1 00:00:00,430 --> 00:00:11,730 Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for attending and joining today. The September 2026 meeting of the Alameda County Transportation Commission. This is September. 2 00:00:14,050 --> 00:00:31,970 September is Hispanic Heritage Month, month, month. The end of Veneto's totals. Welcome everyone. I see that we have some people missing in the room, but that's because they are representing their cities down in Southern California at the National Association. 3 00:00:31,970 --> 00:00:37,830 of counties meeting. We thank them for taking time to be with us today remotely. 4 00:00:39,370 --> 00:00:43,190 League of cities, the California League of Cities, not the National League of Cities. 5 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:47,220 Thank you. We'll start with roll call. 6 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:49,960 Commissioner Zang, 7 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,560 if somebody has in the room with commissioners out there, 8 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:05,000 thank you. 9 00:01:07,550 --> 00:01:10,550 Perfect. Thanks. Commissioner Taplan. 10 00:01:11,630 --> 00:01:13,330 Commissioner Jordan, here. 11 00:01:14,230 --> 00:01:17,170 Commissioner Barchanada-Bas, absent. 12 00:01:17,390 --> 00:01:17,950 Commissioner Gonzalez. 13 00:01:18,430 --> 00:01:18,670 Present. 14 00:01:19,230 --> 00:01:20,110 Commissioner Jenkins. 15 00:01:20,350 --> 00:01:20,530 Present. 16 00:01:21,670 --> 00:01:23,150 Commissioner Singh, absent. 17 00:01:23,490 --> 00:01:24,170 Commissioner Marquez. 18 00:01:24,590 --> 00:01:24,810 Present. 19 00:01:25,570 --> 00:01:26,230 Commissioner Hannon. 20 00:01:27,190 --> 00:01:28,930 At a remote location in Newark. 21 00:01:30,210 --> 00:01:31,190 Commissioner Young. 22 00:01:32,450 --> 00:01:33,250 Commissioner Miley. 23 00:01:34,170 --> 00:01:34,570 absent. 24 00:01:35,270 --> 00:01:36,090 Commissioner Bulge. 25 00:01:37,090 --> 00:01:37,770 absent. 26 00:01:38,170 --> 00:01:38,810 Commissioner Fife. 27 00:01:39,350 --> 00:01:39,610 Present. 28 00:01:39,610 --> 00:01:41,290 Commissioner Hernandez. 29 00:01:42,070 --> 00:01:42,310 Present. 30 00:01:43,030 --> 00:01:44,390 Commissioner Solomon. 31 00:01:44,870 --> 00:01:45,050 Present. 32 00:01:45,670 --> 00:01:46,630 Commissioner Salinas. 33 00:01:47,370 --> 00:01:47,750 Absent. 34 00:01:48,130 --> 00:01:48,770 Commissioner McCarthy. 35 00:01:49,810 --> 00:01:50,290 Present. 36 00:01:50,870 --> 00:01:51,750 In Anaheim. 37 00:01:52,410 --> 00:01:53,710 Commissioner Bowen. 38 00:01:54,350 --> 00:01:54,630 Present. 39 00:01:54,970 --> 00:01:55,530 In Anaheim. 40 00:01:56,050 --> 00:01:57,490 Commissioner Marchand. 41 00:01:57,890 --> 00:01:58,030 Here. 42 00:01:59,010 --> 00:02:00,250 Commissioner McCorston. 43 00:02:00,910 --> 00:02:02,730 Present from the great city of Dublin. 44 00:02:03,950 --> 00:02:05,410 Vice Chair Eziashkaft. 45 00:02:08,350 --> 00:02:10,170 Also present from Anaheim. 46 00:02:10,950 --> 00:02:11,910 Chair Halbert. 47 00:02:13,210 --> 00:02:13,530 Present. 48 00:02:14,170 --> 00:02:14,770 Thank you. 49 00:02:14,830 --> 00:02:15,570 We do have a quorum. 50 00:02:15,750 --> 00:02:16,310 We have a quorum. 51 00:02:16,710 --> 00:02:21,190 Again, thank you everyone for being here, those in person and online today, we will be 52 00:02:21,190 --> 00:02:28,790 asked to approve the contract award for a segment of the East Bay Greenway Multi-Model project. 53 00:02:29,250 --> 00:02:34,030 As everyone knows, the East Bay Greenway is a high priority project for our commission. 54 00:02:34,550 --> 00:02:40,030 This will enhance connections between neighborhood schools, downtowns and more by improving safety. 55 00:02:40,030 --> 00:02:45,970 mobility and access parallel to the Bart Court or between Oakland and Hayward. 56 00:02:46,330 --> 00:02:50,670 The contract where he are being asked to consider today will construct the segment 57 00:02:50,670 --> 00:02:54,690 between Lake Merit and Foodvale, Bart Stations in Oakland. 58 00:02:55,270 --> 00:02:59,750 In other exciting news about the project, I would like to extend a personal invitation 59 00:03:00,070 --> 00:03:05,530 to the public and my fellow commissioners to please join us for the groundbreaking celebration 60 00:03:05,530 --> 00:03:09,950 of the East Bay, Greenways, San Leandro segment. 61 00:03:10,150 --> 00:03:16,490 This will be held October 14th at 1pm at the Boys and Girls Club in San Leandro. 62 00:03:17,350 --> 00:03:21,810 If anyone would like to attend, please contact our clerk. 63 00:03:22,310 --> 00:03:29,090 We are grateful to the Boys and Girls Club and the city of San Leandro for your hospitality. 64 00:03:29,090 --> 00:03:36,810 We will also receive an update today on the Central County Community Connections Plan for CP, for short. 65 00:03:37,350 --> 00:03:43,810 This is an effort led by the planning team to improve travel and safety in Central Palomita County. 66 00:03:45,190 --> 00:03:51,150 Lastly, I'd like to say that we will be having a closed session today and so stick around for that. 67 00:03:51,290 --> 00:03:55,830 Make sure that we keep a quorum for that part of our meeting. 68 00:03:55,830 --> 00:04:03,570 So, with that said, I will move to the next item on our agenda, which is item 3, public 69 00:04:03,570 --> 00:04:09,590 comment. This is a chance for members of the public to make comment on items that are 70 00:04:09,590 --> 00:04:14,070 not on today's agenda, but is within the purview of this body. 71 00:04:14,890 --> 00:04:19,730 Last is clerk, do we have any speakers either online or in person? 72 00:04:19,730 --> 00:04:25,630 We don't have any hands raised online, but we do have six speakers in the room, so I'll 73 00:04:25,630 --> 00:04:28,610 just read their names and order and ask them to line up by the lectern. 74 00:04:29,110 --> 00:04:38,150 So the first speaker is Judy Kane, followed by Diane Russell, Susan Galardo, Tim Rosaire, 75 00:04:39,710 --> 00:04:47,150 Jerry Galvin Lee, or Terry Galvin Lee, and Susan Gilski. 76 00:04:48,550 --> 00:04:49,230 Thank you. 77 00:04:49,350 --> 00:04:55,410 If you could all line up and be ready to speak when the person before you was finished, you have up to two minutes each. 78 00:04:55,690 --> 00:04:56,590 We welcome you. 79 00:04:57,210 --> 00:04:57,890 Go ahead. 80 00:04:58,170 --> 00:04:59,930 I just want to make sure everybody in the room. 81 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:29,740 You can hear me. Yep. Okay, good. So I have some good news today. We are fortunate that a majority of the Oakland City Council has decided to stand with us and preserve the ban on the heavy trucks on the 580. So we have also the president of the City Council standing with us. And we're very grateful that Senator Jesse Argonne has stated very 82 00:05:29,740 --> 00:05:33,620 publicly, and I'll just read from his letter here. 83 00:05:34,140 --> 00:05:41,640 I do not support lifting the semi-truck restriction on I-580, and I will not author legislation 84 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:43,740 in the State Senate to repeal it. 85 00:05:44,420 --> 00:05:52,020 So it's very clear that there's no political will for lifting the ban on the 9,000 pound 86 00:05:52,020 --> 00:05:52,320 truck. 87 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:58,920 So we don't have any political will, and I think that what I've been told by CalTrans is 88 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:06,820 is that the city of Oakland and the ACT Fixie will have a lot of influence on the outcome of this study. 89 00:06:07,420 --> 00:06:13,020 And so here's my ask for ACTC, please stand with us. 90 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:20,520 Preserve our Oakland neighborhoods, our quality of life, keep those big rigs off of our residential streets. 91 00:06:21,140 --> 00:06:26,100 You don't know this most of you, but we have no traffic enforcement in the city of Oakland. 92 00:06:26,100 --> 00:06:31,320 And the police department had to get rid of their traffic enforcement. 93 00:06:31,740 --> 00:06:36,720 So even if we had laws prohibiting them from driving on the streets, there's nothing 94 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:38,040 to keep them off the streets. 95 00:06:38,540 --> 00:06:38,940 Thank you. 96 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:44,860 I am Diane Russell. 97 00:06:46,020 --> 00:06:51,660 And I want to share with you my thoughts about how all of us need to look at the models 98 00:06:51,660 --> 00:06:54,020 for their analysis that CalTrans is doing. 