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And the meeting will come to order. First item on the agenda approval of the minutes from the October 17, 2023 meeting.

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Are there any amendments to those meetings or a motion?

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I'll move Mayor Stofer,

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a motion for approval by Mayor Stofer, a second by Floor Hernandez,

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Director Hernandez.

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Take a vote.

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All in favor, and I will use our voting machine.

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All in favor, please say, press yes and oppose, no, and abstain, counts as a no vote.

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Yes.

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with that motion as unanimously. We are now going to move to a few agenda items

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before comments in that we don't want to lose our quorum. So I will call on, we'll

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first take the Consent Agenda items item 5 through 15. There are

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several items that need to be approved as one with one vote.

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Might I have a motion on the consent of some of the point of

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clarification?

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Mr. Chair, do you say five through 13 or 15?

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Five through 13.

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Thank you.

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OK.

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I heard 15.

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OK.

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My bad.

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So please, we have a motion.

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We have a second.

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All in favor, please cast your vote electronically.

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Yes, that passes unanimously.

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Next item is item number 14, Mr. Stoker, Mayor Stoker.

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Item 14 is approval of an interlocal agreement between Dallas County Hospital District Parkland Health for the dark cares program.

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I move approval.

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Do we have a second?

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Second.

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Do we have a motion and second?

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Please can't discussion on that motion.

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If none, please cast your vote.

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and

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that passes unanimously as well.

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Item number 15 is adoption 2024 goals

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and performance measures for the president

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and executive, chief executive officer.

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Ms. Nadine Lee, would you like to brief us quickly

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on the changes you made since the last meeting?

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You can do it here or there.

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You can do it here.

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My apologies, we were actually making copies

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for everybody, this all went a lot faster

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than anticipated. So just a quick change, we added the benchmarks or the baseline numbers

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to the column on the right on the goals and we also provided some information on the demographics

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of our service area as well as our current workforce demographics so that you understand

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what the comparison might be from where we are today to where we want to be in the

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future. So those were the two changes I made from the last time. No other real

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language changes to the goals themselves, just adding per board request the updates to the benchmarks.

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All right.

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The motion for approval.

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Hey, Card. We're passing them out.

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We're passing them out.

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Yes, they were in your board packets, actually.

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I just thought it might be beneficial to have them in hard copy.

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Second. Are you looking for a motion?

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We have a motion and the second. Did we have a motion for approval?

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So moved.

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We have a motion for approval, do we have a second?

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Second.

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We do have a second.

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Second.

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All right.

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Take a quick look at those.

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We won't vote for just a second.

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Thank you.

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So,

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all in favor, please, discussion if you have any before we vote.

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Do we have any discussion?

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No discussion.

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All in favor, please vote with your electronic voters.

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have one more of Mr. Enix items, which is that passed unanimously.

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I have one more item number 17, which is approval of the 2024 dark minutes.

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Meeting dates, rather.

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I'm sorry, meeting dates.

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That would mean discussion or motion.

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Second.

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Motion is second.

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Discussion is done.

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Please vote.

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I'm hitting it, it's not on, it's not on.

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It's on, it's okay, it's on, we're ready to go.

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All right, thank you very much.

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Motion passes unanimously as well.

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Mr. Kennedy will take the planning and capital programs.

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Agenda 18.

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The chair for the number 18 is approval

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to increase contract value for the design bill contract,

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Silver Line Regional Rail project to include design changes

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for the Cotton Belt Regional Trail I move for approval.

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we have a second?

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All in favor then?

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Take a vote.

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then passes unanimously.

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Item 19 is approval to call public hearing regarding

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summer 2024 service changes in Route 883.

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Schedule adjustments.

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I move for approval.

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We have a motion and a second for approval.

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Discussion?

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If not, please take a vote.

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We're missing a vote.

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That passes unanimously.

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Item 22, approval of the declaration of surplus property and conveyance of drainage and trail easements to Silverline 12th Street Station to the city of Plano. I move for approval.

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Second. We have a motion and a second for approval. Discussion? If not, please vote.

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And that passes unanimously as well. Thank you.

