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[0:00] Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for attending and joining today. The September 2026 meeting of the Alameda County Transportation Commission. This is September.
[0:14] 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.
[0:31] of counties meeting. We thank them for taking time to be with us today remotely.
[0:39] League of cities, the California League of Cities, not the National League of Cities.
[0:45] Thank you. We'll start with roll call.
[0:48] Commissioner Zang,
[0:58] if somebody has in the room with commissioners out there,
[1:03] thank you.
[1:07] Perfect. Thanks. Commissioner Taplan.
[1:11] Commissioner Jordan, here.
[1:14] Commissioner Barchanada-Bas, absent.
[1:17] Commissioner Gonzalez.
[1:18] Present.
[1:19] Commissioner Jenkins.
[1:20] Present.
[1:21] Commissioner Singh, absent.
[1:23] Commissioner Marquez.
[1:24] Present.
[1:25] Commissioner Hannon.
[1:27] At a remote location in Newark.
[1:30] Commissioner Young.
[1:32] Commissioner Miley.
[1:34] absent.
[1:35] Commissioner Bulge.
[1:37] absent.
[1:38] Commissioner Fife.
[1:39] Present.
[1:39] Commissioner Hernandez.
[1:42] Present.
[1:43] Commissioner Solomon.
[1:44] Present.
[1:45] Commissioner Salinas.
[1:47] Absent.
[1:48] Commissioner McCarthy.
[1:49] Present.
[1:50] In Anaheim.
[1:52] Commissioner Bowen.
[1:54] Present.
[1:54] In Anaheim.
[1:56] Commissioner Marchand.
[1:57] Here.
[1:59] Commissioner McCorston.
[2:00] Present from the great city of Dublin.
[2:03] Vice Chair Eziashkaft.
[2:08] Also present from Anaheim.
[2:10] Chair Halbert.
[2:13] Present.
[2:14] Thank you.
[2:14] We do have a quorum.
[2:15] We have a quorum.
[2:16] Again, thank you everyone for being here, those in person and online today, we will be
[2:21] asked to approve the contract award for a segment of the East Bay Greenway Multi-Model project.
[2:29] As everyone knows, the East Bay Greenway is a high priority project for our commission.
[2:34] This will enhance connections between neighborhood schools, downtowns and more by improving safety.
[2:40] mobility and access parallel to the Bart Court or between Oakland and Hayward.
[2:46] The contract where he are being asked to consider today will construct the segment
[2:50] between Lake Merit and Foodvale, Bart Stations in Oakland.
[2:55] In other exciting news about the project, I would like to extend a personal invitation
[3:00] to the public and my fellow commissioners to please join us for the groundbreaking celebration
[3:05] of the East Bay, Greenways, San Leandro segment.
[3:10] This will be held October 14th at 1pm at the Boys and Girls Club in San Leandro.
[3:17] If anyone would like to attend, please contact our clerk.
[3:22] We are grateful to the Boys and Girls Club and the city of San Leandro for your hospitality.
[3:29] We will also receive an update today on the Central County Community Connections Plan for CP, for short.
[3:37] This is an effort led by the planning team to improve travel and safety in Central Palomita County.
[3:45] Lastly, I'd like to say that we will be having a closed session today and so stick around for that.
[3:51] Make sure that we keep a quorum for that part of our meeting.
[3:55] So, with that said, I will move to the next item on our agenda, which is item 3, public
[4:03] comment. This is a chance for members of the public to make comment on items that are
[4:09] not on today's agenda, but is within the purview of this body.
[4:14] Last is clerk, do we have any speakers either online or in person?
[4:19] We don't have any hands raised online, but we do have six speakers in the room, so I'll
[4:25] just read their names and order and ask them to line up by the lectern.
[4:29] So the first speaker is Judy Kane, followed by Diane Russell, Susan Galardo, Tim Rosaire,
[4:39] Jerry Galvin Lee, or Terry Galvin Lee, and Susan Gilski.
[4:48] Thank you.
[4:49] 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.
[4:55] We welcome you.
[4:57] Go ahead.
[4:58] I just want to make sure everybody in the room.
[5:00] 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
[5:29] publicly, and I'll just read from his letter here.
[5:34] I do not support lifting the semi-truck restriction on I-580, and I will not author legislation
[5:41] in the State Senate to repeal it.
[5:44] So it's very clear that there's no political will for lifting the ban on the 9,000 pound
[5:52] truck.
[5:52] So we don't have any political will, and I think that what I've been told by CalTrans is
[5:58] is that the city of Oakland and the ACT Fixie will have a lot of influence on the outcome of this study.
[6:07] And so here's my ask for ACTC, please stand with us.