99 00:06:54,020 --> 00:07:00,620 I spoke at length with CalTrans people at the West Oakland Library, where there were 100 00:07:00,620 --> 00:07:07,940 no neighbors there to hear their results, and they explained to me the model that they 101 00:07:07,940 --> 00:07:11,220 used for measuring noise on 580. 102 00:07:11,820 --> 00:07:13,820 They only measured noise for an hour. 103 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:19,300 They didn't tell me what time of day, and they did not take into consideration the elevation 104 00:07:19,300 --> 00:07:20,940 of the hills for the echo effect. 105 00:07:20,940 --> 00:07:26,540 So what all I'm saying is, instead of just looking at their summary when the whole report 106 00:07:26,540 --> 00:07:31,020 comes out, we need to really look at their analysis. 107 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:38,060 And I think we have learned from them that there's no statistical significance of the 108 00:07:38,060 --> 00:07:41,860 change in noise for A80 when the trucks come on 580. 109 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:42,560 Thank you. 110 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:49,260 Sorry? 111 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:49,640 Hi. 112 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:56,680 So I understand that this body does not have a vote, but through its connections can influence 113 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,120 outcomes regarding the I-580 truck bound. 114 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:05,700 So there are many reasons, but here are a few where I strongly believe that the ACTC commissioners 115 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:12,180 should use its influence to stop CalTrans in complete and divisive study and favor retaining 116 00:08:12,180 --> 00:08:12,900 the truck bound. 117 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:19,840 First, CalTrans uses percentages of people affected along the freeway corridors, instead 118 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,360 of numbers of people, which is misleading. 119 00:08:23,700 --> 00:08:28,780 Should the ban be lifted, this will affect many people, including people of color, and 120 00:08:28,780 --> 00:08:31,720 equity priority communities will be negatively impacted. 121 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,500 It is not sensible to export impacts from one neighborhood to another. 122 00:08:37,500 --> 00:08:43,060 Communities along IAV deserve all of us to roll up our sleeves and apply real solutions 123 00:08:43,060 --> 00:08:45,840 to existing issues instead of spreading the harm. 124 00:08:47,420 --> 00:08:53,420 CalTrans Consultant has stated that safety implications of repealing the ban should be evaluated. 125 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:54,720 This has not been done. 126 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:01,900 CalTrans and the trucking industry are not responsible for damage to city streets from cut-through traffic. 127 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:06,040 These consequential damages would be borne by local communities. 128 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:11,060 We already can't afford to address many of the issues that we already have. 129 00:09:12,140 --> 00:09:18,140 CalTrans has not reported anything regarding cost for maintenance and construction that 130 00:09:18,140 --> 00:09:22,380 would be necessary, should 580 be open up to trucks. 131 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:30,520 And lastly, I just wanted to let ACTC know, because you may not know, 2100 parcels were taken 132 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:37,680 when the I-580 was constructed, and the mitigation measure for this was to maintain the truck 133 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:42,020 ban that was on State Route 50 on I-580. Thank you. 134 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,380 Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the commission. 135 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:56,000 I spoke last time and I was here to hear the discussions that happened in July. 136 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:58,640 I felt that there were 137 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:28,740 Many issues brought up around environmental justice and environmental racism find members of the commission, and I don't really think that they were addressed or answered. I'm just appearing today to avail the people who have been doing the research for no big breaks, the demographic studies, etc. We are available to speak to any of you at your time and place in person. 138 00:10:28,740 --> 00:10:33,440 and to go deeper because those questions were never really addressed last time. 139 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:38,440 So I'm just going to give an information card about myself to our clerk here 140 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:42,200 and I would ask you please, if you have any questions along those lines 141 00:10:42,630 --> 00:10:45,640 to get in touch with you, we want to keep this dialogue going. 142 00:10:45,820 --> 00:10:46,220 Thank you. 143 00:10:54,100 --> 00:10:57,620 I believe our last speaker is Susan. 144 00:10:57,720 --> 00:10:57,880 Hello. 145 00:10:58,420 --> 00:11:02,700 My name is Susan Gilkey and I live 1,000 feet, 146 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:09,160 less than 1,000 feet from Highway 580, but I'm a resident, a proud resident of 147 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:15,580 Oakland for over 50 years. And I believe that as public servants, as people, 148 00:11:15,820 --> 00:11:23,960 you should be representing the people of Oakland, all of us. And I really urge you 149 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:31,500 to think about who benefits if there are big rigs trucks on Highway 580. I think 150 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:35,740 the biggest beneficiary would be the trucking industry. 151 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:52,600 And I ask you as public servants to stand for the people and not for the money, especially if you don't stand with us and this goes to the legislature, I can imagine the campaign funds that are going to be rolling out from the trucking industry. 152 00:11:53,020 --> 00:11:57,880 We're all people who just live here as residents and citizens. 153 00:11:57,880 --> 00:11:59,460 Please stand up for us. 154 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:06,300 Thank you. We didn't have any other public comments. 155 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:15,180 Thank you very much. We will close item three and move to item four with Chair and Vice 156 00:12:15,180 --> 00:12:21,200 Chair report. I think I've pretty well given my record, but we'll go to the Executive 157 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:21,440 Director. 158 00:12:22,540 --> 00:12:26,220 Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Commissioners, and thank you all of you for being here today. 159 00:12:26,340 --> 00:12:31,300 We do have two items, one on regular matters and one in closed session that require an action 160 00:12:31,300 --> 00:12:36,100 from this commission and I think we just reached quorum so thank you all for being here. 161 00:12:37,300 --> 00:12:43,660 First I just want to mention that it's been just a little over a decade since we began the 162 00:12:43,660 --> 00:12:52,800 student transit pass program and since then we now have 160 schools signed up over 32,000 students 163 00:12:52,800 --> 00:13:00,300 receiving the pass and last year alone we had more than two million free bus trips taken by these 164 00:13:00,300 --> 00:13:03,640 students. So just an incredible program and 165 00:13:07,390 --> 00:13:08,790 thank you to the leadership of this 166 00:13:08,790 --> 00:13:12,670 commission for for having us continue this program and we're we're going to 167 00:13:12,670 --> 00:13:17,530 continue to do more with it in the coming years. I also wanted to mention and I 168 00:13:17,530 --> 00:13:21,030 mentioned this in the past that this fiscal year alone we will have more than 169 00:13:21,030 --> 00:13:27,830 one billion dollars in construction. We just open the bids for the first San 170 00:13:27,830 --> 00:13:32,290 Pablo Avenue projects, the parallel bike project and we'll be bringing that 171 00:13:32,290 --> 00:13:38,390 project to the commission next month in October so we're excited to move that 172 00:13:38,390 --> 00:13:45,150 forward and with our robust construction program at Alameda CTC we fill the 173 00:13:45,150 --> 00:13:51,810 position of agency construction manager and I'd like to introduce Mike Chan to 174 00:13:51,810 --> 00:13:56,530 the commission who brings not only is an expert in the field of construction 175 00:13:56,530 --> 00:14:01,170 management and project management but he brings many years in both the private 176 00:14:01,170 --> 00:14:07,130 sector and the public sector and he understands what we need to be accomplished in construction. 