[17:51] Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I'd like to call the order of this meeting of the capital of Metro Board of Directors, the time is 12. 10, as always, we're going to be meeting with the pledge of allegiance. Please stand.

[18:19] And as always, we'll welcome Miss Simmons for a monthly safety briefing.

[18:25] Good afternoon everyone. My name is Donna Simmons. I'm a couple of

[18:28] motors risk management compliance officer. We begin every board meeting with a

[18:32] safety message and briefing to highlight our commitment to the safety of our

[18:37] employees, our community, and we want to use this our service. So a few things

[18:41] to remember while you're visiting with us or employees in the meeting today.

[18:46] In the event of any emergency, don't hesitate to dial 911 and give the address

[18:50] here, which is 29.10 east-gift street, in the event of a fire alarm, the gathering places across

[18:55] the street adjacent to the Broke Elementary School playground.

[19:00] If there is a shelter in place alarm, such as a tornado, there are a shelter tornadoes

[19:04] located in the first floor of the building with signage to the shelter they are.

[19:09] And there are also two AEDs located in this building, one on this floor next to the elevator

[19:13] and on the first floor next to the elevator.

[19:15] My thinking message this month is a plug for writing transit. Transit is one of the safest

[19:21] modes of transportation. In fact, when compared to automobile travel, the fatality

[19:26] rate for transit is less than half of that, writing an automobile, so I much else to use

[19:31] to be safe while writing transit. Thank you.

[19:35] Thank you, Donna. At this time, the Board will hear all general public comments as well as

[19:40] comments on items listed on the consent and action item agendas. If you're signed up to

[19:45] on an action item, you may choose to speak now at the time the items being considered by the board.

[19:50] Each speaker will have three minutes. At this time, I have no body signed up to speak because

[19:56] that correct? Is there anybody here who didn't get a chance to sign up that wants to speak?

[20:06] Yeah, if you could just fill out the slip then and let it know at what point.

[20:13] Next on our agenda, we'll be advisory committee updates, Ms. Smith.

[20:17] Welcome.

[20:19] Good afternoon Chairman Cooper, Vice Chair of Silence, President Watson, Board members,

[20:23] I'm Jordan Smith, giving the advisory committee updates.

[20:27] Both of the groups met earlier this month, where they heard about our new pilot pick-up,

[20:33] that will be beginning next month, and they also heard other updates about some other initiatives

[20:37] going on with the agency.

[20:39] You would have both of their minutes in your packets, but I'm happy to answer any questions or concerns

[20:44] that you may have.

[20:46] Thank you, Jordan. Any questions for this Smith? Anybody?

[20:52] Excuse, thank you very much.

[20:55] Quick into the point.

[20:58] Now we'll take a board committee updates starting with our operations planning and safety committee chair.

[21:03] Yes.

[21:06] Thank you, Chairman.

[21:07] The operations planning and safety committee met here on Friday, May 12th.

[21:12] at Capital Metro headquarters, the action items on the agenda are consent items on today's

[21:24] agenda, two, three and four, and action items on today's agenda, one and two.

[21:32] We did have a update on the mobility on demand pilot project.

[21:39] We had key performance indicators for fiscal year 2016, and we briefly had a update on the proposed budget calendar, and we did not get to the monthly operations report, but Doddy Watkins has assured me that she's going to get that to us today.

[22:00] We ran out of time.

[22:04] And that's it?

[22:05] All right.

[22:05] Thank you, Chair Silas.

[22:07] Next we'll hear from Chair Mitchell on the Finance Audit and Administration Committee.

[22:13] Thank you, Chairman.

[22:15] The Finance Audit Administration Committee met on May 12th.

[22:18] At 11.10 a.m.

[22:20] We had one action item, which is item number three on our action item list agenda today.

[22:27] We had three presentations.

[22:29] Financial key performance indicators, the proposed budget calendar, and the much of it's

[22:34] a monthly financial report, and then we jointly heard the project connect update with

[22:37] the operations committee.

[22:40] Very good.

[22:41] And next, we'll hear our Kampo update also from Board Member Mitchell.

[22:48] Kampo met on May 8th, and the visitors to our board, they approved some amendments to the

[23:00] the Transportation Improvement Program, the Tips Program, and then a particular role that's

[23:04] to our transit agency, they talked about transferring development credits for improvements

[23:10] in round rock and talked about the unified planning work program coming up in the next

[23:15] two years.

[23:16] I'm sorry.

[23:18] Well, good.

[23:18] Thank you.

[23:20] Remember, Mitchell?

[23:21] Well, now, move on to our consent agenda.

[23:23] Are there any members of the Board of Directors who wish to remove any item from the consent

[23:28] the agenda and have that item considered on the regular action item agenda.

[23:38] There are four items on our consent.

[23:40] Agenda number one is approval of minutes for the April 12, 2017 public hearing and April

[23:47] 24th, 2017 board meeting.

[23:48] That's number one.

[23:50] Number two is approval of a resolution terminating the supplement to the interlocal agreement with the

[23:55] sample area role transportation system for route 271, number three is approval of a new

[24:02] interlocal agreement with capital area role transportation system for the provision of route

[24:08] 271 and number four is approval of a contract with net tronics integration for upgrades

[24:14] to the security access control system, do I have a motion to approve our consent item agenda?

[24:23] have a motion by Mayor Jonesy as a second.

[24:28] Second by member Mitchell, any discussion of our consent agenda items?

[24:36] No, no discussion.

[24:38] Therefore, all in favor of the motion to approve our consent agenda items.

[24:42] One through four, please indicate by saying aye.

[24:45] Any opposed, nay?

[24:47] Motion carries 70.

[24:48] Thank you.

[24:50] Next step will be our action item starting with the interlocal agreement

[24:53] with the City of Austin for the Downtown Station of Mr. Grail.

[25:04] Welcome back.

[25:07] Thank you, Chair. Chair and Board members, President Watson. My name is Mark Grail. I'm the

[25:12] Project Manager for the Downtown Station. I'm here to present recommendation for approval of

[25:17] a resolution authorizing the President's CEO for her design and negotiating finalize an

[25:23] execute in the in a local agreement with the City of Austin in order to design and build

[25:28] operate and maintain the downtown rail station in the required

[25:31] easements.

[25:32] Please note that this item was presented to the operations planning

[25:35] and safety committee on May 12th, and in his recommended

[25:38] for approval.

[25:40] Along with this agenda item, we have a presentation

[25:42] that we have at a company's end.

[25:48] Kind of needs some background information

[25:50] on the status of the project today.

[25:53] We've clearly seen all of the public events,

[25:55] open houses, and workshops that we've had on the project

[25:58] for the last several years.

[26:02] We've also done several boards and commissions at the city of Austin and then down here at the bottom.

[26:08] You can see we have met with several entities in the community as well.

[26:19] There's a never-all colored site plan in the project.

[26:22] From I-35 to Trinity Street, the project spans four city blocks along Port Street.

[26:29] Within this project is primarily funded by a towards a knowing-dollar text signer.

[26:33] And we're currently in our recruitment scene towards completing 60% design.

[26:42] The plasms being designed as a flexible inch or a flexible plaza that can be used

[26:49] to probably different types of activities be their food, food trucks or farmers day markets

[26:57] or just outdoor activities you can see in this down here.

[27:01] So, being designed with that insight in mind we're also looking at various design concepts

[27:09] for that plaza or for the campus and we've looked at a couple different studies and also

[27:14] house the community for feedback and in general this is the one that's risen to the top from the feedback we've received

[27:21] either from internal staff or city staff or community folks

[27:30] and on to the ILA so we have a few bullet points here just to

[27:34] highlight the selling course of the ILA so we've put it in the ILA is the right to construct

[27:41] operate and maintain the new station that's the extremist city right away it all this all

[27:45] of discusses, the development of pending easements.

[27:49] It discusses the partial closure of four street

[27:51] and two-way conversion of district.

[27:55] Discusses is expedited, permitting, traffic studies,

[27:57] and infrastructure projects.

[27:59] Discusses the use of the transit class and obligations,

[28:04] operation, maintenance, and security plans

[28:06] will be developed in detail in future time.

[28:10] Utility response fillings and utility access

[28:12] some of the tracks, also part of the ILA coordination,

[28:17] access during construction.

[28:19] The ILA also outlines details of the 72-inch storm

[28:22] draining partnership.

[28:24] That was part of last month's resolution with the board.

[28:28] And it also establishes a framework for financial contributions

[28:31] that be waivers.

[28:34] A couple other items that staff wanted to point out

[28:37] in regards to the ILA,

[28:39] was that the ILA has been approved by sea council.

[28:41] was approved on May 4th, so the version of the island that you have in front of you is the

[28:49] same as our version and is the same as the city's version as approved pending or except for some

[28:56] minor administrative comments and also a section regarding the restrooms on page 12. So regarding

[29:02] the restrooms, the restrooms came up during city council as a comment from public citizen and from

[29:10] that and initially we're discussion city council and I asked regarding restrooms.

[29:16] So some of the folks, some of the city council members requested that the city and that the

[29:20] project include public restrooms as part of the project, and they wanted to see that reflected

[29:25] in the allies.

[29:25] So we've kind of revised the language on page 12 to reflect that.

[29:30] City council requested that a capital metro partner and co-chair for the restrooms and

[29:36] City staff suggested maybe a 50-50 cost split.

[29:39] We'd like to have a relationship for other city staff on that

[29:42] and come to a final agreement.

[29:45] Some of the things we did want to point out

[29:47] there was a misinformation at a city council,

[29:53] that capital metro was providing restrooms

[29:54] on earlier side of drawings, and then we deleted them.

[29:58] And therefore, we were moving public.

[30:00] And actually, that was not the case. We just wanted to clarify that public restrooms were never part of the actual drawings. They only showed up on a initial wish list that was requested from folks out of different open houses. That was the same wish list for folks that please relocate the fire station. Please provide a gateway into downtown. So it's kind of up. There's a larger wish list, but we never actually drew restrooms on the plans. So just want to refer to that.

[30:35] There is no physical space to fit restrooms next to the platforms.

[30:39] So we also want to clarify that.

[30:43] And so with that, we would like to look at partying with the city on placing restrooms somewhere else in the public space, either in the park,

[30:51] or if the fire stations ever relocated, the fire station could be a nice place to put public restrooms.

[30:56] In follow-up conversations with city staff, there may be an interim solution to put

[31:01] Russians in the Convention Center, and so there's a final solution looking in the

[31:05] Fathers in the Park. So those are some of the discussions we're having with city

[31:08] at follow-up. So that's city council approval.

[31:13] Some other items in the RLA to point out is the city has asked that's

[31:18] a couple of metronome identified the city of all liability and legal costs associated

[31:22] with closing of private driveways,

[31:25] associated with crossing the three tracks,

[31:27] we wanted to highlight that item.

[31:30] Also, the ILA request waiver of permit fees on the project

[31:35] when Captain Metro goes and submits for permits.

[31:39] Right now, the total fees are endowed,

[31:41] until we submit for permit.

[31:43] You don't have a number on that.

[31:44] But we did want to point out that that will be subject to

[31:47] a future city of Austin approval to weigh those fees

[31:50] from the city council.

