Thursday November 3rd
I want to thank everyone for joining us
for the November 3rd land use the
natural resources committee uh well
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a few housekeeping items before we start
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and do we have any public Communications
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seen no further comments uh roll call
please all right uh director bullhan on
the eye
a frost
absent guyaldo I
Gore
aye
Harris
absent Kennedy
absent new
aye
West
hi Baines
aye Vice chair Clarks yes and chair
Saragosa
aye motion carries all right thank you
okay uh moving along uh we're gonna go
to our one action item that's item
number four uh green means go funding
recommendations and early activation
category and uh Garrett has this item
for us this afternoon thank you Gary
great thank you chair it's my pleasure
on the behalf of the larger green means
go team to be before you for the
recommendations the first ever green
means go funding program so it's a
testament to a lot of hard work this
year also a testament to the foundation
this board and many others on the
regional Aid of getting that green means
go funding into the region so we're
talking about today is called the early
activation category it's about three
million in funding it's the smallest
category and just for context
um the the categories planning and
capital so the second and third category
is about 10 times larger we're just due
to say congress applications
um late last week so the committee this
committee and the board will be seeing
those funny recommendations early next
year so we're talking today about the
the first part of green beans go three
million of the over 34 million available
and we've called that early activation
the item for you is an action item one
and there's three components of that the
first is uh to approve the updated
budget for this category I'll come back
to that in a second the second is for
this committee to recommend the board
approve the the scope and funding
amounts for the projects and then the
third is to a delegate Authority
executive director to execute any
agreements and also if if there is any
to program any residual value
um left over we don't plan on that
obviously this is a fully funded staff
recommendation but just in case there is
so let's go back to the first part of
that recommendation to budget this early
activation category we originally had
put a budget four to three million this
is funded through a larger granted
stakehog receipt from the Strategic
growth Council and that includes many
tasks one of which is these funding
Awards but but many other tasks around
uh executing on our sustainable
Community strategy and standing up green
means go which is a brand new program so
about a year into green means go we took
stock of where we're at as with some of
the tasks we laid out in that Grant
and we were also able to move a little
bit of funding forward from another
program which called reap one to to pay
for some of the technical assistance
we're doing in this in this program
which freed up a little bit of money so
that's why you see the staff
recommendation before you today is for
3.2 million in funding Awards the
original estimate was three million so I
want to call attention to that that
difference between the original estimate
and the staff report gives a little bit
more reason to the
um the the increase in the staff
recommendation
um of course you know even with this
this a little bit extra Revenue the
program's still oversubscribed like many
funding programs and um I think the
important point to emphasize is we went
through a pre-application phase with
talking with any interested applicant
and sponsor all the projects that came
forward are exhibiting you know strong
you know alignment with green means go
but of course there's not enough money
to fund all of them so the reasoning
behind the staff recommendation is laid
out in the staff report and in
particular attachment B lays out project
by project the summary of the review
criteria and the working group and where
they landed and and I should say those
criteria were laid out in the guidelines
for agreements go which the board
adopted earlier this year so of course
um you know not enough money if I'm all
we very much recognize the projects
aren't getting recommended for funding
the disappointment there but we feel
like the staff recommendation before you
is alignment with those criteria laid
out in the guidelines so with that we
would recommend that this committee move
this item to the full board with the 3.2
million in funding Awards and that
includes my presentation happy to answer
any questions you have
thank you Garrett any questions at this
point
uh for the I have a question
director Gore their hand up oh yes sorry
Bonnie go ahead thank you um
the report I had
a shoe what was my question
the question is these these projects had
to be completed within a certain period
of time correct So within two years is
that correct Spirit yeah absolutely
director Gore that was one of the
distinctions between this category the
early activation really emphasis on
early right and so this is a blend of
planning and capital so some planning
and also infrastructure but but the key
point is there's a really near-term time
frame so that that helped dictate what
projects came forward in this category
so you'll see in the other two
categories the planning and capital
categories right a longer time frame
until 2026 sounds like a longer away
with infrastructure there's you know
still a need to be moving forward on
those but I think where you're driving
at with your question director gory is
that timeline of really needing These
funds out the door on spin also dictated
what projects came forward in this
category yes that was actually the
purpose of my question where I was
headed so thank you I I appreciate it I
mean it's really great to see a number
of cities apply and really
um
actually every city that applied got
something
um whereas the city of Sacramento
Sacramento County or you know have a
joint project so this is really good to
see thank you
yeah uh thank you director Gore my
question was just for uh excuse me for
the the projects that didn't get funding
do we know that they reapply in the next
in that second round so of the three
that did not or they're not part of
Staff regulation one did elect to move
forward the Broadway project in the city
