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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.

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And as always, we'll welcome Miss Simmons for a monthly safety briefing.

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Good afternoon everyone. My name is Donna Simmons. I'm a couple of

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motors risk management compliance officer. We begin every board meeting with a

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safety message and briefing to highlight our commitment to the safety of our

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employees, our community, and we want to use this our service. So a few things

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to remember while you're visiting with us or employees in the meeting today.

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In the event of any emergency, don't hesitate to dial 911 and give the address

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here, which is 29.10 east-gift street, in the event of a fire alarm, the gathering places across

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the street adjacent to the Broke Elementary School playground.

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If there is a shelter in place alarm, such as a tornado, there are a shelter tornadoes

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located in the first floor of the building with signage to the shelter they are.

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And there are also two AEDs located in this building, one on this floor next to the elevator

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and on the first floor next to the elevator.

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My thinking message this month is a plug for writing transit. Transit is one of the safest

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modes of transportation. In fact, when compared to automobile travel, the fatality

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rate for transit is less than half of that, writing an automobile, so I much else to use

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to be safe while writing transit. Thank you.

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Thank you, Donna. At this time, the Board will hear all general public comments as well as

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comments on items listed on the consent and action item agendas. If you're signed up to

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

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Each speaker will have three minutes. At this time, I have no body signed up to speak because

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that correct? Is there anybody here who didn't get a chance to sign up that wants to speak?

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Yeah, if you could just fill out the slip then and let it know at what point.

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Next on our agenda, we'll be advisory committee updates, Ms. Smith.

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Welcome.

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Good afternoon Chairman Cooper, Vice Chair of Silence, President Watson, Board members,

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I'm Jordan Smith, giving the advisory committee updates.

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Both of the groups met earlier this month, where they heard about our new pilot pick-up,

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that will be beginning next month, and they also heard other updates about some other initiatives

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going on with the agency.

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

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that you may have.

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Thank you, Jordan. Any questions for this Smith? Anybody?

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Excuse, thank you very much.

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Quick into the point.

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Now we'll take a board committee updates starting with our operations planning and safety committee chair.

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Yes.

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Thank you, Chairman.

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The operations planning and safety committee met here on Friday, May 12th.

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at Capital Metro headquarters, the action items on the agenda are consent items on today's

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agenda, two, three and four, and action items on today's agenda, one and two.

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We did have a update on the mobility on demand pilot project.

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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.

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We ran out of time.

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And that's it?

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All right.

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Thank you, Chair Silas.

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Next we'll hear from Chair Mitchell on the Finance Audit and Administration Committee.

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Thank you, Chairman.

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The Finance Audit Administration Committee met on May 12th.

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At 11.10 a.m.

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We had one action item, which is item number three on our action item list agenda today.

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We had three presentations.

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Financial key performance indicators, the proposed budget calendar, and the much of it's

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a monthly financial report, and then we jointly heard the project connect update with

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the operations committee.

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Very good.

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And next, we'll hear our Kampo update also from Board Member Mitchell.

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Kampo met on May 8th, and the visitors to our board, they approved some amendments to the

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the Transportation Improvement Program, the Tips Program, and then a particular role that's

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to our transit agency, they talked about transferring development credits for improvements

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in round rock and talked about the unified planning work program coming up in the next

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two years.

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I'm sorry.

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Well, good.

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Thank you.

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Remember, Mitchell?

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Well, now, move on to our consent agenda.

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Are there any members of the Board of Directors who wish to remove any item from the consent

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the agenda and have that item considered on the regular action item agenda.

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There are four items on our consent.

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Agenda number one is approval of minutes for the April 12, 2017 public hearing and April

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24th, 2017 board meeting.

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That's number one.

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Number two is approval of a resolution terminating the supplement to the interlocal agreement with the

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sample area role transportation system for route 271, number three is approval of a new

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interlocal agreement with capital area role transportation system for the provision of route

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271 and number four is approval of a contract with net tronics integration for upgrades

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to the security access control system, do I have a motion to approve our consent item agenda?

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have a motion by Mayor Jonesy as a second.

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Second by member Mitchell, any discussion of our consent agenda items?

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No, no discussion.

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Therefore, all in favor of the motion to approve our consent agenda items.

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One through four, please indicate by saying aye.

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Any opposed, nay?

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Motion carries 70.

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Thank you.

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Next step will be our action item starting with the interlocal agreement

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with the City of Austin for the Downtown Station of Mr. Grail.

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Welcome back.

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Thank you, Chair. Chair and Board members, President Watson. My name is Mark Grail. I'm the

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Project Manager for the Downtown Station. I'm here to present recommendation for approval of

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a resolution authorizing the President's CEO for her design and negotiating finalize an

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execute in the in a local agreement with the City of Austin in order to design and build

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operate and maintain the downtown rail station in the required

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easements.

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Please note that this item was presented to the operations planning

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and safety committee on May 12th, and in his recommended

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for approval.

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Along with this agenda item, we have a presentation

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that we have at a company's end.

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Kind of needs some background information

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on the status of the project today.

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We've clearly seen all of the public events,

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open houses, and workshops that we've had on the project

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for the last several years.

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We've also done several boards and commissions at the city of Austin and then down here at the bottom.

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You can see we have met with several entities in the community as well.

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There's a never-all colored site plan in the project.

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From I-35 to Trinity Street, the project spans four city blocks along Port Street.

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Within this project is primarily funded by a towards a knowing-dollar text signer.

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And we're currently in our recruitment scene towards completing 60% design.

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The plasms being designed as a flexible inch or a flexible plaza that can be used

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to probably different types of activities be their food, food trucks or farmers day markets

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or just outdoor activities you can see in this down here.

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So, being designed with that insight in mind we're also looking at various design concepts

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for that plaza or for the campus and we've looked at a couple different studies and also

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

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either from internal staff or city staff or community folks

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and on to the ILA so we have a few bullet points here just to

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highlight the selling course of the ILA so we've put it in the ILA is the right to construct

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operate and maintain the new station that's the extremist city right away it all this all

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of discusses, the development of pending easements.

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It discusses the partial closure of four street

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and two-way conversion of district.

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Discusses is expedited, permitting, traffic studies,

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and infrastructure projects.

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Discusses the use of the transit class and obligations,

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operation, maintenance, and security plans

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will be developed in detail in future time.

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Utility response fillings and utility access

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some of the tracks, also part of the ILA coordination,

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access during construction.

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The ILA also outlines details of the 72-inch storm

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draining partnership.

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That was part of last month's resolution with the board.

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And it also establishes a framework for financial contributions

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that be waivers.

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A couple other items that staff wanted to point out

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in regards to the ILA,

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was that the ILA has been approved by sea council.

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was approved on May 4th, so the version of the island that you have in front of you is the

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same as our version and is the same as the city's version as approved pending or except for some

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minor administrative comments and also a section regarding the restrooms on page 12. So regarding

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the restrooms, the restrooms came up during city council as a comment from public citizen and from

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that and initially we're discussion city council and I asked regarding restrooms.

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So some of the folks, some of the city council members requested that the city and that the

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project include public restrooms as part of the project, and they wanted to see that reflected

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in the allies.

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So we've kind of revised the language on page 12 to reflect that.

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City council requested that a capital metro partner and co-chair for the restrooms and

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City staff suggested maybe a 50-50 cost split.

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We'd like to have a relationship for other city staff on that

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and come to a final agreement.

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Some of the things we did want to point out

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there was a misinformation at a city council,

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that capital metro was providing restrooms

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on earlier side of drawings, and then we deleted them.

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And therefore, we were moving public.

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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.

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There is no physical space to fit restrooms next to the platforms.

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So we also want to clarify that.

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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,

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or if the fire stations ever relocated, the fire station could be a nice place to put public restrooms.

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In follow-up conversations with city staff, there may be an interim solution to put

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Russians in the Convention Center, and so there's a final solution looking in the

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Fathers in the Park. So those are some of the discussions we're having with city

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at follow-up. So that's city council approval.

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Some other items in the RLA to point out is the city has asked that's

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a couple of metronome identified the city of all liability and legal costs associated

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with closing of private driveways,

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associated with crossing the three tracks,

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we wanted to highlight that item.

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Also, the ILA request waiver of permit fees on the project

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when Captain Metro goes and submits for permits.

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Right now, the total fees are endowed,

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until we submit for permit.

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You don't have a number on that.

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But we did want to point out that that will be subject to

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a future city of Austin approval to weigh those fees

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from the city council.

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And there was some comments from the City Council

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that there may be hesitation to approve those waivers

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that waiver in the future, because they may see

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that contribution that storm grade is already participating

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on behalf of the project.

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So we just want to point out that potential risk

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for the journey forward in the 30th.

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So some other key notes of the ILA and the project,

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is that the city will actually maintain ownership

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of the Plaza of Majority of the Plaza.

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Capital of Metro District Reserves and Minor portion of the

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connection with that to the site plan to show this.

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A majority of the Plaza will remain in the city right away

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in the city management control.

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There's only a small portion of the Plaza right here that

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couple of Metro's reserving for queuing of special

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big crowds, everything else remains to be right away.

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You also want to point out that we're referring to the

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them in the Astur island. They'll be a series or there may be a series of mini

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islands that you'll see being presented either to the Capital Metro Board or to

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City Council or other minor items. Other minor utility agreements or enhancements

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that the city is asking. So those are just subject to what we're calling mini islands.

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You may see those coming in several months.

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And so to point out the easement, Capital Metro is requesting the easement

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around the track infrastructure, and the items like capital mentions will be maintaining

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an operating.

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

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it control everything within everything outside of the red down ring remains, city of Austin

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right away.

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These little scattered red boxes there either for electrical equipment or ticketing equipment.

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So as we finalize to the design, we'll be able to finalize that boundary in the season

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and then proceed with with a request for that easement for future council and board actually.

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I want to recommend a approval of the Programme of Resolution Authorizing the President and CEO

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or her designation in the United States finalized an execute and a new local agreement

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with the city of Austin in order to design, build, operate, maintain the downtown

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or else nation will require these notes.

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If you have any questions, we have these answers.

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One question, my question.

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But do you want to just net that,

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another has been a few speed notes along the way on this project,

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but we're excited to keep moving forward.

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We're excited about the day, opening day of this project,

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and the importance that this project will serve to the community

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in terms of mobility.

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It's a thank you.

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Questions or comments?

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Vice to your silence.

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I'd like to move more approval,

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and then I have a question.

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There's a motion, is there a second, we'll take this up in discussion, a second my member

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of Ventoria, and we have a comment as well that I want to take up perhaps, you want to ask

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a question now?

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Mr. Guerrero, go back.

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I want to be sure I heard what I think I heard on the 12th and then you say today, recover

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the part about the indemification, with the city of Austin, you said it's possible that

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the city and the future may think that our contribution to the 72-inch waterway might

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

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Okay, so there's two subparations. The indemnification was the subparation of the subparation

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

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

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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.

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I think we, on the east end of the project, there may be some dry voice, I think Mr. Lorenz

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for somebody else's.

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

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So the first one on the permit, wait for the permit fees.

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So we will be requesting city council to wait for these out of future time.

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There was a hesitation from some of the folks on city council bias, because they're already

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contributing on terms of the storm drain that they may not contribute further on pick

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where there is a mood to that in the Council.

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So there's a resource with that as a risk that city council might not approve the way

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of our permit to use that a future time.

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And that point, capital metro would occur the cost of all those permits.

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in addition to any overages above

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the, yeah, above the six million that we're already going to incur.

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

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

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We can view it separately.

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There are separate items.

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I understand.

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Let's go on to the end of the occasion.

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So as part of the end of the occasion,

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there are some safety concerns about private property,

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drive-ways, crossing through tracks.

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And we have a meeting with FRA,

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and so there's recommendations to not allow private properties,

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drive-ways to cross the free tracks.

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And so we've made mention of that,

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city staff to transportation department, but there's driveways may have to be closed and they're

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willing to partner with this all down, but they would hold a temple metro responsible for all

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legal costs or liability that arose at closing a private driver. That would roll back to temple

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metro. Thank you. Yes.

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Remember, Kitchen? You know, I think it's really appropriate and I

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cautioning us that there's a risk on the permits, but I would like everyone to understand that

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that there's a far cry between a couple of a few members of the Council expressing concern

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and any speculation about what Council will do.