[31:51] And there was some comments from the City Council

[31:54] that there may be hesitation to approve those waivers

[31:59] that waiver in the future, because they may see

[32:01] that contribution that storm grade is already participating

[32:06] on behalf of the project.

[32:08] So we just want to point out that potential risk

[32:10] for the journey forward in the 30th.

[32:13] So some other key notes of the ILA and the project,

[32:17] is that the city will actually maintain ownership

[32:20] of the Plaza of Majority of the Plaza.

[32:22] Capital of Metro District Reserves and Minor portion of the

[32:24] connection with that to the site plan to show this.

[32:31] A majority of the Plaza will remain in the city right away

[32:35] in the city management control.

[32:37] There's only a small portion of the Plaza right here that

[32:40] couple of Metro's reserving for queuing of special

[32:43] big crowds, everything else remains to be right away.

[32:49] You also want to point out that we're referring to the

[32:51] them in the Astur island. They'll be a series or there may be a series of mini

[32:55] islands that you'll see being presented either to the Capital Metro Board or to

[33:00] City Council or other minor items. Other minor utility agreements or enhancements

[33:05] that the city is asking. So those are just subject to what we're calling mini islands.

[33:09] You may see those coming in several months.

[33:21] And so to point out the easement, Capital Metro is requesting the easement

[33:26] around the track infrastructure, and the items like capital mentions will be maintaining

[33:33] an operating.

[33:33] So everything within the red down ring, that'll be capital mentions, easing it, to maintain

[33:38] it control everything within everything outside of the red down ring remains, city of Austin

[33:43] right away.

[33:44] These little scattered red boxes there either for electrical equipment or ticketing equipment.

[33:50] So as we finalize to the design, we'll be able to finalize that boundary in the season

[33:55] and then proceed with with a request for that easement for future council and board actually.

[34:17] I want to recommend a approval of the Programme of Resolution Authorizing the President and CEO

[34:21] or her designation in the United States finalized an execute and a new local agreement

[34:25] with the city of Austin in order to design, build, operate, maintain the downtown

[34:30] or else nation will require these notes.

[34:32] If you have any questions, we have these answers.

[34:34] One question, my question.

[34:35] But do you want to just net that,

[34:37] another has been a few speed notes along the way on this project,

[34:40] but we're excited to keep moving forward.

[34:41] We're excited about the day, opening day of this project,

[34:44] and the importance that this project will serve to the community

[34:47] in terms of mobility.

[34:48] It's a thank you.

[34:50] Questions or comments?

[34:52] Vice to your silence.

[34:54] I'd like to move more approval,

[34:56] and then I have a question.

[34:58] There's a motion, is there a second, we'll take this up in discussion, a second my member

[35:04] of Ventoria, and we have a comment as well that I want to take up perhaps, you want to ask

[35:11] a question now?

[35:14] Mr. Guerrero, go back.

[35:17] I want to be sure I heard what I think I heard on the 12th and then you say today, recover

[35:24] the part about the indemification, with the city of Austin, you said it's possible that

[35:28] the city and the future may think that our contribution to the 72-inch waterway might

[35:35] offset the permits that I hear, you say something similar to that, or go back over that.

[35:41] Okay, so there's two subparations. The indemnification was the subparation of the subparation

[36:02] But there were some things out that you said, the city may end the future, and that's where I...

[36:14] I think you've mentioned two things. One, there wasn't any assurance the city wasn't going to wave the field.

[36:21] And the second item that I think you've made reference to is a request from the part or the man from the part of the city for an indemnification with respect to any cost for clothes and driveways.

[36:33] I think we, on the east end of the project, there may be some dry voice, I think Mr. Lorenz

[36:40] for somebody else's.

[36:41] Mr. Chair Cooper's correct one, would you like me to clarify that for the police?

[36:46] So the first one on the permit, wait for the permit fees.

[36:50] So we will be requesting city council to wait for these out of future time.

[36:56] There was a hesitation from some of the folks on city council bias, because they're already

[37:02] contributing on terms of the storm drain that they may not contribute further on pick

[37:10] where there is a mood to that in the Council.

[37:14] So there's a resource with that as a risk that city council might not approve the way

[37:20] of our permit to use that a future time.

[37:22] And that point, capital metro would occur the cost of all those permits.

[37:28] in addition to any overages above

[37:36] the, yeah, above the six million that we're already going to incur.

[37:43] Sure, and the waiver for these are, the request was just because of an agency to agency partnership on the project.

[37:52] We're requesting that permit, please, would be, when you can do that as separate from the storm and participation.

[38:00] We can view it separately.

[38:02] There are separate items.

[38:03] I understand.

[38:05] Let's go on to the end of the occasion.

[38:08] So as part of the end of the occasion,

[38:11] there are some safety concerns about private property,

[38:14] drive-ways, crossing through tracks.

[38:16] And we have a meeting with FRA,

[38:18] and so there's recommendations to not allow private properties,

[38:22] drive-ways to cross the free tracks.

[38:24] And so we've made mention of that,

[38:26] city staff to transportation department, but there's driveways may have to be closed and they're

[38:31] willing to partner with this all down, but they would hold a temple metro responsible for all

[38:36] legal costs or liability that arose at closing a private driver. That would roll back to temple

[38:43] metro. Thank you. Yes.

[38:49] Remember, Kitchen? You know, I think it's really appropriate and I

[38:54] cautioning us that there's a risk on the permits, but I would like everyone to understand that

[38:59] that there's a far cry between a couple of a few members of the Council expressing concern

[39:06] and any speculation about what Council will do.

[39:10] That's what other questions,

[39:16] remember, Mitchell?

[39:18] On your cannabis, you had three different designs in the last one, what sort of light?

[39:24] Does it still change people both from rain and sun and a shade I kind of get, but is that also

[39:30] provide the same amount of shade as the others?

[39:32] Yeah, we're working make sure that they do.

[39:35] What we're going to do is overlap them a little bit more.

[39:39] So that provides shade and ready to actually move.

[39:42] Yeah, we're steady to know that.

[39:44] I know that is a concern to be heard.

[39:52] Ms. Joseph, I may let you make your comments now and I still have a couple more questions

[39:56] for Mark, but this is a big good time for you to make your public comment.

[40:07] Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the rest of my name, there's no way Joseph.

[40:11] I just wanted to ask Mr. Chairman, specifically, can you just tell me who actually writes out

[40:16] the language for the interlocal agreement?

[40:19] That would perhaps, I'll send that down to our lawyer.

[40:25] He's turning up our machinery.

[40:26] Sorry.

[40:27] Why?

[40:29] Capital Mature Legal Staff components.

[40:31] And she getsnels for city legal staff.

[40:32] On these.

[40:34] So, the problem I concern is that the language in the interlocal agreements is generally

[40:38] and normally you're pretty specific.

[40:42] So, can you tell me why it's so broad?

[40:45] Uh, again, I'll defer the council.

[40:47] I'm not sure what you're referring to.

[40:49] But could you point me to something specific?

[40:50] Please share so, if you look at the provisions that are specified in the antilocal agreement,

[40:57] it has generally includes a medical, there's a colon in it list.

[41:01] Some of the items that specifies Plasor obligation and use,

[41:06] and then it has coordination and access during the construction.

[41:10] So in part, it doesn't have action verbs for each of those, but I'm not sure.

[41:16] It's kind of minor, I guess, but like the coordination's not, it should be coordinated.

[41:20] If you will, but specifically, I'm just concerned about the war generally.

[41:27] Generally, when we use the war generally, we are saying, including but not necessarily everything is defined here.

[41:38] So, the use of the term generally means there may be other items that we're going to work with the month.

[41:43] Okay, so my specific comment is about the language that Council adopted on May 4th.

[41:49] 2017, and I appreciate Mr. Guerrero's comment, his explanation, but it specifically says,

[41:55] quote, any public restaurants that are constructed in the public closet shall be designed,

[42:00] constructed, maintained and operated by the city of the city and at the city's expense.

[42:06] It's on page 12 of 39 in their interlocal agreement.

[42:09] And so, because I understand this is a cooperative agreement, I'm just concerned as a citizen

[42:16] because that discussion was never had, but yet that provision appeared in interlocal

[42:20] agreement that Council approved.

[42:23] So do you know Mr. Chairman, how that language got into that interlocal agreement without

[42:27] a public discussion?

[42:29] Well, again, I'm going to defer to Council and Mr. Guerrero because the Board is receiving

[42:35] this information today.

[42:37] Yes, Dan, and I can refer to the current I only that's been posted for today's board

[42:43] action on it that that there's no longer the language that's inserted recommended for approval.

[42:49] So, as your question, how did the original I only get there or what the language is in today's

[42:53] trial at the very end of the year?

[42:54] The original, it was just the new generation, which is between city staff and capital

[42:58] metro staff.

[43:03] Is it correct Mr. Chairman, the capital commenter, Sunset Review and September 2017?

[43:11] We're not subject to sunset review at this time.

[43:14] Do you know when?

[43:15] We are not up for sunset review again at the, under the card statute.

[43:21] So, in our wrap up, but my comment is specifically about transportation code 451.138, which is a public involvement.

[43:30] And one of the reasons that cat material is under sunset review is because they were making decisions before involving the public and so as it relates to the restroom.

[43:38] I think if it was on the wish list, that at some point the staff needed to at least express

[43:43] why that was not considered and before council approved the language it would appear

[43:49] that they needed to have cost benefit analysis or some justification as to why that language

[43:55] was in there.

[43:56] So moving forward, I suppose my question is, is this board going to ask the council to

[44:01] amend into local agreement language so that it reflects what you're voting on today?

[44:07] I don't think there's any suggestion that we would do that.

[44:09] There's an RLA in front of the board.

[44:11] We have your public comment.

[44:13] We have the suggestions and recommendations of staff and council.

[44:17] And we've got to act on that one way or the other.

[44:19] So that's where we are today.

[44:22] I guess there's just a discrepancy of Mr. Chairman because what the City Council approved

[44:26] on May 4th is for them to pay for everything as it relates to.

[44:30] I'll call the question and they did, in fact, rely on the comments of how the year

[44:34] when he mentioned that the public is able to ask the attendant or the operator to use the

[44:40] restroom facilities and that's not the understanding of the public or the drivers.

[44:44] So the information that was presented to Council in addition to the six million dollars

[44:49] as opposed to 7.5 million, as you mentioned, for the stormwater system upgrade,

[44:54] the information just seems to be inaccurate and so that's the only reason why I'm asking

[44:58] if you would recommend that they am in there.

[45:00] Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for your comments, Mr. Berra.

[45:04] Yes, we have so in terms of the city's version, a city council approved that version with the caveat to further explore the restrooms.

[45:14] They also have some of the fears that they give city staff the leeway to finalize and negotiate the final version of the online.

[45:21] Since then, we have the special city staff this language that you see currently posted in today's agenda, and city staff is in agreement with this.

[45:30] So city staff feels confident to approve this opening of ILA as being presented to them.

[45:36] Some of the previous comments that may have been presented at City Council regarding the

[45:40] use of public use of the restrooms, I think may have been inaccurate and permission.