[6:13] Preserve our Oakland neighborhoods, our quality of life, keep those big rigs off of our residential streets.
[6:21] You don't know this most of you, but we have no traffic enforcement in the city of Oakland.
[6:26] And the police department had to get rid of their traffic enforcement.
[6:31] So even if we had laws prohibiting them from driving on the streets, there's nothing
[6:36] to keep them off the streets.
[6:38] Thank you.
[6:43] I am Diane Russell.
[6:46] And I want to share with you my thoughts about how all of us need to look at the models
[6:51] for their analysis that CalTrans is doing.
[6:54] I spoke at length with CalTrans people at the West Oakland Library, where there were
[7:00] no neighbors there to hear their results, and they explained to me the model that they
[7:07] used for measuring noise on 580.
[7:11] They only measured noise for an hour.
[7:14] They didn't tell me what time of day, and they did not take into consideration the elevation
[7:19] of the hills for the echo effect.
[7:20] So what all I'm saying is, instead of just looking at their summary when the whole report
[7:26] comes out, we need to really look at their analysis.
[7:31] And I think we have learned from them that there's no statistical significance of the
[7:38] change in noise for A80 when the trucks come on 580.
[7:42] Thank you.
[7:48] Sorry?
[7:49] Hi.
[7:49] So I understand that this body does not have a vote, but through its connections can influence
[7:56] outcomes regarding the I-580 truck bound.
[8:00] So there are many reasons, but here are a few where I strongly believe that the ACTC commissioners
[8:05] should use its influence to stop CalTrans in complete and divisive study and favor retaining
[8:12] the truck bound.
[8:12] First, CalTrans uses percentages of people affected along the freeway corridors, instead
[8:19] of numbers of people, which is misleading.
[8:23] Should the ban be lifted, this will affect many people, including people of color, and
[8:28] equity priority communities will be negatively impacted.
[8:33] It is not sensible to export impacts from one neighborhood to another.
[8:37] Communities along IAV deserve all of us to roll up our sleeves and apply real solutions
[8:43] to existing issues instead of spreading the harm.
[8:47] CalTrans Consultant has stated that safety implications of repealing the ban should be evaluated.
[8:53] This has not been done.
[8:56] CalTrans and the trucking industry are not responsible for damage to city streets from cut-through traffic.
[9:01] These consequential damages would be borne by local communities.
[9:06] We already can't afford to address many of the issues that we already have.
[9:12] CalTrans has not reported anything regarding cost for maintenance and construction that
[9:18] would be necessary, should 580 be open up to trucks.
[9:23] And lastly, I just wanted to let ACTC know, because you may not know, 2100 parcels were taken
[9:30] when the I-580 was constructed, and the mitigation measure for this was to maintain the truck
[9:37] ban that was on State Route 50 on I-580. Thank you.
[9:47] Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the commission.
[9:51] I spoke last time and I was here to hear the discussions that happened in July.
[9:56] I felt that there were
[10:00] 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.
[10:28] and to go deeper because those questions were never really addressed last time.
[10:33] So I'm just going to give an information card about myself to our clerk here
[10:38] and I would ask you please, if you have any questions along those lines
[10:42] to get in touch with you, we want to keep this dialogue going.
[10:45] Thank you.
[10:54] I believe our last speaker is Susan.
[10:57] Hello.
[10:58] My name is Susan Gilkey and I live 1,000 feet,
[11:02] less than 1,000 feet from Highway 580, but I'm a resident, a proud resident of
[11:09] Oakland for over 50 years. And I believe that as public servants, as people,
[11:15] you should be representing the people of Oakland, all of us. And I really urge you
[11:23] to think about who benefits if there are big rigs trucks on Highway 580. I think
[11:31] the biggest beneficiary would be the trucking industry.
[11:36] 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.
[11:53] We're all people who just live here as residents and citizens.
[11:57] Please stand up for us.
[12:04] Thank you. We didn't have any other public comments.
[12:08] Thank you very much. We will close item three and move to item four with Chair and Vice
[12:15] Chair report. I think I've pretty well given my record, but we'll go to the Executive
[12:21] Director.
[12:22] Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Commissioners, and thank you all of you for being here today.
[12:26] We do have two items, one on regular matters and one in closed session that require an action
[12:31] from this commission and I think we just reached quorum so thank you all for being here.