177 00:14:07,510 --> 00:14:10,830 So we're thrilled to have him, congratulations Mike and 178 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,040 commissioners, that concludes my 179 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:17,340 report. 180 00:14:17,660 --> 00:14:17,980 Thank you. 181 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:20,000 Thank you. 182 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:30,340 With that, we'll move on to the consent calendar, items 6.1 through 6.11, is there a motion 183 00:14:30,340 --> 00:14:38,720 to approve, approval by Marshawn, second by President Jordan, we have any public comment 184 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:39,240 on this item? 185 00:14:39,700 --> 00:14:41,880 For the record, no public comment on this item. 186 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,460 Any comment by a member of the board? 187 00:14:45,220 --> 00:14:45,620 See none. 188 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:46,960 I'll ask for roll call vote. 189 00:14:49,630 --> 00:14:50,390 Commissioner Zing. 190 00:14:51,110 --> 00:14:51,270 Aye. 191 00:14:52,170 --> 00:14:52,990 Yes, for Zing. 192 00:14:53,130 --> 00:14:53,830 Commissioner Tapplin. 193 00:14:54,470 --> 00:14:54,650 Aye. 194 00:14:55,010 --> 00:14:55,770 Yes, for Tapplin. 195 00:14:55,910 --> 00:14:56,510 Commissioner Jordan. 196 00:14:56,830 --> 00:14:56,990 Yes. 197 00:14:57,230 --> 00:14:57,850 Yes, for Jordan. 198 00:14:58,050 --> 00:14:59,150 Commissioner Fortunato-Bass. 199 00:14:59,410 --> 00:14:59,770 Absent. 200 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:06,240 Commissioner Gonzales? I? Yes, for Gonzales? Commissioner Jenkins? Yes, for Jenkins? Commissioner Cullen? 201 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:09,560 Yes. 202 00:15:10,220 --> 00:15:18,580 For Hannah and commissioner Young for young commissioner Miley, absent commissioner 203 00:15:18,580 --> 00:15:20,500 Bulge, absent commissioner 5. 204 00:15:20,860 --> 00:15:25,500 Yes for 5 commissioner Hernandez, Aye, yes for Hernandez. 205 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:30,120 Commissioner Solomon, Yes, for Solomon commissioner Selina's, absent commissioner 206 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,800 McCarthy, Yes. 207 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:32,960 Yes. 208 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:33,760 Yes. 209 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:35,220 For McCarthy, Commissioner Bowen. 210 00:15:35,420 --> 00:15:35,600 Yes. 211 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:36,620 Yes. 212 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:37,900 For Bowen, Commissioner Merchand. 213 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:38,380 Yes. 214 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:38,940 Yes. 215 00:15:39,140 --> 00:15:39,620 For Merchand. 216 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:40,940 Commissioner McCorston. 217 00:15:41,860 --> 00:15:42,100 Aye. 218 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:42,900 Yes. 219 00:15:43,020 --> 00:15:43,220 Yes. 220 00:15:45,460 --> 00:15:45,820 Yes. 221 00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:46,680 Yes. 222 00:15:46,820 --> 00:15:46,840 Yes. 223 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:47,100 Yes. 224 00:15:47,220 --> 00:15:48,040 For Halbert, 225 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:51,200 the mission passes. 226 00:15:51,660 --> 00:15:52,700 Thank you very much. 227 00:15:52,900 --> 00:15:54,520 We'll move to item seven committee reports. 228 00:15:54,900 --> 00:16:00,540 I note that we welcome Sandra Johnson Commissioner for the Paratransit Advisory and Planning Committee 229 00:16:00,540 --> 00:16:00,960 for an update. 230 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:07,280 And for the record, we also have a Chair Damien Park for the IWC, so. 231 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:13,840 Very good. Let's do 7.2. The Independent Watchdog Committee. Welcome, our Chairperson. 232 00:16:18,100 --> 00:16:20,140 You should be joining us any second. 233 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:35,020 Welcome. Hi. Thanks. We met best in July meeting. This is Damien Park, by the way, chair of the IWC. 234 00:16:35,020 --> 00:16:37,000 A couple of things happened last meeting. 235 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:42,800 We now are up to 11 members out of our 17 vacancies. 236 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:49,740 We briefly hit 12, but Mike Henn resigned from District 5 and we got two new ones, Muhammad 237 00:16:49,740 --> 00:16:55,620 Farouk from District 2 and Angel on Hell, Patino from District 4. 238 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:01,600 And we gave our public hearing on the annual report to a packed house. 239 00:17:03,340 --> 00:17:08,340 And we had our elections, which Tom Rubin is the vice chair, I'm still the chair. 240 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:09,700 So no change there. 241 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:14,600 And the most important thing we did, at least in my opinion, is that we approved a subcommittee 242 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:18,340 to work on or to discuss what our scope is. 243 00:17:18,860 --> 00:17:23,920 And again, we want to adhere to the will of the voters, which prefers that we look at past 244 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:25,120 projects a little critically. 245 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:28,300 And we don't feel like we've done that, at least the majority of us don't feel like we've 246 00:17:28,300 --> 00:17:28,920 actually done that. 247 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:40,880 So we're working on a subcommittee to come up with a resolution to present back to our committee that will establish what we should be doing and hope to have that for the next meeting. That's all from my end. 248 00:17:43,140 --> 00:17:48,080 Thank you, Damien, for your presentation. Next we'll have Sandra Johnson from the Fair Transit. 249 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:49,800 Good afternoon. 250 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,940 I am Sandra J. Johnson, the chairperson for PACO. 251 00:17:54,540 --> 00:18:01,960 PACO last met on Monday, July 27th, with a joint meeting with a pair of Transit Technical 252 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:05,120 Advisory Committee, better known as PARA TAT. 253 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,840 Members of the public were also invited. 254 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:16,400 Our agenda highlights included an update on the mobility needs assessment for older adults 255 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:23,380 and people with disabilities, an overview of the strategies to address current and future 256 00:18:23,380 --> 00:18:32,300 transportation needs, identify through the mobility needs assessment, we were busy. 257 00:18:33,100 --> 00:18:42,640 Also we had an open house and it was an open house style engagement activity with several 258 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:52,120 reports on each strategic mobility management on demand service gaps, affordability, program 259 00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:54,760 designs, and safety, and access. 260 00:18:55,320 --> 00:19:03,900 Participants visit each board to provide feedback and comments. 261 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:09,040 PAPCO's next meeting will take place on Monday, October 26. 262 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:11,700 This concludes my report. 