yes I will just I'll just comment we did
go through this in quite detail at APC
and uh thank Brian for as usual his very
diligent and very thorough uh budget
report so we did ask quite a lot of
questions then and
answers all satisfactory so
um I'll be happy at the time to move the
item okay
commissioner enrich I I was just to Echo
of that being on APC and what Brian was
explaining
um you know we all caught that we're not
spending money on the call to cut a
tunnel but it's because of our
allocation for me of how we assign costs
and things like that so it's not going
call the cut tunnel
um that project is done and over this is
really complex if you're if you're here
for the first time none of us have a
budget like this and the reason why is
if you really want to look at year over
year you just look at our staff
Administration cost everything else is
Project driven there's lots of projects
those costs go up and they're all
proportional and they all have a source
of funding
our biggest key factor is staying for
all that Administration essentially our
own operating cost although some of our
staff are also assigned to outside
projects because they're working on the
project but we have that one percent
limitation and we were right around the
0.83 so I think we'll add to second that
and thank Brian and staff for modifying
your presentation for the comments that
we had too thank you okay member
Fidelity yes
um great job I was just wondering on the
state revenue side if in fact the
governor signs the budget with the
transit deal
in it might there be additional revenues
that come in any way shape or form
yeah there was there was
um a comment Hisham had come to my
office earlier this earlier this
afternoon and talked about maybe Sunday
I think there was the I-80 project San
Pablo Dam I believe might be in that we
would go out and do an RFP on that so it
would be a time frame of maybe six
months and and we will add that at the
mid-year so we'll we'll make sure that
we
keep an eye out for those additional
revenues and with any other project that
comes along the lines we'll we'll budget
forward at mid-year great thank you
okay see another board members who will
go out to the I will
um invite members of the
room here to have public comments
if there are any
okay we will go out to the public do we
have any written or verbal public
comments
no written or verbal public comment
okay thank you we will close the public
hearing and we will look to commissioner
noet
the item again second
okay we have a motion by Noah X second
by enrich
terryanne can we do a roll call
commissioner Carlson
hi
commissioner fideli hi
commissioner Haskew aye
commissioner Kelly
aye commissioner Meadows
uh commissioner Nowak yes commissioner
sauce yes commissioner stopper yes
commissioner Thorpe aye Vice chair
arnrich aye chair Glover yes motion
passes unanimously okay thank you all
uh next item on our agenda is a will be
presented by Terry Ann
to adopt changes to physical year
2023-24 publicly available pay schedule
and the authority salaries the benefits
and Compensation Plan for
June July 1st 2021 through 2024.
good evening chair and Commissioners
in June 2021 The Authority board
approved resolution 2135a sorry let me
turn my video on
Okay resolution 2135a adopting the
Authority's salaries benefits and
Compensation Plan for July 1st 2021
through June 30th 2024 in April 2022 The
Authority board approved for revision
one
in March 2023 The Authority board
approved revision two this was to
support the accessible Transportation
strategic plan office of accessibility
and equity and creation of the
coordinating entity
actions consisted of adding a programs
manager and a contracts manager
classification
reclassifying one FTE from the director
of programs classification to the
program's manager classification
adding two ftes for the contracts
manager and one for the administrative
assistant classification and this
resulted in an increase of FTE positions
from 21 to 23. this item is brought
forth today to consider a further
revision to remove the 3.5 CPI cap
Consumer Price Index adjust the salary
ranges by 4.9 per percent for inflation
by the average 12-month December ended
percent change in the CPI add one FTE
position to the associate engineer
classification add one FD position to
the senior engineer classification and
this will result in an increase of FTE
positions from 23 to 25 for this fiscal
upcoming fiscal year further it
recognizes Juneteenth as a holiday and
reassigns the floating holiday in
February that is the holiday that is for
Washington and Lincoln's birthday we
still have the president's holiday and
that will be reassigned to the
Juneteenth holiday as a result of
assembly bill 1655.
we're doing a change to the bereavement
leave from three to five days and this
was a result of a b assembly Bill 1949
and there's other administrative changes
such as adding a Mill and rest period
for all non-exempt employees and then
updating the authority stipend from 65
to 100 dollars
these revisions align with the authority
of being an employer of choice we have a
high performing team of 20 people
eventually here will be 25. these
changes are approved annually by the
board as part of those approvals the
board makes the decision annually on the
CPI increases for staff so to be clear
regardless of what the CPI is in
December the board will still make the
decision on an annual basis basis as to
what percentage staff will receive
the proposed changes to salaries and
benefits are included in the fiscal year
budget it will account for 19 field
positions and six unfilled positions for
a total cost of 6.5 million which has
increased the budget by 478 388 by
adding the two new positions
the new positions will be funded by
grants and Regional funds like our like
Regional Measure 3 we will remain under
the one percent administrative cap and
we have no unfunded liability these
positions will be funded by projects and
will have minimal increases to the cost
under the one percent administrative cap
adding these positions will support the
projects Department with additional
Grant funded projects Regional Measure 3
Grant funded projects and local agency
support and allows for succession
planning planning for funding and
programming requirements we will have
the capacity to take on additional
support for local agencies such as the
San Pablo multimodal Corridor project
if approved recruitments will be
conducted internally with the intent to
fill them this fall
staff seeks approval of resolution 2135a
revision 3 which will amend the
Authority's salaries benefits and
Compensation Plan for July 1st 2021
through June 30th 2024 to remove the 3.5
CPI cap adjust the salary ranges
effective July 1st by 4.9 percent add
one ft position to the associate
engineer classification add one FTE
position to the senior engineer
classification this will result in
increase of Ft positions from 23 to 25
recognized Juneteenth as a holiday and
reassign the floating holiday in
February to Juneteenth change the
bereavement leave from three to five
days for eligible employees and approve
other administrative changes as noted in
the compensation plan that concludes my
presentation I'll answer any questions
that you may have thank you thank you
Terry
First Look to our boards see if there's
any comments or questions
I just made comment that again this was
at ABC
and just again historically there was
this cap that some we thought we were
wise in the past this agency doesn't do
colos
right most of the other agencies the
county it's automatic this is a year by
year basis obviously in the last year
was a unique year
and we wanted to have the board
consciously make the decision it also in
years of very low it creates a false
expectation that well oh it says three
and a half so this way it's up to us to
make that decision each year and I'd be
glad to make a recommendation to move
this forward and the two positions are
really needed we have so much on our
plate and the everything we're doing on
on 680 and even what now we might be
back on 80 for the next round
staff needs to help and and the fact is
the financial plan is solid it's Project
based so
yeah it's uh great when we as Project
based and as Grant