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That's what other questions,

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remember, Mitchell?

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On your cannabis, you had three different designs in the last one, what sort of light?

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

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provide the same amount of shade as the others?

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Yeah, we're working make sure that they do.

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What we're going to do is overlap them a little bit more.

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So that provides shade and ready to actually move.

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Yeah, we're steady to know that.

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I know that is a concern to be heard.

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Ms. Joseph, I may let you make your comments now and I still have a couple more questions

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for Mark, but this is a big good time for you to make your public comment.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the rest of my name, there's no way Joseph.

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I just wanted to ask Mr. Chairman, specifically, can you just tell me who actually writes out

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the language for the interlocal agreement?

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That would perhaps, I'll send that down to our lawyer.

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He's turning up our machinery.

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Sorry.

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Why?

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Capital Mature Legal Staff components.

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And she getsnels for city legal staff.

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On these.

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So, the problem I concern is that the language in the interlocal agreements is generally

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and normally you're pretty specific.

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So, can you tell me why it's so broad?

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Uh, again, I'll defer the council.

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I'm not sure what you're referring to.

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But could you point me to something specific?

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Please share so, if you look at the provisions that are specified in the antilocal agreement,

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it has generally includes a medical, there's a colon in it list.

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Some of the items that specifies Plasor obligation and use,

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and then it has coordination and access during the construction.

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

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It's kind of minor, I guess, but like the coordination's not, it should be coordinated.

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If you will, but specifically, I'm just concerned about the war generally.

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Generally, when we use the war generally, we are saying, including but not necessarily everything is defined here.

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

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Okay, so my specific comment is about the language that Council adopted on May 4th.

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2017, and I appreciate Mr. Guerrero's comment, his explanation, but it specifically says,

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quote, any public restaurants that are constructed in the public closet shall be designed,

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constructed, maintained and operated by the city of the city and at the city's expense.

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It's on page 12 of 39 in their interlocal agreement.

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And so, because I understand this is a cooperative agreement, I'm just concerned as a citizen

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because that discussion was never had, but yet that provision appeared in interlocal

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agreement that Council approved.

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So do you know Mr. Chairman, how that language got into that interlocal agreement without

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a public discussion?

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Well, again, I'm going to defer to Council and Mr. Guerrero because the Board is receiving

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this information today.

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Yes, Dan, and I can refer to the current I only that's been posted for today's board

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action on it that that there's no longer the language that's inserted recommended for approval.

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

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trial at the very end of the year?

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The original, it was just the new generation, which is between city staff and capital

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metro staff.

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Is it correct Mr. Chairman, the capital commenter, Sunset Review and September 2017?

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We're not subject to sunset review at this time.

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Do you know when?

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We are not up for sunset review again at the, under the card statute.

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

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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.

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I think if it was on the wish list, that at some point the staff needed to at least express

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why that was not considered and before council approved the language it would appear

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that they needed to have cost benefit analysis or some justification as to why that language

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was in there.

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So moving forward, I suppose my question is, is this board going to ask the council to

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amend into local agreement language so that it reflects what you're voting on today?

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I don't think there's any suggestion that we would do that.

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There's an RLA in front of the board.

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We have your public comment.

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We have the suggestions and recommendations of staff and council.

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And we've got to act on that one way or the other.

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So that's where we are today.

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I guess there's just a discrepancy of Mr. Chairman because what the City Council approved

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on May 4th is for them to pay for everything as it relates to.

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I'll call the question and they did, in fact, rely on the comments of how the year

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when he mentioned that the public is able to ask the attendant or the operator to use the

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restroom facilities and that's not the understanding of the public or the drivers.

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So the information that was presented to Council in addition to the six million dollars

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as opposed to 7.5 million, as you mentioned, for the stormwater system upgrade,

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the information just seems to be inaccurate and so that's the only reason why I'm asking

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if you would recommend that they am in there.

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Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for your comments, Mr. Berra.

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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.

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

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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.

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So city staff feels confident to approve this opening of ILA as being presented to them.

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Some of the previous comments that may have been presented at City Council regarding the

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use of public use of the restrooms, I think may have been inaccurate and permission.

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And so that's fair to acknowledge that.

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Vice Chair, silence.

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Mark, if I heard you correctly, you said that this ILA is like an umbrella or a general ILA,

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and there would be several other specific IELAs under this as we go forward.

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Is this an item that may be covered under one of those other IELAs going forward?

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The restrooms? Yes.

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Anything that refers to a sharing of dollars, dollars, back or forth, the bars in IELA?

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Okay. So this is not part of this, maybe seven to a future one.

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Thank you.

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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?

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I can't answer that right now.

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And where in the process will we understand what the size of that would be and help me understand?

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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.

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What I'm really concerned about is that we don't get into a situation where the further

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we get into this, the bigger the mission-create comes in terms of fixing drains or bathrooms

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or all kinds of other things that might be added to the project or fees.

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And so how far down the road will we be before we understand the magnitude of the fees?

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Yeah, I also want to get an idea of that number of students possible.

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So we've asked our consultants to start looking at it.

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Some of the challenges, some of those fees are

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aren't identified until you formally submit for permanent.

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And then they log it into the computer

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and then it spits out a key for you.

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So maybe we can work with city staff,

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maybe we do in the mocked permits of it,

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you know, a pretend civil.

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We enter into the computer and spits out a mocked fee.

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So we haven't got that far yet,

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but we hope and definitely in the next six months,

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we should know that.

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

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Would that be prior to construction actually starts then?

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Yes, so it'll be at the Urban Civil.

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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.

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And I think we need to get ahead, go ahead, but I'm concerned about, as I said,

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commission, create, or under circumstances, whether it be fees or we get under, under the ground

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and find that there's something that's more complicated and that's not an uncommon circumstance.

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So, yes.

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Yes.

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Vice Chair, silence.

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We're at 60%.

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

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A better handle?

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A better handle?

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Yeah.

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A better handle?

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to 90 percent.

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Yeah, I think you won't know all the further

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further reasons today, actually,

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more and less than that for real.

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That's one that you'll try and see if we can

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do identify that deeply for that.

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Thank you.

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We definitely won't provide enough tape to the board.

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The waiver or the firm of these will have to come back

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for boards approval, and then city council as well.

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So in this video, see that as another action.

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Other comments are quite a go ahead.

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Yeah, one other minor thing to reply to Mr.

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that this is helpful.

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The wish list about the restrooms was occurring back in 2014.

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

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members showed restrooms. So that was an opportunity for Captain Mission to show that the restrooms

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

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Well, I know that the downtown alliance has got some sort of a pilot program with respect to downtown

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

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restrooms.

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

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

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of years on a wonder in conjunction with our, we got two former DA chairs here, probably worked

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on that part at various times, and any discussions with the city about making that park

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where it should be?

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There's a lot of talk.

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I know that there's a lot of interesting entities in the same, in that topic.

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I think DAA has just, this is why I think I heard DAA say it's in the council, but they just

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recently will take funding to do a park study.

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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.

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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.

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Any other comments?

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We have a motion in a second.

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All right, no other comments or questions.

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All in favor of the motion indicate by saying aye.

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Any opposed, nay?

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Motion carries 70.

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Thank you, Mark.

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Thank you to everybody on the staff for your endurance and your long hours

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and efforts to bring this project home.

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It's the most important public transit project I think

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that's probably ever happened in the city of Austin.

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

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So I hope we'll have a good sense of partnership going forward.

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

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So keep up the good work and let's get this delivered.

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Thank you.

461
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:53,040
Next, action item number two, approval of a contract with HNTB Corporation for General Planning

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00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:57,060
Consultant Services, Mr. Gwale. Welcome back.

463
00:51:57,420 --> 00:52:00,900
That's an instrument, good bird, or members of the President's Zoom, Mr. Watson.

464
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:03,480
I'm happy to have a way out. It's strategic planning.

465
00:52:04,140 --> 00:52:06,740
I'm here requesting the approval of a race solution,

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authorized from the President's CEO, or heard this again.

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If you find a lot and execute a contract with HNTB Corporation,

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for general planning consultants, DPC, services in the amount not to exceed $5.5 million dollars

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for a base period of three years with two one-year options.

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00:52:27,020 --> 00:52:33,360
I have a small presentation to give you a quick summary of what the general planning consultant

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services have done for the agency.

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First of all, the contract aligns with the agency's strategic plan.

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00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:48,120
On goals and objectives, I highlight two of them that must trade regional leadership,

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00:52:48,900 --> 00:52:52,960
the contract support today's effort, then must trade the value of public transportation

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00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:54,880
and aid dynamic community.

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00:52:55,420 --> 00:53:00,760
In regards to the objectives, 2.2, 2.3 and 3.1 really are good examples of what this

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will do pursue service expansion, opportunities and courage from all transitory into development

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and development of new ridership markets, which is one of the top strategies and objectives

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in the work plan. The business case is pretty straightforward. The UPC is an effective mechanism

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00:53:21,620 --> 00:53:27,340
to gain strategic professional expertise to support the development of projects and initiatives

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00:53:27,340 --> 00:53:32,900
security and best planning practices to successful achieve project implementation.

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The agency everyday is challenged with new information and cooperation with other agencies.

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00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:43,980
We are in the middle of a very dynamic growing region, so the sharing of information

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00:53:43,980 --> 00:53:49,260
that developed in the information, the justification of new initiatives is crucial and the

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00:53:49,260 --> 00:53:52,220
help of the GPC allows to do this effectively.

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

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us a lot of flexibility.

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Corridor planning being one of the strongest ones, and where we can actually use a state

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00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:12,220
of the art technology to help us justify investments on these Corridors.

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As you know, we are in the middle of the development of the Project Connect study, and so

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we are hoping to do so with general planning and social services to help us move forward.

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with what we presented, and there were committee meetings last week about future corridors

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and movie-forward and identifying the correct projects for those corridors.

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As you can see, the list is bringing in pens, transit facilities, traffic operation analysis,

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economic development, transportation, the work companies, which is something that is coming up

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00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:47,880
pretty strong, emerging technologies. We will use all of those

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practices to help those three enforce capital measures stop to give you better information

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00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:54,480
in the value of the directions.

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00:54:55,260 --> 00:55:00,080
The previous contract, under take-ins, they really help us a lot with the hundreds planning

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and percent project definition developments for different services that we have with the

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00:55:05,020 --> 00:55:09,240
transportation development plans, which have been very successful in giving you a

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00:55:09,240 --> 00:55:14,020
opportunity to capital measure to open new markets, crucial for our

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00:55:14,020 --> 00:55:20,060
development, transit-oriented development, a good example of that, we rely on the consultative

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help us develop the transit-oriented development tool. We're going to an exercise today

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00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:30,260
about better marketing this tool, which has been very well received by many entities here.

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00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:37,440
We do a lot of ridership forecasts within brand applications, tire, hopefully, another kind

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of a tiger with concern, public involvement strategies,

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00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:44,480
the predictor neck has been heavily receiving support

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from our work consultants, market analysis,

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again, several areas.

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We had a total of 29 test orders

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in our previous contract for a total expenditure

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00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:59,980
of two million almost in the half for that,

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and those are some examples.

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What are we looking to do with the new contract?

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00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:11,900
But as you know, connection is 2025, it's moving forward to implementation, we're going to be looking at that specific.

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00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:18,240
Actually, we already have some preliminary meetings with service planning to define the initial tasks that are going to be moving forward.

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Project connected to their development.

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00:56:20,720 --> 00:56:25,900
We continue to do regional transportation planning with our transportation development plans.

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And our sustainability, sustainability officer is looking at specific projects that will help us really to meet better.

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goals and objectives when we talk about the agency becoming really an example in sustainability

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and continue with transitory into development. Would that I leave it for any questions you may have?

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00:56:48,660 --> 00:56:51,740
Good. Members any questions for Mr. Agueil?

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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.

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00:57:06,150 --> 00:57:10,570
Is there such a motion, a motion by Vice Chair, silence a second by,

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00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:17,540
remember word, any discussion?

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00:57:18,980 --> 00:57:21,160
All in favor of the motion, indicate by saying aye.

528
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:22,800
Aye. Any opposed, aye?

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00:57:23,820 --> 00:57:25,880
Motion carries 70. Thank you, Mr. Guil.