263 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,160 As usual, thank you for your continued support. 264 00:19:17,260 --> 00:19:18,960 Thank you, Sandra, for your service. 265 00:19:19,380 --> 00:19:22,120 We'll move on to item 8. 266 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:27,260 Regular matters, 8.1 approval of East Big Greenway 267 00:19:27,260 --> 00:19:29,720 Multimodal North segment, Oakland North construction 268 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,980 package and construction contract award. 269 00:19:34,940 --> 00:19:35,500 Thank you, Chair. 270 00:19:35,860 --> 00:19:36,560 Thank you, commissioners. 271 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,160 This is an action item, one of the two 272 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:46,040 that I mentioned earlier. This is to approve the construction package for the East Bay Greenway 273 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:52,800 multimodal Oakland North package. It's the second of four packages that this commission 274 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:58,800 in the staff are delivering, and here to present the item today is Matthew Bungberg. 275 00:20:09,490 --> 00:20:22,890 Okay, good afternoon commissioners. Excited to be preventing item 8.1, which requests approval of a construction contract for the East Bay Greenway Multimodal Open North Construction Package. Next slide, please. 276 00:20:30,450 --> 00:20:46,330 The East Bay Greenway Multimodal Project is a regional active transportation project following the BART corridor. Alameda CTC is leading portions of the East Bay Greenway extending between Lake Merit and South Hayward, the distance of 16 miles through four jurisdictions. And the East Bay Greenway will provide safety and 277 00:20:46,330 --> 00:20:50,830 improvements along high-endery network routes and improve multi-modal access and equity 278 00:20:50,830 --> 00:20:51,670 priority communities. 279 00:20:52,170 --> 00:20:52,810 Next slide, please. 280 00:20:55,940 --> 00:21:00,620 The north segment of the East Bay Greenway extends approximately 10.6 miles through 281 00:21:00,620 --> 00:21:05,080 the cities of Oakland and San Leandro and has been split into four construction packages 282 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,160 for design and construction as shown here. 283 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,960 Today's item requests an action related to the Oakland North construction package, shown 284 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:18,840 with the blue circle, which connects between the Lake Merit Bard station and the Fruitville 285 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,000 East 10th Street, East 8th Street, and East 20th Street. 286 00:21:21,540 --> 00:21:23,520 This construction package provides connections 287 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,880 to important destinations, including downtown Oakland, 288 00:21:26,260 --> 00:21:28,580 the Oakland Museum of California, Laney College, 289 00:21:29,120 --> 00:21:30,080 East Bay Asian Youth Center, 290 00:21:30,620 --> 00:21:31,420 Laugh Community Center, 291 00:21:31,740 --> 00:21:33,480 think college now, the Unity Council, 292 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:34,700 like clinical de la Rasa, 293 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:37,880 and the broader Chinatown San Antonio and Fruitville neighborhoods. 294 00:21:38,580 --> 00:21:39,220 Next slide, please. 295 00:21:42,170 --> 00:21:44,430 This table shows the status of the various East Bay 296 00:21:44,430 --> 00:21:47,370 greener construction packages that comprise the North segment. 297 00:21:47,970 --> 00:21:49,910 So the San Leandro Construction Package 298 00:21:49,910 --> 00:21:55,050 was awarded a construction contract was awarded in July and as was mentioned there is a groundbreaking 299 00:21:55,050 --> 00:22:00,450 plan for this construction package in the middle of next month. The Oakland North construction 300 00:22:00,450 --> 00:22:06,130 package would be the next to proceed into construction following a contract award which is requested 301 00:22:06,130 --> 00:22:11,210 today and contract execution construction start would be towards the end of this year. 302 00:22:12,050 --> 00:22:15,370 And then the Oakland South and east-fourteenth construction packages would 303 00:22:15,370 --> 00:22:18,490 and our schedule to complete design in spring of next year, 304 00:22:18,910 --> 00:22:20,790 positioning them for advertising award. 305 00:22:22,070 --> 00:22:22,630 Next slide, please. 306 00:22:24,770 --> 00:22:28,890 This image shows a sample of the Oakland North project design. 307 00:22:29,750 --> 00:22:31,430 While the design will vary by street, 308 00:22:32,370 --> 00:22:34,470 this image shows that the project provides a connection 309 00:22:34,470 --> 00:22:37,490 along the bark quarter and some of the key project elements 310 00:22:37,490 --> 00:22:39,810 include separated or protected bike lanes, 311 00:22:40,450 --> 00:22:41,530 pedestrian crossing improvements, 312 00:22:42,310 --> 00:22:44,750 and new street trees and naturalized storm water management. 313 00:22:45,830 --> 00:22:46,870 Next slide please. 314 00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:54,200 Alameda CTC achieved a ready-to-list milestone for the Oakland North Construction Package in 315 00:22:54,200 --> 00:23:00,120 April this year, and an allocation of solutions for congested corridor program grant funds, 316 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:03,960 which we'll find this construction package, was approved by the California Transportation 317 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,000 Commission in June of this year. 318 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:11,040 The project was advertised on July 7th, and bids were opened on August 20th. 319 00:23:11,620 --> 00:23:15,760 Six different bids were received, all of which were closely clustered and below the engineer's 320 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:20,780 estimate. Staff completed a bid analysis and determined that Bay City's paving and grading 321 00:23:20,780 --> 00:23:26,260 was the lowest responsible and responsive bidder. In summary, this was a highly competitive 322 00:23:26,260 --> 00:23:31,940 bidding process with no irregularities. Bay City's is a local contractor who was also awarded 323 00:23:31,940 --> 00:23:36,540 the construction contract to the State Greenway Sanlander construction package, the Oakland Alameda 324 00:23:36,540 --> 00:23:44,140 Access project, and several other city projects in the area. Next slide, please. So to conclude, 325 00:23:44,140 --> 00:23:50,480 The statute staff recommends the approval of a construction contract for $23,425,608 326 00:23:50,900 --> 00:23:55,580 base cities paving and grading as the lowest responsible and responsive bidder for construction 327 00:23:55,580 --> 00:23:59,020 of the East Bay Greenway multimodal Oakland North construction package. 328 00:23:59,540 --> 00:24:04,100 This contract was included in the fiscal year 2627 budget and base cities did not report 329 00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:05,360 any living at converse. 330 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,820 This concludes my presentation to answer any questions. 331 00:24:09,820 --> 00:24:10,400 Very good. 332 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,220 But before we go to committee questions, I'll just ask, is there any public comment on this item? 333 00:24:17,900 --> 00:24:19,400 I don't think there's any public comment. 334 00:24:19,780 --> 00:24:24,380 So you know public comment, I'll close the public comment period and bring this matter back to the board. 335 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:29,720 For discussion, any questions or comments about this item? 336 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,380 I know that we've talked about this in committee several times. 337 00:24:34,020 --> 00:24:34,780 Did you press the button? 338 00:24:36,460 --> 00:24:37,200 There you go. 339 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:37,620 Okay. 340 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:39,720 There we go. 341 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:42,360 Thank you. 342 00:24:42,580 --> 00:24:45,500 I just want to thank staff for running a successful bit process. 343 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:47,020 It's exciting. 