the dollar any other
comments members will now go out for
public comment is there anyone in
Rome today that wishes to address
okay uh Terry Ann do we have any
remote
public commenters
no public comment written or verbal
okay thank you
we will I will turn to
commission I'm rich I understand yeah
I'd be glad to make a motion and just a
big thanks to tarian to you
um your work with Brian on this and
particularly to Tim on the vision that's
built into this so this isn't just a
financial solution this is a vision of
our future so uh pleased to make a
motion as it's been presented tonight oh
okay I'd like to Second it and I just
want to say um no I completely agree
with you you know CCTA often acts um and
works like a a private firm and uh
having a cola for the this increase I
think is warranted
okay we have a motion by Andre second by
um
my colleague over here
[Laughter]
um is there
roll call vote please
commissioner Carlson yes commissioner
fideli aye commissioner Haskew yes
commissioner Kelly yes commissioner
Meadows aye commissioner Nowak yes
commissioner sauce yes commissioner
stuffer yes commissioner Thorpe aye Vice
chair arnrich hi
chair Glover yes motion passes
unanimously
hey thank you good job
um next item on our agenda today is
three-part action item
that will be presented by then Ramirez
on the State Route 4 my Colony bike
trail pedestrian overcrossing project
the first item is the uh and request to
increase the construction
allotment for the project
I've
[Applause]
it's good good evening chair
Commissioners Ivan Ramirez director of
construction
and these three items that I'm going to
talk about are all action items
but before
I do that I wanted to give you a little
a brief update of where the project is
right now when I came over here a couple
of months ago to talk about this project
even update it's progress was kind of
limited there was a lot of issues that
related to construction they're going to
talk about actually I gave you a
presentation about at that time but
since then given that the weather has
cleared up for us and a lot of the
issues have been put behind behind us
with the contractor progress has been uh
actually remarkable and I just wanted to
give you a couple of pictures that you
might
um so you can see by yourself so
everything that you see there that is
white that's concrete the contractor
went ahead in the last couple of months
uh form and poor what we call this the
stem and soffit and then on top of that
they went ahead and poured the deck so
progress is is very good I know some of
you if not all of you get a notice that
we're going to be closing Highway four
and uh that's actually a safety measure
the contractors doing they don't
necessarily have to close it but when
they're going to pour concrete did you
say let's let us shut the freeway down
and let's do it in the safest way
possible and as you can see I I
mentioned briefly last time about the
challenges coming up ahead and I talked
to you about that kind of like a hairpin
turn that they that we have to achieve
where it has a lot of tolerances in both
slopes going down and sideways in the
contractor is actually working on that
right now it Still Remains a challenge
but they're making progress
and I just want to say that you know
we're working very well with the
contractor now they're advancing the
project they're keeping a safe
environment and a clean site
so we are we have turned appears that we
have turned the corner as far as this
project is concerned so with that I'm
going to talk about the first action
item where we
assuming remember there was a little no
Prejudice they originally funded the
project by 11 million dollars and when I
came to you last time we knew we were
going to need additional money to finish
the project and we requested authority
to get an additional two million dollars
of letter not Prejudice from MTC we went
ahead and proceeded with that and they
actually gave us the two million dollars
so that that occurred last month there
was an action that it took like this
month so with that we're coming back to
you to today and asking you to increase
the construction allotment of the
project to 10 202 000 270 originally the
allotment that you approved
was 8 million 626
589 in 23 cents
so um
so that's the action that we're
requesting that you approve the
construction alignment increase
thank you Ivan and it's great to see
that that
the outlet cement now
um is there any Ford comments or
questions on this
and just make a clarification
just so it's really clear
we already sought for 2 million so the
MTC gave us that so the
1.57 is out of that 2 million that we
already did because we anticipated that
that's it thank you
okay uh
any remote
communists
no public comment written or verbal okay
and I think I did open it up to the
boardroom here
okay see none um
the entertain a motion
most interproof
suck it
[Applause]
okay was that fidelity
okay who who is that for okay motion by
Thorpe second by medals
[Laughter]
okay uh we'll have a roll call vote
commissioner Carlson yes commissioner
fideli aye commissioner hascu aye
commissioner Kelly hi commissioner
Meadows aye commissioner Nowak yes
commissioner thoughts yes commissioner
stuffer yes commissioner Thorpe aye Vice
chair arnrich aye chair Glover yes
motion passes unanimously
okay thank you we'll go to the second
item which is a request to approve the
change order for the project Ivan please
present
I thank you chair uh you some of you
might remember the projects that we
encountered included a bird nesting to
get in the way of work included some
constructionist mess because the farmer
went ahead and formed the garlic and
they got wet we also had a issue with
conference getting the link losses
approved and more importantly than that
we had an issue with the actual
structure that really cost us a lot of
pain to get over so in we got together
with the contractor we knew we had
exposure we knew we had that we're
incurring additional costs for newer
Runway High schedule so we were able to
negotiate a change over 19 with a
contractor for one million 575
000 681 dollars as you say sorry and
um
the the this you know overall I think I
think this is the right move to get this
changer approved since since we're going
to be paying I think the contract was
going to be May hold again and that's
what we strive to do here to pay the
contractor where we owe them so uh the
amount that we're requesting is exactly
the amount that we're asking for that we
just approved for the construction allow
me so the increasing the allotment that
you just approved was directly to pay
the contractor for this change order so
with that um
the staff report has a summary of the
breakdown of the costs
and so you have an idea how we came up
with this cost
and uh so with that I'll be happy to
answer any questions
okay thank you are there any
commissioner questions
okay
um anyone in the chambers from the
public
Tyrion do we have any raised hands
no public comment verbal or written
okay
bring this back to the body for a
decision
promotion to prove second
okay
move by Third second by stepper roll
column please
commissioner Carlson yes commissioner
fideli aye commissioner Haskew yes
commissioner Kelly yes commissioner
Meadows aye commissioner Noah yes
commissioner stalls yes commissioner
stepper yes commissioner Thorpe
aye Feister arnrich
aye chair Glover yes motion passes
unanimously Okay the third item is a
request to approve an amendment for
additional program and project
management service for the project Ivan
will be present thank you chair so uh we
we hire goal management and Engineering
to help us manage the project do with
the construction management and
inspection and given the number of
issues that we have encounter and a lot
of
back and forth with the contractor
regarding submaros request for
information schedules
it has increased their cost
in addition to that there's more
overtime in addition to that we have
increased the length of the project so
all of that has also increased their
cost to get this project to completion
and we're asking the board to approve an
amendment with home management
engineering for an amount an increased
amount of 897
000 30.72 cents for a new Total
agreement value of 5 million 346.