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00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:27,060
Thank you.

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00:57:27,060 --> 00:57:31,740
The next step on our agenda, approval of the fiscal year, I'm sorry, approval of an

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00:57:31,740 --> 00:57:36,220
amendment to the Capital of Metro procurement acquisition policy, updating the policy

533
00:57:36,220 --> 00:57:40,420
for disposal of Capital of Metro, sir, plus and absolutely, that property I need

534
00:57:40,420 --> 00:57:41,980
a deeper welcome.

535
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:44,280
Good afternoon, Chairperson.

536
00:57:45,500 --> 00:57:46,020
I'm sorry.

537
00:57:46,820 --> 00:57:47,320
I'm sorry.

538
00:57:50,620 --> 00:57:51,580
I'm sorry.

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00:57:51,860 --> 00:57:52,160
I'm sorry.

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00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:52,180
I'm sorry.

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00:57:52,180 --> 00:57:52,660
I'm sorry.

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00:57:56,500 --> 00:57:56,760
I'm sorry.

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00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:56,780
I'm sorry.

544
00:57:56,780 --> 00:57:57,040
I'm sorry.

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00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,160
to our procurement acquisition policies.

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00:58:00,140 --> 00:58:03,860
In 2016, an internal audit was conducted on our policies

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and while there were no findings,

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00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:08,800
they did recommend that we expand a bit

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on our investment recovery effort.

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00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:16,780
Over the past four years, sales from the options

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has resulted in the investment recovery effort

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average $411,000.

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00:58:25,300 --> 00:58:37,800
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.

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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.

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on F and also updated any grammatical errors or punctuation errors in the

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

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the draft policy. And that's about it. I'm happy to answer any questions you

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may have.

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I correct me if I'm wrong, but this came before the Finance Committee and was approved.

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That's a simple, long, correct.

561
00:59:17,140 --> 00:59:18,060
Indeed, it is.

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00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:22,060
Any other questions from a steward?

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Hearing none, then to be appropriate to, in the chairs are set to a motion to prove

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00:59:27,630 --> 00:59:31,310
action at a number three approval of an amendment to the capital metro,

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00:59:31,590 --> 00:59:35,650
procurement acquisition policy, updating the policy for disposal of

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00:59:35,650 --> 00:59:38,430
capital metro surplus and obsolete property.

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00:59:38,810 --> 00:59:39,650
Is there such a motion?

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00:59:40,410 --> 00:59:41,970
Mayor Jones, is there a second?

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00:59:45,170 --> 00:59:45,970
Member Kitchen?

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00:59:47,050 --> 00:59:47,650
Any discussion?

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00:59:49,670 --> 00:59:54,890
Hearing none, all in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye, aye, any opposed

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00:59:54,890 --> 00:59:55,590
nay?

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00:59:56,090 --> 00:59:57,050
Motion carries 70.

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Well thank you.

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Thank you.

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And next.

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Action item number 4, approval of the fiscal year 2018 strategic plan, Ms. Feduri.

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Thank you. Good afternoon, Chairman Cooper, Member of the Board, President Watson. My name is

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Pat Baderra, I am the Manager of Performance and Strategic Initiatives. I am here

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before you to request approval of a resolution to implement the fiscal year 2018 strategic plan.

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This plan serves as the blueprint for our business strategy and advanced moving the agency for.

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So today, I have a brief presentation.

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I'd like to begin by giving you some background on the work today.

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The process began, as you recall, with a facilitated meeting

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with the Board of Directors back in October,

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to revisit the existing plan.

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And at that meeting, the Board provided staff with direction,

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regarding changes to the plan, and some of the key takeaways

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

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01:01:06,510 --> 01:01:11,770
We also were directed to continue to develop regional vision and regional partnerships.

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To continue grassroots marketing approach and to tell our story to the community about our value.

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Lastly, the focus was on employee engagement, and this actually became rose to the level

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of a goal.

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In previous plans, it was put together with our financial aspects, so it rose to the level

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of a goal, and we actually have a goal about employing engagement.

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After that, President Watson then engaged key staff members to develop objectives, task and measures

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for each home. Staff presented their work at a follow-up meeting with the Board in April and

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that was also facilitated and there was a lot of discussion in the Board was engaged

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on all the presentations that were made by staff.

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Plan begins with a mission and the vision.

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At the time of revisiting the mission and the vision, the Board did not change anything in

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the mission and the vision and in the all felt it was relevant to the current business

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environment. So the vision, capital metro is transforming the daily lives and central

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01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:27,340
Texans by providing a robust, sustainable transportation network remains the same.

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And our mission, capital metro connects people, jobs, and communities by providing quality

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01:02:33,620 --> 01:02:37,100
transportation choices, also remain the same.

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The plan consists of five goals in each

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goal, each goal has objectives, tasks, and performance measures. When we won't go through

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of them, I'll just give you the highlights for each goal that will take a long time to discuss

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everything. So goal one focuses on the customer and the customer experience and improving the

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01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:06,220
customer experience. Elaine Thames, the deputy CEO, when COO is the lead in this goal area.

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The goal includes initiatives that impact customer satisfaction, service delivery, and seeks to improve

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the overall customer experience.

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Some of the highlights in this goal, some of the highlight initiatives, is implementing

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01:03:22,380 --> 01:03:28,440
recommendations from Connections 2025 Service Plan, which you've heard about, completing

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01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:34,120
the downtown station, which you've heard a lot about, and continuing to our commitment to

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the bus stop improvements and accessibility plans.

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There is also an initiative to develop a comprehensive fair strategy for our customers.

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Goal too is to increase ridership, and again this is the overarching theme for our strategic

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plan.

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Todd Hemingson, the Vice President of Strategic Planning, has been assigned to leave this

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initiative in this goal.

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This was an area that the board asked staff to focus heavily on increasing ridership, and

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There was a lot of discussion when we presented this to the word about how we do this.

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Some of the highlights include designing and implementing innovative mobility zones, continued

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outreach to engage potential partners for service expansion opportunities, finalizing

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01:04:26,550 --> 01:04:34,570
project connections, advancing TOD plans, transit oriented development, researching partnerships

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opportunities for funding implementation of new services. Those were some of the

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highlights in goal 2.

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Goal 3 focuses on the community and our outreach

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efforts. Eduardo Pestillo, our Chief of Staff, is the lead on this goal. In this

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area, we heard the board's direction to advance a grassroots approach with our

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01:05:02,670 --> 01:05:08,290
community to get our message about our services out, get out in the community and discuss

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01:05:08,290 --> 01:05:13,730
our services and help the community understand our value in our community and our region.

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Some of the highlights is to develop a strategy that communicates to value that transit brings

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to our community, engage with the community business sectors and as we were discussing this,

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There were several business sectors that were identified, some of our technology hospitals

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01:05:32,270 --> 01:05:37,950
I recall, the business sectors, and engaged with leaders in the business community to

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develop strategic partnerships and make transit part of their business culture.

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Other initiatives include continue our MetroWorks or V2B program, which we currently have

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agreements with several partners, conduct marketing research, so that we understand the community

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01:05:56,130 --> 01:06:00,830
in public perception and gauge our overall customer satisfaction.

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Go for this is the new goal that has been incorporated into the plan, revolves around

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our human capital.

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01:06:12,780 --> 01:06:16,220
Go for focuses on our employing engagement.

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01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:21,320
Donna Simmons, our VP of Human Resources, is the lead on this goal.

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Some of the highlights include continuing staff development, developing strategies to become

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the employer of choice, develop strategies to improve internal communications, and to engage

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01:06:34,420 --> 01:06:36,580
our service providers in our business culture.

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On the last goal, focuses on our finances, the financial aspect, and right in that

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marnawek is the executive leader of this goal.

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Some of the highlights of this goal is to develop and report key performance indicators,

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financial

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financial plan, and prioritize a five-year CIP, capital and program.

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

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And it also renews our ongoing commitment to maintain our assets to a state of good repair.

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This life here indicates or demonstrates a matrix that we developed,

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that where we heard all of the discussion that was had at both work sessions and we're tracking

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all of the things that we heard from you. So we've created a tracking device and this slide

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is just intended to show the tracking device itself.

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So some of the next steps with the plan.

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We are here before you to submit this plan for approval. We'll continue to monitor the progress

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of the plans and all of the performance measures and initiatives.

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Follow up on specific issues that the Board of Directors that you all have identified

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01:08:09,180 --> 01:08:11,460
within the discussion of the plan.

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Some of those include fair strangle one that was discussion about fair structure, the implementation

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01:08:17,860 --> 01:08:23,280
of the need fair structure, perhaps incentives for frequent writers, and these are just samples

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of some of the things that you all discussed.

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to go to, there was developing a framework for innovative zones and so there was a lot of discussion

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about bringing the framework to the board for discussion, so there were a lot of things

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that we're discussing.

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We are continuing to track all of those initiatives.

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In goal three, there was discussion about the grassroots approach to marketing, bench-marking

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as practices for other employers, I believe there was some discussion about how we recruit,

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01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:03,120
we can better recruit employees and benchmarking other leaders of the industry.

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01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:09,480
There was also a discussion about developing sales tax forecasts and how we work with the city

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

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that you know how the plan is going and the progress that's been made on all the initiatives

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01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:29,500
and how the performance measures are performing. I'd like to thank the Board of Directors

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01:09:29,500 --> 01:09:36,280
President Watson for their engagement and their leadership and the vision of developing this plan

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and demonstrating the value of the strategic plan for capital Metro. So at this time,

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I'd like to answer any questions you might have.

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Members, questions for Ms. Fedari,

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comments, none.

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So we'll get some caffeine for the award.

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01:10:03,020 --> 01:10:04,860
All right, then the chair will entertain.

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Thank you very much, Ms. Fedari, and thank you to staff for putting all this together.

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01:10:10,580 --> 01:10:16,000
I think we've had some really good work sessions with the Board and our facilitator to get

689
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to this point.

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01:10:16,660 --> 01:10:23,480
Now it's down to execution, but it is appropriate for us then to have a motion to approve

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01:10:23,480 --> 01:10:35,490
the fiscal year 2018's strategic plan, motion by member word is a second, by member

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01:10:35,490 --> 01:10:37,130
kitchen in a discussion.

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01:10:39,250 --> 01:10:43,810
This feels like it should be more a momentous than it is actually occurring here on the

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01:10:43,810 --> 01:10:54,190
But all in favor of approving the fiscal year 2018 strategic plan, please indicate by vigorously in the same high.

695
01:10:54,950 --> 01:10:55,810
Any opposed nay?

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01:10:57,210 --> 01:10:58,690
Motion vigorously carries.

697
01:10:59,750 --> 01:11:01,090
Good seven to zero. Thank you.

698
01:11:01,970 --> 01:11:02,990
Thank you to staff.

699
01:11:03,930 --> 01:11:09,350
Next up on our action agenda, approval of a resolution, direct and staff to develop a planning

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01:11:09,350 --> 01:11:14,550
coordination with the City of Austin to further the goal of environmentally sustainable transportation

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01:11:14,550 --> 01:11:20,250
solutions and to demonstrate support for shared innovative and autonomous mobility strategies

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01:11:20,790 --> 01:11:24,670
and the chair will recognize board member Kitchen and door Mr.

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01:11:26,820 --> 01:11:27,340
Hemidson.

704
01:11:27,460 --> 01:11:31,940
I think Mr. Hemidson can speak to it at the appropriate time. I'll make the motion and then I'll

705
01:11:31,940 --> 01:11:32,820
have a few comments.

706
01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:38,640
Good afternoon, Chairman Cooper. Members of the board, President Wasserman Todd Hemidson,

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01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:41,060
Vice President Strategic Planning and Development.

708
01:11:43,300 --> 01:11:49,420
This resolution was brought forth by Council Member Kitchen, although we did have conversations

709
01:11:49,420 --> 01:11:51,060
about the item ahead of time.

710
01:11:51,780 --> 01:11:56,500
And I think it's consistent with a lot of the work that Capital Metro N city Boston have

711
01:11:56,500 --> 01:11:58,860
been doing over at least the past year.

712
01:11:59,620 --> 01:12:05,760
Several things to cite, one is the smart cities, challenge that we will recall.