[45:46] And so that's fair to acknowledge that.

[45:50] Vice Chair, silence.

[45:52] Mark, if I heard you correctly, you said that this ILA is like an umbrella or a general ILA,

[45:58] and there would be several other specific IELAs under this as we go forward.

[46:04] Is this an item that may be covered under one of those other IELAs going forward?

[46:11] The restrooms? Yes.

[46:12] Anything that refers to a sharing of dollars, dollars, back or forth, the bars in IELA?

[46:18] Okay. So this is not part of this, maybe seven to a future one.

[46:22] Thank you.

[46:24] Mark, I have a couple of questions for you with respect to the fee waivers, what's the order of magnitude that we may be talking about on fees?

[46:33] I can't answer that right now.

[46:36] And where in the process will we understand what the size of that would be and help me understand?

[46:43] And here's, I want to place this in the broader context, everybody on the board knows my concerns and frustrations about particularly the storm drain issue.

[46:53] What I'm really concerned about is that we don't get into a situation where the further

[46:59] we get into this, the bigger the mission-create comes in terms of fixing drains or bathrooms

[47:06] or all kinds of other things that might be added to the project or fees.

[47:12] And so how far down the road will we be before we understand the magnitude of the fees?

[47:17] Yeah, I also want to get an idea of that number of students possible.

[47:20] So we've asked our consultants to start looking at it.

[47:24] Some of the challenges, some of those fees are

[47:27] aren't identified until you formally submit for permanent.

[47:30] And then they log it into the computer

[47:31] and then it spits out a key for you.

[47:34] So maybe we can work with city staff,

[47:35] maybe we do in the mocked permits of it,

[47:37] you know, a pretend civil.

[47:39] We enter into the computer and spits out a mocked fee.

[47:42] So we haven't got that far yet,

[47:43] but we hope and definitely in the next six months,

[47:46] we should know that.

[47:47] We're going to do everything we can to help identify that before and then.

[47:51] Would that be prior to construction actually starts then?

[47:54] Yes, so it'll be at the Urban Civil.

[47:58] I for one would want to hear back if the fees were not waived in, and were material were not waived just because this has been a long saga of trying to get to this point.

[48:09] And I think we need to get ahead, go ahead, but I'm concerned about, as I said,

[48:15] commission, create, or under circumstances, whether it be fees or we get under, under the ground

[48:21] and find that there's something that's more complicated and that's not an uncommon circumstance.

[48:27] So, yes.

[48:29] Yes.

[48:29] Vice Chair, silence.

[48:30] We're at 60%.

[48:31] Now, do you think we might be able to have a handle on fees when we get to 90%.

[48:37] A better handle?

[48:38] A better handle?

[48:39] Yeah.

[48:40] A better handle?

[48:41] to 90 percent.

[48:41] Yeah, I think you won't know all the further

[48:43] further reasons today, actually,

[48:44] more and less than that for real.

[48:45] That's one that you'll try and see if we can

[48:46] do identify that deeply for that.

[48:49] Thank you.

[48:49] We definitely won't provide enough tape to the board.

[48:52] The waiver or the firm of these will have to come back

[48:53] for boards approval, and then city council as well.

[48:56] So in this video, see that as another action.

[49:02] Other comments are quite a go ahead.

[49:03] Yeah, one other minor thing to reply to Mr.

[49:06] that this is helpful.

[49:11] The wish list about the restrooms was occurring back in 2014.

[49:16] And so this is background information. All of the sub-squint open houses, everything in 2015 and 2016

[49:24] members showed restrooms. So that was an opportunity for Captain Mission to show that the restrooms

[49:29] were no longer part of the wish list. So I just want to clarify that a lot. I also did take place.

[49:34] Well, I know that the downtown alliance has got some sort of a pilot program with respect to downtown

[49:41] restrooms across downtown and is working with the city as well, and so there's a lot of going on with respect to

[49:48] restrooms.

[49:49] Are there any plans on the part of the city to do anything with that part that's got the fire station parking

[49:54] a lot in the middle of it as an old DAA chair that's been a point of frustration for a number

[50:00] of years on a wonder in conjunction with our, we got two former DA chairs here, probably worked

[50:06] on that part at various times, and any discussions with the city about making that park

[50:13] where it should be?

[50:14] There's a lot of talk.

[50:16] I know that there's a lot of interesting entities in the same, in that topic.

[50:20] I think DAA has just, this is why I think I heard DAA say it's in the council, but they just

[50:24] recently will take funding to do a park study.

[50:28] So, even the master plan of the parking lot area hasn't been done yet, I think the A will be initiated in the master plan, so I'm sure that's going to come on.

[50:37] Speaking historically, I know we've discussed that parking lot for a long time, so that would be a great addition to the public impact of the plaza and the park if they had some commitment to do something with the parking lot of nothing else.

[50:53] Any other comments?

[50:54] We have a motion in a second.

[50:59] All right, no other comments or questions.

[51:00] All in favor of the motion indicate by saying aye.

[51:03] Any opposed, nay?

[51:05] Motion carries 70.

[51:06] Thank you, Mark.

[51:07] Thank you to everybody on the staff for your endurance and your long hours

[51:15] and efforts to bring this project home.

[51:17] It's the most important public transit project I think

[51:20] that's probably ever happened in the city of Austin.

[51:23] And I hope that we can join hands with the city and really make this slip up to what our community deserves and expects.

[51:31] So I hope we'll have a good sense of partnership going forward.

[51:34] I'm nervous and trepidacious about it, but I know our staff has worked as hard as human like possible to make that happen.

[51:41] So keep up the good work and let's get this delivered.

[51:44] Thank you.

[51:45] Next, action item number two, approval of a contract with HNTB Corporation for General Planning

[51:53] Consultant Services, Mr. Gwale. Welcome back.

[51:57] That's an instrument, good bird, or members of the President's Zoom, Mr. Watson.

[52:01] I'm happy to have a way out. It's strategic planning.

[52:04] I'm here requesting the approval of a race solution,

[52:06] authorized from the President's CEO, or heard this again.

[52:10] If you find a lot and execute a contract with HNTB Corporation,

[52:14] for general planning consultants, DPC, services in the amount not to exceed $5.5 million dollars

[52:22] for a base period of three years with two one-year options.

[52:27] I have a small presentation to give you a quick summary of what the general planning consultant

[52:33] services have done for the agency.

[52:37] First of all, the contract aligns with the agency's strategic plan.

[52:43] On goals and objectives, I highlight two of them that must trade regional leadership,

[52:48] the contract support today's effort, then must trade the value of public transportation

[52:52] and aid dynamic community.

[52:55] In regards to the objectives, 2.2, 2.3 and 3.1 really are good examples of what this

[53:00] will do pursue service expansion, opportunities and courage from all transitory into development

[53:06] and development of new ridership markets, which is one of the top strategies and objectives

[53:15] in the work plan. The business case is pretty straightforward. The UPC is an effective mechanism

[53:21] to gain strategic professional expertise to support the development of projects and initiatives

[53:27] security and best planning practices to successful achieve project implementation.

[53:33] The agency everyday is challenged with new information and cooperation with other agencies.

[53:39] We are in the middle of a very dynamic growing region, so the sharing of information

[53:43] that developed in the information, the justification of new initiatives is crucial and the

[53:49] help of the GPC allows to do this effectively.

[53:53] The areas of support, I highlighted some of the most used ones, but really the GPC gives

[54:00] us a lot of flexibility.

[54:02] Corridor planning being one of the strongest ones, and where we can actually use a state

[54:07] of the art technology to help us justify investments on these Corridors.

[54:12] As you know, we are in the middle of the development of the Project Connect study, and so

[54:17] we are hoping to do so with general planning and social services to help us move forward.

[54:22] with what we presented, and there were committee meetings last week about future corridors

[54:29] and movie-forward and identifying the correct projects for those corridors.

[54:34] As you can see, the list is bringing in pens, transit facilities, traffic operation analysis,

[54:39] economic development, transportation, the work companies, which is something that is coming up

[54:44] pretty strong, emerging technologies. We will use all of those

[54:47] practices to help those three enforce capital measures stop to give you better information

[54:52] in the value of the directions.

[54:55] The previous contract, under take-ins, they really help us a lot with the hundreds planning

[55:00] and percent project definition developments for different services that we have with the

[55:05] transportation development plans, which have been very successful in giving you a

[55:09] opportunity to capital measure to open new markets, crucial for our

[55:14] development, transit-oriented development, a good example of that, we rely on the consultative

[55:20] help us develop the transit-oriented development tool. We're going to an exercise today

[55:24] about better marketing this tool, which has been very well received by many entities here.

[55:30] We do a lot of ridership forecasts within brand applications, tire, hopefully, another kind

[55:37] of a tiger with concern, public involvement strategies,

[55:41] the predictor neck has been heavily receiving support

[55:44] from our work consultants, market analysis,

[55:47] again, several areas.

[55:50] We had a total of 29 test orders

[55:52] in our previous contract for a total expenditure

[55:55] of two million almost in the half for that,

[56:00] and those are some examples.

[56:02] What are we looking to do with the new contract?

[56:04] But as you know, connection is 2025, it's moving forward to implementation, we're going to be looking at that specific.

[56:12] Actually, we already have some preliminary meetings with service planning to define the initial tasks that are going to be moving forward.

[56:18] Project connected to their development.

[56:20] We continue to do regional transportation planning with our transportation development plans.

[56:27] And our sustainability, sustainability officer is looking at specific projects that will help us really to meet better.

[56:33] goals and objectives when we talk about the agency becoming really an example in sustainability

[56:40] and continue with transitory into development. Would that I leave it for any questions you may have?

[56:48] Good. Members any questions for Mr. Agueil?

[56:55] And if that's the case, I'll entertain the chair, I'll entertain a motion to approve a contract with H&TB Corporation for General Planning Consultant Services.

[57:06] Is there such a motion, a motion by Vice Chair, silence a second by,

[57:14] remember word, any discussion?

[57:18] All in favor of the motion, indicate by saying aye.

[57:21] Aye. Any opposed, aye?

[57:23] Motion carries 70. Thank you, Mr. Guil.

[57:26] Thank you.

[57:27] The next step on our agenda, approval of the fiscal year, I'm sorry, approval of an

[57:31] amendment to the Capital of Metro procurement acquisition policy, updating the policy

[57:36] for disposal of Capital of Metro, sir, plus and absolutely, that property I need

[57:40] a deeper welcome.

[57:43] Good afternoon, Chairperson.

[57:45] I'm sorry.

[57:46] I'm sorry.

[57:50] I'm sorry.

[57:51] I'm sorry.

[57:52] I'm sorry.

[57:56] I'm sorry.

[57:57] to our procurement acquisition policies.

[58:00] In 2016, an internal audit was conducted on our policies

[58:03] and while there were no findings,

[58:06] they did recommend that we expand a bit

[58:08] on our investment recovery effort.

[58:12] Over the past four years, sales from the options

[58:16] has resulted in the investment recovery effort

[58:21] average $411,000.

[58:25] So in answer to that, we added a specific chapter, chapter eight, it's a brand new chapter addressing investment recovery only, and taking it out of chapter two.

