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[0:00] Okay, we will go ahead and get started for our Monday, September 14th, 2026, 1130, PPLC meeting, and we will go ahead and call this meeting to the order. If we can please take roll. Commissioner Bowen. Commissioner Jordan.
[0:17] Here. Commissioner Mershant.
[0:21] President on video. Here. Commissioner McCarthy. Here. Commissioner Salinas. Commissioner Salon.
[0:33] President Arshad is here.
[0:35] Thank you.
[0:36] Commissioner Solomon.
[0:38] Here.
[0:38] Commissioner Becher-Eziashcraft.
[0:41] President.
[0:42] Commissioner Halbert.
[0:45] Committee Vice Chair Brown.
[0:46] President.
[0:47] Committee Chair Hernandez.
[0:49] President.
[0:49] Thank you.
[0:50] We do have a quorum.
[0:51] All right.
[0:51] We'll go ahead and move on to item number three, which is our public comment.
[0:55] Item 3.1.
[0:56] Public comment.
[0:57] Information.
[0:57] Item any public comments?
[0:59] We didn't receive any public comments not seen any public comment. We'll go ahead and move on to item number four, which is our consent calendar item 4.1 4.2.
[1:08] Any members like to see anything.
[1:12] Not see anything.
[1:15] We have a motion and motion consent.
[1:19] Any public comment.
[1:20] We didn't receive any public comment on this.
[1:23] And just for the record was that was the first.
[1:27] Thank you commissioner Solomon.
[1:29] On to the one
[1:31] Commissioner
[1:32] Bowen.
[1:34] Yes.
[1:35] For Bowen, Commissioner
[1:35] Jordan.
[1:36] Yes.
[1:37] For dawn and commissioner
[1:38] caution.
[1:41] Yes.
[1:42] For more Sean
[1:42] It.
[1:43] They are Mike.
[1:45] Yes.
[1:46] The paper.
[1:46] Yes, from a
[1:46] Carthie qué
[1:46] Runner Selinas.
[1:48] Yes, between
[1:48] Selinas, commissioner
[1:49] Sal.
[1:53] Yes.
[1:54] Yes, bring
[1:54] him back
[1:57] For sheuiten
[1:58] R Campbell.
[1:59] Yes, for
[2:00] Heal MD.
[2:04] Sheist
[2:05] Had to do
[2:05] around committee chair Hernandez?
[2:07] Yes.
[2:07] Yes, for Hernandez, the motion passes.
[2:10] All right, item number five is our regular matters.
[2:12] We'll go ahead and go to item 5.1,
[2:15] which is our federal state regional and local legislative
[2:17] activities update.
[2:19] Thank you, Chair.
[2:20] We'll have a legislative update from Remy Goldsmith
[2:23] and also our Sacramento legislative partner
[2:25] will be on the line here shortly,
[2:28] when we turn it over to Remy to start the presentation.
[2:32] Thank you, Tony.
[2:33] Good morning, commissioners.
[2:34] Premier Goldsmith, Assistant Director for Government Affairs and Policy, I will provide
[2:40] a brief update on federal legislative activity, and then our legislative advocate, Sacramento,
[2:46] Steve Wallick, Platinum Advisors, will provide a state update if item is informational.
[2:51] First, on the federal side, regarding the budget, at the beginning of September, Congress passed
[2:59] a continuing resolution assigned by the President.
[3:01] That keeps the federal government funded through December 11th, according to shutdown.
[3:07] The public congress will complete its annual appropriation, work before the end of the year.
[3:12] Regarding reauthorization of surface transportation funding, the current funding vehicle for most
[3:18] transportation programs, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, by IJA, will expire
[3:24] at the end of this month on September 30th.
[3:27] In May, the House Transportation and Infrastructure approved its proposed five-year replacement,
[3:33] the bipartisan billed America at $250,000.
[3:37] But the bill has not received a vote on the House floor, and the Senate has not released its own version of legislation.
[3:44] The short-term extension, keeping funding at its current levels, was included in the continuing resolution.
[3:50] With the November midterms approaching, we do not expect lawmakers to complete the authorization process
[3:55] before they recess for their pre-election district work.
