM, ON THE TRANSIT PLAN 2035. 
          SO THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING OF INTEREST 'CAUSE I THINK WE'RE GONNA TRY TO GO SPEND A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME WITH IT. 
          SO THAT'S KIND OF GOOD. 
          UM, SO THAT'S ITEM 12. 
          THAT DOES 
          [FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS]
BRING US TO ITEM 13, FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS, WHICH IS TO IDENTIFY ITEMS AT FUTURE MEETINGS. 
          IF YOU COULD, LET ME GUIDE YOU THROUGH WHAT WE HAVE HERE. 
          WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL FOR THE LAST TWO OR THREE MONTHS. 
          WE HAD A LOT OF UM, KIND OF LIKE BACKLOGGED THINGS TO WORK THROUGH AND WE HAVE WORKED THROUGH A NUMBER OF THEM, SO THAT IS VERY POSITIVE. 
          UM, WE DO HAVE, UM, CONFIRMED FOR NEXT MONTH WE HAVE A GREAT, UH, GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT UPDATE. 
          UM, WE HEARD FROM THEM ABOUT A YEAR AGO AND PASSED SOME RECOMMENDATIONS TO HOPEFULLY EASE THEIR PROCESS AND BRING THEM INTO THE CITY AS A SORT OF A PARTNER. 
          SO WE'RE GONNA HEAR AN UPDATE FROM THEM. 
          WE ALSO HAVE AN UPSTATE, IT SOUNDS DECEPTIVELY SIMILAR, THE GREEN STREETS PROJECT UPDATE. 
          UH, AND GREEN STREETS IS THE, UH, TREES, UM, UH, STREET TREES, UM, PROJECT. 
          SO WE'RE GONNA HEAR MORE FROM THEM. 
          AND THEN WE ALSO HOPE TO HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY VACATION PROCESS DIVISION OVERVIEW. 
          THIS HAS BEEN SOMETHING, SO WE HAVE SPECIAL POWERS WITHIN THE CITY, UM, THE UTC TO MAKE DETERMINATIONS OF RIGHT AWAY VACATIONS AS WE DID TODAY. 
          BUT I THINK THERE'S BEEN SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT LIKE THE WHY, HOW AND WHAT FOR OF THAT. 
          AND WE'VE ALSO ASKED FOR SOME GENERAL, LIKE TPW ONE-ON-ONE, 1 0 1 PRESENTATIONS. 
          SO I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE A HELPFUL ONE SINCE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT DOES COME UP FOR US A LOT FOR US TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THOSE. 
          UM, I DO THINK THERE MIGHT, I DON'T KNOW, THAT'S PROBABLY ENOUGH FOR THE AGENDA. 
          THERE MIGHT BE ROOM TO MAYBE ADD ONE MORE THING POSSIBLY IF WE WERE REALLY MOTIVATED TO, UM, LOOKING FARTHER OUT. 
          I HAVE A COUPLE HIGHWAY THINGS LIKE I HAVE, WE'VE BEEN YES, KICKING THOSE DOWN THE ROAD A LITTLE BIT, BUT WE HAVE I 35 CONSTRUCTION AND SAFETY. 
          WE HAVE 180 3, WHICH IS ACTUALLY THE 180 3 SECTION BETWEEN 71 AND HIGHWAY ONE 30. 
          UM, THEY'RE LOOKING AT MAYBE EXPANDING THAT. 
          SO THOSE TWO, WE ALSO HAVE TWO C-T-R-M-A, WHICH WAS, ONE IS THE NORTH EXPANSION, WHICH IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION NOW, AND ONE IS MOPAC SOUTH 
          [02:25:01]
PLANNING, WHICH I THINK IS, UM, THE, AS I NOTED, THE FIRST, YOU HAVE SORT OF SEE THE FIRST PRIORITY, SECOND PRIORITY FOR BOTH OF THOSE AGENCIES TO COME OUT TO US. 
          UM, I'D ALSO LIKE TO HEAR PRETTY SOON, I THINK FROM SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS AND THERE'S A BUNCH OF OTHER COOL THINGS IN HERE IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO TEASE SOMETHING OUT THAT THEY THINK IS IMPORTANT FOR MAYBE NOVEMBER, I THINK THAT THAT WOULD, OR SOMETHING NOT ON THE LIST, YOU KNOW, FOR OCTOBER, NOVEMBER. 
          I THINK THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL. 
          WE HAVE A, I HAVE A REGULAR MEETING WITH NATALIE NOW TO WORK THROUGH THIS STUFF, SO I THINK THAT'S REALLY BEEN HELPING, BUT I DEFINITELY INTERESTED TO HEAR IF THERE'S SOMETHING MISSING FROM THE LIST OR IF THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE LIST THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO PULL OUT TO REALLY TRY TO GET ON OUR AGENDA. 
          UM, NOVEMBER OR DECEMBER, I THINK I WOULD ADD THE BYLAWS UPDATES IS A NOVEMBER OR POSSIBLY POSSIBLY DECEMBER DEPENDING ON THE CLERK'S OFFICE. 
          UM, I JUST WANNA SAY, I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT, I'D LIKE TO SEE C-T-R-M-A, I WANNA FLAG THAT AS BEING IMPORTANT THAT I WANNA SEE IN NOVEMBER THAT MOPAC SOUTH PLANNING MOPAC SOUTH. 
          I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS. 
          UM, THEY DO A LOT OF PROJECTS AROUND HERE, SO IT'D BE NICE TO JUST GET IN ON THAT. 
          YEAH, YEAH, I AGREE. 
          I DON'T KNOW WHO, HOW WE GET, WE'RE GONNA GET 'EM IN HERE, BUT IT MIGHT JUST BE ONE OF OUR LIAISONS IN CITY. 