[58:38] And we also took it upon us to have the opportunity to update citations throughout all sections of the policy so that they align with the current citations with the FDA circular 4220.

[58:51] on F and also updated any grammatical errors or punctuation errors in the

[58:58] life. A summary of those changes are laid out in a document provided to you with

[59:03] the draft policy. And that's about it. I'm happy to answer any questions you

[59:08] may have.

[59:09] I correct me if I'm wrong, but this came before the Finance Committee and was approved.

[59:15] That's a simple, long, correct.

[59:17] Indeed, it is.

[59:18] Any other questions from a steward?

[59:23] Hearing none, then to be appropriate to, in the chairs are set to a motion to prove

[59:27] action at a number three approval of an amendment to the capital metro,

[59:31] procurement acquisition policy, updating the policy for disposal of

[59:35] capital metro surplus and obsolete property.

[59:38] Is there such a motion?

[59:40] Mayor Jones, is there a second?

[59:45] Member Kitchen?

[59:47] Any discussion?

[59:49] Hearing none, all in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye, aye, any opposed

[59:54] nay?

[59:56] Motion carries 70.

[59:57] Well thank you.

[59:58] Thank you.

[59:59] And next.

[1:00:00] Action item number 4, approval of the fiscal year 2018 strategic plan, Ms. Feduri.

[1:00:07] Thank you. Good afternoon, Chairman Cooper, Member of the Board, President Watson. My name is

[1:00:11] Pat Baderra, I am the Manager of Performance and Strategic Initiatives. I am here

[1:00:16] before you to request approval of a resolution to implement the fiscal year 2018 strategic plan.

[1:00:23] This plan serves as the blueprint for our business strategy and advanced moving the agency for.

[1:00:28] So today, I have a brief presentation.

[1:00:32] I'd like to begin by giving you some background on the work today.

[1:00:37] The process began, as you recall, with a facilitated meeting

[1:00:41] with the Board of Directors back in October,

[1:00:44] to revisit the existing plan.

[1:00:47] And at that meeting, the Board provided staff with direction,

[1:00:52] regarding changes to the plan, and some of the key takeaways

[1:00:55] that we as staff took away was to focus on increasing ridership, and that basically became the overarching theme of our strategic plan.

[1:01:06] We also were directed to continue to develop regional vision and regional partnerships.

[1:01:13] To continue grassroots marketing approach and to tell our story to the community about our value.

[1:01:21] Lastly, the focus was on employee engagement, and this actually became rose to the level

[1:01:26] of a goal.

[1:01:26] In previous plans, it was put together with our financial aspects, so it rose to the level

[1:01:32] of a goal, and we actually have a goal about employing engagement.

[1:01:37] After that, President Watson then engaged key staff members to develop objectives, task and measures

[1:01:45] for each home. Staff presented their work at a follow-up meeting with the Board in April and

[1:01:51] that was also facilitated and there was a lot of discussion in the Board was engaged

[1:01:55] on all the presentations that were made by staff.

[1:02:02] Plan begins with a mission and the vision.

[1:02:05] At the time of revisiting the mission and the vision, the Board did not change anything in

[1:02:11] the mission and the vision and in the all felt it was relevant to the current business

[1:02:16] environment. So the vision, capital metro is transforming the daily lives and central

[1:02:21] Texans by providing a robust, sustainable transportation network remains the same.

[1:02:27] And our mission, capital metro connects people, jobs, and communities by providing quality

[1:02:33] transportation choices, also remain the same.

[1:02:40] The plan consists of five goals in each

[1:02:42] goal, each goal has objectives, tasks, and performance measures. When we won't go through

[1:02:48] of them, I'll just give you the highlights for each goal that will take a long time to discuss

[1:02:53] everything. So goal one focuses on the customer and the customer experience and improving the

[1:02:59] customer experience. Elaine Thames, the deputy CEO, when COO is the lead in this goal area.

[1:03:07] The goal includes initiatives that impact customer satisfaction, service delivery, and seeks to improve

[1:03:13] the overall customer experience.

[1:03:16] Some of the highlights in this goal, some of the highlight initiatives, is implementing

[1:03:22] recommendations from Connections 2025 Service Plan, which you've heard about, completing

[1:03:28] the downtown station, which you've heard a lot about, and continuing to our commitment to

[1:03:34] the bus stop improvements and accessibility plans.

[1:03:37] There is also an initiative to develop a comprehensive fair strategy for our customers.

[1:03:46] Goal too is to increase ridership, and again this is the overarching theme for our strategic

[1:03:52] plan.

[1:03:54] Todd Hemingson, the Vice President of Strategic Planning, has been assigned to leave this

[1:03:59] initiative in this goal.

[1:04:01] This was an area that the board asked staff to focus heavily on increasing ridership, and

[1:04:07] There was a lot of discussion when we presented this to the word about how we do this.

[1:04:13] Some of the highlights include designing and implementing innovative mobility zones, continued

[1:04:20] outreach to engage potential partners for service expansion opportunities, finalizing

[1:04:26] project connections, advancing TOD plans, transit oriented development, researching partnerships

[1:04:34] opportunities for funding implementation of new services. Those were some of the

[1:04:40] highlights in goal 2.

[1:04:43] Goal 3 focuses on the community and our outreach

[1:04:47] efforts. Eduardo Pestillo, our Chief of Staff, is the lead on this goal. In this

[1:04:56] area, we heard the board's direction to advance a grassroots approach with our

[1:05:02] community to get our message about our services out, get out in the community and discuss

[1:05:08] our services and help the community understand our value in our community and our region.

[1:05:14] Some of the highlights is to develop a strategy that communicates to value that transit brings

[1:05:20] to our community, engage with the community business sectors and as we were discussing this,

[1:05:26] There were several business sectors that were identified, some of our technology hospitals

[1:05:32] I recall, the business sectors, and engaged with leaders in the business community to

[1:05:37] develop strategic partnerships and make transit part of their business culture.

[1:05:43] Other initiatives include continue our MetroWorks or V2B program, which we currently have

[1:05:49] agreements with several partners, conduct marketing research, so that we understand the community

[1:05:56] in public perception and gauge our overall customer satisfaction.

[1:06:05] Go for this is the new goal that has been incorporated into the plan, revolves around

[1:06:10] our human capital.

[1:06:12] Go for focuses on our employing engagement.

[1:06:17] Donna Simmons, our VP of Human Resources, is the lead on this goal.

[1:06:22] Some of the highlights include continuing staff development, developing strategies to become

[1:06:27] the employer of choice, develop strategies to improve internal communications, and to engage

[1:06:34] our service providers in our business culture.

[1:06:40] On the last goal, focuses on our finances, the financial aspect, and right in that

[1:06:45] marnawek is the executive leader of this goal.

[1:06:48] Some of the highlights of this goal is to develop and report key performance indicators,

[1:06:59] financial

[1:06:59] financial plan, and prioritize a five-year CIP, capital and program.

[1:07:07] There's a sustainability component to this goal as well, that ensures environmental sustainability for our fleet and for our facilities.

[1:07:17] And it also renews our ongoing commitment to maintain our assets to a state of good repair.

[1:07:26] This life here indicates or demonstrates a matrix that we developed,

[1:07:31] that where we heard all of the discussion that was had at both work sessions and we're tracking

[1:07:38] all of the things that we heard from you. So we've created a tracking device and this slide

[1:07:43] is just intended to show the tracking device itself.

[1:07:50] So some of the next steps with the plan.

[1:07:53] We are here before you to submit this plan for approval. We'll continue to monitor the progress

[1:07:59] of the plans and all of the performance measures and initiatives.

[1:08:04] Follow up on specific issues that the Board of Directors that you all have identified

[1:08:09] within the discussion of the plan.

[1:08:11] Some of those include fair strangle one that was discussion about fair structure, the implementation

[1:08:17] of the need fair structure, perhaps incentives for frequent writers, and these are just samples

[1:08:23] of some of the things that you all discussed.

[1:08:25] to go to, there was developing a framework for innovative zones and so there was a lot of discussion

[1:08:35] about bringing the framework to the board for discussion, so there were a lot of things

[1:08:39] that we're discussing.

[1:08:41] We are continuing to track all of those initiatives.

[1:08:44] In goal three, there was discussion about the grassroots approach to marketing, bench-marking

[1:08:51] as practices for other employers, I believe there was some discussion about how we recruit,

[1:08:58] we can better recruit employees and benchmarking other leaders of the industry.

[1:09:04] There was also a discussion about developing sales tax forecasts and how we work with the city

[1:09:09] to forecast our sales tax. And then finally we'll report the plan status to the board on a semi-annual basis.

[1:09:18] that you know how the plan is going and the progress that's been made on all the initiatives

[1:09:23] and how the performance measures are performing. I'd like to thank the Board of Directors

[1:09:29] President Watson for their engagement and their leadership and the vision of developing this plan

[1:09:37] and demonstrating the value of the strategic plan for capital Metro. So at this time,

[1:09:44] I'd like to answer any questions you might have.

[1:09:48] Members, questions for Ms. Fedari,

[1:09:53] comments, none.

[1:09:57] So we'll get some caffeine for the award.

[1:10:03] All right, then the chair will entertain.

[1:10:05] Thank you very much, Ms. Fedari, and thank you to staff for putting all this together.

[1:10:10] I think we've had some really good work sessions with the Board and our facilitator to get

[1:10:16] to this point.

[1:10:16] Now it's down to execution, but it is appropriate for us then to have a motion to approve

[1:10:23] the fiscal year 2018's strategic plan, motion by member word is a second, by member

[1:10:35] kitchen in a discussion.

[1:10:39] This feels like it should be more a momentous than it is actually occurring here on the

[1:10:43] But all in favor of approving the fiscal year 2018 strategic plan, please indicate by vigorously in the same high.

[1:10:54] Any opposed nay?

[1:10:57] Motion vigorously carries.

[1:10:59] Good seven to zero. Thank you.

[1:11:01] Thank you to staff.

[1:11:03] Next up on our action agenda, approval of a resolution, direct and staff to develop a planning

[1:11:09] coordination with the City of Austin to further the goal of environmentally sustainable transportation

[1:11:14] solutions and to demonstrate support for shared innovative and autonomous mobility strategies

[1:11:20] and the chair will recognize board member Kitchen and door Mr.

[1:11:26] Hemidson.

[1:11:27] I think Mr. Hemidson can speak to it at the appropriate time. I'll make the motion and then I'll

[1:11:31] have a few comments.

[1:11:34] Good afternoon, Chairman Cooper. Members of the board, President Wasserman Todd Hemidson,

[1:11:38] Vice President Strategic Planning and Development.

[1:11:43] This resolution was brought forth by Council Member Kitchen, although we did have conversations

[1:11:49] about the item ahead of time.

[1:11:51] And I think it's consistent with a lot of the work that Capital Metro N city Boston have

[1:11:56] been doing over at least the past year.

[1:11:59] Several things to cite, one is the smart cities, challenge that we will recall.