912.90 so with that I'll be happy to
answer any questions
okay thank you uh board member comments
the vice chair yes Ivan um this is I'm
fine with this but behind this um there
were design errors on this so recall
particularly on the three-dimensional
curvature they had all the elevations
wrong it got missed so do we expect to
see something come back um
on claim um for that do we expect some
resolution compensation or how is that
going to work out
the commissioner we have the the
executive director and I have had
discussions for the designer about the
issues that we have encounter I think
I'm gonna let the secret director talk
to it but I think they have acknowledged
some responsibility
so as we begin to close this project out
we're going to be continuing those
conversations with the designer see if
we can get some way to compensate us for
the additional cost because you're
absolutely right especially that deck
that's the most costly one that we have
all the issues and that's directly
attributable designer right and the way
it works I mean just to be clear
that if um if you're trying to figure
out what the cost difference is if you
designed it correctly
there's no extra cost they can design it
incorrectly and there's extra cost it's
pretty clear what that difference is
so while it's a small project the
implication on this for their design fee
it's actually pretty substantial as a
percentage so you know it's the cost of
doing business but in the the technology
that we have and the computer generation
they didn't do this in 3D them or
anything because this can't happen in
that system
so um you know maybe it's something for
us to require a little bit higher
standard
um in since they're doing all
computer-aid computer-aided drafting
Design Systems those systems alone would
prevent this if it was done as a 3D
modeling
so I would hope that maybe in the future
we can take this lesson apply it but um
you know I hope to see this come back to
us and see what resolution we'll have so
thank you
another common if you don't mind so
regarding the faces one two a and four
the work is currently on the design
there I think I mentioned also that in
that April we're actually going to come
back to you and ask for additional
budget because we're implementing bam
and and Bim is you know you spend money
up front it's a great investment up
front but hopefully like commission
honors was saying you you kind of
minimize uh any impacts in the field
because you're able to catch a lot of
things up front so we're actually
working on that right now for our future
projects it's part of the qap that we
you approved a couple years ago or so so
we're very much focused on specifically
avoiding these kind of issues in the
future
Ivan you're always on it thank you
thank you no other commissioners
okay we will ask that uh public that's
in the chamber if there's any comments
seeing that do we have any remote
no public comment written or verbal
okay bring it back to the board
it wasn't to approve and I'll second
okay we have a motion by Thorpe second
by Kelly
broke our vote please
commissioner Carlson yes commissioner
fideli aye commissioner Haskew yes
commissioner Kelly yes commissioner
Meadows
aye commissioner Nowak yes commissioner
sauce yes commissioner supper yes
commissioner Thorpe
aye Vice chair arnrich aye chair Glover
yes motion passes unanimously
okay thank you we'll move to our next
item which is an informational update
that will be be provided by Stephanie
who on the East County Dynamic personal
microtransit project
welcome Stephanie
you can see okay perfect
um good evening chair and Commissioners
my name is Stephanie who director of
projects at CCTA this is an
informational item to provide you an
update on the dynamic personal
microtransit or dpmt project
um the dpmt project is a closed micro
transit system consisting of a small a
fleet of small personal driverless
electric Vehicles operating on demand in
a dedicated guideway either elevated or
at grade each ride is to be ordered per
party so there's no ride sharing the
writer will order the ride via an app or
at a kiosk that will take them where
they need to go without any intermediate
stops
we aim to have the system to be run on a
financially sustainable model so the
cost of each ride would be comparable to
what people pay for Transit today
the project aims to tackle these Transit
priorities in East County improving
Transit experience for the users
providing transit services that are that
have Equitable access supporting
economic development in East County by
increasing Mobility preparing the future
in of transit connect Transit technology
showing the public the benefits of
transit to encourage most shift and
Transit use and improving connection to
some advantages of dpmt are that the
potential to generate economic
development in the East County the dpmt
vehicles are to be zero emission
Vehicles so that supports the climate
goals that the state has to reduce ghg
emissions it will provide greater
Transit accessibility and for the
disadvantage disadvantaged communities
in East County and it complements fixed
route Transit as a potential first mile
Last Mile connection it can be
constructed costs effectively given its
small footprint and each ride is on
demand and it's a private ride so the
ride experience is personalized and safe
for the users
in 2021 the East County cities and the
county collaborated and conducted a
feasibility study to assess the
viability of a dpmt project in East
County the study assumed glideways
technology but we know there are other
technology vendors that can Implement a
dpmt project the study develop a
conceptual routing plan and also
evaluated the feasibility of of
attracting private financing and Public
Funding to deliver the project and the
study determined that public-private
partnership or P3 would be or could be
feasible
some key parameters that we're looking
for for the dpmt project are that the
system be operated On Demand with short
waiting times and that dpmt is a
personal ride so each ride is for one
party to get them from point A to point
B and then there may be potential of
having the flexibility for the users to
choose to pick up other Riders if
desired the system is to be fully
autonomous and operated with zero
emission Vehicles since we'll be
pursuing Federal funding the elements in
the system will need to comply with
Federal made America rules and also Ada
accessible we're looking for a system
with smaller vehicles that are fully
separated from traffic with dedicated
space and it would need to be operating
in both directions separately and it can
be operated at grade or grade separated
the technology can be different than
what was assumed in the feasibility
study
in terms of delivery since the
completion of the study try Delta
Transit and CCTA staff have been
collaborating on how to deliver the dpmt
project using design Bill Finance
operate and maintain P3 model we
conducted an industry Outreach Day in
February of last year which had really
good turnout and we received some useful
feedback from the industry with the
feedback Authority and try Delta staff
we find our delivery strategy using P3
model that includes procuring a
developer team
and last July the authority board and
tried Delta Transit executed at mou that
defined roles and responsibilities of
the two agencies including collaborating
to advance the project using P3 if it's
financially feasible develop procurement
documents and joining negotiate contract
and contract with a P3 developer team
so the dpmt project is part of the new
ccj 4.0 Vision that our executive
director had laid out a few months ago
the vision builds upon the Innovative
framework that our agency has already
established and aims to expand ccta's
role to include operations and
maintenance county-wide similar to the
Presto shuttle and innovate 680 the dpmt
implementation will expand CT ccta's
role in in the O M world or in
partnership with Tri Delta Transit for
this project
the authority and try Delta will be
managing entities and partners on
Project implementation both CCTA and try
Delta will work with a P3 developer team
on the project development construction
and operations
so CCT and try Delta release an RFP in
November to procure a developer team
consisting of a P3 developer and a
technology partner to perform three
initial phases of work and this team
would be formed with designated roles
that can access a range of funding
opportunities and to navigate the
funding and P3 constraints the initial
three phases of work will be the scope
of work under the system pre-development
agreement or spda which CCTA and try
Delta Transit will jointly enter into
with the developer team
the spta spda will cover three phases
and it's a first step of our delivery
approach the first and second phases
will be at no cost to the authorities
both CCTA and the development Tri Delta
the developer team is to do this work in
phases one and two at their own risk
without payments from us phase one will
include identifying a viable initial
segment where the design construction
and the long-term o m can be funded
through a combination of grant funding
and revenues they would identify a
technology solution that can operate the
dpmt system they would review the
assumptions made in the feasibility
study and the team will propose to CCTA
and try Delta in an approach and a cost