of Sacramento the other two did not and
part of that has to do with in the
pre-application phase like we talked
about the projects and where they fit
this category the early activation
category is sort of a microcosm of those
two categ other categories but there are
some differences so so Broadway was the
one that um the sponsor felt had the
best fit of moving forward so that
project will be part of um the review of
the larger Capital larger category
called capital
understood thank you
okay any other questions
comments
none
is anyone prepared to make a motion
through the chair
yes move to approve thank you Clark
Chris second thank you uh yes or Peter
did you have a question or were you just
going to move move the item
just moving out okay all right great we
have a first and a second uh do we have
any other firmer comments
being none uh roll call please sure and
for the record no public comment on this
item um please indicate your vote
director
um I Rost
absent guyaldo I Gore
aye
Harris
yes
Kennedy absent new
hi
West hi hi sir Baines
aye Vice chair Clarks yes and chair
sargosa yes motion carries all right
serious and do you mind if I just I just
want to
um I know everybody knows this I think
but if you all as elected officials and
secog board members and your peers and
lots of other folks didn't really work
hard the last three years in legislature
we wouldn't have an item in front of you
today so I just want to I you know I
know it's a small relatively speaking
small thing but as director gorgeous
said really nice to see the regional
diversity and the projects coming
forward will obviously have more of that
as Garrett mentioned in the next the
larger cycle this was the money in the
budget that Senator pan had really
pushed hard for and he really pushed
hard for that because of everything that
you all did uh the groundwork that we
all you all laid and we all laid
um there was a lot of like Blood Sweat
and Tears so I just want to just want to
take a moment and wreck recognize the
hard work that has paid off there no
thank you James I I was going to just
say a couple of words to you which was
exactly what you just said uh is a lot
of a lot of hard work I really want to
thank staff for all the work that went
into this uh to put it together and to
get these funds out the door it's great
to see uh that work and then seeing the
fruits of that at the end of the day so
thank you Garrett and team for all the
work on this item and looking forward to
seeing I believe March for the next
round of things coming out so or I think
we'll all be looking forward to seeing
that and then hopefully uh as our
efforts continue that even though it's a
challenging budget year
um you know we need to still be out
there advocating and being at the table
to try to bring home some additional
dollars uh under this program so thank
you again
all right uh we're gonna move on to our
information items uh which is item five
and uh that is the Marysville green
zones uh specific playing activities and
Greg has this item this afternoon thanks
Greg great thank you uh Greg Chu on the
planning staff at saycog
um so periodically uh we try to bring
forward some positive efforts that are
going on in the region by our local
agencies uh just to give inspiration in
the example
um so
um we just talked about the green means
go
um program it's predecessor program is a
regional early action planning grants uh
that
um secog received and then uh the vast
majority of that money went out to uh
grants to all of our member agencies uh
in the house in the form of housing
grants uh things that would provide uh
and promote the development of housing
the City of Marysville received a couple
of Grants uh and uh with us today is
Kathy Pease she's a planet consultant
long time staff member in Roseville uh
retired from there and has been helping
our jurisdictions throughout the region
uh she's going to describe uh the city's
efforts of using these Grant monies as
well as the city's own funds to
revitalize their Central core area in
Marysville so with that Kathy Pease
good afternoon everybody I'm pleased to
be here
um to provide an overview of what's
going on in the City of Marysville let
me see if I can
start this can everyone see that
yep great
um so yeah as Greg said I am a planning
consultant I'm providing support to the
City of Marysville
probably familiar but Marysville is
located in Yuba County
it has a population just under 13 000.
it's 3.5 square miles and as you can see
it's almost entirely surrounded by the
river there's a levy that surrounds it
because it is in the flood plain
some of the challenges are that the City
of Marysville is economically
disadvantaged a majority of the
residents have a low income level it's
landlocked because of those levies that
I mentioned
there are two major State highways that
bisect the city both Highway 70 and
Highway 20. as a result
outside of automobiles it's kind of a
struggle to work on Mobility for
pedestrians and bicycles with those two
freeways going through this site there
are not a lot of opportunities for
outward growth and because of some of
the constraints there's a huge need to
try and attract investment and
underutilize parcels and while I don't
have it on this slide because they're a
small City they are very streamlined as
far as staff support
most of the Departments are one or two
people
they are fortunate it's very unique in
that there are a ton of historic
resources there's a federal
land Historic Landmark district and
there are several individual buildings
that qualify both at the federal and
state level as historic landmarks
with all of that I think that Marysville
is really at across roads thanks to the
grants that Greg mentioned I think there
are a lot of huge opportunities right
now
so some of the things I'm going to talk
about are the general Plan update oops
excuse me
um
and some of the grants that we received
and some of the other things going on so
the grants they were able to receive a
regional early action planning Grant to
prepare a specific plan on a portion of
the city
and we just recently also applied for
one of the next green means go grants to
look at infrastructure studies on our
sewer and our storm water if Marysville
is successful in getting that grant that
will help provide additional information
to this specific plan
uh for some reason my slides are
automatically advancing I'm not quite
sure why
um
so we are doing a general Plan update uh
it's the first one we've done since 1985