[12:37] First I just want to mention that it's been just a little over a decade since we began the
[12:43] student transit pass program and since then we now have 160 schools signed up over 32,000 students
[12:52] receiving the pass and last year alone we had more than two million free bus trips taken by these
[13:00] students. So just an incredible program and
[13:07] thank you to the leadership of this
[13:08] commission for for having us continue this program and we're we're going to
[13:12] continue to do more with it in the coming years. I also wanted to mention and I
[13:17] mentioned this in the past that this fiscal year alone we will have more than
[13:21] one billion dollars in construction. We just open the bids for the first San
[13:27] Pablo Avenue projects, the parallel bike project and we'll be bringing that
[13:32] project to the commission next month in October so we're excited to move that
[13:38] forward and with our robust construction program at Alameda CTC we fill the
[13:45] position of agency construction manager and I'd like to introduce Mike Chan to
[13:51] the commission who brings not only is an expert in the field of construction
[13:56] management and project management but he brings many years in both the private
[14:01] sector and the public sector and he understands what we need to be accomplished in construction.
[14:07] So we're thrilled to have him, congratulations Mike and
[14:15] commissioners, that concludes my
[14:17] report.
[14:17] Thank you.
[14:19] Thank you.
[14:20] With that, we'll move on to the consent calendar, items 6.1 through 6.11, is there a motion
[14:30] to approve, approval by Marshawn, second by President Jordan, we have any public comment
[14:38] on this item?
[14:39] For the record, no public comment on this item.
[14:42] Any comment by a member of the board?
[14:45] See none.
[14:45] I'll ask for roll call vote.
[14:49] Commissioner Zing.
[14:51] Aye.
[14:52] Yes, for Zing.
[14:53] Commissioner Tapplin.
[14:54] Aye.
[14:55] Yes, for Tapplin.
[14:55] Commissioner Jordan.
[14:56] Yes.
[14:57] Yes, for Jordan.
[14:58] Commissioner Fortunato-Bass.
[14:59] Absent.
[15:00] Commissioner Gonzales? I? Yes, for Gonzales? Commissioner Jenkins? Yes, for Jenkins? Commissioner Cullen?
[15:08] Yes.
[15:10] For Hannah and commissioner Young for young commissioner Miley, absent commissioner
[15:18] Bulge, absent commissioner 5.
[15:20] Yes for 5 commissioner Hernandez, Aye, yes for Hernandez.
[15:25] Commissioner Solomon, Yes, for Solomon commissioner Selina's, absent commissioner
[15:30] McCarthy, Yes.
[15:32] Yes.
[15:33] Yes.
[15:33] For McCarthy, Commissioner Bowen.
[15:35] Yes.
[15:36] Yes.
[15:36] For Bowen, Commissioner Merchand.
[15:38] Yes.
[15:38] Yes.
[15:39] For Merchand.
[15:40] Commissioner McCorston.
[15:41] Aye.
[15:42] Yes.
[15:43] Yes.
[15:45] Yes.
[15:46] Yes.
[15:46] Yes.
[15:46] Yes.
[15:47] For Halbert,
[15:50] the mission passes.
[15:51] Thank you very much.
[15:52] We'll move to item seven committee reports.
[15:54] I note that we welcome Sandra Johnson Commissioner for the Paratransit Advisory and Planning Committee
[16:00] for an update.
[16:00] And for the record, we also have a Chair Damien Park for the IWC, so.
[16:07] Very good. Let's do 7.2. The Independent Watchdog Committee. Welcome, our Chairperson.
[16:18] You should be joining us any second.
[16:27] Welcome. Hi. Thanks. We met best in July meeting. This is Damien Park, by the way, chair of the IWC.
[16:35] A couple of things happened last meeting.
[16:37] We now are up to 11 members out of our 17 vacancies.
[16:42] We briefly hit 12, but Mike Henn resigned from District 5 and we got two new ones, Muhammad
[16:49] Farouk from District 2 and Angel on Hell, Patino from District 4.
[16:57] And we gave our public hearing on the annual report to a packed house.
[17:03] And we had our elections, which Tom Rubin is the vice chair, I'm still the chair.
[17:08] So no change there.
[17:10] And the most important thing we did, at least in my opinion, is that we approved a subcommittee
[17:14] to work on or to discuss what our scope is.
[17:18] And again, we want to adhere to the will of the voters, which prefers that we look at past
[17:23] projects a little critically.
[17:25] And we don't feel like we've done that, at least the majority of us don't feel like we've
[17:28] actually done that.
[17:28] 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.
[17:43] Thank you, Damien, for your presentation. Next we'll have Sandra Johnson from the Fair Transit.
[17:48] Good afternoon.
[17:50] I am Sandra J. Johnson, the chairperson for PACO.
[17:54] PACO last met on Monday, July 27th, with a joint meeting with a pair of Transit Technical
[18:01] Advisory Committee, better known as PARA TAT.
[18:05] Members of the public were also invited.
[18:09] Our agenda highlights included an update on the mobility needs assessment for older adults
[18:16] and people with disabilities, an overview of the strategies to address current and future
[18:23] transportation needs, identify through the mobility needs assessment, we were busy.