[1:12:05] we were substantially involved as a partner with the city and many other groups in submitting

[1:12:11] for that national competition and one of the highlighted projects there was the Riverside

[1:12:17] corridor and trying to make it a smart corridor through a number of different means including

[1:12:22] enhanced public transportation. It also ties in with the city's current bond program where

[1:12:29] besides one of the corridors, as well as corridor planning efforts that have been completed,

[1:12:36] and is consistent with some of Capital Metro's efforts, including Connectes 2025, the currently

[1:12:41] underway project, Connect, our sustainability efforts in our own vehicle electrification research

[1:12:49] that Rob Varowski, our sustainability officer has been leading over the past number of months.

[1:12:55] So, the resolution before each day essentially codifies that and then calls on staff to put

[1:13:01] together a plan in coordination with the city of Austin to essentially advance shared autonomous

[1:13:10] connected vehicle and a new mobility framework with the specific focus on the Riverside

[1:13:18] corridor and asked us to put together a plan to bring back to the board by the end of July

[1:13:24] this year. We are prepared to do that. We've already given some thought to how we might

[1:13:30] accomplish that and our company will be able to provide that plan as stated in the

[1:13:37] resolution and I'll turn it over to Board Member Kitchen and see if we have additional

[1:13:43] comments.

[1:13:45] Should I make comments now or make the motion first?

[1:13:47] I will be great to have the motion.

[1:13:49] Okay. I move passage to this resolution.

[1:13:52] There's emotions of seconds, number of interiors of the second.

[1:13:56] Okay.

[1:13:58] Thank you, Todd.

[1:14:01] As he mentioned, this is a recognition and a formal,

[1:14:08] making a formal policy for what our staff has already been doing

[1:14:12] an excellent job on in cooperation with the city of Austin

[1:14:16] well over the past year.

[1:14:19] So, and the reason for, to my mind, to moving forward with a formal resolution is both it helps

[1:14:26] establish capital metro as the partner that we are with the city of Austin and with

[1:14:32] other efforts that are going on nationally to support electric autonomous shared vehicles.

[1:14:40] What's really exciting is in the discussion about autonomous vehicles and also about electric

[1:14:45] vehicles.

[1:14:45] It's transit that can lead the way.

[1:14:49] And so this kind of formal recognition and formal recognition of working with the city of Austin on the Riverside Quarter because the thinking is different.

[1:15:00] Riverside Court has the best potential, most immediately, to serve some kind of automated

[1:15:05] transit vehicle. And so, that recognition can help us bring dollars to Cat Metro for these

[1:15:14] kinds of activities. And so, those are some of the reasons why our thinking was that it would

[1:15:21] be important to bring this forward in a formal way, recognizing that Cat Metro's already

[1:15:25] doing this kind of innovative work.

[1:15:28] The city of Austin did the same type of thing.

[1:15:31] What the city did is adopt a resolution to create a

[1:15:37] new mobility electric autonomous shared vehicle plan,

[1:15:41] in which case city of Austin will be coming.

[1:15:43] The staff will be coming back to the city council for adoption

[1:15:46] of that plan and that plan actually includes

[1:15:48] designation of a staff person responsible for leaving the

[1:15:52] efforts on autonomous and electric vehicles.

[1:15:55] So that's happening over the city.

[1:15:57] There's been a lot of collaboration already

[1:15:58] with Kath Metro.

[1:16:00] Mr. Heymanson mentioned those.

[1:16:02] The other exciting thing that we are starting to talk about

[1:16:05] is how to capture the EV, the EV challenge idea,

[1:16:10] which is how to capture the dollars that are coming to the state

[1:16:14] for electrification as far as the VW settlement.

[1:16:18] So working together as a partner,

[1:16:19] we've been talking about sending those dollars to kept Metro for electrification.

[1:16:25] So those are just some examples, some of the kinds of things that are happening already

[1:16:29] that this helps to memorialize.

[1:16:31] And the reasoning behind it to help us to show the world what we already know is happening.

[1:16:38] And also to help us with, you know, with dollars and with recognition and national level,

[1:16:43] which can help with dollars.

[1:16:45] So, again, it also memorializes working that timing to work with the city's quarter investments on Riverside, in a line in our connections 2025, that's what that.

[1:16:56] So, that's the reason behind it.

[1:16:59] I remember Kitchen had mentioned this to me as well, and I'm supportive of the directive to staff to come up with a plan, which this motion did not make its way through the committees, but I think the actual plan should come back through the committee.

[1:17:14] But I think this is, in some part, a symbolic gesture confirming what's already going on,

[1:17:23] but also for the public to indicate this is something we have an interest in taking a leadership role,

[1:17:29] locally, nationally, statewide.

[1:17:32] And we have some interesting opportunities in collaboration with the city to have some pilot projects

[1:17:38] and develop some potential that I think could put us both from the standpoint of the

[1:17:44] transit community, maybe also the manufacturing community in a position of leadership in

[1:17:50] the country.

[1:17:51] I'm supportive of this motion.

[1:17:53] Other questions?

[1:17:54] Vice chair Siles.

[1:17:56] Todd, can you tell me, what is the urgency of this?

[1:18:00] And let me share with you why I'm asking, I have no opposition to the resolution.

[1:18:06] My concern is that it did not come through the committee and I personally have to have

[1:18:12] ingrated, would appreciate the opportunity to ask Rob what's the difference between what

[1:18:21] we're doing now and what this resolution proposes and not having had that opportunity and noting

[1:18:28] that the date for staff to get back is July 31st. I just would have appreciated having some

[1:18:40] interaction with Rob Moralsky first. So is there a definite timeline that we're looking

[1:18:48] at here as to why you did not come through the committee before? Could the deadline not have

[1:18:53] on this 31st as opposed to July 31st?

[1:18:58] I believe the intent was to coordinate cities efforts.

[1:19:02] And so when the Council passed a resolution, they also had a summer timeframe

[1:19:06] or the development plan.

[1:19:08] The idea was that we would be on generally the same time.

[1:19:13] Thank you.

[1:19:15] I can speak to that too.

[1:19:16] I mean, that's really the thinking was that, you know, this gets this started

[1:19:22] And then it can come back through the committee to look at the plan and have those kinds of

[1:19:28] conversation at that point.

[1:19:30] The other thing is moving fairly fast is that you'd be challenged.

[1:19:34] Again, that could be slowed down by how the state actually works on distribution of those

[1:19:40] dollars.

[1:19:41] But it is discussions that we're having right now.

[1:19:43] So we didn't want to lose that opportunity.

[1:19:45] And so the thinking was that for this first step that it would be appropriate to just come

[1:19:51] to the board and then for the more detailed discussion we can have that in the committee first.

[1:19:58] Other comments or questions?

[1:20:04] All in favor of action item number five approval of a resolution directing staff to develop a plan

[1:20:12] of coordination with City of Austin to further the goal of environmentally sustainable transportation solutions

[1:20:17] and demonstrate support for shared innovative and autonomous mobility strategies.

[1:20:21] Please, that's the motion, if you're all in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying

[1:20:27] I, in the opposed name, motion carries 70.

[1:20:31] Thank you.

[1:20:32] Thank you.

[1:20:34] Members, next step, we'll have a presentation from the Metro Art Committee by George Smith

[1:20:40] once again.

[1:20:42] He always smiling, Jordan Smith.

[1:20:45] Good afternoon.

[1:20:46] Again, Chairman Speaker, Vice Chair, Kyle, that's President Watson's Board members.

[1:20:50] I'm Jordan Smith, with the community involvement department,

[1:20:53] here at Capital Metro, and delighted to be here to talk to you guys

[1:20:56] about our new Metro Art Committee and some project pilot projects

[1:20:59] that we're going to be working on this summer.

[1:21:02] So our goal with this program is to incorporate more art and place making

[1:21:05] into our processes here at Capital Metro.

[1:21:08] So earlier this year, we've formed an external Metro Art Committee,

[1:21:12] and we're going to be implementing two pilot programs this summer,

[1:21:15] that's awesome to cone bus stop redesign,

[1:21:17] as well as our boxes along the current metropolitan lines of the 801 and the 803.

[1:21:25] So our external committee formed this past March, we have eight committee members.

[1:21:30] We have three departments from the City of Austin, Murphy Bay, the Department of Transportation,

[1:21:35] Soleil Austin, Art and Public Placence.

[1:21:38] We also have two local artists sitting on the committee with us,

[1:21:42] as well as two place making consultants.

[1:21:44] And, unfortunately, I told my committee members to try to be here at 1-30, but you guys

[1:21:49] have just moved along so swiftly.

[1:21:51] I've got one member here with us, I've got Lynn Osgood from the Goax Labor Day, with us.

[1:21:56] And we might have a couple other people popping in in a little bit.

[1:22:00] And the goal of this external committee is to be able to oversee the program and also share

[1:22:05] their insights into how we can implement this in a successful way.

[1:22:11] And our priorities are to improve the customer experience, enhance community

[1:22:16] with ability here in Austin, detervandalism and increase feelings of safety

[1:22:20] and security, support local artists and business, promote equity and neighborhood

[1:22:25] character with our arms, and create opportunities for community collaboration.

[1:22:32] And this would also put us in line with other peer agencies, most large

[1:22:37] transit agencies do you have at our program? Some of the most successful ones are Washington

[1:22:42] DC, New York City, and Atlanta, and it also increases brand awareness as well as positive

[1:22:48] feelings about the agency. And these are typically funded through 1% of new capital projects.

[1:22:57] So as far as the two-pilot programs, the first is our 12th-in-Chicone bus stop. So back in 2003,

[1:23:04] capital and metro worked with the local neighborhood association and community to install

[1:23:08] of frames at this bus stop with wave five in as well as images of the East Austin African American community.

[1:23:16] And fortunately, these materials have not lasted the test of time, and so they've weathered, become faded over the past 14 years.

[1:23:27] So we have formed an external committee this past fall with neighborhood stakeholders and local groups, including the Austrian History Center, Houston,

[1:23:35] until it's in Austin Community College.

[1:23:40] The East 12 businessmen's association,

[1:23:43] so we Austin, the Greater Austin Black Chamber,

[1:23:47] among others, she tried to develop some new ideas

[1:23:50] for what we could have at this bus stop.

[1:23:52] And we take in this to the community twice

[1:23:55] with two public meetings to get their input.

[1:23:59] So here's a picture of the current bus stop

[1:24:03] from a distance, but the way that the frames were originally placed is we've got a section right behind the

[1:24:09] bus shelter, as well as another section where there are a bunch of frames. We are playing to remove those

[1:24:15] frames and install three groupings of frames on course we're in our nail reports, and we hope to do this

[1:24:22] for a lean next fall.

[1:24:26] And just at the bottom there's little schematic there with the three groupings

[1:24:29] that we're planning to do. The first grouping is right behind that bus shelter and the second

[1:24:34] two groupings are where those light pools are in between the trees.

[1:24:41] And this is a schematic of what the grouping one will look like.

[1:24:47] It will be centered around paragraph about the history

[1:24:52] of the East Austin community.

[1:24:53] And then we've got several images that we hope to place on

[1:24:57] Porsal and Amoporance.

[1:25:02] This is the grouping number two that will be in the middle section there.

[1:25:07] And this is grouping three that will be the final section.

[1:25:11] And we've tried to place these chronologically.