a reason for that is not a lot of Staff
involvement so we're leveraging the
grants which are doing allow us to do
some technical studies and that will
help us also update the general plan at
the same time
it's a unique opportunity to look at
housing and economic development
opportunities and we have a very robust
outreach program that we've initiated we
have a general plan advisory committee
that's made up of business owners major
employers like right out hospital and
Caltrans
long-term residents and others we've
done uh three meetings so far to see
what those folks want as far as the
vision for the future for Marysville
uh what some constraints that they're
concerned about and also we're delving
into alternatives
as part of that effort we've also done
online surveys to get input
so the Grant I mentioned is funding a
green zone specific plan
it is looking at several districts the
Ellis Lake the East Street Corridor the
downtown commercial Corps as well as
what we call the Medical Arts District
which is surrounding the hospital
so we're excited to see what comes out
of that we're hoping that it will
identify Catalyst sites that can provide
opportunities for infill housing
and economic development
another grant that we've received is
going on this week in partnership with
the Urban Land Institute we are doing a
workshop tomorrow to look at a
city-owned property as shown in this
slide there's four corners it's
city-owned Parkland but as you see
Highway 20 goes right through this no
it's very underutilized folks aren't
using the park so what we'd like to see
if it's feasible to maybe develop two of
the quadrants and then use funds that
may be
um raised through that to do
improvements to the other two quadrants
to actually make them usable Park and a
public benefit so there's going to be a
tour with Uli tomorrow and then a study
that comes out of that so depending on
what the outcome in that effort is it'll
help inform the specific plan
we recently updated our housing element
this past year and one of the things the
state have noted is that we really
should update the zoning code to be
consistent with state law and we need to
identify objective design standards so
we're working on that as well
oops
so uh one of the things that we're
really excited about uh the city
recently over the last eight months has
hired an economic development director
Dan Flores and he is working with the
owner of the Marysville Hotel
to look at redeveloping the site for
housing and he's also in talks with
Rideout hospital to work on an agreement
so that a portion of the units can go
towards nursing housing so we'll have
Workforce housing so I think this is
really exciting and we hope to see that
move forward in the near future
the city owns a five-acre property shown
in this slide
they are currently in negotiations with
the developer to redevelop the site for
a hotel restaurant and other mixed uses
and so that should be going to council
pretty soon so that's exciting
and then finally we have the East Lake
affordable housing project it's a
hundred percent affordable it was
approved this past year it will contain
71 units and it's the first multi-family
project that's been approved in the last
10 to 20 years in Marysville
so amazing thing about this is it was
developer driven and it will be
providing almost half of the city's
Regional Housing needs obligations
so with that that concludes my
presentation Christina Heredia had hoped
to be here this morning she's the new
assistant community development director
but she's out sick but if folks have
questions her contacts here and I'm
happy to answer any questions thank you
thank you so much uh this is great now
just listening is I could just change
the word Marysville for Placerville and
it'd be almost identical to the
situation that we face and some of the
things that we're doing so it's just
it's great to hear all the things that
marysville's uh has going on right now
so I'll open it up for questions or
comments
uh yes Mr Harris
yeah Kathy thank you for that
presentation I was curious regarding
Washington Square
um which which of the two which two of
the four quadrants were they are you
talking thinking about developing yeah
uh um and we're looking we're hoping to
do affordable or higher density housing
and mixed use so maybe commercial and
housing
um on those two quadrants it's about 2.3
Acres so it's not a huge site
um but we're hoping to see what comes
out of that
thank you
uh yes director Gore
thank you first of all Kathy really nice
to see you hey Bonnie love working with
you and so I heard your voice I was like
oh that's that's wonderful so she's
really good at what she does and I can
tell based on listening to this and one
I'm just really excited to see that uh
right we're able to utilize some of
these dollars to help smaller
jurisdictions actually do some of this
planning work like that's really
exciting it's huge when you see when you
see a community that hasn't had any
multi-family housing in you know decades
and decades and and there are
underutilized Parcels this is this is
terrific
um my question for you is about the
Marysville hotel and I know that it's my
understanding I know enough to be super
dangerous right like people talked about
it on and off for over the years
um I love the idea of making it into
housing and Workforce housing and
partnering with the hospital
um How likely might that be and there
are there dollars where is there an
interested developer
um and it's so like also how how many
units might it provide
um I think it could provide up to 60
units although I'm not 100 sure but I
think that's what I've heard recently
and I think there is huge excitement the
person that owns the property is sat on
it a long time and I think the new
economic development director has really
lit a flame and met with the property
owner and gotten them really excited
about the potential so we are really
optimistic that something can actually
move forward and having that partnership
with bright out hospital is huge because
they would fund a portion of the units
and I think that is really a catalyst
you know uh to have that happen so I'm I
don't know that we have a lot of
specifics but uh plans are being drawn
up and Engineering starting to be done
so
um we're hopeful that's great thank you
thank you uh yes director Clark fretz
thank you so much I was anticipating
this presentation so much just because
what um Kiera Saragosa said I can