estimate for completing the
environmental review for this first
segment and the programmatic approval
for future segments of dpmt
phase two will include beginning
environmental scoping of the initial
segment and applying and obtaining funds
needed to proceed to the phase three and
future implementation phase
if you're successful in obtaining grant
funding in Phase 2 the developer team
will proceed to phase three under the
spda phase 3 will be Grant funded and
the work includes advancing the design
of the initial segment to 30 percent
including system engineering of the
technology that will be used and
identifying right-of-way needs
completing SQL NEPA clearance for the
first segment or initial segment and
conducting investment grade ridership
and revenue analysis the work in the
first three these three phases again is
covered under the system pre-development
agreement or spda and that will be
executed by ccca Tri Delta with the
selected team
at the end of phase three that's covered
by the spda and if the initial segment
is still determined to be financially
feeable feasible we will enter into a
second step where the authority and try
Delta will negotiate with the developer
team and execute a system development
agreement or SDA
the implementation phase will include
the completion of final design for the
five the first segment obtaining any
right-of-way permits or approval and
then constructing this initial segment
and the negotiation of the SDA may
include future segments of the dpmt
system
so because
this is very specialized work and this
is alternative delivery with P3 we've
had several rounds of one-on-one
meetings or negotiations that were held
with prospective developer teams after
we released the RFP between November and
may where we sought input from the uh
the prospective teams about our delivery
structure phasing and also get comments
from them on the draft RFP and SPD
some major discussion points were first
developing a work plan that outlines the
responsibilities for the authority staff
and also the developer team and also who
will take lead on some Key activities
um there are also discussions about the
no payments to developer team for phases
one and two work both CCTA and try Delta
were very firm on this because we do not
have any funding for the project at this
time and so to be clear again phase one
phase two does not cost the authorities
um anything
um the developer team will be taking
those tasks on at their own risk and
even if we are successful in getting
grants to advance to phase three the
authorities will not be paying work done
in Phase One and phase two first because
grant funding that we would hopefully
get in four phase three work would be
for phase three work and then also grant
funding isn't normally doesn't allow us
to pay for work that's already been done
prior to Grant award and also if the
authorities terminate the agreement
there will also be no payments for phase
one and phase two
another topic that we discussed was the
request for exclusivity by the
prospective teams to mitigate the risk
this request was not a huge one a huge
risk for the authorities so the
authority ends the Contra for any reason
we will not undertake another dpmt
project in East County for 12 months
this lowers the risks for the developer
team and then also signals to the
proposals that the authorities are
committed and serious about advancing
the project with the selected team
lastly there are discussions and
confirmations about the Authority's
commitment of staff's time on the
project again because the developer team
is working at risk for the first two
phases they want to be insured that our
staff CCT staff and try Delta staff are
going to be actively engaged on the
project so with the comments we received
through these one-on-one meetings we
were able to find our procurement
documents and then we issued refinements
to our documents through several addenda
so moving forward looking forward in
terms of timeline the proposals were due
June 2nd we're wrapping up our major
procurement activities this week so I
will not go into the details of the
selection of the team today we will be
seeking concurrence and approval of the
spda from the Tri Delta board next week
staff will come back to this board for
execution of the spda in July and the CC
the Tri Delta board will execute the
contract after we execute next month
and with that be happy to take any
questions I wanted to acknowledge Branch
butson he is our P3 attorney from
Kathleen Kirsch and Rockwell he's on the
call in case there are questions that he
may be able to answer with that that
concludes my presentation
hey thank you Stephanie this is really
exciting stuff
um so I'll turn to my
colleagues
board member is supper all right
um thank you is it as exciting everybody
at the conference wanted to get in that
car and see how they looked in it and
how they would ride and so I'm just
going to limit it to that overall view
so I know that um you know I'm kind of
representing San Ramon here too and that
they had a little delay in the bird
project because they were the scooters
weren't where they needed to be and how
many you needed to have at one point in
time so what happens with these cars
you've got Danville with 45 000 people
how many of those do you have to have
around to be able to have 10 people five
people go to the doctor or school at 10
o'clock in the morning do they have
several of these because it's a personal
vehicle right yeah I think that depends
on the segment the initial segment that
we'll be tackling
um and I'm sure through the analysis
they will provide the adequate vehicles
to support the ridership for that
segment which is not yet known at this
time that's all work that will be done
in this initial phase or sorry phase one
is San Jose experiencing this right now
they're they're also in the development
stage right yeah it's familiar with the
San Jose project and where they are at
um I'm just looking for somebody maybe
that's tried it yet or are we first yeah
what do you say first whoa
yeah all right I think that project is
the airport
it's not quite as having enough
disservice so that people want to keep
taking this yeah so I think that's part
of the analysis and as they study that
first segment who of course have enough
vehicles to serve the ridership Tim
thank you maybe I can just add so what
the the way the system's preliminary
development where we laid out is based
on user requirements and quality of
service so basically what will happen is
the system provider or the operator
would have to provide whatever number of
vehicles are required to meet them the
the user requirements so for example you
know as we go through our analysis and
this will determine on how to how it'll
actually pencil out from a funding and
revenue standpoint cost the revenue
standpoint but let's say for example we
want to make sure we have headways of
you know every 10 minutes you know in
the system right so based on analysis
and based on demand they would have to
provide whatever number of vehicles
whether that be 100 vehicles or 200
Vehicles right and that'll all be
determined on how you pencil out the
operating cost versus the revenue when
we go through this kind of initial phase
to make sure it's to make sure it's a
feasible project in phase one before we
actually move to subsequent phases
picks number robots yeah oh okay thank
you thank you
thank you
uh board member know it I I just had a
question I I heard the concern on not
funding for phase one and two were we
happy with the number of proposals that
we received from Developers
we're still in the I I'm hesitant to say
because we're still we haven't wrapped
it all up so that's why we were hoping
this was informational item to prepare
you all for the next month's action I I
thought they were due by June 2nd yeah
they were due in June 2nd we met to
panel and evaluation so yeah so you're
not quite cool yeah otherwise today for
Action so if I could answer that
question next month okay maybe public
information this time laughs
but I've asked about the deadline was
over I just didn't want to get ahead
just in case I will remember your
question and we'll answer it ask again
otherwise
I just want to run in trouble with any
laws
okay member of fidelity and then um
Kelly so personal means one
singular party like I can get a ride
with two people I'm a single party sorry
family of four yes yes yes what about a
bike yeah there will be room right yeah
I've seen pictures one black bike not a
cohort and I saw the East County is
there a proposed route this time or is
this just a general yeah the map that
you saw was from the feasibility study
along where
um it was to connect any of the keys
right by your house okay sure
commissioner yeah
um it was conducting major activity
centers and um schools but they have not
it was a concept so parallel following
Bart too
um I
um they canned there's no there is no
definite defined route right now this
could be a first one okay okay great
thank you
remember Kelly
um Stephanie thank you for your
presentation and this is very very
um very exciting
um and these um little dpmts they'll run
on their own track so to speak right
yeah their own pavement
um designated a dedicated space not
share not share with mixed flow traffic
or right and then there won't be traffic
crossing over there they would need to
either find a way to go over or under