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Item 23, approval to re-establish just compensation of parcel CB2-016 located at or near 2415

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Country Club Drive in the city of Carrollton, Texas for the Silver Line Regional Rail Project.

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I move for approval.

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I have a motion and a second discussion.

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If not, please take a vote, press your vote,

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and that passes unanimously.

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That ends our voting section of the meeting.

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We now will move to public comments and comments.

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Thank you, Chair.

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General public comments will be allowed at the beginning of each DART Board meeting for a total of 30 minutes.

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And again, at the end of the meeting when the 30-minute period does not accommodate everyone who has signed up to speak.

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Individuals who have addressed the Board in the past 30 days will be recognized to speak during the public comment period at the end of the meeting.

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Each person who wishes to address the Board in person must complete a public comment form prior to speaking.

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Each speaker will have three minutes to address the Board.

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A member of the public who addresses the Board through a translator may be given at least twice the amount of time

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to ensure that non-English and nonverbal speakers receive the same opportunity to address the Board.

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The green light on the podium will indicate when you can begin.

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Then the yellow light indicates that you have one minute remaining and the red light

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indicates that your time has expired.

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In order to comply with the requirement that the public be given notice of each topic or

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subject assessed by the dark board, members may not ask questions, offer their own comments

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or otherwise interact with speakers or other board members during any public comment period.

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Board members cannot respond to personnel matters during the public comment period.

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Therefore, employees should direct or complaints their supervisor, chain of command or contact

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human resources for personnel related issues.

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If a staff member is available to assist the speaker, the president and chief executive

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officer Ms. Nadia Lee may request that the speaker that is making the inquiry visit with

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staff about the issue.

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Members of the public are reminded that their behavior during board meetings is governed

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by the dart board code of conduct for news media and visitors, personal attacks, impermanent or

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slanderous remarks and boisterous conduct would not be tolerated. Boisterous or disruptive behavior

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includes but is not limited to one failure year of the floor when the speaker's time is included,

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two, disturb the order of the meeting, three, using loud, threatening, hostile, abusive, vulgar

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or seen gesture language, four, prolonged yelling, clapping, standing, stomping of the feet of

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whispering. Science posters or placards shall remain outside the board meeting

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area. With that the first speaker is John Williams.

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John Williams followed by

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Frequitter Bryce,

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John Williams.

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Ah, if you

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come over to your right towards me a little bit.

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There you are, sir.

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Yes, ladies and gentlemen.

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Now, I've been to your board this every time, over and over.

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And the same thing is still happening.

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Now, this time these boys are kissing me out for no reason.

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But I can kiss them back.

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They shouldn't kiss me out.

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I don't kiss anyone.

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I get on the bus and these same things happen.

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They won't stop payment.

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If I do stop payment, they tell me I can't buy the bus.

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I have a bus today, but I can't buy it.

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You ain't getting on my bus.

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You can't buy my bus.

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But I don't even know these buses.

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I don't even know bus dollars.

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They start testing me out.

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And try to send them to throw me off the bus.

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If I don't get off, they'll call me.

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Do I put it down?

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I was just to do Kato.

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They tell me something's gonna be done.

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And that's the same thing.

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Now another thing, I would like to give a police report

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from the DUT, for these people, who's

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what they've done, what these people have done, that job.

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When the DUT bus ran over me, it ran over my property,

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and it got stuck on the back wheel.

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They almost hit on my arm, but I guess it moved in time.

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I got it moved in time.

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But it ran back over my property,

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and it had to back up off of it.

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Crashed my phone and all that stuff on my backpack.

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I'm at the bus stop, he passed me up, but personally now I enjoy looking at all these people why he stopped at the bus stop while I was standing.

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He wanted me to ride it, and I threw it down there, and that's what happened.

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It would never happen if he just stopped at the bus stop and let me get on it.

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I don't know where he was at, I don't get in a hard time, but when I do speak my man after he's on the bus,

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So it's been in my life, but they don't do to me, that's it's been in my life.

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They don't beat my ass, throw me out of the bucket and do all that.

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Every time they jump, they don't know me, but now I've been putting them to do them

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time, now I'm going to take a little matter.