totally see Loomis
um in the same context and you guys are
really leading the way and it's super
exciting to see what's going on in
Marysville and Sean I'm sure
um you know it's exciting too
um but just love the idea that you're
refurbishing the hotel so happy to hear
about the workforce housing I love how
you've organized and you're able to have
so much good going on and just Kudos
thank you for the presentation it helps
small jurisdictions like us to
um you know get even more motivated and
excited to see what's happening with you
and I appreciate your presentation thank
you yeah again can't thank secog enough
either you know they're very helpful
um getting these grants really helps us
to leverage other things so it's amazing
yeah no that was really cool we we
Loomis is in the same boat basically we
just did our working on our general Plan
update as well and so we're sort of
tracking along the same way as you so
thank you that's
I have a question on uh on your photo on
your housing projects did you have to
change any of your zoning in order to
get the developers to come forward just
wondering if there was a Nexus between
the zoning or it was just a good time
um during the economy at that time to go
forward with that project
yes it was down to R3 so it was already
zoned for
that level of density so that was
fortunate and I do think it had to do
with the timing of the economy
great no it's it's great it's good to
see that we were kind of the same thing
we're tracking a little bit behind
Marysville we have three affordable
housing projects coming forward and we
had done some overlay zones several
years ago in order to kind of be put in
that position to to do that and then
into just reading you know that the
bisecting by two highways you know we
have Highway 49 and Highway 50 so right
all about that being bisected and the
challenges that that come with that so
again thank thank you and uh yes uh
direct director new
uh I had a question for Kathy as far as
the
um working with the hotel is it in the
position of name to be seismic uh
retrofitted as well as
okay I was just wondering if that was
included in
in the problem so yes we have we have a
couple of buildings in Winters that are
in that position so
um we're having a hard time finding
anybody with money enough to do it
that's absolutely yeah okay thank you
thank you Pierre any other questions or
comments
all right scene done Kathy Greg thank
you uh for the presentation today I
think you could tell a lot of us that
are from smaller jurisdictions really
appreciate uh the updates and what
you're doing and just you know having
those ideas out there for us to track on
as well and then also From saycog
perspective of seeing those dollars
being put to use so that smaller
jurisdictions like ours can actually
have the extra staff power to get things
done that you know in a one or two
person shop really might not be able to
yes
thank you and cheers our gross I don't
know if this was mentioned but for I had
to step out a sec but if for those of
you that were over lunch we had the
presentation from the ace and sound
working rail commission was this already
said no no and no just the fact that you
know it's also what's so exciting here
uh Kathy and and others as you've got uh
you got a potential rail extension with
Mir with downtown Marysville on the map
just as you're doing a specific plan
update right and I don't know the last
time you had well daytime passenger rail
service there it was like 60 years ago
so I'm hopeful that's really a spark as
well I know Kathy you're you've got your
site set on that but I'm not just
station location but what it means for
the downtown right and the economic
activity and the interest and parcels
and our fingers are crossed we're trying
to help on that one too that's awesome
all right all right well again thank you
and we'll look forward to more updates
as this comes along absolutely thank
you thank you
okay uh we're gonna go ahead and move on
to our next information item item six uh
and this is the Sacramento area zero
emission vehicle development strategy
and I know Sam's out today so clinch
will be handling the presentation yeah
so thank you I will do my best to fill
in for for Sam and we're also joined by
Rachel Huang from the Sacramento
Metropolitan utility district from SMUD
and I think Kevin Schroeder is here from
Sacramento Regional Transit and then I
thought it was going to be reporter but
I think I might see Jaime lemus here is
uh is here from the stock Metro Air
District
um so let me jump and forgive me if
we're a little clumsy going through the
slides Sam couldn't join today so I
think I'm gonna kind of call on folks
but uh as we go I think Rachel you're
gonna kick us off here
with the first couple of slides
and then I will I'll control the uh the
slide deck so just tell me when you're
ready to advance okay perfect thank you
Clint and uh good afternoon everyone
um my name is Rachel Wong as Clint
mentioned I'm the director of customer
grid strategies
and really appreciate all of you having
us uh to talk to you about the work of
what we call the core agency
collaborative so that's comprised of
SMUD suck our teeth they come in
um you know what I love is that the four
agency is recognized a few years ago the
importance of a focus in a large region
to advance the clean mobility and
supportive
hey Rachel I'm sorry to cut you off
Rachel
um anybody else but I'm going to say
that it you're kind of going in and out
like fading in and out a little bit oh
really I don't know why that is
hmm But if I'm guessing other board
members are having a hard time yeah you
might maybe if you go off off camera you
might get more bandwidth it could be
maybe potentially solve it
let me let me switch my earphones too
you know but our Network at the end
is that any better
much better
maybe not
okay
um uh no you're still cutting it before
agencies recognized a few years ago the
importance of working together and so
we've actually been meeting
um for the last several years
information collaborating design
initiatives as well as working together
hey Rachel I'm really sorry to do this
but it's still
working around the world's still pretty
bad
including
can you hear me Rachel
we're having a we're still having a
tough time hearing you
um
I don't know if we can maybe switch
around the
the slides to see if we can get Rachel a
better connection
okay can you still hear me
no
I think we're having an issue
unfortunately