[3:59] There is some hope that legislation will be reauthorized
[4:02] during Congress's named accession after election.
[4:06] Staff will continue to track both the federal appropriations
[4:09] process and transportation reauthorization
[4:12] and provide updates as they develop.
[4:15] Steve Wallick will now provide a state.
[4:22] Hey, good morning, everybody.
[4:24] Steve Wallick, a plot and advisors.
[4:25] I was just giving you an update of where we're
[4:27] with the Sacramento level and on legislation efforts.
[4:32] So the legislature adjourned on, I guess, 31st, basically stretched into September 1st because of some 72-hour imprint notices that they had to address.
[4:40] I think the biggest controversy at the very end of the session was the failure to pass the utility wildfire liability legislation.
[4:47] The assembly bulk at that this last minute, they will be holding some informational hearings through the fall and move on up right next year.
[4:56] There's been some rumors of doing a special session on that issue, but I really doubt that.
[5:00] Next, it's going to happen. So right now, the governor has until September 30, to sign rubito, then nearly 900 bills sent to his desk in the past month. And so we'll be watching that closely. Been taking action on some of the higher high profile measures out there right now. We expect to kind of the daily updates to start flowing this week. Included in that are several bills that we've been tracking and supporting on behalf of the commission. That includes maybe 2788. This is the translation on the bill. It's on the governor's desk.
[5:29] This is a bill that includes some language in it before
[5:33] until out of the CTC to adopt an updated late-tip for Elmede County.
[5:37] The CTE staff I just wanted to know was very helpful in getting us added to the under this bill,
[5:42] because without their support it wouldn't have gotten added, so the express appreciation of them.
[5:48] In addition, other measures we've been supporting SB 1087, Cabaldon.
[5:52] This is a co-sponsored by MTC, and it's a measure that makes several changes,
[5:56] Here's the streamline, the development of the regional transportation plans,
[5:59] standard communities process, but that's about as general as I get on that one.
[6:05] But it does a lot more, much more technical changes.
[6:09] In addition, AB 2015 Wix, this measure directs Cal Trans and the Cal STA to study the impact
[6:14] of navigation apps on the state highways as well as on local streets to determine what impacts
[6:19] there are, whether there's needs to be changes in how they route folks around congested
[6:23] areas.
[6:23] and then AB 1837 Gonzales. This is co-sponsored by AC Transit. This is a measure that extends the
[6:30] sunset on the authority to use forward-facing cameras to enforce parking violations that bus
[6:34] stops and bus only lanes. And finally, SB 1167 Blake Spear. This is one of the e-bike bills. This
[6:43] measure makes several changes to clarify the classification of e-bikes and e-modos, puts limits on
[6:49] electric motors, definitions on the power they can put out and other specific information
[6:54] when there's an accident involving an e-bike or e-moto going forward. And it related to
[7:01] that to SBA 1167, AB 2346 Wilson. It was also pending on the governor's desk. This bill
[7:08] allows for speed limits in certain conditions to be set at 10 miles an hour for bicycles and e-bikes
[7:14] like on sidewalks and other e-bike paths where there's a lot of pedestrian congestion.
[7:18] And it requires certain disclosure agreements, requirements when you purchase an e-bike.
[7:25] And just FYI is one of the, you know, AB 2595 happen is also on the governor's desk.
[7:29] This is the bill that allows San Mateo County to prohibit any person under 12 years old from operating a class of one or two e-bikes.
[7:36] So we'll see how that goes.
[7:39] And finally, the last item I wanted to discuss is the cap and
[7:42] a vest, you know, I'm not going to get into details on this.
[7:45] But the outlook for a capital-invest program is concerning, in the aspect of the agreement
[7:53] they finally reached this year is a little disappointing.
[7:57] On the plus side, the agreement does provide for the 230 million for the zero-mission transit
[8:02] capital program.
[8:03] This was promised as far as the SB 125 package from a couple years ago that the governor originally
[8:09] was not going to fund.
[8:10] And also directs starting next fiscal year that all interest earned on the auction revenue
[8:15] account must be spent on the SBA 40, the Tier 1, 2, and 3 programs.