okay and I know we're just in the
beginning stages right now but do we
have any idea how long phase one and
phase two might take you mean in time
yeah yeah
um yeah we anticipate to be six to nine
months understanding that developers are
doing this for free at risk we couldn't
go on forever so okay so not five years
right no I mean I don't know
sooner rather than later so yes of
course I think we also need to in that
time assess Financial
feasibility of course but yeah we don't
anticipate one phases one and two to be
years right and as I understand it if
this actually gets produced um that
people will be paying for these rides
right it's not going to be free it's not
like Disneyland
oh Disneyland
I mean once you get on the ride okay
thank you very different definitions for
free
yeah
okay
um
any member any public members in the
board chamber
Mr Olsen
thank you
Bruce Olson East Contra Costa's Mr
bicycle I have two concerns number one
we don't want to lose any existing bike
Lanes to the dedicated glideway and
number two
um there aren't that many utility
corridors out there and we have paths on
many of them these paths are used by
mother
um
but I kind of want to say right now we
don't want to share it until
I cannot see that but the more the
faster these
and they could shut off Darion
it Terry don't it shut off
it was on and it just stopped batteries
yeah use this yeah
so
where should I start over
all right just shut up
you don't want to share
well it's on okay
um not not wanting to share is a little
strong
expression of concern
um
utility corridors are in limited Supply
out there we have bike paths and
pedestrian paths on these corridors uh
parents pushing baby carriages uh
parents trying to teach their
five-year-old how to ride a bicycle if
we have one of these
autonomous vehicles racing down our
utility Corridor the uh those parents
and young children might just evaporate
because they're afraid I'm I am
expressing concern here another thing to
be concerned about would be are we going
to share our new bridge over the highway
4 this one we're spending more than 13
million dollars on
um it wasn't designed to have autonomous
vehicles on it we'll share maybe when
they go over this uh our our new our
lovely new wonderful Bridge uh they
could go at the pace of a uh walking
person
it is a nice utility Corridor and uh I I
think I'll stop there thanks very much I
too am very interested and uh think this
is a great idea and it should be pursued
thank you very much
any other public members and board
Chambers
okay
Tyrion do we have any public remote
no public comment verbal or written
okay thanks again Stephanie this is a
informational item so there's no action
we'll move to the next item on the
agenda which is also an informational
item from the planning committee
to be introduced by Matt Kelly
on the San Pablo Avenue
multimodal Corridor study phase two
Welcome Matt and I think you have some
guests I do thank you chair Glover good
evening uh Authority board members Matt
Kelly senior Transportation planner with
CCTA I'm very happy to be here tonight
to present uh findings from the San
Pablo Avenue multimodal Corridor study
specifically phase two but I wanted to
give you a little background before I
turn it over to our presenter on the
phase one uh which started back in 2017
CCTA and WIC Tac are our regional
transportation planning committee out in
West County decided to partner with
Alameda County Transportation Commission
in order to conduct a study of all modes
on San Pablo Avenue it's kind of the
main street through West Contra Costa
and Western Alameda County
and look at how we could best facilitate
as many modes as possible but really
focusing on active Transportation bikes
and pedestrians as well as Transit and
how we could provide better access to
those modes as well as move them uh you
know where they want to be in the court
or a little easier and faster hopefully
so the phase one work
was led by Kimberly horn I have Adam
dankford from Kimberly horn here today
they they did all the work for both
counties
once we did that initial look at the
corridor looking at existing conditions
what does it look like today what is it
going to look like in 2040 and then how
can we improve those 20 40 conditions so
once we kind of took that initial look
um
we decided that we needed to do some
more work in Contra Costa County really
because
uh San Pablo Avenue in in in Contra
Costa County varies uh in width as you
go down the corridor it may be uh 78
feet or 72 feet in one spot and then 88
feet uh you know a couple blocks down so
that really affects what you can do with
that right-of-way when you're talking
about trying to accommodate these
different modes so we decided to use
phase two to really look at uh different
uh segments of the corridor and really
see what might be possible in the Contra
Costa segment
and so we've now completed phase two uh
We've uh we've presented this to the WIC
attack board in January and what we're
going to do here today is present the
findings from phase two and really what
we presented to the whiptack board and
what they approved in January we don't
have a action for you tonight we really
just want to Daylight this study and the
findings from it because uh we think
it's it's pretty exciting stuff so I'm
going to turn it over to Adam dankberg
and have him uh you through
our findings here
share my screen here
we go let's go ahead welcome Adam
thank you very much good evening I'm
Adam denkberg with Kimberly horn the
project manager for this project it's a
pleasure to be here tonight speaking
with you all
um
there we go okay I'll cover some
background on the study some key
findings and then some options on where
to proceed next
so back when we started the study
several years ago there's a effort and
process to identify the goals and
purpose of the effort so some of the key
items include accommodating growth and
supporting Economic Development the
corridor improving the quality and
comfort of trips and particularly safety
for all users in the corridor
and promoting Equity an equitable
Transportation options in the corridor
so we started this effort back actually
in 2017 the corridor study extended all
the way from the southern limits of San
Pablo Avenue in Oakland to Hilltop Mall
in Richmond
um it was led by Alameda CTC but there
was close partnership with Wake Tech and
CCTA throughout that process it was a
multi-year effort where we did existing
conditions analysis concept developments
modeling and we actually had a couple
rounds of public engagement and surveys
at the conclusion of that effort Alameda
CTC felt like they had some clear
Direction understanding of where Alameda
County wanted to proceed but as Matt
mentioned there is less Clarity in
Contra Costa County because of the
variety and conditions in the corridor
both in travel Behavior as well as
geometric conditions I mean so this
effort was developed to really focus
more on the Contra Costa County portion
before deciding what to proceed with
next
so some of the elements we looked at in
phase two include the geometric
feasibility of different options looking
at parking and bike lane implications a
particular focus on safety and
identifying near-term Solutions we
looked at traffic implications and we
had several presentations with the WIC
attack board as well as the various City
councils along this Corridor um it
covers the cities of San Pablo Richmond
and El Cerrito
so a brief background for those not as
familiar with the corridor there
actually is quite a frequent bus service
today so south of McDonald there's buses
every seven minutes in this Corridor so
quite a bit of bus service
um there are some bike Lanes but only in
short stretches of the corridor but one
of the challenges is for pedestrian
circulation there's some long gaps
between safe and comfortable Crossings
this Coral particularly in El Cerrito
and one thing that we found actually
early on in the project is that a lot of
the people using San Pablo Avenue don't
have a destination or a trip origin on
San Pablo they're just passing through
80s busy and they choose to get on San
Pablo Avenue because they think it'll be
faster and so there are some
opportunities then in terms of how to
reuse the space Maybe to discourage them
that pass through and and also to try
and convert some of those Auto trips to
Transit
some of the challenges in the corridor
are associated with that congestion so
in that chart on the right um the red
portion of the bar chart and it shows
total travel time for the bus the red
portion is the time the bus spends in
congestion and you can see it actually
spends more than half of its time stuck
in congestion and not even moving or it
stops and what we found is if you do
nothing on this Corridor that amount of
traffic delay will increase by 69
percent by 2035 and so conditions for
the bus will worsen as well the other
major issue is safety so there are 293
injuries or fatalities in a recent
five-year period 73 of those involve
pedestrians or cyclists including three
fatalities on this Corridor and so that
really underscores the need for looking
at solutions to enhance safety
particularly for those most vulnerable
users
the bus system is well utilized today a
total of 12 500 daily bus riders this
was a pretty pandemic about half of
those are in Contra Costa County so
um sort of the adage of you know maybe