Rachel if you're able to maybe we can
have you call in but I can I can kind of
introduce these these first slides and
then maybe you can rejoin us if uh if
that works better
why don't we go ahead and do that clinic
if yeah if so yeah
um yeah so Rachel if you can hear me
well you'll if you can uh maybe try to
reconnect I'll introduce these slides
and we'll go through and then maybe you
can you can join us uh
so
um this so
this is a collaboration we've got with
SMUD near District
um and uh and sacrt to really look at
how we can advance zero emission vehicle
technology in the region
um and we are looking at four primary
strategies for how to do this around
Transit Fleet conversion medium and
heavy duty Freight
um vehicles and infrastructure
um e-mobility Hub so how do we get
electric vehicles
um and electric shared Vehicles into
more disadvantaged communities where
they may not be able to afford to
purchase you know their own their own
cars their own vehicles and then also to
support all of that infrastructure and
that investment with a Workforce that
can be trained up in our region to help
introduce these Technologies and also
provide some really great economic
opportunities for for our residents and
um Kevin Shredder if you're there I
think you're gonna you're gonna pick up
on this next slide about the transit
Fleet conversion and refueling
infrastructure I am thank you so Kevin
schroederer staff RT senior planner if I
do cut out please let me know wave but
hopefully you can hear me
um so first of all we just want to say
we are really truly appreciative the
partnership and collaboration with the
four agencies
um it's nice to know that we're all
moving in the same alignment towards a
zero emission Transportation sector as
you know security is required by the Air
Resource Board to be 100 zero emission
uh bus fleet by 2040
um and by 2030 all buses have to be zero
emission that are purchased by us
currently right now we have 240 big
buses so the 40 Footers and 200 cutaway
vehicles for Ada and micro Transit
um if you count the entire six County
region with a replacement or conversion
that's going to be 600 buses in the due
time as a requirement currently we have
24-0 emission big buses and or sorry 24
Mission clean air sorry 24 zero Mission
electric buses 15 of them are big buses
so 40 Footers and then nine of them are
cuddles
um with the support of the four agencies
that we've been working with we've been
able to do a zero emission bus rollout
plan which gives us a road map for our
transition and how we purchase when we
purchase
um so we can hit those marks set forward
um currently right now we are looking
for facility planning to accommodate our
future Fleet as our downtown
notification cannot fit all the
infrastructure needed we're looking in
the southern area of Sacramento finding
industrial yards and things of that sort
the base impact obviously is to look at
the relocation for maintenance the
garages the storage of vehicles and then
the cost and one thing that this group
is going to be very helpful with us is
looking at the infrastructure upgrades
needed for such a big Fleet
um move so with the bipartisan
infrastructure Bill and historic levels
of funding we find this a great time to
really focus in on zero emission
transportation and and that's why we're
here and excited to move forward with
this four agencies zero Mission plan to
uh better the region so I'll give it
back to you
thanks and uh and so I'll cover this
slide on Goods movement medium heavy
duty so this is
um that maybe heavy duty trucks are
freight trucks they're a small amount of
the total kind of miles we see traveled
on our on our roadways around three
percent of the overall travel but they
account for a much higher share of total
emissions around 20 of greenhouse gas
emissions over 50 percent of particulate
matter and ozone precursors so getting
them to be able to transition to a more
clean future is is hugely important and
a great opportunity
um the we say Cog recently received well
before that um SMUD kind of in a few
years ago did some some interviews with
Fleet managers kind of looking at this
chicken and egg is you do the do the
vehicles come first or does the
infrastructure come first and public
agencies maybe shied away or there
hasn't been as much investment in the
infrastructure waiting for the market
for vehicles to take off but there's a
lot of hesitation from Fleet managers
wanting to invest in this technology if
they don't know that they can charge or
refuel uh reliably so
um having a public investment in this
infrastructure is hugely important
um saycog recently got a grant from
Caltrans to work with our Mega region
Partners in the Bay Area and San Joaquin
to look at charging infrastructure and
refueling infrastructure for this is an
important Point particularly for for
those heavier Duty Vehicles the electric
electric can be part of the solution but
you don't want to put all your eggs in
that basket right hydrogen other zero
emission fuels are hugely important
particularly for that longer haul so the
study that we're looking at is looking
for you know 11 stations through our
region primarily connecting us to the
Bay Area
um and uh and where those where those
stations might be located and then what
it's going to take to invest in those to
get that infrastructure laid so that we
can create some more confidence in the
technology and see if we can get the
market to respond
so
um that there's more to come on on that
grant that we're working on I think SMUD
is also kind of wrapping up a grant to
look at uh infrastructure needs in
Sacramento and West Sacramento so
there's a lot going on in this space
right now and it's a it's a very
important part of this of this overall
strategy and then I believe it is Rafe
here that can maybe walk us a little bit
through these uh charging and
transportation options in
um under-resourced communities
yeah uh thanks Clint uh good afternoon I
hope you can hear me okay
um I want to Echo something Uh Kevin
said earlier that this relationship
between the four agencies has been
fantastic I think it's gotten us all on
the same page and definitely looking
forward to how we plan
um in this space moving forward
I think no one understands this issue of
Mobility better than say Cog and this
board so thanks for having us here today
to talk about this why Mobility is so
important obviously you know you need to
get to work you need to get to school
you need to get to the services that we