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01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:11,520
we were substantially involved as a partner with the city and many other groups in submitting

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01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:17,340
for that national competition and one of the highlighted projects there was the Riverside

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01:12:17,340 --> 01:12:22,200
corridor and trying to make it a smart corridor through a number of different means including

716
01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:29,840
enhanced public transportation. It also ties in with the city's current bond program where

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01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:35,260
besides one of the corridors, as well as corridor planning efforts that have been completed,

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01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:41,720
and is consistent with some of Capital Metro's efforts, including Connectes 2025, the currently

719
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:49,060
underway project, Connect, our sustainability efforts in our own vehicle electrification research

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01:12:49,060 --> 01:12:54,580
that Rob Varowski, our sustainability officer has been leading over the past number of months.

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01:12:55,300 --> 01:13:01,440
So, the resolution before each day essentially codifies that and then calls on staff to put

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01:13:01,440 --> 01:13:10,440
together a plan in coordination with the city of Austin to essentially advance shared autonomous

723
01:13:10,440 --> 01:13:18,440
connected vehicle and a new mobility framework with the specific focus on the Riverside

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01:13:18,440 --> 01:13:24,120
corridor and asked us to put together a plan to bring back to the board by the end of July

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01:13:24,120 --> 01:13:30,180
this year. We are prepared to do that. We've already given some thought to how we might

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01:13:30,180 --> 01:13:37,720
accomplish that and our company will be able to provide that plan as stated in the

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01:13:37,720 --> 01:13:42,880
resolution and I'll turn it over to Board Member Kitchen and see if we have additional

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01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:44,400
comments.

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01:13:45,100 --> 01:13:47,040
Should I make comments now or make the motion first?

730
01:13:47,420 --> 01:13:49,200
I will be great to have the motion.

731
01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:52,000
Okay. I move passage to this resolution.

732
01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:55,920
There's emotions of seconds, number of interiors of the second.

733
01:13:56,980 --> 01:13:57,220
Okay.

734
01:13:58,140 --> 01:13:59,260
Thank you, Todd.

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01:14:01,100 --> 01:14:07,040
As he mentioned, this is a recognition and a formal,

736
01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:12,020
making a formal policy for what our staff has already been doing

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01:14:12,020 --> 01:14:16,140
an excellent job on in cooperation with the city of Austin

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01:14:16,140 --> 01:14:18,520
well over the past year.

739
01:14:19,340 --> 01:14:26,900
So, and the reason for, to my mind, to moving forward with a formal resolution is both it helps

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01:14:26,900 --> 01:14:32,960
establish capital metro as the partner that we are with the city of Austin and with

741
01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:39,780
other efforts that are going on nationally to support electric autonomous shared vehicles.

742
01:14:40,480 --> 01:14:45,060
What's really exciting is in the discussion about autonomous vehicles and also about electric

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01:14:45,060 --> 01:14:45,480
vehicles.

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01:14:45,480 --> 01:14:48,180
It's transit that can lead the way.

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01:14:49,100 --> 01:14:59,980
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.

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01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:05,840
Riverside Court has the best potential, most immediately, to serve some kind of automated

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01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:14,900
transit vehicle. And so, that recognition can help us bring dollars to Cat Metro for these

748
01:15:14,900 --> 01:15:21,400
kinds of activities. And so, those are some of the reasons why our thinking was that it would

749
01:15:21,400 --> 01:15:25,520
be important to bring this forward in a formal way, recognizing that Cat Metro's already

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01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:27,860
doing this kind of innovative work.

751
01:15:28,580 --> 01:15:31,260
The city of Austin did the same type of thing.

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01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:36,520
What the city did is adopt a resolution to create a

753
01:15:37,420 --> 01:15:40,520
new mobility electric autonomous shared vehicle plan,

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01:15:41,480 --> 01:15:43,160
in which case city of Austin will be coming.

755
01:15:43,340 --> 01:15:46,880
The staff will be coming back to the city council for adoption

756
01:15:46,880 --> 01:15:48,920
of that plan and that plan actually includes

757
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:52,320
designation of a staff person responsible for leaving the

758
01:15:52,320 --> 01:15:54,880
efforts on autonomous and electric vehicles.

759
01:15:55,860 --> 01:15:57,080
So that's happening over the city.

760
01:15:57,280 --> 01:15:58,960
There's been a lot of collaboration already

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01:15:58,960 --> 01:15:59,780
with Kath Metro.

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01:16:00,440 --> 01:16:02,220
Mr. Heymanson mentioned those.

763
01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:05,720
The other exciting thing that we are starting to talk about

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01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:09,740
is how to capture the EV, the EV challenge idea,

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01:16:10,200 --> 01:16:13,740
which is how to capture the dollars that are coming to the state

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01:16:14,780 --> 01:16:17,380
for electrification as far as the VW settlement.

767
01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:19,920
So working together as a partner,

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01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:24,500
we've been talking about sending those dollars to kept Metro for electrification.

769
01:16:25,540 --> 01:16:29,040
So those are just some examples, some of the kinds of things that are happening already

770
01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:30,800
that this helps to memorialize.

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01:16:31,260 --> 01:16:37,720
And the reasoning behind it to help us to show the world what we already know is happening.

772
01:16:38,060 --> 01:16:43,840
And also to help us with, you know, with dollars and with recognition and national level,

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01:16:43,860 --> 01:16:45,300
which can help with dollars.

774
01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:56,460
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.

775
01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:59,380
So, that's the reason behind it.

776
01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:13,260
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.

777
01:17:14,700 --> 01:17:23,440
But I think this is, in some part, a symbolic gesture confirming what's already going on,

778
01:17:23,660 --> 01:17:29,400
but also for the public to indicate this is something we have an interest in taking a leadership role,

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01:17:29,980 --> 01:17:31,820
locally, nationally, statewide.

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01:17:32,420 --> 01:17:38,520
And we have some interesting opportunities in collaboration with the city to have some pilot projects

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01:17:38,520 --> 01:17:44,260
and develop some potential that I think could put us both from the standpoint of the

782
01:17:44,260 --> 01:17:50,280
transit community, maybe also the manufacturing community in a position of leadership in

783
01:17:50,280 --> 01:17:50,720
the country.

784
01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:52,700
I'm supportive of this motion.

785
01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:54,120
Other questions?

786
01:17:54,300 --> 01:17:54,980
Vice chair Siles.

787
01:17:56,780 --> 01:18:00,400
Todd, can you tell me, what is the urgency of this?

788
01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:06,640
And let me share with you why I'm asking, I have no opposition to the resolution.

789
01:18:06,640 --> 01:18:12,760
My concern is that it did not come through the committee and I personally have to have

790
01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:21,600
ingrated, would appreciate the opportunity to ask Rob what's the difference between what

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01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:28,820
we're doing now and what this resolution proposes and not having had that opportunity and noting

792
01:18:28,820 --> 01:18:39,860
that the date for staff to get back is July 31st. I just would have appreciated having some

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01:18:40,940 --> 01:18:48,500
interaction with Rob Moralsky first. So is there a definite timeline that we're looking

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01:18:48,500 --> 01:18:53,840
at here as to why you did not come through the committee before? Could the deadline not have

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01:18:53,840 --> 01:18:56,840
on this 31st as opposed to July 31st?

796
01:18:58,200 --> 01:19:01,860
I believe the intent was to coordinate cities efforts.

797
01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:06,800
And so when the Council passed a resolution, they also had a summer timeframe

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01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:08,120
or the development plan.

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01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:12,740
The idea was that we would be on generally the same time.

800
01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:14,980
Thank you.

801
01:19:15,620 --> 01:19:16,500
I can speak to that too.

802
01:19:16,980 --> 01:19:22,280
I mean, that's really the thinking was that, you know, this gets this started

803
01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:28,660
And then it can come back through the committee to look at the plan and have those kinds of

804
01:19:28,660 --> 01:19:30,240
conversation at that point.

805
01:19:30,480 --> 01:19:33,220
The other thing is moving fairly fast is that you'd be challenged.

806
01:19:34,180 --> 01:19:40,640
Again, that could be slowed down by how the state actually works on distribution of those

807
01:19:40,640 --> 01:19:41,120
dollars.

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01:19:41,400 --> 01:19:43,600
But it is discussions that we're having right now.

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01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:45,400
So we didn't want to lose that opportunity.

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01:19:45,820 --> 01:19:51,720
And so the thinking was that for this first step that it would be appropriate to just come

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01:19:51,720 --> 01:19:56,730
to the board and then for the more detailed discussion we can have that in the committee first.

812
01:19:58,000 --> 01:19:59,180
Other comments or questions?

813
01:20:04,910 --> 01:20:12,390
All in favor of action item number five approval of a resolution directing staff to develop a plan

814
01:20:12,390 --> 01:20:17,330
of coordination with City of Austin to further the goal of environmentally sustainable transportation solutions

815
01:20:17,330 --> 01:20:21,710
and demonstrate support for shared innovative and autonomous mobility strategies.

816
01:20:21,710 --> 01:20:26,990
Please, that's the motion, if you're all in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying

817
01:20:27,790 --> 01:20:31,030
I, in the opposed name, motion carries 70.

818
01:20:31,270 --> 01:20:31,630
Thank you.

819
01:20:32,250 --> 01:20:32,610
Thank you.

820
01:20:34,030 --> 01:20:40,210
Members, next step, we'll have a presentation from the Metro Art Committee by George Smith

821
01:20:40,210 --> 01:20:41,050
once again.

822
01:20:42,230 --> 01:20:43,690
He always smiling, Jordan Smith.

823
01:20:45,390 --> 01:20:46,170
Good afternoon.

824
01:20:46,830 --> 01:20:50,270
Again, Chairman Speaker, Vice Chair, Kyle, that's President Watson's Board members.

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01:20:50,270 --> 01:20:52,850
I'm Jordan Smith, with the community involvement department,

826
01:20:53,070 --> 01:20:56,110
here at Capital Metro, and delighted to be here to talk to you guys

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01:20:56,110 --> 01:20:59,730
about our new Metro Art Committee and some project pilot projects

828
01:20:59,730 --> 01:21:01,170
that we're going to be working on this summer.

829
01:21:02,090 --> 01:21:05,490
So our goal with this program is to incorporate more art and place making

830
01:21:05,490 --> 01:21:07,810
into our processes here at Capital Metro.

831
01:21:08,550 --> 01:21:12,050
So earlier this year, we've formed an external Metro Art Committee,

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01:21:12,490 --> 01:21:15,570
and we're going to be implementing two pilot programs this summer,

833
01:21:15,750 --> 01:21:17,530
that's awesome to cone bus stop redesign,

834
01:21:17,530 --> 01:21:22,710
as well as our boxes along the current metropolitan lines of the 801 and the 803.

835
01:21:25,010 --> 01:21:29,810
So our external committee formed this past March, we have eight committee members.

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01:21:30,310 --> 01:21:34,790
We have three departments from the City of Austin, Murphy Bay, the Department of Transportation,

837
01:21:35,210 --> 01:21:37,970
Soleil Austin, Art and Public Placence.

838
01:21:38,370 --> 01:21:41,890
We also have two local artists sitting on the committee with us,

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01:21:42,070 --> 01:21:43,910
as well as two place making consultants.

840
01:21:44,770 --> 01:21:49,590
And, unfortunately, I told my committee members to try to be here at 1-30, but you guys

841
01:21:49,590 --> 01:21:50,990
have just moved along so swiftly.

842
01:21:51,510 --> 01:21:56,050
I've got one member here with us, I've got Lynn Osgood from the Goax Labor Day, with us.

843
01:21:56,330 --> 01:21:59,330
And we might have a couple other people popping in in a little bit.

844
01:22:00,850 --> 01:22:05,830
And the goal of this external committee is to be able to oversee the program and also share

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01:22:05,830 --> 01:22:10,630
their insights into how we can implement this in a successful way.

846
01:22:11,470 --> 01:22:16,110
And our priorities are to improve the customer experience, enhance community

847
01:22:16,110 --> 01:22:20,770
with ability here in Austin, detervandalism and increase feelings of safety

848
01:22:20,770 --> 01:22:25,450
and security, support local artists and business, promote equity and neighborhood

849
01:22:25,450 --> 01:22:29,790
character with our arms, and create opportunities for community collaboration.