it's just the Oakland people or the
Berkeley people on the bus actually
there is quite a bit of bus ridership in
Contra Costa County in this Corridor uh
there are more Riders on the 72 series
that operates on this Corridor than any
other AC transit route and about 14 in
the tire system ridership we wanted to
underscore some of the key Equity
components of this Corridor
um over three cores of the passengers
are non-white over half make less than
50 000 per year and almost 100 93 of the
study areas within a quarter mile of MTC
designated Equity priority community so
a lot of considerations for that in this
corridor
so we looked at a variety of options of
how we could improve Transit on San
Pablo Avenue and there's a wide Suite of
options ranging up to bus Rapid Transit
which is sort of the catch-all for many
of these enhancements we did several
presentations the wig tech board about
some of the different options and
configurations I won't go into all that
here tonight but there are a variety of
strategies and solutions for improving
trains in this corridor
if you were to proceed to uh what would
be considered bus Rapid Transit there
are a couple different options to do so
one is Center running bus lanes picture
on the left is Van Ness in San Francisco
so that may look familiar a picture on
the right is actually the recently open
Tempo uh brt in Downtown Oakland in
order to place uh dedicated trains at
Lanes on San Pablo Avenue there would be
a need to convert one of the auto Lanes
to bus only there's also an opportunity
to provide bike Lanes on the corridor
and in order to do so you need to
convert the existing parking to bike
Lanes so you could put the buses in the
middle of the street you can put the
buses on the side there's a lot of
trade-offs between those options but
either way it would need to require
converting a travel Lane
so a couple of the key findings that
we've found as part of the studies first
first focusing on Transit we found that
providing these dedicated Transit Lanes
would provide very significant benefit
to travel time so 30 to 45 percent
benefit and travel time for the bus and
bus riders
um Center running does perform a little
better than side running about 10 faster
however side running is easier to
implement just fewer implementation
challenges easier faster to implement
can be used by a wider variety of bus
routes but Center running does provide
some additional benefit for providing
both bus and bike on this Corridor
because it's a bit more efficient use of
space
so what we heard when we gave this
presentation went through all the
trade-offs with the Wake Tech board and
the various cities is there was
widespread support for enhancing Transit
the concept of enhancing Transit but
there was mixed feedback and reaction in
terms of do we go big Center running big
large-scale project or something smaller
more near-term and there's also some
concerns about the impacts of us on my
way and whether it be on traffic or
access
so definitely it's a mixed reaction
in terms of bikes we found the bike
lanes are feasible to be implemented but
it would require parking removal as I
had noted parking is currently very
plentiful and not particularly well
utilized in most of the corridor but the
nature of the corridor is changing over
time is more dense development comes in
one thing we've flagged though is
providing a protective bike facility
here would still result in high level of
traffic stress because there's so many
right turns there's so many driveways so
many intersections on this corridor so
what we heard on the bike topic is a uh
also mixed reaction but more so on
whether bikes facilities should be on
San Pablo Avenue itself and dedicate the
space on the Avenue for it or a bicycle
facilities should be on parallel streets
portions of the corridor have good
parallel streets that could be used
portions do not and there was some
concern about the removal of the bike
the parking for the bike facilities
um and then finally uh pedestrians
um there is a lot of concern that we
heard around the safety conditions on
the corridor there is some particular
concern raised for elderly and Mobility
impaired pedestrians on the corridor we
had identified some specific safety
Improvement opportunities and those were
really well received there's a lot of
support we heard from all the cities and
the board in terms of the need to
improve pedestrian safety on this
corridor
so in terms of Next Step options
first before diving into what uh what
can be feasible in Contra Costa County
many as as we've gone through these
presentations found it to be helpful to
understand what Alameda County is doing
on San Pablo Avenue just south of the
County border
um so Alameda County is currently
advancing Alameda County Transportation
Commission is currently advancing three
projects on San Pablo Avenue one is a
series of safety enhancements in
Berkeley and Albany that are focused on
pedestrian safety spot improvements to
improve Crossings of the corridor and
overall pedestrian and bike safety
conditions
the second is to provide bus and bike
Lanes on San Pablo Avenue so the lane
conversion that I talked about earlier
and that would be in Oakland Emeryville
and South Berkeley that includes uh also
safety improvements in another Crossing
improvements and then thirdly in in
Albany and Berkeley where there would
not be the bike project on San Pablo
Avenue there will be improvements on the
parallel Network that doesn't close the
door on continuing the bus lane and bike
lane on San Pablo to the County border
but the immediate Focus was on these
near term parallel Network improvements
so that said the a couple elements or
options were presented to the WIC Tac
board element one or these are kind of
packages of projects are ways to proceed
element one is multimodal safety
improvements and so these would be a
series of spot improvements to improve
pedestrian safety on the corridor
um some work would still be needed to
figure out exactly what those projects
would be and the WIC Tac board and with
tech staff has requested CCTA to serve
as a design and implementation lead for
that effort given the additional history
and experience with implementation for
CCTA relative to Wake Tech
money is still needed for outreach
design construction of these facilities
but there is a clear and present need
that the board and various cities have
identified for these safety improvements
element two is uh was the providing a
bus lane demonstration project on a
portion of the corridor and the board
felt that continued discussion was
needed in order to further flesh out
this type of project and understand the
level of support for this type of
project
so diving into each of these a little
bit greater detail
so element one is the priority safety
improvements there will be a wide
variety of pedestrian safety
improvements we have a map that was in
the presentation we gave to the WIC
attack board that showed potential
locations for these but things like
signalized Crossings New median beacons
better striping better lighting
accessibility upgrades curb ramps and
accessibility improvements bulb outs
improved safety and improving the bus
stops on bus stop access from the
corridor
um so we've identified over 70
improvements that 40 to 45 intersections
for safety improvements
um and these kind of each have their own
independent utility so implementation
can be phased and prioritized as money
and uh and resources allow
CCTA and whitak have talked about
partnering to identify funding and
conduct Outreach we're very very very
very early in terms of identifying
specific projects but we have some
initial thoughts about rough funding
estimate for that and as I said funding
is not currently allocated to this
project
and we will need partnership from local
jurisdictions to to move this forward
for element two this is as I noted would
be contingent on further support and
discussions at the city level and with
AC transit AC transit's currently doing
an operational analysis and reassessment
of its system I think the findings of
that could influence the the future
operations of bus service in this
Corridor which would be good to fold
into this type of project so we've
identified that maybe it makes sense for
a one to two mile initial bus lane
segment but a lot further discussion is
needed before that can advance one of
those elements of discussion prior to
move forward is really that public
engagement part it's been a bit since
we've done public engagement for this
specific part of the corridor and so for
their public engagement would be
beneficial to identify the the exact
nature of the project to advance
and uh that actually concludes the
presentation happy to answer any
questions thank you
thank you
do we have any Commissioners hey I see
fideli and Kelly
yes thank you I just want to concur with
the presentation uh tonight because it
it truly is a classic example of urban
transformation in every respect every
city is different every mile is
different the widths are different there
are two BART stations we have parallel
bike Lanes so the needs are complex in
every way we can imagine go bold is one
thing do many safety projects was
another but one thing everyone could
agree with that Wick tack was on safety
so we appreciate the safety priority
here first and I want to thank CCTA
because on Friday WIC attack will be