all need to get to because of of past
planning practices and implementation of
some of those practices not everyone has
that same option or or Mobility that we
all that we all need to get to those
services and so uh the transition to
electric vehicles has often taken that
same made that same mistake of
under-resourcing some of these
communities that continue to be
under-resourced so we wanted to take a
really deep look at where those
communities are and and what is actually
needed within those within those
communities
um so we're looking at things like
electric vehicles and yes electric
vehicles do exist within a lot of these
communities the air district for example
has two great programs we have our
community car share and clean cars for
all that provide access to clean safe
reliable transportation such as plug-in
and full battery electric vehicles and
there's just more of a market demand for
for these types of vehicles there's also
car share and ride share opportunities
as well as as e-bike and scooters and in
many of these communities
so what we're looking to do we've
identified 52 Mobility hubs throughout
the region and these can be both formal
and informal it's really just a
concentration of these Mobility
Solutions in a particular area to again
provide people access and Mobility that
they might not have had in the past with
that we've identified the need for for
Ev Chargers installed in these
communities as well
again there are electric vehicles
already in these whether it's the ride
share or car share there is starting to
be a lot of of ownership of of plug-in
and electric vehicles so there is an
existing need for Ev Chargers in these
communities to be installed and we're
seeing a huge increase in that demand
the four agencies has worked together to
identify what that demand might be and
we're thinking or based on our estimates
we're anticipating about 300 000 light
duty electric vehicles within the region
so there is going to need to be a quite
a bit of of charging infrastructure
associated with that so while we have a
large focus on the medium and heavy duty
side as well which is definitely
important especially in these again in
these under-resourced communities where
a lot of these operations happen there
is a really big need for on the light
duty side as well to to make sure that
we provide these Mobility options that
um they they haven't had for some time
so I will turn it back over I I think
Rachel's back on the line so I don't
know if we want to give it another shot
with her but she's got the next slide if
not um I can probably handle that as
well okay can you hear me can anyone
hear me yes we got you now okay yes
thank you apologies for the technical
difficulties so the last topic um with
regards to the strategy is Workforce
Development and we know that this
transition to a zero emissions future is
is a huge opportunity actually for our
region to enable inclusive Economic
Development by training members of our
community particularly those as we've
mentioned you know within our
underrepresented under-resourced
communities and it's going to be really
critical for us to create that pathway
for them from the training to the
employment
um and and being able to do so within
those high paying clean energy jobs that
we'll be creating for the future this
matches really well with the significant
need of skilled Staffing to support the
zero emissions transition and I think
you know we're definitely seeing it SMUD
I think all of our agents are seeing
those needs for the future so work is
actually already underway with
community-based organizations to train
members of our underrepresented
communities in multiple technology areas
and there's actually been a Workforce
Development program that started in
partnership with the California mobility
center specifically focused on clean
Mobility jobs but this strategy area
really looks at kind of four key areas
which is one identifying the jobs that
we need and assessing those skills that
we need to train for relative to entry
level employment partnering with those
educational institutions trade
organizations community-based
organizations as well as others to
continue to build and expand those
training programs relative to the
evolving skills that are needed
working with key Partners to ensure that
the training includes job preparedness
as well as placement and supporting our
candidates through those early stages of
employment even after they've received a
job and by ensuring access to wraparound
services so things like Child Care
Transportation case management and more
to really ensure that these people are
are prepared as they as they go through
these new careers and then finally
establishing those strong relationships
with the trades and employee layers from
the start to make sure that these
training programs meet their needs as
well as ensure that those candidates are
well prepared for those jobs from the
employers themselves
next slide
so you know I think everybody has
mentioned this but you know I'm going to
close at least this part by saying you
know we started this collaboration
between our agencies in recognition that
by having a unified voice for our region
that we would be able to better make our
shared Vision come to fruition and I've
really enjoyed working with with this
whole group and not only developing this
but actually even getting started on a
lot of these initiatives as well and
really believe that this effort is
really going to prepare us well with
regards to attracting funding and
resources to help us with our regional
goals I'm also very excited that these
shared efforts are aligned to support
delivery to key adjacent efforts like
SMUD sustainable communities resource
priorities work as well as saycogs green
means go initiative and I'm just looking
forward to working with this team
hopefully that on these initiatives that
are going to be hopefully well funded by
the federal agencies as well as state
funds to move forward our goals for the
region and you know like I said we're
already starting to see some of this
coming to fruition has been screening
grant opportunities all year and a lot
of them are popping up as hey this would
be a great opportunity for the four
agency collaborative to work on together
so with that I will hand it back to
Clint
so just to kind of close this out and
Rachel got to this a little bit right
now we're kind of in we've this this is
a brand new document brand new strategy