[1:25:13] So the oldest images are on panel one.

[1:25:16] Images from the 1930s to the 1960s are on panel or on grouping two.

[1:25:21] And images in grouping three are from the 1970s onward.

[1:25:25] So we do have a couple more recent images from jump on it

[1:25:28] as well as gene team that we're proposing to put on this group.

[1:25:35] We are planning to send this for procurement, hopefully early next week, once we finalize the captions.

[1:25:41] I don't know if you guys noticed they're in Latin right now, they're just placeholders.

[1:25:46] But once we have all of that finalized, we'll be sending it for procurement and working with our best price,

[1:25:52] course on a mammal vendor. And our state of cost, but our products are approximately $30,000,

[1:25:59] that's what we have budgeted currently. But of course, we're always looking for cost savings

[1:26:03] as well as the potential for some community partners to cost us in dollars as well.

[1:26:09] The other project that we're going to be working on this summer is that we have Metro Arts funds,

[1:26:15] or seeming Metro Rapid Funds, from when we started the 801 and the 803 lines. 50,000 dollars

[1:26:21] has been given to us from the FTA to do some art along those lines.

[1:26:28] So one of our committee members came up with the idea,

[1:26:31] utilizing the idea that came from the Art and Public Places

[1:26:34] Tempo Project, their temporary art installation.

[1:26:37] This past fall, five single boxes in traffic single boxes

[1:26:42] in the South First Street area were covered with vinyl racks

[1:26:46] to decorate them and to increase the beauty of the city state.

[1:26:51] And so now I'm going to turn it over to Jean at the plate of video 4, so this video is going to do a much better job showing and explaining how people these boxes are that I have a foot.

[1:27:08] Our project was Signals. We did graphic design work and poetry on five traffic control boxes on south-first street.

[1:27:17] On these five utility boxes we had a final graphic raps as well as cones and an auditoria company.

[1:27:27] Well, please select the box you have arrived at.

[1:27:31] We chose South Korea Street because that is our neighborhood, and we have been eyeing those traffic control boxes for at least a year.

[1:27:41] And brainstorming what we could put up.

[1:27:44] Each utility box was quite different, even the ones that were overall generally the same,

[1:27:50] because they were still built by hand and they had little variations in it.

[1:27:56] So I've just seen an eye and went out and filled her eye to all of the boxes.

[1:28:01] This was both of our first time working with Urban Public Places in the city of Austin.

[1:28:06] And we worked really closely with Austin Extreme Graphics.

[1:28:11] They used their advice and help to figure out how exactly to the template.

[1:28:15] Bernard Sawyer was great. He was able to, with a perfect orange sheet up the vinyl and

[1:28:21] stretch it around the foreigners. We were with a great team of team. I hope everything

[1:28:26] can come together soon.

[1:28:32] Well, because I enjoyed that video. I think the video was a really nice job showing what

[1:28:36] how cool these boxes can be, and how they can be the five, just the average day-to-day

[1:28:41] experience being around here in Austin. So what we're playing to do is we're playing to

[1:28:47] with the city on this as we go for permits. We're also going to use the expertise of Catherine

[1:28:53] Gregory who's also in our community from the Austin Transportation Department as well as our

[1:28:59] public places and a Bradley who works on the Temple Project as we go forward. And so again these

[1:29:08] are going to be along the 801 and 803 lines. Our goal is to have some geographic diversity amongst those

[1:29:14] So we're hoping to hit all six of the city council districts that intersect with those lines.

[1:29:20] So those would be district two, three, four, five, seven and nine.

[1:29:25] And these locations will be approved by the committee as well as Metro staff.

[1:29:31] And so here's some examples of where we're hoping to place these.

[1:29:35] One is the Triangle Station.

[1:29:37] This is near the Winchers Building at Guadalupe.

[1:29:39] And 47, you can see on the far left hand side, there is an Austin Transportation Department box, adjacent to our station there.

[1:29:51] Also looking at the SoCo station, where there's a signal box directly behind it.

[1:29:57] This is on South Congress, and it'll always be there.

[1:30:00] Both of these are district 9, and then in district 5, we have both horse-less station, where there's a single box right behind it. Unfortunately, there are not a ton of these single boxes that are directly adjacent to the metro rapid stations. However, the majority of our metro rapid stations do have a smaller electric pedestal box that's actually owned by cat metro that we were planning to cover in the district square. We don't have a can be a adjacent.

[1:30:29] the 80D box. So for District 2, we're looking at the little Texas stations. District 3, we're

[1:30:35] looking at St. Edwards, District 4, Runberg, and District 7, Allendale.

[1:30:42] And in terms

[1:30:43] of budget for this, we have $50,000, again, from the FTA. And we're facing our cost on what

[1:30:50] was in the Temple budget for when they did this this past fall. So for the large Austin

[1:30:56] transportation department boxes, they spent a thousand dollars for the graph, as well as

[1:31:01] prepping the box, for the graph, and then with the electric meter pedestals, because

[1:31:07] they are smaller, we're anticipating a cost of $850 per box for those. We're also playing

[1:31:15] the partner with schools nearby, those metro stations, and working with middle and high schools

[1:31:21] to have their students design the artwork.

[1:31:25] So we're playing to give stipends to the schools

[1:31:27] for participating to cover supplies

[1:31:30] as well as give gift cards to the students.

[1:31:34] And then I would be on the turn of the leap

[1:31:36] for part of the summer, so we're playing to hire a manager

[1:31:41] to oversee this project in my absence.

[1:31:43] And we also want to have removable services

[1:31:46] budgeted into the cost as well.

[1:31:49] So these graphs were designed to last roughly three years.

[1:31:53] So at the end of those three years, we can either replace the

[1:31:55] wrap or they can remove it completely.

[1:31:58] And then we also have some fun set aside for contingency.

[1:32:01] In case we do want to add additional locations,

[1:32:04] or they're unforeseen across.

[1:32:08] And our next steps, obviously, to work with the schools,

[1:32:11] I'm getting school groups set up so that they can design these

[1:32:14] hopefully by end of summer or early fall.

[1:32:17] So we can try to have hard installation.

[1:32:19] in the November December of this year.

[1:32:24] And then future plans for the committee.

[1:32:26] There has been money set aside for the downtown station,

[1:32:29] $250,000 towards art.

[1:32:32] So we are going to be having some conversations

[1:32:34] about what the art would look like

[1:32:35] at the new downtown stations.

[1:32:38] We're also looking to see what art

[1:32:39] we could have as part of the project of Puzzle Seltio.

[1:32:42] We are looking at doing almost a tile piece in district 10.

[1:32:48] Also in the purview of the committee

[1:32:49] we're hoping to research national and state grants for our projects so we can utilize those funds.

[1:32:56] We'd also like to see bus stop and train station activations.

[1:32:59] That means bringing out artists or musicians to our bus stops or train stations.

[1:33:05] And then we're also discussing the possibility of having a formal policy here at Catmenschau

[1:33:10] to possibly devote 1% of our large-scale capital projects to the boards park.

[1:33:16] So those are just a few of the things that we've got on the dotted after our call-up program.

[1:33:22] So with that I'm happy that try to answer any questions or concerns you may have.

[1:33:26] Thank you, Jordan, members, any questions?

[1:33:28] Ms. Smith?

[1:33:31] None?

[1:33:32] Member Ventria?

[1:33:36] So, on your upcoming budget, you're saying class is up here.

[1:33:39] What do you have planning in there?

[1:33:42] Right now where it's just, it's just in the idea of things.

[1:33:45] So we just want it, it's on our radar for something we want to try to put some art into.

[1:33:49] I have no formal plans yet, so if you have suggestions, we're happy that you're looking to those.

[1:33:55] So all of these are just going to start by.

[1:34:01] Right, so these are all ones that we're starting to plan.

[1:34:04] The mosaic tile piece there was actually an artist that came to us saying that she had a,

[1:34:08] she had a design and it had been approved by the Cultural Arts Service and she just didn't have a location.

[1:34:13] So as we're trying to geographically spread out our projects,

[1:34:17] we thought we would look to just pretend to possibly incorporate it

[1:34:20] and one of our stops there.

[1:34:22] Yeah.

[1:34:25] Member Kitchen.

[1:34:26] I think you listed seven schools.

[1:34:29] If you could let us know we're just schools, so some of them.

[1:34:32] Sure.

[1:34:33] I'll just read this up to give you some seconds.

[1:34:51] I'll just be checking.

[1:34:52] Right, sorry about them.

[1:34:53] President, President, I'll just be checking.

[1:34:55] I'll just be checking.

[1:34:56] I'll just be checking.

[1:34:57] I'll just be checking.

[1:35:00] We have an artist and residents here.

[1:35:06] I apologize, I'm happy you know it over to you.

[1:35:12] The school, the high school's in middle schools that are nearby those stations.

[1:35:16] So those are the schools that will be approaching.

[1:35:18] Okay, I just want to say I think it's an excellent program.

[1:35:22] So I've always, you know, I'm sure other people run around town seeing those ugly boxes.

[1:35:26] And there's just no reason to have, you know.

[1:35:29] Well, as soon as you start thinking about those signal boxes, you see them everywhere and they have graffiti, they look at how they could be beautiful.

[1:35:42] Very good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. I know from going to the street fair recently at 12 in Chicago and how much time you and the rest of staff and dance.

[1:35:58] people with their also, how much time and energy you put into this.

[1:36:04] One thing I would like to suggest, that as we get closer to the 12th in Chicago, station

[1:36:12] becoming a reality, putting those panels in, you may want to work with Council Member

[1:36:19] Houston's office, some of the people that were here at various points are still living,

[1:36:27] And you will not be able to reach them through ACC or Houston, Dilletson, and or Ann has, I'm sorry, Council member Houston has a very good grasp on where they are.

[1:36:42] So I know that they would love to see this once or our unveiling or grand opening or whatever.

[1:36:52] So I would like to suggest that as we get closer, work with our office and she can put you in touch with people that were here during that time.

[1:37:01] So that they can be available for that.

[1:37:04] And Dan Dawson from our team has met with Representative Houston.

[1:37:09] She had a staff member in our last community involvement meeting about this.

[1:37:13] So we're definitely going to defer to her in her office to help us get in touch with the right members of the community.

[1:37:20] Good, thank you to the comments, Jordan, thank you, thanks staff for bringing a little

[1:37:25] beauty into the world and to our world.

[1:37:29] Next up, speaking of beauty, Mr. Heminson.

[1:37:44] Again, our ridership report for the quarter.

[1:37:48] This is for the second quarter of 2017.

[1:37:53] And just a few things to walk through with you today.

[1:37:59] Overall, for the quarter compared to the same quarter in the past year, we were essentially

[1:38:06] leveled, just down very slightly less than 1%.

[1:38:10] Some of my highlights through the months.

[1:38:13] In January, as you recall, we eliminated the premium fair.

[1:38:17] That has proven to be a very positive thing for ridership.

[1:38:20] In February, we won't go through all the details, but you can see some of the highlights.

[1:38:27] South by Southwest, we did see a small decline from prior years, and when we went back to kind of investigate why that happened, one of the things we noted that the size of the vegetable itself was smaller, and then we saw the rail ridership was down.