850
01:22:32,960 --> 01:22:37,740
And this would also put us in line with other peer agencies, most large

851
01:22:37,740 --> 01:22:42,500
transit agencies do you have at our program? Some of the most successful ones are Washington

852
01:22:42,500 --> 01:22:48,420
DC, New York City, and Atlanta, and it also increases brand awareness as well as positive

853
01:22:48,420 --> 01:22:54,760
feelings about the agency. And these are typically funded through 1% of new capital projects.

854
01:22:57,760 --> 01:23:03,960
So as far as the two-pilot programs, the first is our 12th-in-Chicone bus stop. So back in 2003,

855
01:23:04,260 --> 01:23:08,820
capital and metro worked with the local neighborhood association and community to install

856
01:23:08,820 --> 01:23:15,980
of frames at this bus stop with wave five in as well as images of the East Austin African American community.

857
01:23:16,940 --> 01:23:26,780
And fortunately, these materials have not lasted the test of time, and so they've weathered, become faded over the past 14 years.

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01:23:27,160 --> 01:23:35,160
So we have formed an external committee this past fall with neighborhood stakeholders and local groups, including the Austrian History Center, Houston,

859
01:23:35,160 --> 01:23:37,960
until it's in Austin Community College.

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01:23:40,440 --> 01:23:43,220
The East 12 businessmen's association,

861
01:23:43,560 --> 01:23:46,860
so we Austin, the Greater Austin Black Chamber,

862
01:23:47,460 --> 01:23:50,380
among others, she tried to develop some new ideas

863
01:23:50,380 --> 01:23:52,400
for what we could have at this bus stop.

864
01:23:52,880 --> 01:23:55,080
And we take in this to the community twice

865
01:23:55,080 --> 01:23:57,660
with two public meetings to get their input.

866
01:23:59,940 --> 01:24:03,000
So here's a picture of the current bus stop

867
01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:09,480
from a distance, but the way that the frames were originally placed is we've got a section right behind the

868
01:24:09,480 --> 01:24:15,680
bus shelter, as well as another section where there are a bunch of frames. We are playing to remove those

869
01:24:15,680 --> 01:24:22,020
frames and install three groupings of frames on course we're in our nail reports, and we hope to do this

870
01:24:22,020 --> 01:24:23,260
for a lean next fall.

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01:24:26,040 --> 01:24:29,080
And just at the bottom there's little schematic there with the three groupings

872
01:24:29,080 --> 01:24:34,200
that we're planning to do. The first grouping is right behind that bus shelter and the second

873
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:38,260
two groupings are where those light pools are in between the trees.

874
01:24:41,140 --> 01:24:46,740
And this is a schematic of what the grouping one will look like.

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01:24:47,340 --> 01:24:52,000
It will be centered around paragraph about the history

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01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:53,440
of the East Austin community.

877
01:24:53,820 --> 01:24:57,760
And then we've got several images that we hope to place on

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01:24:57,760 --> 01:24:59,020
Porsal and Amoporance.

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01:25:02,100 --> 01:25:05,440
This is the grouping number two that will be in the middle section there.

880
01:25:07,680 --> 01:25:10,620
And this is grouping three that will be the final section.

881
01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:13,200
And we've tried to place these chronologically.

882
01:25:13,700 --> 01:25:16,020
So the oldest images are on panel one.

883
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:20,860
Images from the 1930s to the 1960s are on panel or on grouping two.

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01:25:21,480 --> 01:25:25,160
And images in grouping three are from the 1970s onward.

885
01:25:25,420 --> 01:25:28,980
So we do have a couple more recent images from jump on it

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01:25:28,980 --> 01:25:33,360
as well as gene team that we're proposing to put on this group.

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01:25:35,160 --> 01:25:41,380
We are planning to send this for procurement, hopefully early next week, once we finalize the captions.

888
01:25:41,620 --> 01:25:44,560
I don't know if you guys noticed they're in Latin right now, they're just placeholders.

889
01:25:46,280 --> 01:25:52,480
But once we have all of that finalized, we'll be sending it for procurement and working with our best price,

890
01:25:52,480 --> 01:25:58,940
course on a mammal vendor. And our state of cost, but our products are approximately $30,000,

891
01:25:59,080 --> 01:26:03,240
that's what we have budgeted currently. But of course, we're always looking for cost savings

892
01:26:03,240 --> 01:26:07,640
as well as the potential for some community partners to cost us in dollars as well.

893
01:26:09,850 --> 01:26:15,710
The other project that we're going to be working on this summer is that we have Metro Arts funds,

894
01:26:15,910 --> 01:26:21,870
or seeming Metro Rapid Funds, from when we started the 801 and the 803 lines. 50,000 dollars

895
01:26:21,870 --> 01:26:27,130
has been given to us from the FTA to do some art along those lines.

896
01:26:28,050 --> 01:26:30,870
So one of our committee members came up with the idea,

897
01:26:31,330 --> 01:26:34,430
utilizing the idea that came from the Art and Public Places

898
01:26:34,430 --> 01:26:36,850
Tempo Project, their temporary art installation.

899
01:26:37,750 --> 01:26:42,730
This past fall, five single boxes in traffic single boxes

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01:26:42,730 --> 01:26:46,830
in the South First Street area were covered with vinyl racks

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01:26:46,830 --> 01:26:51,230
to decorate them and to increase the beauty of the city state.

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01:26:51,230 --> 01:27:00,730
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.

903
01:27:08,580 --> 01:27:16,640
Our project was Signals. We did graphic design work and poetry on five traffic control boxes on south-first street.

904
01:27:17,500 --> 01:27:24,500
On these five utility boxes we had a final graphic raps as well as cones and an auditoria company.

905
01:27:27,620 --> 01:27:31,600
Well, please select the box you have arrived at.

906
01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:40,800
We chose South Korea Street because that is our neighborhood, and we have been eyeing those traffic control boxes for at least a year.

907
01:27:41,820 --> 01:27:43,820
And brainstorming what we could put up.

908
01:27:44,240 --> 01:27:50,560
Each utility box was quite different, even the ones that were overall generally the same,

909
01:27:50,560 --> 01:27:55,780
because they were still built by hand and they had little variations in it.

910
01:27:56,440 --> 01:28:00,640
So I've just seen an eye and went out and filled her eye to all of the boxes.

911
01:28:01,380 --> 01:28:06,340
This was both of our first time working with Urban Public Places in the city of Austin.

912
01:28:06,620 --> 01:28:10,480
And we worked really closely with Austin Extreme Graphics.

913
01:28:11,100 --> 01:28:15,140
They used their advice and help to figure out how exactly to the template.

914
01:28:15,140 --> 01:28:21,740
Bernard Sawyer was great. He was able to, with a perfect orange sheet up the vinyl and

915
01:28:21,740 --> 01:28:26,320
stretch it around the foreigners. We were with a great team of team. I hope everything

916
01:28:26,320 --> 01:28:27,220
can come together soon.

917
01:28:32,480 --> 01:28:36,720
Well, because I enjoyed that video. I think the video was a really nice job showing what

918
01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:41,660
how cool these boxes can be, and how they can be the five, just the average day-to-day

919
01:28:41,660 --> 01:28:47,240
experience being around here in Austin. So what we're playing to do is we're playing to

920
01:28:47,240 --> 01:28:53,720
with the city on this as we go for permits. We're also going to use the expertise of Catherine

921
01:28:53,720 --> 01:28:59,960
Gregory who's also in our community from the Austin Transportation Department as well as our

922
01:28:59,960 --> 01:29:08,360
public places and a Bradley who works on the Temple Project as we go forward. And so again these

923
01:29:08,360 --> 01:29:14,540
are going to be along the 801 and 803 lines. Our goal is to have some geographic diversity amongst those

924
01:29:14,540 --> 01:29:20,220
So we're hoping to hit all six of the city council districts that intersect with those lines.

925
01:29:20,680 --> 01:29:24,940
So those would be district two, three, four, five, seven and nine.

926
01:29:25,200 --> 01:29:30,440
And these locations will be approved by the committee as well as Metro staff.

927
01:29:31,040 --> 01:29:34,640
And so here's some examples of where we're hoping to place these.

928
01:29:35,540 --> 01:29:37,540
One is the Triangle Station.

929
01:29:37,900 --> 01:29:39,940
This is near the Winchers Building at Guadalupe.

930
01:29:39,940 --> 01:29:49,940
And 47, you can see on the far left hand side, there is an Austin Transportation Department box, adjacent to our station there.

931
01:29:51,260 --> 01:29:57,440
Also looking at the SoCo station, where there's a signal box directly behind it.

932
01:29:57,780 --> 01:29:59,720
This is on South Congress, and it'll always be there.

933
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:29,440
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.

934
01:30:29,440 --> 01:30:35,680
the 80D box. So for District 2, we're looking at the little Texas stations. District 3, we're

935
01:30:35,680 --> 01:30:40,600
looking at St. Edwards, District 4, Runberg, and District 7, Allendale.

936
01:30:42,920 --> 01:30:43,440
And in terms

937
01:30:43,440 --> 01:30:50,300
of budget for this, we have $50,000, again, from the FTA. And we're facing our cost on what

938
01:30:50,300 --> 01:30:56,100
was in the Temple budget for when they did this this past fall. So for the large Austin

939
01:30:56,100 --> 01:31:01,280
transportation department boxes, they spent a thousand dollars for the graph, as well as

940
01:31:01,280 --> 01:31:07,740
prepping the box, for the graph, and then with the electric meter pedestals, because

941
01:31:07,740 --> 01:31:15,120
they are smaller, we're anticipating a cost of $850 per box for those. We're also playing

942
01:31:15,120 --> 01:31:21,860
the partner with schools nearby, those metro stations, and working with middle and high schools

943
01:31:21,860 --> 01:31:24,780
to have their students design the artwork.

944
01:31:25,580 --> 01:31:27,940
So we're playing to give stipends to the schools

945
01:31:27,940 --> 01:31:30,460
for participating to cover supplies

946
01:31:30,460 --> 01:31:32,720
as well as give gift cards to the students.

947
01:31:34,920 --> 01:31:36,380
And then I would be on the turn of the leap

948
01:31:36,380 --> 01:31:41,040
for part of the summer, so we're playing to hire a manager

949
01:31:41,040 --> 01:31:43,260
to oversee this project in my absence.

950
01:31:43,880 --> 01:31:46,520
And we also want to have removable services

951
01:31:46,520 --> 01:31:49,620
budgeted into the cost as well.

952
01:31:49,620 --> 01:31:52,740
So these graphs were designed to last roughly three years.

953
01:31:53,160 --> 01:31:55,440
So at the end of those three years, we can either replace the

954
01:31:55,440 --> 01:31:58,020
wrap or they can remove it completely.

955
01:31:58,460 --> 01:32:00,920
And then we also have some fun set aside for contingency.

956
01:32:01,140 --> 01:32:03,680
In case we do want to add additional locations,

957
01:32:04,520 --> 01:32:05,800
or they're unforeseen across.

958
01:32:08,070 --> 01:32:11,070
And our next steps, obviously, to work with the schools,

959
01:32:11,770 --> 01:32:14,830
I'm getting school groups set up so that they can design these

960
01:32:14,830 --> 01:32:17,210
hopefully by end of summer or early fall.

961
01:32:17,490 --> 01:32:19,270
So we can try to have hard installation.

962
01:32:19,270 --> 01:32:21,470
in the November December of this year.

963
01:32:24,010 --> 01:32:25,870
And then future plans for the committee.

964
01:32:26,970 --> 01:32:29,750
There has been money set aside for the downtown station,

965
01:32:29,810 --> 01:32:32,350
$250,000 towards art.

966
01:32:32,350 --> 01:32:34,130
So we are going to be having some conversations

967
01:32:34,130 --> 01:32:35,930
about what the art would look like

968
01:32:35,930 --> 01:32:37,430
at the new downtown stations.

969
01:32:38,010 --> 01:32:39,570
We're also looking to see what art

970
01:32:39,570 --> 01:32:42,430
we could have as part of the project of Puzzle Seltio.

971
01:32:42,870 --> 01:32:46,830
We are looking at doing almost a tile piece in district 10.

972
01:32:48,210 --> 01:32:49,550
Also in the purview of the committee

973
01:32:49,550 --> 01:32:55,510
we're hoping to research national and state grants for our projects so we can utilize those funds.