that we published just in the last
handful of months
um we're now kind of going around and
socializing this we've we've been
presenting to each of our boards
um Rachel mentioned you know there's a
lot of need for a collaboration outside
of just these four agencies and so we're
working forward with that or working
together to to move this around the
region and make sure everyone is
everyone who needs to be as aware and
engaged in this
um and then also you know why is this
alignment important but there's a huge
amount of money coming and available
through the the federal infrastructure
Investments jobs act and here's just 1.2
1.2 trillion dollars and here are just
some of those programs that are going to
be out there that we want to just make
sure our region is at the table and
ready for these for these programs so
this strategy is a is kind of a road map
for how we can be really competitive for
these for these funds so with that I
will I think we can stop sharing the
PowerPoint and and we have our panel
here for any questions or comments from
the committee all right thank you and
I'm glad we were able to get you back
Rachel
um I know it's two years into the
pandemic or plus but we will continue to
have these problems I think as we do
these hybrid meetings so thank you for
sticking with us here on that uh any
questions or comments
I do have one on the Workforce
Development side you know it's always
been a i i it's always been a not a not
a complaint but an irritation to me when
I hear sort of the the green green new
jobs because it's always I've always
thought of it as sort of a cheap
throwaway line when you talk about real
jobs that I know I work with a lot of
folks uh Carpenters Building Trades that
have jobs that pay over a hundred
thousand dollars a year in the gas and
oil industries that take care of
families that they were able to buy
houses and and really contribute to
their uh you know to their neighborhoods
and to their regions and so I'd love to
hear more about what those jobs look
like and anything that I can do to help
move that and and do that because I do
know that there will be a transition but
um you know we really I think you have
to see that in order for us to really I
think make sense for people that are
going to be maybe out of wholesale
sectors and what that means to those
families and really to those Regional
economies as well
I'll just comment that I think that
that's a point that it's not just about
new jobs and bringing new people into
the sector but it's also how do we help
those that are in different sectors make
certain transitions as certain
transition sector as certain sectors
transition so I think that that's really
good feedback and I think that goes back
to how do we think about who are those
future employers and even the existing
employers and where where are the skills
needed and then how do we enable that
because the reality is is that there are
going to there is a need for for skilled
Workforce and I think taking existing
skilled Workforce and being able to them
move them into jobs as certain things
change but also I think a big part of
the workforce strategy is really looking
at how do we bring new people in as well
and train them up that might not even
have those beginning skills to begin
with because I think there will be
enough jobs uh to to make that demand
and I I love the comments on the sort of
medium-sized uh you know trucks and
vehicles I think because that is a we
always think of the larger ones but
there's such a huge uh need for that
medium-sized well in terms of the
infrastructure and the charging
infrastructure that's going to be needed
in the future I appreciate hearing that
in the presentation as well
any other comments
anything you wanted to add
as a long time fleet manager for the
yellow bus world I'm thrilled to see the
conversation
um and thinking I can throw just a
little bit uh on the jobs piece one of
the most important things that I know
that we saw the transition
um through Elk Grove School District we
ran CNG we had uh passive traps we had
active um traps we had propane we had
diesel so you're going through that
process and you have the the
um diesel mechanics that can go out and
wrench on your equipment but it's
changed so much now you also need them
to be able to take the laptop out to do
the Diagnostics and when we introduced
electric for the first time that's a
whole nother skill set and there truly
is a crisis in finding equipment
mechanics that can do all of those
pieces and quite frankly if I think if
we all look at our schools you'll see
there are not credentialed teachers that
are able to teach those close classes we
don't have our colleges kicking out
folks that have a credential in those
kind of industrial arts or mechanics any
longer so it's something we need to talk
about
um
I think two of the other big piece as as
of all those different types of
alternative fuels and where the
hesitation comes from is even in the
requirements I had to do 250 of my white
fleet vehicles and got them all done and
everything up in order and then that
date keeps changing very frustrating
when you have a deadline and then you
see that a lot of people aren't going to
make the deadline so then they move it
for another year or they move it for
another year and meanwhile I've gone to
my board and said I have to have this
done here's the deadline so it's just
um
that was one of the frustrating pieces
and then thrilled to to start with our
first electric buses we started with 12
but the range
um is a is a huge issue in Elk Grove
School District the uh it's about 320
square miles about a third of Sacramento
County and the bus first electric buses
had a 70-mile range well I don't have
time to send a bus from Stockton and
Florin out to Anatolia at Douglas uh and
out Jackson Highway and then get it back
and then be able to run again in the in
the afternoon
um it and then that means I can't use it
for a mid-range and then let's not
forget oh gosh there's a basketball or
football game tonight but that's in
Roseville well that can't make it so it
really and I love that we're working on
it but I need to always remind everybody
um I guess we won't take that field trip
to the Exploratorium in San Francisco
because I can't get there and there's
not enough time to charge if I do and I
I know going through that with with
compressed natural gas you know you'd
look it up and say oh here's a station
and then I you know sure enough I get