344 00:24:48,460 --> 00:24:49,360 At far below. 345 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:50,960 Yes. 346 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:55,620 Good comments. 347 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:56,160 Thank you. 348 00:24:56,420 --> 00:24:56,920 Any others? 349 00:25:00,430 --> 00:25:29,810 I also, I'm scared. It's good to go. Green is good. I know, can you? Okay. I also want to thank staff for working on this and just to speak for my council colleague who represents the areas of Oakland where this will be. What we're going to break ground on this. There are a lot of immigrant communities, a lot of senior citizens. And I just saw a documentary film at the New Parkway on the impact of 350 00:25:29,810 --> 00:25:49,410 just what a protected bike lane can, what it can mean for these communities and so I want to say thank you and for all of my DOT staff in the city of Oakland who contacted me more than any of the years that I've been on City Council they've not contacted me more than this project to make sure I was here for core. 351 00:25:52,770 --> 00:25:55,630 I do want to move to approve staff's recommendation. 352 00:25:55,890 --> 00:25:58,050 Thank you for all of your hard work on this. 353 00:26:00,310 --> 00:26:06,130 So you know, are there comments motion made by Commissioner, uh, online, uh, Commissioner 354 00:26:06,130 --> 00:26:06,650 McCorston? 355 00:26:08,450 --> 00:26:09,090 Thank you, Chair. 356 00:26:09,890 --> 00:26:12,370 Um, hey, um, I am totally in support of this. 357 00:26:12,410 --> 00:26:16,770 It's going to be great, a lot of hard work, uh, even though I, I wasn't involved in some 358 00:26:16,770 --> 00:26:17,050 of this. 359 00:26:17,170 --> 00:26:19,430 I remember this has been going on for quite some time. 360 00:26:19,430 --> 00:26:24,970 Given we're at this point, I just have to ask, you know, the bidding process was super 361 00:26:24,970 --> 00:26:28,230 tight, and I recognize some of the names there. 362 00:26:28,410 --> 00:26:33,010 Were there any names besides just the numbers, right? 363 00:26:33,710 --> 00:26:40,630 Was there anything else that you looked at with the winner of the bid that made them stand 364 00:26:40,630 --> 00:26:44,410 out, or were all the contractors pretty tight in their capabilities? 365 00:26:44,410 --> 00:26:45,370 No, 366 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:52,760 I think 367 00:26:55,350 --> 00:26:59,730 the bidding environment right now is very favorable for bids. 368 00:27:00,230 --> 00:27:05,190 The contractors, especially the contractors that do this type of work are all looking for work. 369 00:27:06,630 --> 00:27:09,270 So the bids were all very close. 370 00:27:10,130 --> 00:27:15,550 And as I said, all the contractors are doing this type of work normally. 371 00:27:15,870 --> 00:27:21,070 So they're very capable and so we're just at the advantage of looking for work. 372 00:27:21,070 --> 00:27:22,950 so we're getting very good bids right now. 373 00:27:23,950 --> 00:27:24,810 Thank you very modest. 374 00:27:24,970 --> 00:27:27,190 I know that you do your job very, very well. 375 00:27:27,230 --> 00:27:28,870 That's why we're getting such good bids. 376 00:27:29,390 --> 00:27:29,630 Yes. 377 00:27:29,790 --> 00:27:31,490 Why the change orders are going to go away. 378 00:27:32,110 --> 00:27:34,270 That's why we're going to save lots of money with you. 379 00:27:34,390 --> 00:27:35,530 Thank you for joining us. 380 00:27:35,790 --> 00:27:36,930 Well, thank you. 381 00:27:37,490 --> 00:27:38,050 Thank you. 382 00:27:38,130 --> 00:27:38,850 I got the question answered. 383 00:27:39,030 --> 00:27:39,270 Thanks. 384 00:27:40,050 --> 00:27:42,150 Any other online hands raised? 385 00:27:42,410 --> 00:27:43,070 I see we're good. 386 00:27:43,170 --> 00:27:44,310 Anything else in the room? 387 00:27:44,990 --> 00:27:47,030 A motion's been made by Commissioner Fife. 388 00:27:47,030 --> 00:27:47,770 Is there a second? 389 00:27:48,450 --> 00:27:48,890 Second? 390 00:27:48,890 --> 00:27:56,610 very good. Our other Oakland representative, the president of the City Council. Motion 391 00:27:56,610 --> 00:27:58,230 been made and seconded, roll call vote please. 392 00:27:58,870 --> 00:28:03,130 And just for the record, so it's clear, motion made by Commissioner 5 seconded by Commissioner 393 00:28:03,130 --> 00:28:03,530 Jenkins. 394 00:28:05,690 --> 00:28:09,310 Yeah. Thank you. Commissioner Zang? 395 00:28:10,050 --> 00:28:13,030 Aye. Yes, for Zang. Commissioner Taplin? 396 00:28:13,350 --> 00:28:15,150 Aye. Yes, for Taplin. Commissioner Jordan? 397 00:28:15,570 --> 00:28:20,070 Yes. Yes, for Jordan. Commissioner Fortune on a Bass? Absent? Commissioner Gonzales? 398 00:28:20,070 --> 00:28:23,590 are muted. 399 00:28:23,990 --> 00:28:29,510 Yes for Johanna? 400 00:28:33,770 --> 00:28:35,350 Yes for Janis? 401 00:28:36,170 --> 00:28:37,490 Yes for Halliman? 402 00:28:41,430 --> 00:28:45,310 Yes for Solina? 403 00:28:45,310 --> 00:28:56,530 Yes, yes, for Solomon commissioner Salinas absent commissioner McCarthy. Yes, yes, yes for McCarthy commissioner Bowen. Yes, yes, yes for Bowen commissioner merchant. Yes, yes, for 404 00:28:56,530 --> 00:29:07,770 Martian Commissioner McCorston. Hi, yes, for McCorston. Vice chair as the Ashcraft. Yes, yes, yes, for as the Ashcraft chair, Halbert. I vote yes, yes, yes for Halbert. The motion passes. 405 00:29:07,770 --> 00:29:15,750 Thank you very much. Our next item is item 8.2. Central County Community Connections Plan update. This is an information item. 406 00:29:16,890 --> 00:29:25,110 And I'll just remind everyone who's here, please stay here for quorum purposes. We do have a closed session afterwards after this item. 407 00:29:26,210 --> 00:29:30,670 Thank you, Chair. Thank you, commissioners. So, this is an informational item, as you mentioned. 408 00:29:30,890 --> 00:29:36,870 It's a community, the Central County Community Connections Plan, or we call it the 4CP Plan. 409 00:29:37,650 --> 00:29:45,510 It's the, it's a planning and community engagement process between the areas of I-238, I-580, 410 00:29:46,230 --> 00:29:52,650 between 880 on the west and Caster Valley Bart Station to the east. And to provide an update on, 411 00:29:52,650 --> 00:29:54,970 on this plan is Shannon McCarthy. 412 00:29:55,370 --> 00:29:56,370 Thank you. 413 00:29:57,490 --> 00:29:59,050 Good afternoon commissioners. 414 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,400 Ms. Shannon McCarthy with the planning team here to share an update on Alameda CTC's Central 415 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,680 County Community Connections Plan or 4CP for short. 416 00:30:09,950 --> 00:30:14,550 We'll start if we move to the next slide with some background on the plan's purpose in 417 00:30:14,550 --> 00:30:19,230 our approach before sharing a high-level summary of key findings from both our needs assessment 418 00:30:19,590 --> 00:30:24,650 and public outreach efforts to date. I'll wrap up with a quick overview of the plan's draft 419 00:30:24,650 --> 00:30:26,330 recommendations and next steps. 420 00:30:28,460 --> 00:30:32,980 The 4CP builds upon a number of local and county plans that have 421 00:30:32,980 --> 00:30:37,980 been conducted in Central Alameda County, all of which have highlighted the need for safer streets, 422 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:43,940 easier access to transit and local destinations, more reliable transit, better public and climate 423 00:30:43,940 --> 00:30:48,220 health outcomes, as well as increased investment in and maintenance of public spaces. 424 00:30:49,060 --> 00:30:54,560 In 2024, Alameda CTC applied for and was awarded a sustainable transportation planning grant 425 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:59,860 from CalTrans to develop the 4CP, which is focused on identifying community prioritized 426 00:30:59,860 --> 00:31:03,960 transportation improvements in the study area shown on the map, which includes parts of 427 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:09,700 San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Ashland, Cherryland, Castro Valley, and Hayward that are heavily 428 00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:12,600 impacted and divided by significant freeway infrastructure. 