          I THINK IN THE PAST THEY HAVE, I MEAN THEY HAVE COME TO PRESENT TO US BEFORE ABOUT ITEMS. UM, I, I DON'T KNOW THAT IN MY TIME HERE WE'VE HAD THEM AT UTC, BUT I'VE DEFINITELY WORKED WITH THEM TO GET THEM TO MOBILITY COMMITTEE, SO I DON'T, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE, UM, WHEN IT'LL HAPPEN, BUT I'M SURE WE'LL BE ABLE TO PARTNER WITH THEM AND GET THEM OUT HERE. 
          I DEFINITELY THINK THOSE TWO THAT WE FLAGGED AS FIRST PRIORITY, UM, THE MOPAC SOUTH AND ALSO THE 180 3, I HAVE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE CONSISTENTLY REACHING OUT TO ME ABOUT THE 180 3, SO I REALLY WOULD WITH TXDOT. 
          SO I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO, UM, TRY TO GET THAT IN OUR AGENDA BEFORE THE END OF THE, AND THEY'VE DONE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN THE CASE OF TXDOT FOR SURE AS WELL. 
          SO IF I CAN ADD, UH, TWO ITEMS. SURE. 
          UM, I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN DOING A RECOMMENDATION ON TRANSIT PLAN 35. 
          MM-HMM . 
          I'D BE CURIOUS IF THERE'S ANYONE ELSE HERE WHO WANTED TO WORK WITH ME ON THAT RECOMMENDATION. 
          I THINK IT COULD BE READY FOR, UH, UH, OCTOBER. 
          IT SOUNDED LIKE, I THINK ON A LOT OF ISSUES, THE, THE COMMISSION WAS OF A SIMILAR CONSENSUS. 
          UH, I DO. 
          GREAT. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          AND IF ANYONE ELSE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN WORKING ON THAT, JUST EMAIL ME. 
          UH, SO IT SOUNDS LIKE WE COULD PROBABLY DO THAT FOR OCTOBER. 
          YEAH. 
          AND THEN THE, UH, BOND WORKING GROUP, I THINK WE SHOULD PROBABLY AIM TO GET THAT RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOND ADVISORY TASK FORCE AND CDS BY NOVEMBER. 
          DECEMBER. 
          MM-HMM . 
          UH, AT THIS POINT DUE TO VACANCIES, THE THREE OF US ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE ON THAT WORKING GROUP . 
          SO I'LL, I'LL LEAVE IT UP TO IF, IF WE WANT TO ADD TWO MORE PEOPLE TO THAT WORKING GROUP OR THE THREE OF US CAN CERTAINLY PUT OUR HEADS TOGETHER AND WORK ON SOMETHING, I THINK IT'D BE GOOD TO OPEN IT UP IF PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED. 
          I THINK WE SHOULD PROBABLY POST FOR THAT. 
          WE DO NEED TO, I THINK WE DO NEED TO POST, WE'RE OFFICIALLY ADDING. 
          YEAH. 
          BUT, SO I GUESS WE COULD START SOME WORK. 
          YEAH. 
          LIKE, LET'S, LET'S DO THAT WAY. 
          LIKE, I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD NECESSARILY POSTPONE, WE COULD START SOME WORK OR, OR ANYONE THAT'S NOT, UH, VICE CHAIR SCHUMACHER, COMMISSIONER VALMAN OR MYSELF. 
          ARE OTHER PEOPLE INTERESTED IN POSSIBLY BEING ON THE BOND WORKING GROUP? THIS WOULD BE TO HELP MAKE A RECOMMENDATION REGARDING THE 2026 BOND THAT WE HEARD ABOUT TODAY OR OTHERS INTERESTED. 
          COMMISSIONER PRASAD, PERHAPS ANYONE ELSE? I THINK WHAT WE WILL NEED TO DO IS WE COULD POST IN OCTOBER TO ADD TO THE WORKING GROUP AND, 'CAUSE I DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE THAT READY IN OCTOBER ANYWAY. 
          PROBABLY BE AMBITIOUS. 
          YEAH, THAT WOULD BE VERY AMBITIOUS. 
          AND, AND CERTAINLY WE CAN INVITE COMMISSIONER PRASAD AS A UNOFFICIAL MEMBER. 
          YES, FOR SURE. 
          ADAM. 
          SO THAT'S NOT, IT'S OUTSIDE TOMA, SO WE CAN DEFINITELY, AS LONG AS WE'RE IN A SUB QUORUM, BUT I THINK WE COULD EVEN POST FOR THAT TO MAKE IT MORE FORMAL. 
          UM, SO LET'S, UM, UH, WE'LL GET STARTED ON THAT AND WE WILL TRY TO GET THAT IN NOVEMBER, DECEMBER TIMEFRAME. 
          I THINK NOVEMBER WOULD BE GREAT IF WE COULD PULL IT OFF, YOU KNOW. 
          YEAH. 
          IT'S JUST A LOT TO DIGEST A LOT OF INFORMATION. 
          I, I WOULD SAY HONESTLY, NOVEMBER AT THE LATEST. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT'S FAIR. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          MAYBE WE COULD GET OCTOBER, I DON'T KNOW. 
          LET'S JUST PUT OUR, LET'S JUST CHAT AND SEE WHERE WE GET. 
          YEAH, FOR SURE. 
          NOVEMBER SOUNDS FINE. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          I'M MARKING THAT IN MY NOTES. 
          OTHERS WITH AGENDA ITEMS. OKAY. 
          IF YOU WANNA FLAG SOMETHING IN THE LIST OR ADD SOMETHING NEW TO THE LIST. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SEE NONE. 
          THAT DOES BRING US TO THE END OF THE AGENDA AND I WILL ADJOURN THE MEETING. 
          SEE NO OBJECTION 
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