approving its work plan which includes
continued discussions with CCT on how we
can work together to make safety In Our
Lifetime better on San Pablo Avenue
because for El Cerrito it's our downtown
and that's not a dance so taking away
parking is detrimental to our businesses
every city has a different concept so
thank you for continuing this and thanks
for the effort of CCTA appreciate that
okay well remember Kelly
um yes Mr dankford nice to see you in
person
um I've seen Ed WIC Tech I've seen your
presentation several times and I want to
congratulate you for all this work I
mean this quarter is kind of a monster
you know in terms of everybody wants
everything on San Pablo Avenue it's a
major arterial AC Transit runs their
rapid bus up and down it's used quite a
lot safety is a big concern and so I
concur with commissioner fideli that
safety is of the most important thing to
do right now absolutely
um as as I have said at the WIC tech
board as far as element number two and
what might come after that I think we
have to really listen to what AC Transit
wants and is willing to do and I think
we also have to pay attention to Alameda
County Transit and see if they want to
run some kind of brt side or Center
um you know whatever they decide because
we can't do something that's completely
different from what they do it would
just be too difficult and I must say I
do have some concerns and I've expressed
this before about
um bike Lanes on San Pablo Avenue if we
have a whole lot of these other elements
put in I'm really concerned about safety
so um
we'll see what happens but thank you for
your work on this and trying to to make
it clear to all of us
remember South thank you Mr chair uh
Adam thanks for the presentation this uh
this is my first whack at this project
so I am impressed by the scope and
complexity of this and the number of
agencies that are involved so
congratulations on hurting the cats
um I I have um a couple questions one is
I want to Echo that the safety issues
seem Paramount because the statistics
that were collected as part of the study
are a little bit horrifying and I think
if we mean what we say with vision zero
we really should go after uh the safety
improvements my second question goes to
um when were what does current
conditions mean when were they assessed
because with covid and with the changing
in people's commuting and travel habits
uh you know it begs the question well
are the the statistics on the cars
current are the statistics on the need
for uh on-street parking current
um can you just help me understand when
that snapshot was taken yeah so we have
data from a variety of periods a lot of
it was pre-pandemic in terms of some of
the bus uh information and the vehicle
volume information was a lot of that was
pre-pandemic parking information was
pre-pandemic the bulk this study was
done kind of law well patterns are still
evolving but while recovery from the
pandemic was still occurring so some of
the safety data is more recent in terms
of collision history and whatnot but a
lot of the kind of parking vehicle
information was pre-pandemic and yeah we
do recognize you you raise a good point
that patterns have changed out of the
quarterback and and does does this sort
of incremental approach that appears to
be being taken kind of address that that
will be getting data in real time
yeah and you know I think we're still
early on in this project and so um as
part of that next phase you know we
would recommend is we're prioritizing
certain spot improvements to do a deeper
and refresh dive into some of the data
to make sure that we're focusing on the
areas of greatest need but there's
really an opportunity to do that as part
of development and then if I may just
ask one more question and following up
on commissioner Kelly's Point um uh the
the issue of bike Lanes I mean what I I
didn't see and I might have missed it uh
what the data is on the use of whatever
bike Lanes there are now what the
anticipated use would be because I would
think that that would go to the question
of does one even consider putting it
right on putting them on San Pablo or
thinking about a a parallel path which
which from a stress standpoint seems
Seems more desirable
yeah so the the bike Lanes on the
corridor today are very discontinuous
and many ones that exist uh would not be
comfortable except for the most Fearless
of cyclists
um and so I wouldn't uh suggest reading
too much into existing usage of the bike
Lanes today
um city of San Pablo has a project that
they're hoping to advance to improve
their bike bike Lanes in their City El
Cerrito has put in some new facilities
but it's it's a bit hot hodgepodge and
different location by location
um we found that
um really set the southern half in
Contra Costa County has a really good
parallel facility in the East Bay
Greenway or some of the other parallel
streets do provide a parallel facility
but then once you get to the northern
portion in San Pablo and up by Hilltop
Mall there really is no parallel Street
at all and so I think the bike solution
is going to really warrant a segment by
segment look to figure out the best
solution there okay thank you
um
I'm not from West County but I'm old
enough to have actually seen the key
Training System still run on the Bay
Bridge I'm not old enough because it
stopped in 1948 on San Pablo but the
tracks are still being removed when I
was a kid
um and it's like we're trying to rebuild
that system
the reason why it works so well is dead
center fixed tracks
you know Richmond to Downtown Oakland
you could go to Berkeley take University
Avenue you can either go to the campus
or you went out on the pier caught the
like my uncle did didn't catch the pier
and go teach College in San Francisco as
you rode the ferry cross
um I I would just make one
recommendation and and the reason why I
preface it what was there
and and for those of you that live there
and work there
your challenge and you've said it as a
as a consultant you need to have one
system that goes point A to point B
right now there is a hodgepodge
everybody has their own idea and if you
don't come up with one solution
you're just going to make it worse it's
a mess you can't use that road for much
of anything because it's everything
changes as you go along and what used to
make it work it was so consistently
designed it was one idea one Theory
and I think we all know in
transportation
whether it be multimodal the more
consistent is the more successful it is
you've had a lot of street with there
was this huge median that was put in
which is where the tracks used to be and
there's a lot of trees in there you know
don't forget as you redo this one of the
things that hurts
that Corridor it's the visual beauty of
it is missing in a lot of places because
there's no Street trees and the street
trees can fit in all of these plans so
consistent plan from point A to point B
and and yeah you got to deal with bikes
but if it's a if it's to make safety
improvements
make safety improvements and it may or
may not include bikes all the way
then that's how I would look at it and
put the trees in please and put them
back
okay
thank you I was just going to add what
complicates it even more is the two big
projects at the BART station one is
complete streets that we're working
through and getting money from a variety
of sources and the huge Tod project at
the plaza where there's a different
planning so a lot of different plans a
lot of investment already so that adds
to the confusion of how do we be
consistent all the way down so it's
going to be difficult to ask but safety
we can do
nurse anyone in the board Chambers
from the public
seeing none do we have any remote
no public comment written or verbal
okay again this was the informational
item
want to thank Matt and Adam for their
presentation tonight
hey that concludes our regular agenda
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are any members of the board I have none
tonight is there any other member
KC none we will move to
um
staff
comments
thank you thank you for running a very
efficient meeting this evening
we're one hour and 37 minutes so in the
spirit of CCTA under promise and over
deliver
Ed
now I have more time for my executive
director report
um well I'm going to start off with some
some good news I just want to quickly
recognize our CFO Brian Keller he
celebrated last week his 10-year
anniversary with CCTA so as you all know
he's very valuable to the team
congratulations we're very happy to have
him here and hope that he'll stay for
many years to come
um and the sad news is we're losing one
of our team members Lindsey Willis our
director General Affairs this will be
her last board meeting with us so she is
moving on to Tiger construction
um and so we'll be looking for good low
bids from tiger in the future
and be very she'll be very moving very
close to family so which is really good
for her and Noah and everyone so we're
really excited for her so we're really
actually very very sad to see her go so
um and then to kind of help fill the Gap
until we find a new candidate which we
just a quick update we already flew an
advertisement for the position last week
so we've been getting a lot of great
interest into the position thank you to
Lindsay for all the great marketing
there
um and so Luna saliver is going to be
kind of stepping in and you may some of