[18:33] Also we had an open house and it was an open house style engagement activity with several
[18:42] reports on each strategic mobility management on demand service gaps, affordability, program
[18:52] designs, and safety, and access.
[18:55] Participants visit each board to provide feedback and comments.
[19:04] PAPCO's next meeting will take place on Monday, October 26.
[19:09] This concludes my report.
[19:12] As usual, thank you for your continued support.
[19:17] Thank you, Sandra, for your service.
[19:19] We'll move on to item 8.
[19:23] Regular matters, 8.1 approval of East Big Greenway
[19:27] Multimodal North segment, Oakland North construction
[19:29] package and construction contract award.
[19:34] Thank you, Chair.
[19:35] Thank you, commissioners.
[19:36] This is an action item, one of the two
[19:39] that I mentioned earlier. This is to approve the construction package for the East Bay Greenway
[19:46] multimodal Oakland North package. It's the second of four packages that this commission
[19:52] in the staff are delivering, and here to present the item today is Matthew Bungberg.
[20:09] 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.
[20:30] 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
[20:46] improvements along high-endery network routes and improve multi-modal access and equity
[20:50] priority communities.
[20:52] Next slide, please.
[20:55] The north segment of the East Bay Greenway extends approximately 10.6 miles through
[21:00] the cities of Oakland and San Leandro and has been split into four construction packages
[21:05] for design and construction as shown here.
[21:07] Today's item requests an action related to the Oakland North construction package, shown
[21:11] with the blue circle, which connects between the Lake Merit Bard station and the Fruitville
[21:18] East 10th Street, East 8th Street, and East 20th Street.
[21:21] This construction package provides connections
[21:23] to important destinations, including downtown Oakland,
[21:26] the Oakland Museum of California, Laney College,
[21:29] East Bay Asian Youth Center,
[21:30] Laugh Community Center,
[21:31] think college now, the Unity Council,
[21:33] like clinical de la Rasa,
[21:35] and the broader Chinatown San Antonio and Fruitville neighborhoods.
[21:38] Next slide, please.
[21:42] This table shows the status of the various East Bay
[21:44] greener construction packages that comprise the North segment.
[21:47] So the San Leandro Construction Package
[21:49] was awarded a construction contract was awarded in July and as was mentioned there is a groundbreaking
[21:55] plan for this construction package in the middle of next month. The Oakland North construction
[22:00] package would be the next to proceed into construction following a contract award which is requested
[22:06] today and contract execution construction start would be towards the end of this year.
[22:12] And then the Oakland South and east-fourteenth construction packages would
[22:15] and our schedule to complete design in spring of next year,
[22:18] positioning them for advertising award.
[22:22] Next slide, please.
[22:24] This image shows a sample of the Oakland North project design.
[22:29] While the design will vary by street,
[22:32] this image shows that the project provides a connection
[22:34] along the bark quarter and some of the key project elements
[22:37] include separated or protected bike lanes,
[22:40] pedestrian crossing improvements,
[22:42] and new street trees and naturalized storm water management.
[22:45] Next slide please.
[22:49] Alameda CTC achieved a ready-to-list milestone for the Oakland North Construction Package in
[22:54] April this year, and an allocation of solutions for congested corridor program grant funds,
[23:00] which we'll find this construction package, was approved by the California Transportation
[23:03] Commission in June of this year.
[23:06] The project was advertised on July 7th, and bids were opened on August 20th.
[23:11] Six different bids were received, all of which were closely clustered and below the engineer's
[23:15] estimate. Staff completed a bid analysis and determined that Bay City's paving and grading
[23:20] was the lowest responsible and responsive bidder. In summary, this was a highly competitive
[23:26] bidding process with no irregularities. Bay City's is a local contractor who was also awarded
[23:31] the construction contract to the State Greenway Sanlander construction package, the Oakland Alameda
[23:36] Access project, and several other city projects in the area. Next slide, please. So to conclude,
[23:44] The statute staff recommends the approval of a construction contract for $23,425,608
[23:50] base cities paving and grading as the lowest responsible and responsive bidder for construction
[23:55] of the East Bay Greenway multimodal Oakland North construction package.
[23:59] This contract was included in the fiscal year 2627 budget and base cities did not report
[24:04] any living at converse.
[24:05] This concludes my presentation to answer any questions.
[24:09] Very good.
[24:10] But before we go to committee questions, I'll just ask, is there any public comment on this item?
[24:17] I don't think there's any public comment.
[24:19] So you know public comment, I'll close the public comment period and bring this matter back to the board.
[24:25] For discussion, any questions or comments about this item?
[24:30] I know that we've talked about this in committee several times.
[24:34] Did you press the button?