[8:20] Currently, that money has been siphoned off for other projects and it's a significant amount
[8:25] for this year alone is about $500 million that could have been spent on the SBA 40 expenditure
[8:32] plan.
[8:34] However, agreement was not reached as originally intended by the Senate to use some state
[8:39] reserve funds to in order to augment the tier three programs that's for the housing and transit
[8:43] funding program is that and there was no agreement ever reached on trying to put some guard rails
[8:50] or rain in the manufacturing decarbonization and center program that's the program that
[8:54] carved created that kind of created the mess of lack of funds for the SBA 40 program.
[9:02] However, I do expect with a new administration next year that they will try to revisit the MDI
[9:07] program in the legislature as part of the budget negotiation is going forward.
[9:11] So with that, I think I've set a lot in a little bit of time to answer any questions
[9:17] you may have.
[9:20] I think Commissioner Marshawn has a question.
[9:25] One of the questions I was driving to live for more yesterday and there was an e-motor cycle
[9:33] if you will.
[9:34] He was doing 30 miles an hour down the sidewalk.
[9:36] So the question I have is enforcement is going to be very difficult and I'm just curious if the
[9:44] Legislature has any idea on how we're going to do that.
[9:49] Yeah, yeah, and enforcement is always going to be difficult at the local level.
[9:53] Enforcement, one of the changes these things make is to try to make it more clear of what class the
[9:57] bike's supposed to be. So if it's a
[10:00] A class one bike, it's got to be stated on there, the size of the motor, the speed limits, age requirements on it. Of course, blue bikes, as opposed to red bikes for the class two, yellow for the class three. That would probably be best. But that's that's one reason some of the changes made before it was just supposed to be stamped on their class one without any understanding or even making it entirely visible. But I think that's one effort they're trying to make, but also giving a little more flexibility to local levels.
[10:29] on speed limits so like the Wilson bill could would allow you to put a speed limit of only 10
[10:34] miles an hour, particularly on sidewalks. I know locally, you know, cities have their authority
[10:40] to whether they can allow bikes on sidewalks at all depending on the age. So, great, thank you.
[10:49] Any other questions on the commissioners?
[10:53] I've not seen any other questions. We will bring it back
[10:56] any public comment. We don't receive public comment for this item. So this is just an informational
[11:03] update. So not seeing any other questions or concerns or comments, we will go into item number 5.2.
[11:14] Item 5.2 is an information item and update on our Central County Community Connections Plan or
[11:20] we call it the 4CP. And here to present the item is Shannon McCartney, co-intentionable.
[11:26] Thanks,
[11:31] Tony. Good morning, commissioners.
[11:33] She and Emma Cartier with the planning team.
[11:36] So I'll start next slide with some background
[11:39] on the plan's purpose and our approach
[11:42] for sharing a high level summary of key findings
[11:45] needs assessment and public outreach update.
[11:47] Then I'll wrap with a quick overview
[11:50] of draft plans, recommendations, and excellence.
[11:56] So the 4CP builds upon a number of local
[11:59] and council plans that have been conducted
[12:01] in central Alameda County, all of which have highlighted the needs of the streets,
[12:06] easier access to transit and local nations, more reliable transit, better public and climate
[12:12] outcomes, as well as increased investment in and maintenance of public. In 2024, Alameda CTC
[12:19] applied for and was awarded a sustainable transportation planning grant in CalTrans to develop the
[12:24] 4CP, which is focused on identifying community prioritized transportation improvements in the study
[12:30] area shown on the map, which includes parts of San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Ashland,
[12:36] Cherylin, Castro Valley, and Hayward that are heavily impacted and divided by significant
[12:42] structure. What? We're currently three-quarters of the way through the plan
[12:47] as well. Since kicking off early last summer, we've completed a focus on clinical needs analysis
[12:52] as well as two rounds of stakeholder and public engagement, all of which have informed the draft
[12:57] to improve my ideas and recommendations that we've developed.
[13:00] We're currently on track to complete the plan and implementation strategy by early next
[13:04] year.