the football team down to Fresno and oh
guess what they're not working and now
I've got 60 kids on a school bus and I'm
stuck with nothing so it's it's really I
I want us to work on it but I want us to
be very cautious and realistic that
there are some some restrictions and
some limitations SMUD was wonderful
about helping us get the infrastructure
in because we had to upgrade
um significantly and then exactly as you
mentioned just the facility now I have
my place where all my plug-in buses are
for traps and then now I've got my CNG
plug-ins and now I need to have my
electric I don't have any space anymore
I'm running out of physical space so I'm
glad to hear you're working with those
folks but I think if you're seeing a
um
hesitancy to jump in that's why at the
smaller I know for us a smaller School
District they can't do it because they
don't have the backup of extra buses
yeah you have to go with the bigger guys
that can handle it to have some out of
um that are not are out of service
thank you director guyaldo for those
really practical and real world
implications when you're talking about
these types of transitions appreciate
that
somebody else
foreign
well
um so you've heard from our partners and
we're really happy to have everybody
here today as well for the four agencies
you know one of the one I mean there's
so much good news in all of here but one
of the challenges we have obviously is
the footprint of some of our partner
agencies isn't quite as big as ours
right and so I'm looking around the
table here
um and and but that's not to say that
actually you know the air District uh
and Ray Porter here actually aren't
working with the air districts in
Feather River and other places but but
we're aware that we need frankly as
we've said earlier a mega Regional
strategy right around some of the uh
infrastructure and the fueling and
electrification
um so that's you know just just
understand that a lot of this uh is a
footprint right now for Sacramento
County but we we're thinking actually
even bigger across the 16 counties
um and yeah there'll be more to come on
that as we launch our Mega Regional zero
emission vehicle infrastructure study
and I know director Baines you know a
lot of interest up in your district and
Yuba Sutter right in the infrastructure
there
um so I guess stay tuned on that I just
wanted to point out that we're we're
still trying to work to make this uh not
just six County but a 16 County effort
well said James and again I want to
thank uh SMUD and AQMD and RT for being
with us this afternoon uh for giving us
the update and for all the exciting work
that's going on as we move forward so
thank you all and Clint thank you for
for jumping in as well
okay
uh so we're going to go to item seven uh
which are committee reports and we'll go
ahead and open it up to the floor uh for
anyone that like to give a report
any takers how Pam how was the uh how
was your open house at the Museum oh it
went well it was uh one of uh Donna
Tully's uh last uh events is um County
Supervisor so yeah and I was surprised
with a turnout being in the middle of
the day in the middle of the week
very good yeah News 10 did a report so
yeah I plan on getting out there I want
to see it so yeah I was amazed at like
I've sit on that museum board I'm amazed
to even pulled it off from considering
that um that it's I mean yard sales and
big sales we're not going to do it I'm
surprised like
um like a couple agencies pitched in in
some donations
very good I have a feeling it's
supervisor until he's farewell tour
might be a little bit like Elton John's
farewell yeah it's going to last a while
I agree
anybody else
all right see none I know uh we have two
uh receiving file items I don't know
staff wanted to make any uh comments on
those two items
those are the it's the blueprint
implementation uh and then the trails
correct Grant so I don't know if we have
anything to add to those but um
well one on the just the blueprint
implementation activities
um definitely encourage you heard from
Marysville today
um yep steak does have access to Grants
but we're also very willing to help your
staff you with identifying grants
applying for Grants but also we've got
some some good expertise on our on our
staff as well as we can connect you to
other staff that are that are very well
educated on a lot of these kind of
strategies for advancing housing and
other things around the region so
um definitely reach out to to myself to
James to any of us if we can be of
service to your your agencies because
we'd love to to highlight you and some
of those receiving files or even bring
you to to some of these committees so we
can
share what you're doing in your
communities as well
all right thank you cheers Eric I said
um one thing just to pass along
um I was talking to Vice chair Kennedy
yesterday and he was a census apologies
uh with uh director Frost there in a
Sacramento County Board of Supervisors
Retreat all day
um we gave him some ideas about some
places to visit around the region and
some of you to come visit I know he
couldn't do all of you so apologies if
you haven't gotten a visit from Vice
chair Kennedy but he just wanted to be
passed along that he's really
appreciated uh it's really opened his
eyes to see the diversity of the region
and just really wants to pass his his
thanks along to all of you uh being
gracious with your time if you've been
able to see him
um so that's that's from the vice chair
he was just in uh in El Dorado County
unfortunately I was out of state on a
business trip at the last minute so but
Wendy uh uh met with Vice chair and so
yes we we thank you for coming up and he
and I are getting together in a couple
of weeks uh after that since I wasn't
able to make it uh Tuesday I think so
he's definitely making the rounds
we got to spend a little time in Rocklin
last week and we had a wonderful time
and it was great that he'd been there
previously so he already knew quite a
bit
perfect
all right well then uh let's see here it
is 2 30 so I will uh seed back to
everybody a half an hour of their
afternoon I just want to thank you this
is I guess this will be my last meeting
as chair of the lunar committee so I
want to thank all the members and my
vice chairs uh for the help
um throughout this whole year and again
next year looking forward to seeing
everybody in in person uh hopefully as
we go forward here so again thank you uh
and I will talk to you all soon meetings
adjourned
thank you ready