[24:36] There you go.
[24:37] Okay.
[24:39] There we go.
[24:41] Thank you.
[24:42] I just want to thank staff for running a successful bit process.
[24:46] It's exciting.
[24:48] At far below.
[24:50] Yes.
[24:55] Good comments.
[24:55] Thank you.
[24:56] Any others?
[25:00] 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
[25:29] 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.
[25:52] I do want to move to approve staff's recommendation.
[25:55] Thank you for all of your hard work on this.
[26:00] So you know, are there comments motion made by Commissioner, uh, online, uh, Commissioner
[26:06] McCorston?
[26:08] Thank you, Chair.
[26:09] Um, hey, um, I am totally in support of this.
[26:12] It's going to be great, a lot of hard work, uh, even though I, I wasn't involved in some
[26:16] of this.
[26:17] I remember this has been going on for quite some time.
[26:19] Given we're at this point, I just have to ask, you know, the bidding process was super
[26:24] tight, and I recognize some of the names there.
[26:28] Were there any names besides just the numbers, right?
[26:33] Was there anything else that you looked at with the winner of the bid that made them stand
[26:40] out, or were all the contractors pretty tight in their capabilities?
[26:44] No,
[26:52] I think
[26:55] the bidding environment right now is very favorable for bids.
[27:00] The contractors, especially the contractors that do this type of work are all looking for work.
[27:06] So the bids were all very close.
[27:10] And as I said, all the contractors are doing this type of work normally.
[27:15] So they're very capable and so we're just at the advantage of looking for work.
[27:21] so we're getting very good bids right now.
[27:23] Thank you very modest.
[27:24] I know that you do your job very, very well.
[27:27] That's why we're getting such good bids.
[27:29] Yes.
[27:29] Why the change orders are going to go away.
[27:32] That's why we're going to save lots of money with you.
[27:34] Thank you for joining us.
[27:35] Well, thank you.
[27:37] Thank you.
[27:38] I got the question answered.
[27:39] Thanks.
[27:40] Any other online hands raised?
[27:42] I see we're good.
[27:43] Anything else in the room?
[27:44] A motion's been made by Commissioner Fife.
[27:47] Is there a second?
[27:48] Second?
[27:48] very good. Our other Oakland representative, the president of the City Council. Motion
[27:56] been made and seconded, roll call vote please.
[27:58] And just for the record, so it's clear, motion made by Commissioner 5 seconded by Commissioner
[28:03] Jenkins.
[28:05] Yeah. Thank you. Commissioner Zang?
[28:10] Aye. Yes, for Zang. Commissioner Taplin?
[28:13] Aye. Yes, for Taplin. Commissioner Jordan?
[28:15] Yes. Yes, for Jordan. Commissioner Fortune on a Bass? Absent? Commissioner Gonzales?
[28:20] are muted.
[28:23] Yes for Johanna?
[28:33] Yes for Janis?
[28:36] Yes for Halliman?
[28:41] Yes for Solina?
[28:45] 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
[28:56] 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.
[29:07] Thank you very much. Our next item is item 8.2. Central County Community Connections Plan update. This is an information item.
[29:16] 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.
[29:26] Thank you, Chair. Thank you, commissioners. So, this is an informational item, as you mentioned.
[29:30] It's a community, the Central County Community Connections Plan, or we call it the 4CP Plan.
[29:37] It's the, it's a planning and community engagement process between the areas of I-238, I-580,
[29:46] between 880 on the west and Caster Valley Bart Station to the east. And to provide an update on,
[29:52] on this plan is Shannon McCarthy.
[29:55] Thank you.
[29:57] Good afternoon commissioners.
[30:00] Ms. Shannon McCarthy with the planning team here to share an update on Alameda CTC's Central
[30:04] County Community Connections Plan or 4CP for short.
[30:09] We'll start if we move to the next slide with some background on the plan's purpose in
[30:14] our approach before sharing a high-level summary of key findings from both our needs assessment
[30:19] and public outreach efforts to date. I'll wrap up with a quick overview of the plan's draft
[30:24] recommendations and next steps.
[30:28] The 4CP builds upon a number of local and county plans that have
[30:32] been conducted in Central Alameda County, all of which have highlighted the need for safer streets,
[30:38] easier access to transit and local destinations, more reliable transit, better public and climate
[30:43] health outcomes, as well as increased investment in and maintenance of public spaces.
[30:49] In 2024, Alameda CTC applied for and was awarded a sustainable transportation planning grant
[30:54] from CalTrans to develop the 4CP, which is focused on identifying community prioritized
[30:59] transportation improvements in the study area shown on the map, which includes parts of
[31:03] San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Ashland, Cherryland, Castro Valley, and Hayward that are heavily
[31:09] impacted and divided by significant freeway infrastructure.