[13:05] We'll return to the Commission then to seek approval of the final plan in order to satisfy
[13:09] the criteria.
[13:12] So as I mentioned, our study area touches multiple jurisdictions, two of which are actually currently
[13:17] developing their own community-based participation plans with funding provided by Alex Z. The
[13:23] close stakeholder coordination has been potential.
[13:25] Our Technical Advisory Committee includes representatives from here, and community engagement
[13:31] is really just as important to the 4CP, so we've also partnered with the local community-based
[13:37] organizations listed here, in order to more effectively reach the diverse communities
[13:41] that live in this area.
[13:44] Now switching gears to look at findings from the work we've completed today.
[13:49] The 4CP's needs assessment largely echoed findings from existing plans, including our
[13:54] for the countywide transportation plan,
[13:56] but offers us a more granular understanding
[13:59] of conditions within the city area.
[14:02] So in terms of safety,
[14:03] we found that over three quarters of study area streets
[14:05] have speed limits that exceed recommended targets.
[14:08] Conflicts at freeway ramp intersections with local streets
[14:11] were also found to be exacerbated
[14:14] by a design that facilitate high speed speeds.
[14:17] In terms of access, the freeways, rail lines, street grid,
[14:21] even natural elements such as the freeway,
[14:23] divide communities and limit access to art, buses traveling in the study area, travel slowly relative to cars and the majority of bus stops, lack amenities like benches or shelters.
[14:34] Most study area corridors fall within flood hazard zones and are lacking and permeable landscaping and shade trees, all of which exacerbate flood and heat risk.
[14:43] And lastly, most major streets in this area are designed to move high traffic volumes and serve many destinations.
[14:48] But lack of place making elements such as street lighting, public seating, landscaping
[14:53] and public art that can foster a sense of community, boost economic vitality and support
[14:58] It's over at the top of the screen.
[15:02] We've completed two out of three rounds of public engagement. The first round took place last
[15:06] fall and was focused on confirming needs and prioritizing streets for focused planning through
[15:11] the city. The second and most extensive round took place earlier this spring and offered
[15:16] community members the opportunity to workshop specific improvement ideas for each of the
[15:21] priority quarters that were identified. We've conducted a variety of outreach activities including
[15:27] CBO focus groups, posting listening sessions, top-ups,
[15:31] posting hands-on community walk-on, it's in design workshops,
[15:35] as well as sharing online surveys and web maps more broadly.
[15:38] Our CBO partners, tech members and commissioners,
[15:41] were all really helpful in identifying opportunities
[15:43] for outreach in their communities.
[15:46] So full list of events that we held this past spring
[15:49] is shown on the right.
[15:51] And I'll told across both rounds of outreach,
[15:53] we've received over 950 comments and surveys
[15:56] from over 500.
[16:00] The 4 CP's 10 priority corridors are highlighted on this map. They were identified
[16:05] by combining Unity members' rankings of study area streets with findings from our technical
[16:10] needs assessment, then screening those that were already being addressed throughout.
[16:17] So based
[16:18] on what we heard in Round 1, we drafted both area-wide recommendations as well as two alternative ideas
[16:23] for each of the 4 CP's priority corridors. Overall, community members were very supportive of the 4 CP's
[16:29] draft area-wide recommendations with their highest priorities being improved safety for pedestrians
[16:35] and bicyclists, fewer speeding cars and more street trees and lighting. In terms of corridor
[16:40] specific ideas, community members largely supported bold safety improvements, especially near
[16:45] transit schools, and at the same time we heard some concerns around potential impacts to traffic
[16:51] of larger moves, especially in turn.
[16:55] So that leads us to the plan's current draft recommendations.
[16:59] across the study area, the four CP will recommend a suite of improvements where context appropriate that speak to the feedback we've heard from many of these elements also show up in the corridor specific concepts as well.
[17:14] And out of the four CP's priority corridors, hisparian and the welling boulevards have emerged as the highest priorities for near investment, both segments which are highlighted purple on the map are on the county's high injury network, active safety network,
[17:28] many wide bikeways network. Together they include six freeway ramp intersections and two underpasses.