429 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:18,400 We're currently three quarters of the way through the plan's schedule. Since kicking off 430 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,920 early last summer, we've completed a focus technical needs assessment, as well as two rounds 431 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,700 of stakeholder and public engagement, all of which have informed the draft improvement 432 00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:31,400 ideas and recommendations that we've developed. We're currently on track to complete the plan 433 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:37,220 and implementation strategy by early next year and will return to the commission then to seek 434 00:31:37,220 --> 00:31:44,160 approval of the final plan in order to satisfy grant requirements. Next slide. So as I mentioned, 435 00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:49,260 our study area touches multiple jurisdictions to which are currently developing their own 436 00:31:49,260 --> 00:31:51,000 and community-based transportation plans 437 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,320 with funding provided by Alameda CTC. 438 00:31:54,020 --> 00:31:56,340 So close stakeholder coordination has been central. 439 00:31:56,940 --> 00:31:59,320 Our technical advisory committee includes representatives 440 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,200 from the agencies listed here. 441 00:32:02,340 --> 00:32:05,020 And community engagement is also just as important 442 00:32:05,020 --> 00:32:05,920 to the four C.P. 443 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,060 So we've also partnered with the six community-based organizations 444 00:32:09,570 --> 00:32:12,100 listed here in order to more effectively reach 445 00:32:12,100 --> 00:32:15,560 the diverse communities that live and work in this area. 446 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:21,120 So now switching gears, we'll take a look at findings from the work that we've completed 447 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:21,540 to date. 448 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:27,900 The 4CPs needs assessment largely echoed findings from existing plans, including our 449 00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:32,140 recent countywide transportation plan, but offers a more granular understanding of conditions 450 00:32:32,140 --> 00:32:33,860 within the 4CPs study area. 451 00:32:34,660 --> 00:32:39,960 So in terms of safety, we found that over three-quarters of study area streets have speed limits 452 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:41,580 that exceed recommended targets. 453 00:32:42,180 --> 00:32:46,440 Conflicts at freeway ramp intersections with local streets were also found to be exacerbated 454 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,840 by designs that facilitate high vehicle speeds. 455 00:32:49,420 --> 00:32:54,980 In terms of access, the freeways, rail lines, street grid, and even natural elements, such 456 00:32:54,980 --> 00:32:58,740 as the San Lorenzo Creekway, divide communities and limit access to BART. 457 00:32:59,660 --> 00:33:04,600 Buses traveling in the study area, travel slowly relative to cars, and the majority of bus 458 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,940 stops lack amenities like benches or shelters. 459 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:16,700 Most study area corridors fall within flood hazard zones and are lacking in permeable landscaping and shade trees, both of which exacerbate flood and heat risk. 460 00:33:17,300 --> 00:33:34,040 And lastly, most major streets in this area are designed to move high traffic volumes and serve many destinations, but lack place making elements such as street lighting, public seating, landscaping and public art that can foster a sense of community boost economic vitality and support environmental resilience. 461 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:39,640 We have completed two out of three rounds of public engagement. 462 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:44,680 The first round took place last fall and was focused on confirming needs and prioritizing 463 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,020 streets for focused planning through the 4CP. 464 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:52,740 The second and most extensive round of outreach took place earlier this spring and offered community 465 00:33:52,740 --> 00:33:56,880 members the opportunity to workshop specific improvement ideas for each of the priority 466 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,400 corridors that were identified through round one. 467 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:05,740 We have conducted a variety of outreach activities, including hosting CBO focus groups, 468 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:11,300 listening sessions, attending pop-ups, hosting hands-on community walk audits and design 469 00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:14,780 workshops, and sharing online surveys and web maps more broadly. 470 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:21,120 Our CBO partners, tech and commissioners were all incredibly helpful in identifying outreach 471 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:22,720 opportunities in their communities. 472 00:34:23,490 --> 00:34:28,020 The full list of events that we held just this past spring alone is shown on the right here. 473 00:34:28,020 --> 00:34:34,220 All told across both rounds of outreach, we received over 950 comments and surveys from 474 00:34:34,220 --> 00:34:35,700 over 500 community members. 475 00:34:38,620 --> 00:34:41,680 The 4CP's 10 priority corridors are highlighted on this map. 476 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:46,820 They were identified by combining community members' rankings of study area streets with 477 00:34:46,820 --> 00:34:50,560 findings from our technical needs assessment, and then screening those that were already 478 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,480 being addressed through other planning efforts. 479 00:34:54,810 --> 00:34:59,510 Based on what we heard in Round 1, we drafted both area-wide recommendations as well as 480 00:34:59,510 --> 00:34:59,970 two out. 481 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:29,900 Alternative improvement ideas for each of the four CP's priority corridors. Overall, community members were very supportive of the four CP's draft area-wide recommendations with their highest priorities being improved safety for pedestrians and bicyclists, fewer speeding cars and more street trees and lighting. In terms of corridor specific ideas, community members largely supported bold safety improvements, especially near transit and schools. At the same time, we also heard some concerns around potential traffic impacts of larger 482 00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:32,600 removes, especially in Cherryland and Caster Valley. 483 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,240 That leads us to the plan's current draft recommendations. 484 00:35:38,250 --> 00:35:40,830 Across the study area, the 4CP will recommend 485 00:35:40,830 --> 00:35:43,830 a suite of improvements where context appropriate that 486 00:35:43,830 --> 00:35:46,350 speak to the feedback that we've heard from community members. 487 00:35:47,050 --> 00:35:49,790 Many of these elements also show up in corridors 488 00:35:49,790 --> 00:35:51,090 specific concepts as well. 489 00:35:52,790 --> 00:35:56,130 Of the 4CP's priority corridors, the Sparion and Luelling 490 00:35:56,130 --> 00:35:58,170 Boulevard's emerged as the highest priorities 491 00:35:58,170 --> 00:35:59,310 for near-term advancement. 492 00:35:59,310 --> 00:36:03,930 Both segments highlighted in purple on the map are on the county's high injury network, 493 00:36:04,550 --> 00:36:06,910 proactive safety network, and countywide bikeways network. 494 00:36:07,570 --> 00:36:11,590 And together, they include six freeway ramp intersections and three underpasses. 495 00:36:12,050 --> 00:36:18,110 This area is also close to multiple schools, a major commercial center, and various priority communities. 496 00:36:18,950 --> 00:36:25,790 The resulting is variant and the Welling Complete Streets project would implement pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and traffic calming elements, 497 00:36:26,710 --> 00:36:31,030 improvements that leverage and close the gap between recent and pipeline projects by 498 00:36:31,030 --> 00:36:32,310 the county and San Leandro. 