[31:14] We're currently three quarters of the way through the plan's schedule. Since kicking off
[31:18] early last summer, we've completed a focus technical needs assessment, as well as two rounds
[31:22] of stakeholder and public engagement, all of which have informed the draft improvement
[31:26] ideas and recommendations that we've developed. We're currently on track to complete the plan
[31:31] and implementation strategy by early next year and will return to the commission then to seek
[31:37] approval of the final plan in order to satisfy grant requirements. Next slide. So as I mentioned,
[31:44] our study area touches multiple jurisdictions to which are currently developing their own
[31:49] and community-based transportation plans
[31:51] with funding provided by Alameda CTC.
[31:54] So close stakeholder coordination has been central.
[31:56] Our technical advisory committee includes representatives
[31:59] from the agencies listed here.
[32:02] And community engagement is also just as important
[32:05] to the four C.P.
[32:05] So we've also partnered with the six community-based organizations
[32:09] listed here in order to more effectively reach
[32:12] the diverse communities that live and work in this area.
[32:15] So now switching gears, we'll take a look at findings from the work that we've completed
[32:21] to date.
[32:22] The 4CPs needs assessment largely echoed findings from existing plans, including our
[32:27] recent countywide transportation plan, but offers a more granular understanding of conditions
[32:32] within the 4CPs study area.
[32:34] So in terms of safety, we found that over three-quarters of study area streets have speed limits
[32:39] that exceed recommended targets.
[32:42] Conflicts at freeway ramp intersections with local streets were also found to be exacerbated
[32:46] by designs that facilitate high vehicle speeds.
[32:49] In terms of access, the freeways, rail lines, street grid, and even natural elements, such
[32:54] as the San Lorenzo Creekway, divide communities and limit access to BART.
[32:59] Buses traveling in the study area, travel slowly relative to cars, and the majority of bus
[33:04] stops lack amenities like benches or shelters.
[33:07] 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.
[33:17] 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.
[33:34] We have completed two out of three rounds of public engagement.
[33:40] The first round took place last fall and was focused on confirming needs and prioritizing
[33:44] streets for focused planning through the 4CP.
[33:47] The second and most extensive round of outreach took place earlier this spring and offered community
[33:52] members the opportunity to workshop specific improvement ideas for each of the priority
[33:56] corridors that were identified through round one.
[34:00] We have conducted a variety of outreach activities, including hosting CBO focus groups,
[34:06] listening sessions, attending pop-ups, hosting hands-on community walk audits and design
[34:11] workshops, and sharing online surveys and web maps more broadly.
[34:15] Our CBO partners, tech and commissioners were all incredibly helpful in identifying outreach
[34:21] opportunities in their communities.
[34:23] The full list of events that we held just this past spring alone is shown on the right here.
[34:28] All told across both rounds of outreach, we received over 950 comments and surveys from
[34:34] over 500 community members.
[34:38] The 4CP's 10 priority corridors are highlighted on this map.
[34:42] They were identified by combining community members' rankings of study area streets with
[34:46] findings from our technical needs assessment, and then screening those that were already
[34:50] being addressed through other planning efforts.
[34:54] Based on what we heard in Round 1, we drafted both area-wide recommendations as well as
[34:59] two out.
[35:00] 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
[35:29] removes, especially in Cherryland and Caster Valley.
[35:33] That leads us to the plan's current draft recommendations.
[35:38] Across the study area, the 4CP will recommend
[35:40] a suite of improvements where context appropriate that
[35:43] speak to the feedback that we've heard from community members.
[35:47] Many of these elements also show up in corridors
[35:49] specific concepts as well.
[35:52] Of the 4CP's priority corridors, the Sparion and Luelling
[35:56] Boulevard's emerged as the highest priorities
[35:58] for near-term advancement.
[35:59] Both segments highlighted in purple on the map are on the county's high injury network,
[36:04] proactive safety network, and countywide bikeways network.
[36:07] And together, they include six freeway ramp intersections and three underpasses.
[36:12] This area is also close to multiple schools, a major commercial center, and various priority communities.
[36:18] The resulting is variant and the Welling Complete Streets project would implement pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and traffic calming elements,
[36:26] improvements that leverage and close the gap between recent and pipeline projects by
[36:31] the county and San Leandro.
[36:32] The 4CP is still advancing planning and design work for these two corridors, along with
[36:36] the remaining eight priority corridors, but in the meantime, Alameda CTC applied to the
[36:42] 2028 CIP for funding to advance the project into project development.
[36:47] Looking ahead, this fall, the 4CP is continuing to coordinate with stakeholders to refine recommendations
[36:54] for the Priority Corridors, including advancing preliminary design concepts for Hisparian and Louwelling Boulevard's.