you may know her she actually helped
during Lindsay's maternity leave so she
was stepping in during that time to kind
of fill in the gap of Lindsay and so
she'll be stepping in front by for the
next three to four months just to help
guide and oversee all our our wonderful
public Outreach consultants and work
with staff on a daily basis so we're
excited and grateful to have Luna back
as part of the team
um and then some other
um maybe kind of start with some good
news
um I know you've heard me talk about the
on the patio podcast so that has been
officially launched so we are now doing
a campaign so you can actually go to
anywhere you want to get your podcast
um Apple podcast anywhere and download
the podcast there's four episodes now
and lots of good information in there
about CCTA and it's been it's actually
been a really good tool for for me and
for us to really kind of promote CCTA to
the general public and I know it's been
getting a lot of likes and followings
already so really excited about that
um and then other good news uh I sent an
email on this but we did receive another
Grant so a couple weeks ago
the award announcements came out for a
trade quarter enhancement programs we
got 19.7 million dollars for the San
Pablo Avenue or San Pablo San Pablo Dam
Road and
and so we're excited about that because
they can move that project forward and
it's really critical
um and it's a really clear safety issue
with the low vertical clearance with the
trucks as well as some major safety
concerns around the interchange with the
very closed abutments at the shoulder
and so it's very narrow through there
and so we're excited to move that
project forward the other thing that
also happened is we worked closely with
UC Berkeley to submit on a center of
excellence Federal highways Grant so
we're really excited about the
opportunity there with UC Berkeley some
project updates we um
just in your packet you may have glanced
through them but there's some there's a
couple of really good presentations in
the consent the consent items on on
innovate 680 and also Highway 4 Vision I
know we were trying to kind of keep
today's shortest part you know it saves
time so we've moved those to consent but
there's some really good information in
there about some of those some of the
work plan items for the next two to
three years on innovate 680 very very
succinct and then also the work we're
doing on on the highway for vision and
Corridor study and then as part of
innovate 680
um Stephanie and Stephanie who and I are
director of projects
um last week actually went to Australia
to um visit four different states
um in in three different department of
transportations
um and we were there to basically look
at their smart freeway program if they
have a very robust program in terms of
really leveraging data and Technology to
really optimize their existing corridors
and so through this technology they've
been able to realize anywhere from 20 to
30 percent more efficiency in their
corridors I actually got to drive in one
of the corridors in Melbourne on the M1
it has the same level of traffic that
i-680 does and the only place that we
actually stopped was actually a freeway
to freeway connector rant meter and
everything else was free-flowing at 45
miles an hour during peak hour traffic
and so it was really exciting to see how
they're really leveraging technology and
and optimizing their freeway system was
also exciting their offer creation
centers they literally had one person
looking and managing their smart freeway
components of their of the of the of the
system and so not only is if it's
efficient
um but it's also
um efficient from a staff and resource
perspective and so I could geek out on
this for hours
um so I will stop there but it was a
very very helpful trip to really think
about how we are bringing that
technology we're already implementing
some of that technology in the innovate
680 program as part of the Cooperative
adaptive rant metering project and so it
was good to see firsthand the vision the
implementation the best practices as
it's been expanded and adopted across
throughout the entire country and how
we're being we're going to bring all
that information back and apply it into
the 680 Corridor
um also quickly I know some of you are
interested in the fairy study so on the
ferry study we've we've kicked off
McDonald on that
um it's going to be about nine months to
complete the ferry study we're targeting
to have it done early next year
um Ying Smith our director of programs
is leading the effort on that and so we
actually just had a big kickoff meeting
with the transit operators and all the
stakeholders to start going into a data
collection mode for each of the
individual potential stops in locations
and so we can start assessing the ferry
service for all those locations
the other thing that we have is
um the operations update so now we're
kind of in the operations game so I
wanted to kind of maybe provide a quick
update on the Presto shuttle so Presto
continues to receive a lot of media
coverage
um this during this last month I was
able to provide two more interviews with
uh news stations and then also there's
been over 165 media pieces as well as 9
000 hits on social media relative to
presto and our Presto social media
um we've been in the first seven weeks
of service we've got about 300 Riders
which averages about 45 Riders per week
and just yesterday we just had an
official kind of open house for all the
tenants in Bishop ranch so we're
expecting that ridership to go up as
well and with operations there always
comes technical issues I'm not gonna lie
so we've been having some technical
issues with some of the antenna
communication but also with some of the
Staggering of the vehicles with the
schedule so they're you know we're
definitely keeping track and working
with beep to continue to optimize the
service we're also looking about adding
another stop because of the demand and
so we're looking at adding another stop
at the GE Building and so so as we're
kind of looking and evaluating the team
has been really focused on how we can
make that improve the quality of service
there and then also something I wanted
to mention in terms of operations we've
been piloting piloting this Transit
signal priority project so hisham's been
leading it and so we've been we just
actually finished a test of that in uh
two corridors in Concord and Walnut
Creek and so we were able to
successfully
um prioritize the bus through an entire
Corridor and all the traffic signals and
that was using a cloud-based system that
was communicating to the buses and their
CAD AVL systems and then directly to the
software platforms that were controlling
the traffic signals and so by using a
software approach it's a cost-effective
approach we don't have to add Hardware
to the buses or Hardware to the traffic
signal controllers at every intersection
and so we're doing that as a pilot right
now and I think
um I believe how many intersections has
shown total for that project
66 intersections total that we're
looking at for part of that project and
that's going to be part of our broader
smart signal program in terms of you
know learning how to prioritize transit
buses through these traffic signals
um and then lastly a couple
administrative items
um I'm thinking about having a board
Workshop in late September early October
um that'll be just board only
um I know the last board workshop last
September we invited the city managers
the trans operators this will actually
be kind of a board-only invite Workshop
to kind of address some of the things
that are coming up
um and so I'll tarrianne and Emily will
be reaching out to you in terms of
starting to kind of securing some
availability and dates in late September
early October and then also Emily was
the guinea pig she went to Walnut Creek
and tested out this new headshot
headshot vendor and so I know there was
an email that went out so if you've got
a blank face on our website I encourage
you to go get your head shot and that
way we can get your smiling faces all on
our websites so
um so that's it includes my report and
thank you for the opportunity
okay thank you Tim
at this time I just want to have you out
join me and congratulating Lindsay and
thanking her for service outstanding
service here at CCTA
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and in that same vein we want to welcome
Luna back
yeah yeah
and I do want to go back because I did
not offer opportunity for
representatives to make any comments no
okay
thank you so
now I guess where we're at is closed
session
so we will be going into closed session
a journeying into closed session and
it's going to be right across the hall
at the conference room
so we will be a journey to that and
reconvening back with any report out
that we have if we have at the closed
session
okay all right
well done
thank you
huh
what was the dinner tonight oh it was
like rice and beans
okay
so I just FYI tomorrow morning
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okay I'm gonna have Amber report okay
okay no problem
that's a good time to roll
okay
the board as reconvening we have been
meeting in closed session Council yes
the board took no reportable action on
either closed session item okay thank
you all for your time this evening we
are adjourned thank you
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