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Our next speaker will be Frequita Brice, followed by Mark Broadhurst.

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My name is Frequita Brice.

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I've been here at Dart almost one or eight years.

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I was injured on the job and put to workers' comp while on comp, I was put to light duty.

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My light duty and workers' comp ended and I was put back to work without restrictions.

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Because they said I ended my MI, I didn't understand how because I was never treated.

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I stopped receiving payments September 13, 2023.

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I then went back to back out on STD. While waiting on STD, I requested ADA. I

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I did everything ADA needed me to do. I call literally every day almost every

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week I call for for some type of accommodation. I recently got denied

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for STD because they said it was work it was a work-related injury. Since then

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And now, I still have not received any financial or any assistance with accommodation.

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I contacted ADA several times, also came up here and still no help, no answer, just to

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run around, literally, just to run around seeing the same thing over and over again.

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And, um, Starter...

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I lose things, literally, and I've already lost a lot of things, and I'm just seeking a

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little help at this very moment. And I'm still out to this day with no help. And I'm literally

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trying to see if ADA could just let me know what I can and what I can't do. That's all

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I'm trying to get from them to see what I can do. Thank you.

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Thank you. Mark Rogers, followed by Clinton Whitley.

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Good evening everybody. Hope everyone's doing well.

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Number one, we still haven't got paid for our double time Texas OU weekend,

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and it's starting to be a pattern of things that have been changed for no reason

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or new things that don't seem to be handled correctly by the people that changed them.

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So, I mean, it's been two pay periods.

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You know, we work text to you Saturday.

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I mean, it's supposed to be on this paycheck,

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but let's hold up, you know, hold our breath across our fingers, I guess.

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The point is these unnecessary things that are added or changed.

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What's the point of it?

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Keep it the same because it works or just leave it alone.

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So, yeah, that's that.

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This 3% raise proposal is not going to cut it.

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I work in the body shop and over the last six months,

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I've seen more contractors coming in and working and putting in new equipment

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and spending all this money on all this new stuff to update DART

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and take care of DART's facilities,

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but you're leaving us behind, the workers that use the facilities, that use the equipment.

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So invest in the equipment, invest in the facilities, but invest in us.

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3% is a joke, look at, I mean, the whole nation right now, 3% ain't going to cut it.

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And I can't speak for everybody, but me personally, it's starting to feel like for

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some reason the people making these decisions like have something like a personal problem

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with us, how you're trying to make unnecessary changes to the policy, the policy that's worked

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for a long time, and thinking that 3% is fair, it's not even close to fair.

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And then with the insurance going up, that's putting a lot of people behind the eight ball.

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So rethink that, because that number is way too low, and it's frankly insulting.

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So,

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and then on the other hand with how it feels like we're being valued as employees

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maintenance, transportation and then there's an investigation into this board misusing money.

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I find it, you know, hard to believe that we're so undervalued while things like that

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happen and investigations like that are going on but yet we're taking the short

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end of the stick and we're being told that all the money is not there for your

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cost of living raise for inflation for being appreciated you know is

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that my

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time. Thank you. Thank you.

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All right. Claudia Jones, followed by Brian Blanks.

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You called Clinton Whiteley. Come on down.

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I'm good to go. I'm Clinton Whiteley. I'm

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East out of the Body Shop, and since we only get three minutes, I'd like to go

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off of Mark Rutgers as far as the 3% raise. It is insulting when y'all

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approved y'all's own time to go travel around the world are we paying for y'all's travel

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for the 3% because Ford is guaranteeing their employees to six figure salaries. I spend over

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$1,200 a year in tools alone so you give me 80 cents a year on my pay that is

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it's not right I mean I'm over here I'm almost paying y'all to come here so if

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If y'all want somebody to manage, y'all should value us.

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Otherwise, y'all are not going to have a job because we're not going to be here.

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Thank you.

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Claudia Jones, followed by Brian Blanks.

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Ms. Lee, when you put that letter out for us, letting us know about the 3%,

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I really truly believe that you were sincere in putting that letter out

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And you didn't have nothing to do with the numbers not being 3%.