[37:01] We will conduct the third and final round of public outreach later this year.
[37:07] And finally, we will return to the commission once we've completed the final plan
[37:11] and implementation strategy to request approval of the four CP in early 2027.
[37:20] Thank you for the presentation.
[37:21] very, very informative and helpful, I'll ask, is there any public comment on item 8.2?
[37:28] We don't receive any public comment and no hint.
[37:31] Bring it back for Commissioner Discussion.
[37:35] I'd like to start and say thank you, again, very helpful and informational report.
[37:41] I'm looking forward to seeing the complete report and then onto construction.
[37:45] Do we have any estimate as to how much this plan will cost to make all the improvements?
[37:51] We are still refining the concepts, so we won't have draft cost estimates until we put out the final draft plan.
[38:02] I just have to point out that this is an area that receives a lot of impact from 9,000 pounds and higher trucks.
[38:13] and so maintaining all of those trucks in this corridor makes it even more
[38:19] important to make these improvements. The other day I was on his buried in
[38:24] Louisville and trying to get through that maze to get back on to the freeway
[38:28] because I just had to get off to go to In and Out Burger and at least some
[38:32] Marquez's district and getting back on was not easy. We need to make these
[38:38] improvements. And so it took me 20 minutes to get through the drive-through.
[38:50] I know there
[38:50] is I couldn't wait. We have to make these improvements. And so I'm going to see, first, if there's
[38:58] any comments in the room before we go online. Seeing none will go online, too. Vice chair,
[39:04] as the ash craft and then Commissioner Hannon.
[39:09] Thank you, Chair Halbert.
[39:11] I think there's not too much echo.
[39:13] Anyone else is muted here, but a couple of things.
[39:16] Oh, we do have an in and out in Alameda
[39:19] so you could have just gone a little farther.
[39:23] But I want you to know that a luncheon just before this meeting
[39:27] I sat at a table with three of the Hayward Council,
[39:32] council members and I was telling them about this item and they're really
[39:36] enthused about it and then I was also telling them that when if I'm driving on
[39:42] 880 in the traffic is heavy the GPS will reroute me and more often than not it
[39:49] takes me off at his spare end and you drive through there realize this are
[39:54] Downtown area isn't even some residences along the way so
[40:00] 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?
[40:28] What was the amount awarded for the sustainability transportation planning grant?
[40:33] How much was the grant just to plan the process?
[40:36] Thank you.
[40:38] It was a total of $705,000 for the plan.
[40:45] Thank you.
[40:45] Any other comments in the room?
[40:46] This is an information item.
[40:48] Commissioner Gonzalez.
[40:51] So four things to consider first.
[40:53] Thank you for spring lake being part of that.
[40:55] We had a fatality on spring lake a couple of years ago.
[40:58] So it's just turns or turns, there's speed is quite high, so anything that you can do
[41:03] to work with us might greater lines of sight and make it more walkable.
[41:09] Secondly, the Lou Welling at 880 Underpass is disgusting.
[41:16] There's really no other word for it.
[41:18] It needs more lighting and it needs to have a way to stop pigeons from roosting underneath
[41:26] the bridge because they leave their reminders. And that's just not the environment that encourages
[41:31] walking. I do think that your spot on that speed in the area is much higher. It just makes it
[41:42] even if it's to code, safe to walk, it's a practical matter. People don't feel nearly as safe walking
[41:49] there. And I'm not quite sure what the role is on the interface between amenities and bus stops
[41:54] between what we would do, how we would support AC transit,
[41:58] other transit operators,
[42:02] but being quite sensitive to that,
[42:04] that could be as simple as planting a tree in a shade.
[42:09] But this is an important corridor
[42:12] and we had pulled the council member from San Leandro
[42:15] in that area that we would come and advocate for him
[42:17] because he's been talking about these things for quite a while.
[42:20] That's what he hears from residents in that.
[42:22] But thank you for,
[42:25] thank you.
[42:26] Any other comments? I do have one. Could you please remind us of the upcoming
[42:32] Community engagement opportunities. Just highlight them one more time. What do we have coming up between now and?
[42:41] And so the slides Shannon showed identified very specific outreach we did earlier this year. We're still finalizing this
[42:47] specific events and dates so we'll be doing outreach. We've completed two full rounds so this next round will be
[42:53] So the smaller effort of outreach as we just finalize the recommendations we heard from the community
[42:58] 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
[43:06] Who've been out in the community looking at the improvements to dig down into their detailed responses
[43:10] So that's going to be the main focus of our outreach leading into the finalization of the plan early 2027
[43:16] So dates and times TBD for that if you could go through our commissioners hopefully get them there
[43:21] would be appreciated. This item is information-only, seeing that our regular calendar has been
[43:29] completed, we will recess into closed session. If you're online, please stay with us, especially
[43:37] if you're in the county, we need you for quorum. And do we have, they all have a separate link?