[17:36] The area is also close to multiple schools, a major commercial center, and various priorities.
[17:42] The resulting Hisparian and the Welling Complete Streets project would implement pedestrian bicycle, transit, and traffic calming improvements
[17:49] that leverage and close the gap between recent pipeline projects by the county and San Francisco.
[17:54] So, the 4CP is still advancing planning and design work with these two corridors,
[17:59] along with the remaining 8 priority corridors. In the meantime, Alameda CTC supplied to the
[18:05] 2028 CIP to funding to advance the project into project development.
[18:12] So, looking forward
[18:14] this fall, the 4CP is continuing to coordinate with stakeholders to refine recommendations for
[18:21] priority corridors including advancing preliminary sign concepts for his
[18:24] variant of arts. The draft plan and implementation strategy will be shared
[18:29] during the third and final round of public comment later this year. And finally
[18:34] staff plan to return to the commission once we've completed the final plan and
[18:38] implementation strategy to request approval of the 4 CP. Any
[18:47] questions from
[18:49] So
[18:54] this is, this is good.
[19:01] You know, I was looking at the, um,
[19:05] the Grove, the foot hill.
[19:07] What do I say?
[19:11] I was curious how much flexibility would, um,
[19:15] would we have with the city have government?
[19:20] Any of the area?
[19:22] How much flexibility would they have to be creative
[19:25] as to some of the design elements to the portal.
[19:33] And the reason I have that question is because that corridor,
[19:36] you know, is the gateway into the city of Haywardburg.
[19:42] And whatever we can do to really, you know, make it a place,
[19:48] making place where, you know, you're entering a city
[19:51] or in really continuing city of Hayward.
[19:54] I'm just curious how much flexibility do we have to make you?
[20:00] Make it a really nice looking gateway.
[20:05] I can start. I think the exciting thing about working on this plan was that we're shopping these ideas. You really sense of what is possible and community members have a lot of opinions and thoughts on what they'd like to see.
[20:18] and Groven Hill is our two of our priority corridors
[20:23] and so we were looking at improvements there.
[20:25] We held a walk audit with community members,
[20:28] many of whom were blind.
[20:30] And that was really helpful in identifying improvements.
[20:35] Flexibility, I think, probably gets a little challenging
[20:37] just because of how many jurisdictional boundaries
[20:40] are in this area.
[20:40] It all turns right away.
[20:42] So yeah, I'll pass it to Carolyn.
[20:44] I mean, you know, the CalTrans, the CalTrans right away are now in England, if I'm not mistaken.
[20:54] There's a lot of different jurisdictions.
[20:55] Yeah, exactly.
[20:56] The ownership in the study urges one of the reasons that I made a CTC was involved in doing some of the planning.
[21:01] I think Shannon mentioned there is 10 corridors and we're advancing in greater detail some projects concepts for some of the corridors.
[21:08] others though to move forward we really need city and other jurisdictional
[21:13] partnership to move forward and I think the Grove example is one that we're
[21:18] not taking too far into project development so that would be something coming
[21:22] out after the study finishes and would obviously need to be in partnership with
[21:26] the city of Hayward. And then of course, you know, I know I've been sent in, put a
[21:38] the improvement to put Hill extreme
[21:47] any other questions. Yes, mission.
[21:54] Thank you. Thanks for the work.
[21:58] It's exciting.
[22:00] I'm out of area.
[22:03] As far as the take instance is very in the focus segment what happens on that.
[22:11] Like mentioned.
[22:12] and there's a screening for streets that are being planned by other
[22:16] processes, I don't know, serious, and letting on spare inner being planned by
[22:21] other processes.
[22:23] Yeah, the project, like, extends start at Spring Lake. And that's because
[22:27] there are projects under to the north, and has variant. And there's also
[22:34] county projects that was raised south, where project extends and grant.
[22:39] And so, yeah, the extents were kind of screened.
[22:45] He's 14th is a good street that, you know, was high on priority list, but has other.
[22:52] So we did.
[22:55] The other other jurisdictions left her.
[22:59] Going into the freeway.
[23:01] All right, go commission.
[23:02] Thank you.