974
01:32:56,130 --> 01:32:59,330
We'd also like to see bus stop and train station activations.

975
01:32:59,450 --> 01:33:04,030
That means bringing out artists or musicians to our bus stops or train stations.

976
01:33:05,610 --> 01:33:10,750
And then we're also discussing the possibility of having a formal policy here at Catmenschau

977
01:33:10,750 --> 01:33:16,290
to possibly devote 1% of our large-scale capital projects to the boards park.

978
01:33:16,290 --> 01:33:21,070
So those are just a few of the things that we've got on the dotted after our call-up program.

979
01:33:22,230 --> 01:33:25,770
So with that I'm happy that try to answer any questions or concerns you may have.

980
01:33:26,010 --> 01:33:28,190
Thank you, Jordan, members, any questions?

981
01:33:28,910 --> 01:33:29,570
Ms. Smith?

982
01:33:31,340 --> 01:33:31,480
None?

983
01:33:32,880 --> 01:33:33,520
Member Ventria?

984
01:33:36,980 --> 01:33:39,780
So, on your upcoming budget, you're saying class is up here.

985
01:33:39,980 --> 01:33:41,480
What do you have planning in there?

986
01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:45,000
Right now where it's just, it's just in the idea of things.

987
01:33:45,200 --> 01:33:49,040
So we just want it, it's on our radar for something we want to try to put some art into.

988
01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:54,060
I have no formal plans yet, so if you have suggestions, we're happy that you're looking to those.

989
01:33:55,260 --> 01:34:00,960
So all of these are just going to start by.

990
01:34:01,180 --> 01:34:04,000
Right, so these are all ones that we're starting to plan.

991
01:34:04,280 --> 01:34:08,480
The mosaic tile piece there was actually an artist that came to us saying that she had a,

992
01:34:08,480 --> 01:34:13,280
she had a design and it had been approved by the Cultural Arts Service and she just didn't have a location.

993
01:34:13,940 --> 01:34:17,100
So as we're trying to geographically spread out our projects,

994
01:34:17,100 --> 01:34:20,560
we thought we would look to just pretend to possibly incorporate it

995
01:34:20,560 --> 01:34:21,980
and one of our stops there.

996
01:34:22,220 --> 01:34:22,580
Yeah.

997
01:34:25,090 --> 01:34:25,690
Member Kitchen.

998
01:34:26,950 --> 01:34:29,110
I think you listed seven schools.

999
01:34:29,770 --> 01:34:32,490
If you could let us know we're just schools, so some of them.

1000
01:34:32,630 --> 01:34:32,810
Sure.

1001
01:34:33,190 --> 01:34:34,730
I'll just read this up to give you some seconds.

1002
01:34:51,280 --> 01:34:51,980
I'll just be checking.

1003
01:34:52,160 --> 01:34:53,540
Right, sorry about them.

1004
01:34:53,620 --> 01:34:54,880
President, President, I'll just be checking.

1005
01:34:55,180 --> 01:34:55,880
I'll just be checking.

1006
01:34:56,820 --> 01:34:57,780
I'll just be checking.

1007
01:34:57,780 --> 01:34:58,880
I'll just be checking.

1008
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:02,820
We have an artist and residents here.

1009
01:35:06,800 --> 01:35:10,980
I apologize, I'm happy you know it over to you.

1010
01:35:12,420 --> 01:35:15,880
The school, the high school's in middle schools that are nearby those stations.

1011
01:35:16,320 --> 01:35:17,820
So those are the schools that will be approaching.

1012
01:35:18,940 --> 01:35:21,420
Okay, I just want to say I think it's an excellent program.

1013
01:35:22,300 --> 01:35:26,200
So I've always, you know, I'm sure other people run around town seeing those ugly boxes.

1014
01:35:26,540 --> 01:35:29,400
And there's just no reason to have, you know.

1015
01:35:29,960 --> 01:35:39,040
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.

1016
01:35:42,200 --> 01:35:58,400
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.

1017
01:35:58,400 --> 01:36:04,000
people with their also, how much time and energy you put into this.

1018
01:36:04,380 --> 01:36:12,220
One thing I would like to suggest, that as we get closer to the 12th in Chicago, station

1019
01:36:12,220 --> 01:36:19,840
becoming a reality, putting those panels in, you may want to work with Council Member

1020
01:36:19,840 --> 01:36:27,500
Houston's office, some of the people that were here at various points are still living,

1021
01:36:27,500 --> 01:36:41,600
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.

1022
01:36:42,380 --> 01:36:52,840
So I know that they would love to see this once or our unveiling or grand opening or whatever.

1023
01:36:52,840 --> 01:37:00,980
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.

1024
01:37:01,460 --> 01:37:03,600
So that they can be available for that.

1025
01:37:04,600 --> 01:37:08,300
And Dan Dawson from our team has met with Representative Houston.

1026
01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:13,160
She had a staff member in our last community involvement meeting about this.

1027
01:37:13,340 --> 01:37:18,620
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.

1028
01:37:20,160 --> 01:37:25,860
Good, thank you to the comments, Jordan, thank you, thanks staff for bringing a little

1029
01:37:25,860 --> 01:37:29,300
beauty into the world and to our world.

1030
01:37:29,720 --> 01:37:32,040
Next up, speaking of beauty, Mr. Heminson.

1031
01:37:44,940 --> 01:37:47,820
Again, our ridership report for the quarter.

1032
01:37:48,560 --> 01:37:51,700
This is for the second quarter of 2017.

1033
01:37:53,580 --> 01:37:56,620
And just a few things to walk through with you today.

1034
01:37:59,080 --> 01:38:05,420
Overall, for the quarter compared to the same quarter in the past year, we were essentially

1035
01:38:06,260 --> 01:38:09,740
leveled, just down very slightly less than 1%.

1036
01:38:10,500 --> 01:38:12,620
Some of my highlights through the months.

1037
01:38:13,160 --> 01:38:16,080
In January, as you recall, we eliminated the premium fair.

1038
01:38:17,060 --> 01:38:20,320
That has proven to be a very positive thing for ridership.

1039
01:38:20,860 --> 01:38:25,140
In February, we won't go through all the details, but you can see some of the highlights.

1040
01:38:27,000 --> 01:38:42,680
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.

1041
01:38:43,660 --> 01:38:50,120
Part of that was I think our own doing we had some efforts to actually alleviate some of the

1042
01:38:50,120 --> 01:38:55,560
the sardine conditions on some of those trips by directing people to use bus service instead.

1043
01:38:55,920 --> 01:39:02,020
So we tried to balance our ridership across the different modes of service that we offered to and from that event.

1044
01:39:04,920 --> 01:39:08,380
The summary table here and there will walk through each of the different contributors.

1045
01:39:08,380 --> 01:39:22,440
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.

1046
01:39:22,700 --> 01:39:24,660
We're actually up just slightly.

1047
01:39:25,680 --> 01:39:35,540
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.

1048
01:39:37,270 --> 01:39:44,270
So there's the fixed route, nearly break even, again, for the quarter, but again for your

1049
01:39:44,270 --> 01:39:52,290
debate actually in the positive express, also nearly break even for the quarter and we continue

1050
01:39:52,290 --> 01:39:58,090
to be excited about and waiting patiently as we can for the mobile pack lanes to open because

1051
01:39:58,090 --> 01:40:04,910
that will, as we mind or lead to a major re-alignment of our express service once we can turn that on.

1052
01:40:07,180 --> 01:40:15,600
Rail ridership, up just about 1%, reaching actually for a quarter, that was the highest quality

1053
01:40:15,600 --> 01:40:21,360
cabin metro rail's history, was the last quarter.

1054
01:40:22,140 --> 01:40:28,260
Similarly, and even more profoundly, on metro rapid, by far the highest ridership and the history

1055
01:40:28,260 --> 01:40:36,700
of that service, this past quarter, you can see the major jump there here in the quarter

1056
01:40:36,700 --> 01:40:43,600
with ridership almost at 900,000 trips in that quarter, again, far exceeding what we've experienced

1057
01:40:43,600 --> 01:40:44,100
today.

1058
01:40:46,500 --> 01:40:52,000
Here on the other hand is the less positive news. One thing I want to kind of put

1059
01:40:52,000 --> 01:40:58,200
up a little finer point on is, at last time this came up, there was a, I think some of

1060
01:40:58,200 --> 01:41:02,880
the media, there was an assertion that may have come across as though we were saying that

1061
01:41:04,300 --> 01:41:09,040
ridership challenges were kind of like on U.T. or something, but that's not really the case.

1062
01:41:09,660 --> 01:41:16,840
We're trying to say here is that as a part of our overall system, U.T. shuttle is down substantially,

1063
01:41:16,960 --> 01:41:24,900
as the number show, it's down made in a major way. But at the same time, we should acknowledge that some of

1064
01:41:24,900 --> 01:41:30,800
those riders have moved over to the fixed route system. So it's not simply that this is just

1065
01:41:31,900 --> 01:41:38,520
We have had a transition as we've adjusted services in coordination with UT over the past several years,

1066
01:41:39,240 --> 01:41:44,460
but the fact does remain that UT showed a ridership as one component is down substantial.

1067
01:41:46,690 --> 01:41:58,870
Metro access relatively flat or down 0.7% right share continues to be very positive for the agency with significant growth.

1068
01:41:58,870 --> 01:42:05,430
One interesting point here, you can look at just in four years, we've more than double the

1069
01:42:05,430 --> 01:42:08,730
quarterly ridership in the right-share system, the BAM pool pool.

1070
01:42:11,120 --> 01:42:16,460
Productivity is an area, obviously, connection 2020, 25 is working to improve as soon as we

1071
01:42:16,460 --> 01:42:23,560
begin implementation. We hope to correct some of these, but this is one that we see as a significant

1072
01:42:23,560 --> 01:42:30,100
concern in one we're keeping an eye on because we don't want to see continued reductions in productivity.

1073
01:42:30,860 --> 01:42:36,440
We have been adding service and we know that in most cases, it's similar to other systems,

1074
01:42:37,280 --> 01:42:43,140
that ridership gain will be over a one to two year period from when you had the additional service.

1075
01:42:43,300 --> 01:42:49,280
So there is often a depth and productivity initially with a gain over that one to two year period.

1076
01:42:49,680 --> 01:42:54,380
We're hoping to see that as we start to see growth on mental rapid for example.

1077
01:42:54,380 --> 01:43:00,860
But, a big contributor here to the overall system of productivity is that our most productive service,

1078
01:43:01,640 --> 01:43:06,340
or a second most productive, mental rail being the most productive in terms of passengers per hour.

1079
01:43:06,980 --> 01:43:15,600
Well, the one that carries more ridership as seeing a significant drop in productivity over the past several years.

1080
01:43:18,070 --> 01:43:23,190
Our ridership versus budget, we are slightly below 1.6 for the quarter.

1081
01:43:23,190 --> 01:43:28,250
And some of our partnership agreements, ACC, it was down substantially.

1082
01:43:28,590 --> 01:43:32,970
We continued to work with them to look at ways to reverse that trend.

1083
01:43:33,370 --> 01:43:40,850
So the device was actually up 4.3% for the quarter, which I have as county also up in the

1084
01:43:40,850 --> 01:43:50,370
positive to 9.5% and then just in terms of summary, again, a recap here and see trends over

1085
01:43:50,370 --> 01:43:55,170
various quarters the past four years and where we've been.

1086
01:43:55,810 --> 01:43:57,950
That is the report, we've got to answer any questions.

1087
01:43:59,860 --> 01:44:01,360
Questions for Mr. Hamington?

1088
01:44:05,300 --> 01:44:07,180
I guess thank you very much.

1089
01:44:07,640 --> 01:44:08,580
Thank you.

1090
01:44:09,420 --> 01:44:14,240
Next up, our quarterly financial report from Ms. Monowick.

1091
01:44:14,860 --> 01:44:15,080
Welcome.

1092
01:44:20,630 --> 01:44:21,710
Good afternoon, Chairman Cooper.

1093
01:44:21,990 --> 01:44:24,930
Board members and President and C. O. Watson.

1094
01:44:24,930 --> 01:44:35,050
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.

1095
01:44:42,160 --> 01:44:58,960
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.

1096
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:07,260
As a benchmark, considering that behalf words into the year, you would expect to be at about 50 percent.