[43:42] They all have a separate link, and I just recent that link to everyone online who's
[43:47] participating remotely with this closed session material.
[43:50] So please reference that link.
[44:23] You like that?
[44:25] All approved too.
[44:26] I would like this one.
[44:31] Mike,
[44:48] are we supposed to stay here?
[44:51] You're on me.
[44:55] I think we have to sign out of this thing.
[44:57] I know.
[44:58] I'm looking for my link right now.
[45:01] 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.
[55:40] We got to get the rest of our forum. Yeah,
[55:53] no, it's been fatty. You know, roll call, roll call.
[56:06] As you're about to give it to you and back, you're right about to give two.
[56:12] I think sure man, that's my not going to be a little interesting. So when's the
[56:20] I'm just trying to get our county core on back.
[56:29] You should be okay with all that.
[56:32] That's not great to raise your mind.
[56:33] Just text her.
[56:37] Okay.
[56:41] That's sure.
[56:49] And then commissioners have re,
[56:59] commissioners online, just confirm you can hear us.
[57:03] We can.
[57:04] Okay, perfect.
[57:05] We're just waiting on our final remote, just a second.
[57:30] I'd like to reconvene from closed session in order to do that, we'll establish our quorum
[57:36] with a roll call vote.
[57:37] A roll call.
[57:38] Call.
[57:38] Commissioner Zang.
[57:40] Here.
[57:42] Commissioner Taplin.
[57:43] Present.
[57:44] Commissioner Jordan.
[57:45] Here.
[57:46] Commissioner Portionato Baff.
[57:48] Absent.
[57:49] Commissioner Gonzalez.
[57:50] Present.
[57:51] Commissioner Jenkins.
[57:53] Present.
[57:54] Commissioner Singh.
[57:55] Absent.
[57:55] Commissioner Marquez.
[57:57] Present.
[57:58] Commissioner Hannon.
[58:00] From a remote location in Newark.
[58:03] More occur.
[58:04] Commissioner Young.
[58:05] Here.
[58:05] Commissioner Miley, absent, Commissioner Bolts, absent, Commissioner Fife.
[58:10] Present.
[58:10] Wait.
[58:11] Commissioner Hernandez,
[58:14] absent.
[58:17] Coming back to Commissioner Hernandez.
[58:21] Commissioner Solomon.
[58:23] Here.
[58:23] Commissioner Salinas.
[58:25] Oppressed.
[58:26] Absent.
[58:27] Carthie.
[58:27] Commissioner Salinas is absent.
[58:29] Commissioner McCarthy.
[58:30] From it.
[58:31] From it.
[58:32] Commissioner Bowen.
[58:34] Present.
[58:34] Commissioner Marchion.
[58:36] here. Commissioner Hugh or Commissioner McQuarrison.
[58:40] President Remote Dablin. Vice Chair Ezioshkaft.
[58:44] President Fernandes.
[58:46] Chair Halbert.
[58:47] President.
[58:48] And then just confirming Commissioner Hernandez.
[58:51] Hernandez is here at the Heritage House.
[58:54] President, thank you. We do have a quorum.
[58:56] Very good. I'll ask is there any reportable action
[58:59] from closed session? There is indeed with respect to the closed session item concerning
[59:06] commission at all, on the Superior Court case number 26, CV 17596,
[59:12] commission voted to approve a settlement agreement on which I will need a CTC,
[59:15] will pay Rocky Ridge LLC $539,500, consisting of an outstanding $500,000 payment owed under
[59:21] a mitigation agreement between the parties, which had been stolen through cyber theft,
[59:25] along with $39,000, there's $539,500.
[59:29] Attorney's fees incurred by Rocky Ridge in exchange for a dismissal of the litigation
[59:32] Regidious, releases a promise to reimburse
[59:35] how to meet a CTC of recordage.
[59:37] Day in November, the loss of insurance
[59:39] or any other source, cooperation with how to meet a CTC
[59:43] and it's lawsuit against how to meet a CTC
[59:45] and sure seeking coverage from this loss.
[59:47] It was a unanimous vote, Commissioner's present,
[59:52] namely, Fapplin Jordan, Gonzalez Jenkins,
[59:54] Marquez Young, Howard Five Solomon,
[59:56] Sean Desiash, Kraft McCarthy, McCorsten Bowen,
[59:58] Zang Hernandez.
[1:00:04] Thank you very much. Seeing that all item before us have been exhausted, we are now adjourned.