[23:10] I could make it like a pretty question, but it's more of a comment on this slide.
[23:16] Well, I do have a question.
[23:19] Miss, are you mentioned?
[23:24] Good idea.
[23:26] So, how did you do that?
[23:28] Do you have the.
[23:29] In the front.
[23:30] Someone.
[23:36] Yeah, there were two different walk audits that we held.
[23:39] one was that experience in the Welling, and so I believe for that event we split the group
[23:43] two, and folks could go along whichever corridor they were interested in, and then put Hill and
[23:51] Grove, we were kind of one large group, and it took a lot of volunteers, it took a lot of consultants
[24:00] and staff to coordinate, and our CBO partners were hopeful in pulling all of this together, and so
[24:06] We had boards and materials that we brought out with conditions and community feedback that we had heard to date and then had materials to facilitate documenting comments and experiences as we seated along.
[24:25] Yeah, yeah, we had multiple stops along.
[24:30] about how many people were willing was maybe 20, maybe 20 folks, and then Rove and
[24:42] but Hill was probably similar. I don't remember for those two events specifically, but
[24:49] Rill, the Center for Resources and Independent Living, was a really helpful community partner
[24:54] both of those, and so they were really helpful at recruiting their members, and also facilities.
[25:06] I don't think so. We had staff and sub consultants that were kind of paired with small groups. So we tried to make sure that there was someone from the project team with each small group. So yeah, no devices, but tried to really make sure that people could hear what I think it's a great idea. And then I was making an observation out the
[25:35] So I do represent the 14 cities of Alameda County on the MTC and I get to
[25:40] meetings very close to Alameda and then I have this lovely walk along the
[25:45] Barca Dero, I turn. Keep its bow and arrow, it is awesome to be able to, and I
[25:52] love the Eastside neighborhood, kind of a new-ish neighborhood in San Francisco.
[25:57] So, and one of the things I've noticed over the last couple of years is in their building,
[26:02] their improving landscape, sidewalks are nice and wide, but they have started to solve
[26:09] some chairs, some like person, um, that tease maybe, and their metals, they're durable, but
[26:17] their bright colors and like, um, false them, I think they were yellow, and then when I walked in,
[26:25] and Bill, they were blue, same,
[26:28] they're pink, pink, pink, pink, pink,
[26:30] and you see people who are out on their lunch break sitting,
[26:35] you see construction workers taking a break from the project.
[26:38] So it's just surprising how such a simple addition
[26:43] makes such a difference in use by the user.
[26:46] So it'll be exciting.
[26:48] Thank you.
[26:52] All right, any other commissioner questions or comments?
[26:55] Not seen any. We will go ahead and ask if there's any public comment.
[27:00] We didn't receive any public comment.
[27:02] No public comment and this is just an informational item where we'll go to items number six which is our committee member reports.
[27:11] Not seen any.
[27:12] I'll make one.
[27:13] Okay. This is the last meeting.
[27:15] So everyone September is public transit month so
[27:23] I don't know if you all have gotten the mail.
[27:26] Maybe it's from our vice-president.
[27:29] I see a wheel.
[27:30] A big lift sometimes.
[27:36] But I'm just good news if you've got it from Commissioner
[27:49] Bowen.
[27:50] Thank you, Chair.
[27:51] Oh, well, it is love.
[27:53] I just wanted to share a school has started
[27:55] And I have been a very loud cheerleader for all the students to sign up for their cards.
[28:00] I have a freshman and it's a much longer walk to school that I will say that there are
[28:07] dozens of kids right now that are actively riding the bus and getting around and are so
[28:13] excited to have the independence and the parents are really happy.
[28:17] So just really excited that I got to be a little part of that and I sent out the link to
[28:21] everybody over.
[28:22] All right.
[28:27] Not seeing any other member comments, we'll go ahead and go to item 7, which is our staff
[28:31] reports.
[28:32] No staff reports.
[28:34] Thank you.
[28:34] All right.
[28:34] Not seeing any staff reports, we will go ahead and adjourn our meeting at 1206, our next meeting
[28:38] is October 5th.
[28:40] All right.
[28:40] You