[1:38:43] Part of that was I think our own doing we had some efforts to actually alleviate some of the

[1:38:50] the sardine conditions on some of those trips by directing people to use bus service instead.

[1:38:55] So we tried to balance our ridership across the different modes of service that we offered to and from that event.

[1:39:04] The summary table here and there will walk through each of the different contributors.

[1:39:08] But you look at one thing to point out on fixed ground service while we were down again a half percent consistent with the overall system for the quarter for the year to date on the fixed route side.

[1:39:22] We're actually up just slightly.

[1:39:25] You can see on that both the quarter end year to date, right share, Metro Rail and Metro Rapid are all positive compared to the prior year.

[1:39:37] So there's the fixed route, nearly break even, again, for the quarter, but again for your

[1:39:44] debate actually in the positive express, also nearly break even for the quarter and we continue

[1:39:52] to be excited about and waiting patiently as we can for the mobile pack lanes to open because

[1:39:58] that will, as we mind or lead to a major re-alignment of our express service once we can turn that on.

[1:40:07] Rail ridership, up just about 1%, reaching actually for a quarter, that was the highest quality

[1:40:15] cabin metro rail's history, was the last quarter.

[1:40:22] Similarly, and even more profoundly, on metro rapid, by far the highest ridership and the history

[1:40:28] of that service, this past quarter, you can see the major jump there here in the quarter

[1:40:36] with ridership almost at 900,000 trips in that quarter, again, far exceeding what we've experienced

[1:40:43] today.

[1:40:46] Here on the other hand is the less positive news. One thing I want to kind of put

[1:40:52] up a little finer point on is, at last time this came up, there was a, I think some of

[1:40:58] the media, there was an assertion that may have come across as though we were saying that

[1:41:04] ridership challenges were kind of like on U.T. or something, but that's not really the case.

[1:41:09] We're trying to say here is that as a part of our overall system, U.T. shuttle is down substantially,

[1:41:16] as the number show, it's down made in a major way. But at the same time, we should acknowledge that some of

[1:41:24] those riders have moved over to the fixed route system. So it's not simply that this is just

[1:41:31] We have had a transition as we've adjusted services in coordination with UT over the past several years,

[1:41:39] but the fact does remain that UT showed a ridership as one component is down substantial.

[1:41:46] Metro access relatively flat or down 0.7% right share continues to be very positive for the agency with significant growth.

[1:41:58] One interesting point here, you can look at just in four years, we've more than double the

[1:42:05] quarterly ridership in the right-share system, the BAM pool pool.

[1:42:11] Productivity is an area, obviously, connection 2020, 25 is working to improve as soon as we

[1:42:16] begin implementation. We hope to correct some of these, but this is one that we see as a significant

[1:42:23] concern in one we're keeping an eye on because we don't want to see continued reductions in productivity.

[1:42:30] We have been adding service and we know that in most cases, it's similar to other systems,

[1:42:37] that ridership gain will be over a one to two year period from when you had the additional service.

[1:42:43] So there is often a depth and productivity initially with a gain over that one to two year period.

[1:42:49] We're hoping to see that as we start to see growth on mental rapid for example.

[1:42:54] But, a big contributor here to the overall system of productivity is that our most productive service,

[1:43:01] or a second most productive, mental rail being the most productive in terms of passengers per hour.

[1:43:06] Well, the one that carries more ridership as seeing a significant drop in productivity over the past several years.

[1:43:18] Our ridership versus budget, we are slightly below 1.6 for the quarter.

[1:43:23] And some of our partnership agreements, ACC, it was down substantially.

[1:43:28] We continued to work with them to look at ways to reverse that trend.

[1:43:33] So the device was actually up 4.3% for the quarter, which I have as county also up in the

[1:43:40] positive to 9.5% and then just in terms of summary, again, a recap here and see trends over

[1:43:50] various quarters the past four years and where we've been.

[1:43:55] That is the report, we've got to answer any questions.

[1:43:59] Questions for Mr. Hamington?

[1:44:05] I guess thank you very much.

[1:44:07] Thank you.

[1:44:09] Next up, our quarterly financial report from Ms. Monowick.

[1:44:14] Welcome.

[1:44:20] Good afternoon, Chairman Cooper.

[1:44:21] Board members and President and C. O. Watson.

[1:44:24] I'm Renette Marley, and see if I can catch my trail and I'm here today to present to you the financial results for the second quarter of this year 17.

[1:44:42] First, looking at our revenue, just to familiarize with the report, we show the year today for the second quarter of 17, which means that this is six months or a half year of actuals, and we compare it to a full year budget.

[1:45:00] As a benchmark, considering that behalf words into the year, you would expect to be at about 50 percent.

[1:45:07] So, looking at ridership, even though ridership is slightly below the previous year, it is also slightly above budget,

[1:45:16] which were at 50.6% of budget with some slag favorability.

[1:45:22] As sales tax, these are the accounting numbers we close,

[1:45:26] the books in fairly soon, after the month,

[1:45:29] and in our sales tax are two and a half months in a rear.

[1:45:33] So I'll talk more about sales tax with actual numbers on such advanced slides.

[1:45:39] As such affairs in Q2 was consistent with budget,

[1:45:43] And the reason we're tracking below budget is for that variance from Q1, when we had

[1:45:49] the three, three right days that are resulted in some last passenger fees.

[1:45:56] The race is all tracking to budget with the exception of other revenue.

[1:46:01] That is where we budget at 1.6 million in lease revenue for the Plaza Sol T.O. development,

[1:46:08] And with the additional affordable housing, we have currently a renegade shading of contract with the developer, and we will not be seeing an increased revenue in fiscal year 17, so that will be a permanent shortfall in revenue for this year.

[1:46:25] And with our contributions and grants, the very successful duty timing, we can only recognize the revenue of the eligible expenses have been paid to the vendors, so there are some timing issues.

[1:46:38] But we don't foresee any appearances that year in the means to expect you realize all that

[1:46:43] revenue.

[1:46:45] So, overall, we're fairly close to budget that 47.1% with most of this due to timing

[1:46:51] in the capital contributions line, and as a fair revenue per passenger, we're below budget

[1:46:58] because of those three, three days.

[1:47:03] And South Staps, through today, the last month that we received was March, and we had a slight decline in our large size tax of 0.5%.

[1:47:16] We have occasionally had slight decline, like that during this expansion rate rate, so we're not too concerned, but we need to keep an eye on it.

[1:47:24] Since the most constant economy has been in a slowing growth in the most couple years, which is need to make sure we look at this into account as we budget for fiscal year 18.

[1:47:38] Year to date we are still positive compared to budget. We budget it to 4.4% increase and we're currently at 4.97.

[1:47:48] and so we have a half a million dollar integrity in sales tax.

[1:47:58] These are the economic trends that we keep an eye on in order to timely scale back.

[1:48:05] Should we see a decline in sales tax income?

[1:48:09] The top graph is showing our sales tax year over year growth.

[1:48:15] And what is relatively erratic, you can see that the trend line is declining.

[1:48:22] year-over-year job growth was very strong in the first three months of this year at an average of about 3%

[1:48:30] which is good news after the decline that we saw at the end of the last year

[1:48:34] and the population growth in Austin ended at the year at 2.9% that is considered fairly consistent with community years.

[1:48:43] Our

[1:48:47] operating spaces are also tracking down to objects.

[1:48:52] Again, we're looking at a four-year budget.

[1:48:54] So we would prefer to be at 50% or less.

[1:48:58] Other operating spaces.

[1:49:01] The key indicators that we track there is revenue hours.

[1:49:05] Since that drives our operating cost.

[1:49:08] And there you can see we're slightly below budget,

[1:49:11] even though our ridership is slightly above budget.

[1:49:14] So that's a very good train to see, but the revenue miles also being below budget at 47.9%.

[1:49:23] Salaries and benefits, we're also below budget due to 1.2 million in vacancies that have not been staffed.

[1:49:32] And then professional services, we're also off favorable to budget.

[1:49:36] We do expect to spend most of that by year age due to the delay timing of some of the services being deployed.

[1:49:45] On fuel and fluids are other big favourable variants, and this will be a permanent variance

[1:49:51] as we budgeted fuel at $3.20 and we're actually spending $2.8.

[1:49:59] So for the six months we're 2.8 million favourable in fuel.

[1:50:04] The rest is all tracking a fairly intense budget, and in other experiences that big

[1:50:11] bearing system should be laid timing and a contingency that we have budgeted there for

[1:50:17] unforeseen items. So, overall, as for a PPI of cost for a revenue hour, we're favorable

[1:50:24] to budget at a hundred and twenty versus a hundred and twenty-seven in the budget.

[1:50:31] Our policy

[1:50:32] requires that quarterly we report to you any budget transfers that we have made and in

[1:50:38] Q2 we have made the following budget transfers. The first one is just between two rail projects,

[1:50:45] three dollars for shifted from one program to another in order to a better track the projects.

[1:50:52] The second item is for the storm water improvements at the downtown station. That wasn't

[1:50:59] budget for fiscal year 17, so we moved 500,000 from our contingency account to fund that project.

[1:51:09] And transfers number three is as we closed off fiscal year 16.

[1:51:14] We identified that some projects that were initially budgeted as capital projects.

[1:51:20] The actual work did not qualify for capitalization under the accounting principles.

[1:51:25] So, we need to move it out of capital into operators.

[1:51:30] It's just a transfer of where the funds are allocated.

[1:51:35] And the last budget transfer was again just to merge two projects into one that had unique project codes that could enable the project to be tracked more efficiently.

[1:51:48] This

[1:51:52] is the cash and bracelets and how this is spoken for or committed to in our reserves and there's not much change for the numbers you've seen before our reserves have been relatively stable and committed for.

[1:52:11] And this is showing a budget variance by the department.

[1:52:14] So it's just a different look of looking at the same operating experience as it goes to

[1:52:19] by category.

[1:52:20] We're now looking at it as a total body performance.

[1:52:24] And you can see that all of our departments are at less than 50% for this six months.

[1:52:31] With the exception of legal where we had some unbudgeted experiences related to the project

[1:52:36] TN as well as some right-of-way disputes on Anderson Lane.

[1:52:45] Our capital project summary, we have 158 million budget for fiscal year 17.

[1:52:52] After that between about we have already been invoiced and what we have committed to purchase orders,

[1:52:58] we have to spend 47% of our capital budget.

[1:53:01] So, we're going to track to spin those funds this year.

[1:53:07] On commuter rail, this is for the progress payments of the four new trains,

[1:53:12] as well as target grant projects and rail improvements on the land and the line.

[1:53:18] So, just to note both the trains and the target projects are grant funded.

[1:53:23] So, while we have the capital expenditure, we also recognize the capital revenue on the revenue side.

[1:53:31] for vehicles. This was scheduled bus for patients at the end of their life, as well as six

[1:53:38] additional interfaces, and 19 additional power plants advanced. And then moving to facilities

[1:53:46] where we had the other big strength that is for the neglect parking that was completed

[1:53:51] in March, the downtown station and bus stop accessibility improvements.

[1:54:02] That's your silence for the question.