499 00:36:32,910 --> 00:36:36,930 The 4CP is still advancing planning and design work for these two corridors, along with 500 00:36:36,930 --> 00:36:42,290 the remaining eight priority corridors, but in the meantime, Alameda CTC applied to the 501 00:36:42,290 --> 00:36:46,330 2028 CIP for funding to advance the project into project development. 502 00:36:47,250 --> 00:36:54,530 Looking ahead, this fall, the 4CP is continuing to coordinate with stakeholders to refine recommendations 503 00:36:54,530 --> 00:37:00,530 for the Priority Corridors, including advancing preliminary design concepts for Hisparian and Louwelling Boulevard's. 504 00:37:01,470 --> 00:37:06,550 We will conduct the third and final round of public outreach later this year. 505 00:37:07,250 --> 00:37:11,670 And finally, we will return to the commission once we've completed the final plan 506 00:37:11,670 --> 00:37:17,790 and implementation strategy to request approval of the four CP in early 2027. 507 00:37:20,270 --> 00:37:21,810 Thank you for the presentation. 508 00:37:21,810 --> 00:37:28,090 very, very informative and helpful, I'll ask, is there any public comment on item 8.2? 509 00:37:28,830 --> 00:37:31,290 We don't receive any public comment and no hint. 510 00:37:31,290 --> 00:37:33,710 Bring it back for Commissioner Discussion. 511 00:37:35,190 --> 00:37:40,590 I'd like to start and say thank you, again, very helpful and informational report. 512 00:37:41,230 --> 00:37:45,290 I'm looking forward to seeing the complete report and then onto construction. 513 00:37:45,710 --> 00:37:50,250 Do we have any estimate as to how much this plan will cost to make all the improvements? 514 00:37:51,650 --> 00:38:02,550 We are still refining the concepts, so we won't have draft cost estimates until we put out the final draft plan. 515 00:38:02,730 --> 00:38:12,410 I just have to point out that this is an area that receives a lot of impact from 9,000 pounds and higher trucks. 516 00:38:13,210 --> 00:38:19,910 and so maintaining all of those trucks in this corridor makes it even more 517 00:38:19,910 --> 00:38:24,330 important to make these improvements. The other day I was on his buried in 518 00:38:24,330 --> 00:38:28,410 Louisville and trying to get through that maze to get back on to the freeway 519 00:38:28,410 --> 00:38:32,970 because I just had to get off to go to In and Out Burger and at least some 520 00:38:32,970 --> 00:38:38,670 Marquez's district and getting back on was not easy. We need to make these 521 00:38:38,670 --> 00:38:46,670 improvements. And so it took me 20 minutes to get through the drive-through. 522 00:38:50,090 --> 00:38:50,890 I know there 523 00:38:50,890 --> 00:38:58,530 is I couldn't wait. We have to make these improvements. And so I'm going to see, first, if there's 524 00:38:58,530 --> 00:39:04,970 any comments in the room before we go online. Seeing none will go online, too. Vice chair, 525 00:39:04,970 --> 00:39:08,110 as the ash craft and then Commissioner Hannon. 526 00:39:09,250 --> 00:39:11,230 Thank you, Chair Halbert. 527 00:39:11,470 --> 00:39:13,030 I think there's not too much echo. 528 00:39:13,530 --> 00:39:16,470 Anyone else is muted here, but a couple of things. 529 00:39:16,710 --> 00:39:19,610 Oh, we do have an in and out in Alameda 530 00:39:19,610 --> 00:39:21,410 so you could have just gone a little farther. 531 00:39:23,310 --> 00:39:27,530 But I want you to know that a luncheon just before this meeting 532 00:39:27,530 --> 00:39:32,070 I sat at a table with three of the Hayward Council, 533 00:39:32,070 --> 00:39:36,410 council members and I was telling them about this item and they're really 534 00:39:36,410 --> 00:39:42,330 enthused about it and then I was also telling them that when if I'm driving on 535 00:39:42,330 --> 00:39:49,690 880 in the traffic is heavy the GPS will reroute me and more often than not it 536 00:39:49,690 --> 00:39:54,750 takes me off at his spare end and you drive through there realize this are 537 00:39:54,750 --> 00:39:59,210 Downtown area isn't even some residences along the way so 538 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:28,960 This project can't come a minute too soon. I would just say that the consensus here around this table is that if this is such a good bidding environment right now, with regard to the earlier, close to be heard, we should hurry and get this one out to bid. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Hannon. Yes, thank you for the excellent report. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just real briefly. Could you refresh my memory? 539 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:33,460 What was the amount awarded for the sustainability transportation planning grant? 540 00:40:33,620 --> 00:40:36,040 How much was the grant just to plan the process? 541 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:36,880 Thank you. 542 00:40:38,100 --> 00:40:42,580 It was a total of $705,000 for the plan. 543 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:45,680 Thank you. 544 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:46,800 Any other comments in the room? 545 00:40:46,900 --> 00:40:47,840 This is an information item. 546 00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:49,420 Commissioner Gonzalez. 547 00:40:51,340 --> 00:40:52,980 So four things to consider first. 548 00:40:53,220 --> 00:40:55,180 Thank you for spring lake being part of that. 549 00:40:55,260 --> 00:40:58,420 We had a fatality on spring lake a couple of years ago. 550 00:40:58,420 --> 00:41:03,440 So it's just turns or turns, there's speed is quite high, so anything that you can do 551 00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:08,900 to work with us might greater lines of sight and make it more walkable. 552 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:15,540 Secondly, the Lou Welling at 880 Underpass is disgusting. 553 00:41:16,420 --> 00:41:18,280 There's really no other word for it. 554 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:26,200 It needs more lighting and it needs to have a way to stop pigeons from roosting underneath 555 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:31,920 the bridge because they leave their reminders. And that's just not the environment that encourages 556 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:41,320 walking. I do think that your spot on that speed in the area is much higher. It just makes it 557 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:49,320 even if it's to code, safe to walk, it's a practical matter. People don't feel nearly as safe walking 558 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:54,820 there. And I'm not quite sure what the role is on the interface between amenities and bus stops 559 00:41:54,820 --> 00:41:58,380 between what we would do, how we would support AC transit, 560 00:41:58,820 --> 00:42:01,360 other transit operators, 561 00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:04,460 but being quite sensitive to that, 562 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,780 that could be as simple as planting a tree in a shade. 563 00:42:09,140 --> 00:42:11,200 But this is an important corridor 564 00:42:12,020 --> 00:42:15,520 and we had pulled the council member from San Leandro 565 00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,660 in that area that we would come and advocate for him 566 00:42:17,660 --> 00:42:19,680 because he's been talking about these things for quite a while. 567 00:42:20,260 --> 00:42:22,000 That's what he hears from residents in that. 568 00:42:22,460 --> 00:42:23,120 But thank you for, 569 00:42:25,270 --> 00:42:26,130 thank you. 570 00:42:26,130 --> 00:42:31,490 Any other comments? I do have one. Could you please remind us of the upcoming 571 00:42:32,950 --> 00:42:38,810 Community engagement opportunities. Just highlight them one more time. What do we have coming up between now and? 572 00:42:41,300 --> 00:42:47,500 And so the slides Shannon showed identified very specific outreach we did earlier this year. We're still finalizing this 573 00:42:47,500 --> 00:42:53,540 specific events and dates so we'll be doing outreach. We've completed two full rounds so this next round will be 574 00:42:53,540 --> 00:42:58,920 So the smaller effort of outreach as we just finalize the recommendations we heard from the community 575 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:06,160 It's probably going to focus largely on CBO group conversations with the people who came and did some of the walk audits with us 576 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,980 Who've been out in the community looking at the improvements to dig down into their detailed responses 577 00:43:10,540 --> 00:43:16,160 So that's going to be the main focus of our outreach leading into the finalization of the plan early 2027 578 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:21,720 So dates and times TBD for that if you could go through our commissioners hopefully get them there 579 00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:29,780 would be appreciated. This item is information-only, seeing that our regular calendar has been 580 00:43:29,780 --> 00:43:37,460 completed, we will recess into closed session. If you're online, please stay with us, especially 581 00:43:37,460 --> 00:43:42,560 if you're in the county, we need you for quorum. And do we have, they all have a separate link? 582 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:47,400 They all have a separate link, and I just recent that link to everyone online who's 583 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,040 participating remotely with this closed session material. 