1097
01:45:07,940 --> 01:45:16,340
So, looking at ridership, even though ridership is slightly below the previous year, it is also slightly above budget,

1098
01:45:16,340 --> 01:45:20,720
which were at 50.6% of budget with some slag favorability.

1099
01:45:22,400 --> 01:45:26,120
As sales tax, these are the accounting numbers we close,

1100
01:45:26,340 --> 01:45:29,840
the books in fairly soon, after the month,

1101
01:45:29,980 --> 01:45:33,060
and in our sales tax are two and a half months in a rear.

1102
01:45:33,820 --> 01:45:38,680
So I'll talk more about sales tax with actual numbers on such advanced slides.

1103
01:45:39,760 --> 01:45:43,340
As such affairs in Q2 was consistent with budget,

1104
01:45:43,340 --> 01:45:49,300
And the reason we're tracking below budget is for that variance from Q1, when we had

1105
01:45:49,300 --> 01:45:55,660
the three, three right days that are resulted in some last passenger fees.

1106
01:45:56,600 --> 01:46:00,820
The race is all tracking to budget with the exception of other revenue.

1107
01:46:01,400 --> 01:46:08,080
That is where we budget at 1.6 million in lease revenue for the Plaza Sol T.O. development,

1108
01:46:08,080 --> 01:46:23,900
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.

1109
01:46:25,080 --> 01:46:38,060
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.

1110
01:46:38,060 --> 01:46:43,840
But we don't foresee any appearances that year in the means to expect you realize all that

1111
01:46:43,840 --> 01:46:44,300
revenue.

1112
01:46:45,360 --> 01:46:51,700
So, overall, we're fairly close to budget that 47.1% with most of this due to timing

1113
01:46:51,700 --> 01:46:58,720
in the capital contributions line, and as a fair revenue per passenger, we're below budget

1114
01:46:58,720 --> 01:47:01,200
because of those three, three days.

1115
01:47:03,340 --> 01:47:15,780
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%.

1116
01:47:16,740 --> 01:47:24,630
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.

1117
01:47:24,630 --> 01:47:37,270
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.

1118
01:47:38,650 --> 01:47:48,530
Year to date we are still positive compared to budget. We budget it to 4.4% increase and we're currently at 4.97.

1119
01:47:48,530 --> 01:47:53,950
and so we have a half a million dollar integrity in sales tax.

1120
01:47:58,330 --> 01:48:05,710
These are the economic trends that we keep an eye on in order to timely scale back.

1121
01:48:05,890 --> 01:48:08,430
Should we see a decline in sales tax income?

1122
01:48:09,330 --> 01:48:15,070
The top graph is showing our sales tax year over year growth.

1123
01:48:15,790 --> 01:48:21,030
And what is relatively erratic, you can see that the trend line is declining.

1124
01:48:22,210 --> 01:48:29,330
year-over-year job growth was very strong in the first three months of this year at an average of about 3%

1125
01:48:30,010 --> 01:48:34,590
which is good news after the decline that we saw at the end of the last year

1126
01:48:34,590 --> 01:48:43,250
and the population growth in Austin ended at the year at 2.9% that is considered fairly consistent with community years.

1127
01:48:43,250 --> 01:48:44,370
Our

1128
01:48:47,730 --> 01:48:51,830
operating spaces are also tracking down to objects.

1129
01:48:52,310 --> 01:48:54,350
Again, we're looking at a four-year budget.

1130
01:48:54,670 --> 01:48:58,070
So we would prefer to be at 50% or less.

1131
01:48:58,770 --> 01:49:00,250
Other operating spaces.

1132
01:49:01,310 --> 01:49:05,050
The key indicators that we track there is revenue hours.

1133
01:49:05,410 --> 01:49:08,050
Since that drives our operating cost.

1134
01:49:08,710 --> 01:49:11,070
And there you can see we're slightly below budget,

1135
01:49:11,210 --> 01:49:14,050
even though our ridership is slightly above budget.

1136
01:49:14,050 --> 01:49:23,150
So that's a very good train to see, but the revenue miles also being below budget at 47.9%.

1137
01:49:23,150 --> 01:49:32,050
Salaries and benefits, we're also below budget due to 1.2 million in vacancies that have not been staffed.

1138
01:49:32,830 --> 01:49:36,990
And then professional services, we're also off favorable to budget.

1139
01:49:36,990 --> 01:49:44,510
We do expect to spend most of that by year age due to the delay timing of some of the services being deployed.

1140
01:49:45,550 --> 01:49:51,870
On fuel and fluids are other big favourable variants, and this will be a permanent variance

1141
01:49:51,870 --> 01:49:58,490
as we budgeted fuel at $3.20 and we're actually spending $2.8.

1142
01:49:59,550 --> 01:50:04,210
So for the six months we're 2.8 million favourable in fuel.

1143
01:50:04,210 --> 01:50:11,450
The rest is all tracking a fairly intense budget, and in other experiences that big

1144
01:50:11,450 --> 01:50:17,250
bearing system should be laid timing and a contingency that we have budgeted there for

1145
01:50:17,250 --> 01:50:24,210
unforeseen items. So, overall, as for a PPI of cost for a revenue hour, we're favorable

1146
01:50:24,210 --> 01:50:29,070
to budget at a hundred and twenty versus a hundred and twenty-seven in the budget.

1147
01:50:31,450 --> 01:50:32,210
Our policy

1148
01:50:32,210 --> 01:50:38,090
requires that quarterly we report to you any budget transfers that we have made and in

1149
01:50:38,090 --> 01:50:45,110
Q2 we have made the following budget transfers. The first one is just between two rail projects,

1150
01:50:45,390 --> 01:50:51,570
three dollars for shifted from one program to another in order to a better track the projects.

1151
01:50:52,430 --> 01:50:59,730
The second item is for the storm water improvements at the downtown station. That wasn't

1152
01:50:59,730 --> 01:51:08,210
budget for fiscal year 17, so we moved 500,000 from our contingency account to fund that project.

1153
01:51:09,530 --> 01:51:14,110
And transfers number three is as we closed off fiscal year 16.

1154
01:51:14,250 --> 01:51:19,810
We identified that some projects that were initially budgeted as capital projects.

1155
01:51:20,210 --> 01:51:25,550
The actual work did not qualify for capitalization under the accounting principles.

1156
01:51:25,550 --> 01:51:29,950
So, we need to move it out of capital into operators.

1157
01:51:30,430 --> 01:51:33,990
It's just a transfer of where the funds are allocated.

1158
01:51:35,370 --> 01:51:48,370
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.

1159
01:51:48,370 --> 01:51:49,670
This

1160
01:51:52,620 --> 01:52:09,240
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.

1161
01:52:11,810 --> 01:52:14,390
And this is showing a budget variance by the department.

1162
01:52:14,390 --> 01:52:19,630
So it's just a different look of looking at the same operating experience as it goes to

1163
01:52:19,630 --> 01:52:20,470
by category.

1164
01:52:20,850 --> 01:52:23,470
We're now looking at it as a total body performance.

1165
01:52:24,250 --> 01:52:30,650
And you can see that all of our departments are at less than 50% for this six months.

1166
01:52:31,370 --> 01:52:36,910
With the exception of legal where we had some unbudgeted experiences related to the project

1167
01:52:36,910 --> 01:52:42,210
TN as well as some right-of-way disputes on Anderson Lane.

1168
01:52:45,280 --> 01:52:51,760
Our capital project summary, we have 158 million budget for fiscal year 17.

1169
01:52:52,720 --> 01:52:58,560
After that between about we have already been invoiced and what we have committed to purchase orders,

1170
01:52:58,780 --> 01:53:01,880
we have to spend 47% of our capital budget.

1171
01:53:01,880 --> 01:53:06,280
So, we're going to track to spin those funds this year.

1172
01:53:07,140 --> 01:53:12,040
On commuter rail, this is for the progress payments of the four new trains,

1173
01:53:12,660 --> 01:53:17,920
as well as target grant projects and rail improvements on the land and the line.

1174
01:53:18,200 --> 01:53:23,060
So, just to note both the trains and the target projects are grant funded.

1175
01:53:23,320 --> 01:53:30,220
So, while we have the capital expenditure, we also recognize the capital revenue on the revenue side.

1176
01:53:31,880 --> 01:53:38,500
for vehicles. This was scheduled bus for patients at the end of their life, as well as six

1177
01:53:38,500 --> 01:53:46,340
additional interfaces, and 19 additional power plants advanced. And then moving to facilities

1178
01:53:46,340 --> 01:53:51,040
where we had the other big strength that is for the neglect parking that was completed

1179
01:53:51,040 --> 01:53:56,460
in March, the downtown station and bus stop accessibility improvements.

1180
01:54:02,090 --> 01:54:03,810
That's your silence for the question.

1181
01:54:04,610 --> 01:54:05,230
Thank you so much.

1182
01:54:05,470 --> 01:54:06,550
I appreciate this greatly.

1183
01:54:06,990 --> 01:54:07,850
Let me ask you a question.

1184
01:54:08,010 --> 01:54:09,490
Back on slide seven.

1185
01:54:12,800 --> 01:54:19,000
For January 17 we talked about the downtown station storm water improvements and you say that money

1186
01:54:19,380 --> 01:54:20,860
was taken from contingency.

1187
01:54:21,920 --> 01:54:24,880
Did that have any effect on our reserves at all?

1188
01:54:25,540 --> 01:54:32,840
Now, this is all budgeted, so every year we have income that comes from our operating

1189
01:54:32,840 --> 01:54:37,900
income that we spend on capital, as well as reserves that we preserve for capital.

1190
01:54:38,020 --> 01:54:44,160
So this will be able to be funded by the culture in this future capital reserve.

1191
01:54:44,260 --> 01:54:49,080
And then there was also some discussion about using a portion of this budget,

1192
01:54:49,320 --> 01:54:51,640
then theization reserve to fund this longer.

1193
01:54:51,640 --> 01:54:53,400
Let me

1194
01:55:02,490 --> 01:55:04,150
process that a minute.

1195
01:55:04,510 --> 01:55:05,550
Any other questions?

1196
01:55:07,850 --> 01:55:09,170
Thank you.

1197
01:55:09,730 --> 01:55:10,430
Thank you very much.

1198
01:55:12,180 --> 01:55:12,860
Thank you very much.

1199
01:55:13,020 --> 01:55:13,460
Very good.

1200
01:55:13,560 --> 01:55:14,940
Thank you.

1201
01:55:15,020 --> 01:55:19,000
Last but not least, our President CEO of President Watson.

1202
01:55:20,180 --> 01:55:21,440
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

1203
01:55:22,200 --> 01:55:29,380
I want to start out today talking about a project that's been many, many months in the works.

1204
01:55:29,380 --> 01:55:38,120
And it's the way we collect data and doing analysis for information that has to be approved,

1205
01:55:38,120 --> 01:55:41,840
transmitted and approved by the Federal Transit Administration.

1206
01:55:42,680 --> 01:55:51,720
They use the ridership information that we submit to them to calculate the formula that determines

1207
01:55:51,900 --> 01:55:56,820
how much discretionary federal funding we get.

1208
01:55:56,820 --> 01:56:05,920
It's just under 30 million annually, so the data that we provide to them is very, very

1209
01:56:05,920 --> 01:56:11,200
important, and they want to make sure that we get the ridership information correct.

1210
01:56:12,140 --> 01:56:19,780
And all of these years, we've been providing the information to them based on a manual method,

1211
01:56:19,860 --> 01:56:24,960
which is somebody getting on a bus, counting everybody who gets on the bus.

1212
01:56:24,960 --> 01:56:36,240
And of course we've done that randomly throughout the systems, so you get statistical, valid information about the ridership numbers.

1213
01:56:36,760 --> 01:56:43,700
However, there's been for some time an automated way to do this is called automatic passenger counters.

1214
01:56:45,240 --> 01:56:54,320
And the FDA in the past has not allowed this kind of submittal until recently.

1215
01:56:54,320 --> 01:57:03,120
But before we were able to use our APCs, automatic passenger counters, we had to go through

1216
01:57:03,120 --> 01:57:05,740
some very stringent standards.

1217
01:57:06,480 --> 01:57:11,640
We do have these APCs on every single bus and train in the system.