[1:54:04] Thank you so much.

[1:54:05] I appreciate this greatly.

[1:54:06] Let me ask you a question.

[1:54:08] Back on slide seven.

[1:54:12] For January 17 we talked about the downtown station storm water improvements and you say that money

[1:54:19] was taken from contingency.

[1:54:21] Did that have any effect on our reserves at all?

[1:54:25] Now, this is all budgeted, so every year we have income that comes from our operating

[1:54:32] income that we spend on capital, as well as reserves that we preserve for capital.

[1:54:38] So this will be able to be funded by the culture in this future capital reserve.

[1:54:44] And then there was also some discussion about using a portion of this budget,

[1:54:49] then theization reserve to fund this longer.

[1:54:51] Let me

[1:55:02] process that a minute.

[1:55:04] Any other questions?

[1:55:07] Thank you.

[1:55:09] Thank you very much.

[1:55:12] Thank you very much.

[1:55:13] Very good.

[1:55:13] Thank you.

[1:55:15] Last but not least, our President CEO of President Watson.

[1:55:20] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

[1:55:22] I want to start out today talking about a project that's been many, many months in the works.

[1:55:29] And it's the way we collect data and doing analysis for information that has to be approved,

[1:55:38] transmitted and approved by the Federal Transit Administration.

[1:55:42] They use the ridership information that we submit to them to calculate the formula that determines

[1:55:51] how much discretionary federal funding we get.

[1:55:56] It's just under 30 million annually, so the data that we provide to them is very, very

[1:56:05] important, and they want to make sure that we get the ridership information correct.

[1:56:12] And all of these years, we've been providing the information to them based on a manual method,

[1:56:19] which is somebody getting on a bus, counting everybody who gets on the bus.

[1:56:24] And of course we've done that randomly throughout the systems, so you get statistical, valid information about the ridership numbers.

[1:56:36] However, there's been for some time an automated way to do this is called automatic passenger counters.

[1:56:45] And the FDA in the past has not allowed this kind of submittal until recently.

[1:56:54] But before we were able to use our APCs, automatic passenger counters, we had to go through

[1:57:03] some very stringent standards.

[1:57:06] We do have these APCs on every single bus and train in the system.

[1:57:12] And so we have some pretty accurate data that comes from those.

[1:57:16] But in order to be accepted by FTA, we had to do sample ridership data manually.

[1:57:27] We also had to include a process where we regularly monitor equipment, verification of the

[1:57:36] accuracy of the calves and the process for estimating data when equipment fails.

[1:57:44] Our staff spent much of FY 16 and FY 17 collecting and analyzing the data and working with

[1:57:54] ridership software vendor to make sure that our APC data was correct and I want to specifically

[1:58:02] thank Jennifer Govaya who is not actually in the room right now but her and her team worked

[1:58:09] really really hard to make this happen. As with most of the things we do, there's a lot of regulation

[1:58:19] and paperwork to be done to meet their criteria, but they did a really good job of pulling this

[1:58:30] together. And the approval for submitting the APC data is good for the next three years that we do

[1:58:38] of this over again. So anyway, it was a tremendous amount of work, something done behind

[1:58:45] the scenes, but something really important, because we get federal funds based on some of the

[1:58:51] status. So now I get to do a lot of fun things. The next couple of items. The first one is

[1:58:59] staff recognition. You know that May is graduation month, and I'm pleased to announce that we

[1:59:06] have a couple of staff members who received their Master's degree from UT over the weekend.

[1:59:15] This first one is Jonathan Tanser.

[1:59:18] He's one of our IT project managers and he received his Master's of Science and Technology

[1:59:27] Commercialization from UT's Macone School of Business, John took part in an intensive

[1:59:35] one-year program that focused on the intersection of business, technology, and innovation.

[1:59:44] The second person you probably recognize is our Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff

[1:59:51] Eduardo Castillo. He received his master's in public leadership over this last week and from the LBG.

[2:00:00] High School at UT. This is a 14-month program, and both of these programs are really rigorous, in terms of class work, and I know in

[2:00:13] herartos class, in particular, they also, that's sort of merged with community leaders that come

[2:00:23] and talk to the class, so they get a lot of real-world experience in these as well.

[2:00:29] These two people spent a lot of time, evenings, weekends, going to these classes, reading

[2:00:38] a lot of material in their off time.

[2:00:41] And so I know it's a tremendous effort to work full time and get a master's degree, so we're

[2:00:50] internally, very proud of these two individuals and know you will be as well.

[2:00:57] The second program is, you know, talking about smart people, this Caitlyn Dalton is our

[2:01:07] planner.

[2:01:08] You probably remember her from so the presentations she's given to the board.

[2:01:13] And we found out this month that she's one of 25 transit professionals from across the country

[2:01:20] who were admitted to the next app to class of emerging leaders program.

[2:01:27] And this program is extremely competitive.

[2:01:32] They look for diversity in so many ways including geographic across the country.

[2:01:39] And I tried to prepare her for possibly not getting submitted or not getting approved

[2:01:46] with only 25 slots available, I wasn't sure how good of a chance she had, but she is just so

[2:01:55] smart and so good. And this program fits her well. She is an emerging leader. There's

[2:02:01] no question in my mind that she has a tremendous career ahead of her. Hopefully it's with

[2:02:09] in transit, but it's a great program. It lasts for one year. It includes mentoring, workshops,

[2:02:21] monthly online meetings to help participants develop leadership skills and learn best practices

[2:02:28] as they advance through their career. Okay, now for the sad part. That was the happy part.

[2:02:34] And this part is the Fairwell, and I've got two to talk about.

[2:02:42] I mentioned last that we have two people moving on, but now it's time to hear.

[2:02:47] It's really happening.

[2:02:50] In early June, we will be saying Fairwell,

[2:02:53] to Christy Will Hype, our government relations manager.

[2:02:58] All of you know her very well.

[2:03:01] She has done just a tremendous job for us.

[2:03:06] Her husband has gotten a huge promotion, is moving to Houston as a result.

[2:03:13] And she has decided her and her children have decided to go with him.

[2:03:19] So she's leaving capital metro.

[2:03:22] And I tell you, I cannot go any place in this community.

[2:03:26] without someone saying, oh, my gosh, Christy is leaving.

[2:03:32] I refer to her as the person with the personality plus.

[2:03:39] I don't think she, I think everybody knows who Christy is,

[2:03:43] and everybody's going to miss her.

[2:03:45] And I also think that she would like to say a couple words to the board

[2:03:49] before leaving. This is a very last board meeting.

[2:03:53] Thank you, President Watson.

[2:03:54] Chairman, board members, President Watts, and the last time to say that, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today.

[2:04:01] I have been, you know what I can only say, less to be able to work with you and these fine people in this room and these fine people across these campuses here at Capcom Metro.

[2:04:12] Everyone from the mechanic to the driver to the person planning the routes to the folks that are going out to the public meetings.

[2:04:19] This is just a wonderful group of people.

[2:04:23] I have never worked with a final group of people in the public, our private sector, and I am so pleased, and it's especially your leadership that makes a huge difference in what we get done here.

[2:04:35] And as I was looking at the budget and some things that I've gotten to participate in, I just feel so fortunate to be a part of such a great organization that's doing good work in this community.

[2:04:44] And so I want to thank you, and I will miss you, and I will miss doing this good work, and I wish you all.

[2:04:51] Thank you, Christy.

[2:04:54] And then the last one is our Vice President of Marketing and Communications, Dan Dawson.

[2:05:02] His last day will be this Friday, so this is also his last board meeting.

[2:05:08] He's leaving us to go back to Los Angeles in the area that he lived in when we hired him.

[2:05:16] He's got a really exciting new position. It really does sound exciting.

[2:05:22] He's working for or will be working for a solar energy company.

[2:05:28] And it's so innovative and they're doing some really cool things that he's a perfect match for.

[2:05:37] But Dan's been with us for almost six years, he's been a huge champion of capital Metro, of marketing, moving innovative ideas forward, and has been great, having Dan here, he knows marketing and communications inside out, and I think Dan would also like to say a couple of words.

[2:06:01] I'm going to put that in your arm and go back again now.

[2:06:06] I did just want to first of all thank all of you board members.

[2:06:08] I've gotten to lucky enough to work with many of you personally.

[2:06:12] I know the amazing amount of time that you commit to this board and your thoughtfulness

[2:06:17] and your passion and all making this a better community and so it's been really wonderful

[2:06:21] to be able to work with all of you.

[2:06:23] And also it's been great to work with Linda and Eduardo.

[2:06:28] There's like no words, right?

[2:06:30] I mean, that's coming from me.

[2:06:33] It's just great, great leaders in this organization, and it's just been a joy and wonderful

[2:06:39] to be able to work with them, as well as lots of the other staff as well, and of course

[2:06:43] my team, which I've been so pleased to have such great dedicated and smart and creative

[2:06:48] people to be able to work with my team.

[2:06:51] So thank you so much for entrusting me to manage your brand and image at the time, but I've

[2:06:55] been here.

[2:06:56] I think I hope I have, I hope you feel, but I have moved it to new locations.

[2:07:02] In fact, I'll tell you one quick story.

[2:07:04] I was talking to somebody who works here and they said, you know,

[2:07:09] more than five or six years ago, I would go to the grocery store and I would hide it.

[2:07:14] My ID.

[2:07:15] Good engine and my people would never work out for a month or two.

[2:07:17] And they said today I'd wear a proud leader wear a gun.

[2:07:20] So I think that's a big highlight to it,

[2:07:22] where the agency is a whole thing really gone into the art image

[2:07:25] and how the community views us most of us.

[2:07:28] So anyway, I'm glad you're up in the air.

[2:07:30] But it would be at least a small part of that.

[2:07:32] Thank you.

[2:07:33] Thank you, Dan, and thank you, Kristi.

[2:07:35] You will both be this tremendously.

[2:07:39] And that's my report.

[2:07:40] Thank you, President Watson.

[2:07:41] Let me just add to what President Watson said.

[2:07:44] Others may want to join me, but I think a sad moment to miss or to see each of you

[2:07:54] because you have representatives so well and improved our brand as such, not only our brand,

[2:08:01] but our substance of what we are in the community. I know walking with Christy through the

[2:08:06] legislature you couldn't have a better representative of cap metro and I think the improvements

[2:08:12] that we've seen legislative leave speak for themselves and I don't think I'll ever see a bus with a

[2:08:19] and say and get back on the back of it without thinking of the Dan and his team or women

[2:08:26] in 1980's workout paraphernalia, but each of you have made a huge difference to us and

[2:08:33] thank you for all you've meant to us. Congratulations to Harado for getting smarter and I

[2:08:41] think we're going to class in Friday nights. Very impressive and we're looking for even

[2:08:47] greater things from you.

[2:08:49] And thank you to the rest of the staff for all you do for us, and pushing us ahead will miss

[2:08:54] those who are leaving us.

[2:08:55] We'll look forward to greater leadership from those who have gotten smarter, and, unless

[2:08:59] there's something else, board members will stand adjourned at 201.

[2:09:04] Thank you very much everybody.

[2:09:09] Where are you headed?

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