584 00:43:50,260 --> 00:43:51,820 So please reference that link. 585 00:44:23,290 --> 00:44:24,470 You like that? 586 00:44:25,470 --> 00:44:26,670 All approved too. 587 00:44:26,990 --> 00:44:30,570 I would like this one. 588 00:44:31,590 --> 00:44:32,070 Mike, 589 00:44:48,050 --> 00:44:49,130 are we supposed to stay here? 590 00:44:51,750 --> 00:44:52,290 You're on me. 591 00:44:55,140 --> 00:44:57,480 I think we have to sign out of this thing. 592 00:44:57,640 --> 00:44:57,940 I know. 593 00:44:58,480 --> 00:44:59,960 I'm looking for my link right now. 594 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:13,040 It should have been right on your screen on the right side. And I'm in it, but it's not letting me stay here. So I got to leave. We both have to leave. Yeah, I'm going to leave. Okay. Bye. Bye. Bye. 595 00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:43,240 We got to get the rest of our forum. Yeah, 596 00:55:53,530 --> 00:55:58,890 no, it's been fatty. You know, roll call, roll call. 597 00:56:06,140 --> 00:56:11,100 As you're about to give it to you and back, you're right about to give two. 598 00:56:12,700 --> 00:56:17,880 I think sure man, that's my not going to be a little interesting. So when's the 599 00:56:20,860 --> 00:56:27,950 I'm just trying to get our county core on back. 600 00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:31,400 You should be okay with all that. 601 00:56:32,060 --> 00:56:33,600 That's not great to raise your mind. 602 00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:35,120 Just text her. 603 00:56:37,700 --> 00:56:38,360 Okay. 604 00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:42,740 That's sure. 605 00:56:49,860 --> 00:56:52,160 And then commissioners have re, 606 00:56:59,090 --> 00:57:03,290 commissioners online, just confirm you can hear us. 607 00:57:03,610 --> 00:57:03,850 We can. 608 00:57:04,390 --> 00:57:05,250 Okay, perfect. 609 00:57:05,450 --> 00:57:10,310 We're just waiting on our final remote, just a second. 610 00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:36,200 I'd like to reconvene from closed session in order to do that, we'll establish our quorum 611 00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:37,100 with a roll call vote. 612 00:57:37,100 --> 00:57:38,240 A roll call. 613 00:57:38,540 --> 00:57:38,780 Call. 614 00:57:38,860 --> 00:57:39,660 Commissioner Zang. 615 00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:40,720 Here. 616 00:57:42,140 --> 00:57:43,340 Commissioner Taplin. 617 00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:43,880 Present. 618 00:57:44,380 --> 00:57:45,240 Commissioner Jordan. 619 00:57:45,980 --> 00:57:46,240 Here. 620 00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:48,000 Commissioner Portionato Baff. 621 00:57:48,380 --> 00:57:48,940 Absent. 622 00:57:49,300 --> 00:57:49,880 Commissioner Gonzalez. 623 00:57:50,780 --> 00:57:51,120 Present. 624 00:57:51,900 --> 00:57:52,880 Commissioner Jenkins. 625 00:57:53,260 --> 00:57:53,460 Present. 626 00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:54,920 Commissioner Singh. 627 00:57:55,180 --> 00:57:55,520 Absent. 628 00:57:55,860 --> 00:57:56,580 Commissioner Marquez. 629 00:57:57,540 --> 00:57:57,860 Present. 630 00:57:58,760 --> 00:57:59,540 Commissioner Hannon. 631 00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:01,980 From a remote location in Newark. 632 00:58:03,020 --> 00:58:04,020 More occur. 633 00:58:04,100 --> 00:58:04,640 Commissioner Young. 634 00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:05,220 Here. 635 00:58:05,220 --> 00:58:09,200 Commissioner Miley, absent, Commissioner Bolts, absent, Commissioner Fife. 636 00:58:10,020 --> 00:58:10,380 Present. 637 00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:11,020 Wait. 638 00:58:11,700 --> 00:58:12,480 Commissioner Hernandez, 639 00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:15,240 absent. 640 00:58:17,220 --> 00:58:19,280 Coming back to Commissioner Hernandez. 641 00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:22,640 Commissioner Solomon. 642 00:58:23,140 --> 00:58:23,320 Here. 643 00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:24,940 Commissioner Salinas. 644 00:58:25,100 --> 00:58:25,400 Oppressed. 645 00:58:26,300 --> 00:58:26,660 Absent. 646 00:58:27,220 --> 00:58:27,500 Carthie. 647 00:58:27,740 --> 00:58:28,960 Commissioner Salinas is absent. 648 00:58:29,220 --> 00:58:29,840 Commissioner McCarthy. 649 00:58:30,660 --> 00:58:31,160 From it. 650 00:58:31,260 --> 00:58:31,940 From it. 651 00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:33,560 Commissioner Bowen. 652 00:58:34,120 --> 00:58:34,360 Present. 653 00:58:34,900 --> 00:58:36,020 Commissioner Marchion. 654 00:58:36,020 --> 00:58:39,440 here. Commissioner Hugh or Commissioner McQuarrison. 655 00:58:40,100 --> 00:58:43,600 President Remote Dablin. Vice Chair Ezioshkaft. 656 00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:45,600 President Fernandes. 657 00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:47,320 Chair Halbert. 658 00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:48,240 President. 659 00:58:48,580 --> 00:58:50,620 And then just confirming Commissioner Hernandez. 660 00:58:51,860 --> 00:58:53,380 Hernandez is here at the Heritage House. 661 00:58:54,340 --> 00:58:55,720 President, thank you. We do have a quorum. 662 00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:59,960 Very good. I'll ask is there any reportable action 663 00:58:59,960 --> 00:59:04,220 from closed session? There is indeed with respect to the closed session item concerning 664 00:59:06,220 --> 00:59:11,220 commission at all, on the Superior Court case number 26, CV 17596, 665 00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:15,340 commission voted to approve a settlement agreement on which I will need a CTC, 666 00:59:15,540 --> 00:59:21,840 will pay Rocky Ridge LLC $539,500, consisting of an outstanding $500,000 payment owed under 667 00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:25,460 a mitigation agreement between the parties, which had been stolen through cyber theft, 668 00:59:25,580 --> 00:59:28,680 along with $39,000, there's $539,500. 669 00:59:29,460 --> 00:59:32,940 Attorney's fees incurred by Rocky Ridge in exchange for a dismissal of the litigation 670 00:59:32,940 --> 00:59:35,420 Regidious, releases a promise to reimburse 671 00:59:35,420 --> 00:59:37,260 how to meet a CTC of recordage. 672 00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:39,080 Day in November, the loss of insurance 673 00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:42,820 or any other source, cooperation with how to meet a CTC 674 00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:45,060 and it's lawsuit against how to meet a CTC 675 00:59:45,060 --> 00:59:47,100 and sure seeking coverage from this loss. 676 00:59:47,900 --> 00:59:52,160 It was a unanimous vote, Commissioner's present, 677 00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:54,460 namely, Fapplin Jordan, Gonzalez Jenkins, 678 00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:56,320 Marquez Young, Howard Five Solomon, 679 00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:58,780 Sean Desiash, Kraft McCarthy, McCorsten Bowen, 680 00:59:58,780 --> 00:59:59,800 Zang Hernandez. 681 01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:10,440 Thank you very much. Seeing that all item before us have been exhausted, we are now adjourned.