1218
01:57:12,140 --> 01:57:16,720
And so we have some pretty accurate data that comes from those.

1219
01:57:16,720 --> 01:57:25,360
But in order to be accepted by FTA, we had to do sample ridership data manually.

1220
01:57:27,340 --> 01:57:36,620
We also had to include a process where we regularly monitor equipment, verification of the

1221
01:57:36,620 --> 01:57:44,340
accuracy of the calves and the process for estimating data when equipment fails.

1222
01:57:44,340 --> 01:57:54,400
Our staff spent much of FY 16 and FY 17 collecting and analyzing the data and working with

1223
01:57:54,400 --> 01:58:02,620
ridership software vendor to make sure that our APC data was correct and I want to specifically

1224
01:58:02,620 --> 01:58:09,560
thank Jennifer Govaya who is not actually in the room right now but her and her team worked

1225
01:58:09,560 --> 01:58:17,840
really really hard to make this happen. As with most of the things we do, there's a lot of regulation

1226
01:58:19,300 --> 01:58:30,000
and paperwork to be done to meet their criteria, but they did a really good job of pulling this

1227
01:58:30,000 --> 01:58:38,000
together. And the approval for submitting the APC data is good for the next three years that we do

1228
01:58:38,000 --> 01:58:45,060
of this over again. So anyway, it was a tremendous amount of work, something done behind

1229
01:58:45,060 --> 01:58:51,180
the scenes, but something really important, because we get federal funds based on some of the

1230
01:58:51,180 --> 01:58:59,940
status. So now I get to do a lot of fun things. The next couple of items. The first one is

1231
01:58:59,940 --> 01:59:06,860
staff recognition. You know that May is graduation month, and I'm pleased to announce that we

1232
01:59:06,860 --> 01:59:14,680
have a couple of staff members who received their Master's degree from UT over the weekend.

1233
01:59:15,380 --> 01:59:18,340
This first one is Jonathan Tanser.

1234
01:59:18,440 --> 01:59:25,840
He's one of our IT project managers and he received his Master's of Science and Technology

1235
01:59:27,520 --> 01:59:35,060
Commercialization from UT's Macone School of Business, John took part in an intensive

1236
01:59:35,060 --> 01:59:43,560
one-year program that focused on the intersection of business, technology, and innovation.

1237
01:59:44,780 --> 01:59:51,200
The second person you probably recognize is our Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff

1238
01:59:51,200 --> 01:59:59,980
Eduardo Castillo. He received his master's in public leadership over this last week and from the LBG.

1239
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:13,320
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

1240
02:00:13,320 --> 02:00:23,520
herartos class, in particular, they also, that's sort of merged with community leaders that come

1241
02:00:23,520 --> 02:00:29,000
and talk to the class, so they get a lot of real-world experience in these as well.

1242
02:00:29,540 --> 02:00:38,000
These two people spent a lot of time, evenings, weekends, going to these classes, reading

1243
02:00:38,000 --> 02:00:40,780
a lot of material in their off time.

1244
02:00:41,420 --> 02:00:50,420
And so I know it's a tremendous effort to work full time and get a master's degree, so we're

1245
02:00:50,420 --> 02:00:56,120
internally, very proud of these two individuals and know you will be as well.

1246
02:00:57,740 --> 02:01:07,840
The second program is, you know, talking about smart people, this Caitlyn Dalton is our

1247
02:01:07,840 --> 02:01:08,180
planner.

1248
02:01:08,460 --> 02:01:12,480
You probably remember her from so the presentations she's given to the board.

1249
02:01:13,120 --> 02:01:20,100
And we found out this month that she's one of 25 transit professionals from across the country

1250
02:01:20,100 --> 02:01:26,820
who were admitted to the next app to class of emerging leaders program.

1251
02:01:27,520 --> 02:01:31,900
And this program is extremely competitive.

1252
02:01:32,520 --> 02:01:39,040
They look for diversity in so many ways including geographic across the country.

1253
02:01:39,360 --> 02:01:46,180
And I tried to prepare her for possibly not getting submitted or not getting approved

1254
02:01:46,180 --> 02:01:55,320
with only 25 slots available, I wasn't sure how good of a chance she had, but she is just so

1255
02:01:55,320 --> 02:02:01,960
smart and so good. And this program fits her well. She is an emerging leader. There's

1256
02:02:01,960 --> 02:02:09,700
no question in my mind that she has a tremendous career ahead of her. Hopefully it's with

1257
02:02:09,700 --> 02:02:19,720
in transit, but it's a great program. It lasts for one year. It includes mentoring, workshops,

1258
02:02:21,020 --> 02:02:28,160
monthly online meetings to help participants develop leadership skills and learn best practices

1259
02:02:28,160 --> 02:02:34,140
as they advance through their career. Okay, now for the sad part. That was the happy part.

1260
02:02:34,140 --> 02:02:41,540
And this part is the Fairwell, and I've got two to talk about.

1261
02:02:42,240 --> 02:02:47,500
I mentioned last that we have two people moving on, but now it's time to hear.

1262
02:02:47,500 --> 02:02:48,760
It's really happening.

1263
02:02:50,160 --> 02:02:53,380
In early June, we will be saying Fairwell,

1264
02:02:53,540 --> 02:02:57,380
to Christy Will Hype, our government relations manager.

1265
02:02:58,340 --> 02:03:01,280
All of you know her very well.

1266
02:03:01,280 --> 02:03:06,200
She has done just a tremendous job for us.

1267
02:03:06,620 --> 02:03:12,940
Her husband has gotten a huge promotion, is moving to Houston as a result.

1268
02:03:13,820 --> 02:03:18,720
And she has decided her and her children have decided to go with him.

1269
02:03:19,520 --> 02:03:22,020
So she's leaving capital metro.

1270
02:03:22,260 --> 02:03:26,280
And I tell you, I cannot go any place in this community.

1271
02:03:26,280 --> 02:03:31,200
without someone saying, oh, my gosh, Christy is leaving.

1272
02:03:32,480 --> 02:03:38,280
I refer to her as the person with the personality plus.

1273
02:03:39,280 --> 02:03:42,860
I don't think she, I think everybody knows who Christy is,

1274
02:03:43,100 --> 02:03:45,060
and everybody's going to miss her.

1275
02:03:45,400 --> 02:03:49,660
And I also think that she would like to say a couple words to the board

1276
02:03:49,660 --> 02:03:52,520
before leaving. This is a very last board meeting.

1277
02:03:53,840 --> 02:03:54,760
Thank you, President Watson.

1278
02:03:54,760 --> 02:04:00,820
Chairman, board members, President Watts, and the last time to say that, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today.

1279
02:04:01,680 --> 02:04:11,540
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.

1280
02:04:12,780 --> 02:04:19,940
Everyone from the mechanic to the driver to the person planning the routes to the folks that are going out to the public meetings.

1281
02:04:19,940 --> 02:04:23,500
This is just a wonderful group of people.

1282
02:04:23,780 --> 02:04:35,060
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.

1283
02:04:35,460 --> 02:04:44,700
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.

1284
02:04:44,700 --> 02:04:51,040
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.

1285
02:04:51,780 --> 02:04:53,120
Thank you, Christy.

1286
02:04:54,940 --> 02:05:01,860
And then the last one is our Vice President of Marketing and Communications, Dan Dawson.

1287
02:05:02,360 --> 02:05:08,160
His last day will be this Friday, so this is also his last board meeting.

1288
02:05:08,160 --> 02:05:16,300
He's leaving us to go back to Los Angeles in the area that he lived in when we hired him.

1289
02:05:16,500 --> 02:05:21,460
He's got a really exciting new position. It really does sound exciting.

1290
02:05:22,060 --> 02:05:26,480
He's working for or will be working for a solar energy company.

1291
02:05:28,440 --> 02:05:37,480
And it's so innovative and they're doing some really cool things that he's a perfect match for.

1292
02:05:37,480 --> 02:06:01,760
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.

1293
02:06:01,760 --> 02:06:03,820
I'm going to put that in your arm and go back again now.

1294
02:06:06,180 --> 02:06:08,600
I did just want to first of all thank all of you board members.

1295
02:06:08,840 --> 02:06:11,620
I've gotten to lucky enough to work with many of you personally.

1296
02:06:12,460 --> 02:06:16,860
I know the amazing amount of time that you commit to this board and your thoughtfulness

1297
02:06:17,320 --> 02:06:21,080
and your passion and all making this a better community and so it's been really wonderful

1298
02:06:21,080 --> 02:06:22,760
to be able to work with all of you.

1299
02:06:23,820 --> 02:06:26,160
And also it's been great to work with Linda and Eduardo.

1300
02:06:28,320 --> 02:06:30,000
There's like no words, right?

1301
02:06:30,000 --> 02:06:31,840
I mean, that's coming from me.

1302
02:06:33,380 --> 02:06:39,180
It's just great, great leaders in this organization, and it's just been a joy and wonderful

1303
02:06:39,180 --> 02:06:43,060
to be able to work with them, as well as lots of the other staff as well, and of course

1304
02:06:43,060 --> 02:06:48,100
my team, which I've been so pleased to have such great dedicated and smart and creative

1305
02:06:48,100 --> 02:06:50,860
people to be able to work with my team.

1306
02:06:51,500 --> 02:06:55,960
So thank you so much for entrusting me to manage your brand and image at the time, but I've

1307
02:06:55,960 --> 02:06:56,640
been here.

1308
02:06:56,640 --> 02:07:01,700
I think I hope I have, I hope you feel, but I have moved it to new locations.

1309
02:07:02,800 --> 02:07:04,260
In fact, I'll tell you one quick story.

1310
02:07:04,500 --> 02:07:07,640
I was talking to somebody who works here and they said, you know,

1311
02:07:09,000 --> 02:07:13,820
more than five or six years ago, I would go to the grocery store and I would hide it.

1312
02:07:14,080 --> 02:07:14,860
My ID.

1313
02:07:15,360 --> 02:07:17,260
Good engine and my people would never work out for a month or two.

1314
02:07:17,320 --> 02:07:19,260
And they said today I'd wear a proud leader wear a gun.

1315
02:07:20,300 --> 02:07:22,440
So I think that's a big highlight to it,

1316
02:07:22,600 --> 02:07:25,660
where the agency is a whole thing really gone into the art image

1317
02:07:25,660 --> 02:07:28,080
and how the community views us most of us.

1318
02:07:28,760 --> 02:07:29,920
So anyway, I'm glad you're up in the air.

1319
02:07:30,040 --> 02:07:32,020
But it would be at least a small part of that.

1320
02:07:32,280 --> 02:07:32,720
Thank you.

1321
02:07:33,060 --> 02:07:35,280
Thank you, Dan, and thank you, Kristi.

1322
02:07:35,680 --> 02:07:39,000
You will both be this tremendously.

1323
02:07:39,520 --> 02:07:40,300
And that's my report.

1324
02:07:40,680 --> 02:07:41,680
Thank you, President Watson.

1325
02:07:41,680 --> 02:07:44,220
Let me just add to what President Watson said.

1326
02:07:44,220 --> 02:07:54,140
Others may want to join me, but I think a sad moment to miss or to see each of you

1327
02:07:54,140 --> 02:08:01,040
because you have representatives so well and improved our brand as such, not only our brand,

1328
02:08:01,320 --> 02:08:06,820
but our substance of what we are in the community. I know walking with Christy through the

1329
02:08:06,820 --> 02:08:12,500
legislature you couldn't have a better representative of cap metro and I think the improvements

1330
02:08:12,500 --> 02:08:19,220
that we've seen legislative leave speak for themselves and I don't think I'll ever see a bus with a

1331
02:08:19,220 --> 02:08:26,600
and say and get back on the back of it without thinking of the Dan and his team or women

1332
02:08:26,600 --> 02:08:33,960
in 1980's workout paraphernalia, but each of you have made a huge difference to us and

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thank you for all you've meant to us. Congratulations to Harado for getting smarter and I

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think we're going to class in Friday nights. Very impressive and we're looking for even

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greater things from you.

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And thank you to the rest of the staff for all you do for us, and pushing us ahead will miss

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those who are leaving us.

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We'll look forward to greater leadership from those who have gotten smarter, and, unless

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there's something else, board members will stand adjourned at 201.

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Thank you very much everybody.

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Where are you headed?