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I don't believe it's so much of the new people coming in here.

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I believe it's the people that's been here.

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That's our problem.

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I mean, there's a lot of untrue for people to work here.

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And they are in the wrong positions.

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Financial, that's the wrong position to be in.

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And there's too much money in this agency, and people seem to think that they can, you

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know, get money from you guys.

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And I want to share a little bit about Goldene, a few of the workers over there contacted

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me with some concerns.

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I found out that you guys got a new contracting company over there for paratrandit.

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Now, Goldlink is only making, well, $16 now.

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They were there 15 in 2019.

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But the contracting company, which is Paratransit,

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they're hiring their drivers in at $22.

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But the sad part about it is, Goldlink can't go work for them.

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Now, if I'm making $16 in contract coming in and they're making $22,

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Yeah, I'm going to try to give me a job, but somebody told them that they was blocked.

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They can't go get no job.

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Can somebody look into that or make it fair and give them a raise?

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Every other meeting I do here, go link down here with new proposals, asking for money.

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I don't know what they're doing with it, but can you see if they can give the workers

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some over there as well?

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And these proposals, I thought the board makes the decision when it comes to modifying the

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H&M.

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I see Rosa Matina name on here.

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So is she the designee or is she supported the board as far as these proposals being

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put out to get the employees input?

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And since you all guys looking pretty healthy and happy and it's the holidays, I thought

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I thought maybe I'd throw a little suggestion in as far as I guess I said a little bit more

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extra increase to the 3%, it's not too late to add it on the page for us to get it.

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And I thought maybe as far as bus, I mean you can include, make the numbers match for

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everybody else.

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Put the bus operators at 35, 0, 0, make the sense even.

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That way, nobody will have to fool around with the other numbers.

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Thank you.

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Brian Blanks, followed by Grace Strickland.

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Good evening.

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One of the most important things as a bus operator, rail operator, mechanic, is the quality of life.

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The scheduling and what we put up with every day.

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I know Ms. Lee had put out a memo not too long ago about how we met our goals, 99% on-time

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performance.

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That's because we have the staff that we don't miss runs anymore.

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We're getting the work out.

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We're getting what we need to do.

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We're doing what we need to do.

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Now these proposals, I know this is just a proposal, but the proposals are going

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to set this company back a good 10, 15 years.

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especially with this extra board change because right now you have a AM and PM

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board which y'all probably don't know what I'm talking about but you can look

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into it. It's set now where we have a AM and PM extra board and I don't know

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whether you guys noticed but the dynamics of the employees that Dart has

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tired here in the last five years, are mostly young females who have children, and they base

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their schedules based on how they can provide for their family and get their kids to somebody

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is hard. Now when you take those schedules away to an A and P and board, now that person

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has to work all around the clock basically, and it's going to be very hard to adjust

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their schedules and the way and the quality of life. So that's going to make it real hard

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and we're not going to be able to retain people. I'm going to tell you that right now. I've

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been here almost 33 years. I know what I'm talking about. Now, another one is, I just

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want to know why that you would want an operator who relieves, first of all, you already took

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up half my day at work with a four or five hour split and then you want me to come back

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to the facility to clock out. I have never in my whole 33 years heard of that concept.

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For what? Why? Why would you want me to come back? I'm off. You can't make me work more

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so the purpose of that is I can't see the logic in that at all. Why would that

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be even be a suggestion to come back to the facility. I'm already trying to get

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home. I've been here all day. I'm trying to get home to my family, my kids, and then

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you want me to come back to the facility. I might be way in Westmoreland

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Station, and I live in DeSoto right there. I could go home and be home in

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five minutes. Now I got to drive 20 minutes, go back to the facility, 20,

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30 minutes, and then go back that way. For what? Make that make sense to me. Make that

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make sense.

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Thank you.

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Valerie Strickland, or Valerie Hutchins, followed by the boss Christian.

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Let me say

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Corey Strickland first. I called your name earlier, all right.

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Hello, board. My name is Corey Strickland. Of course, you guys have seen me up here

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before I actually I'm gonna stay in pocket on today stay in pocket one of the

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things I did here three percent for an increase when it's like seven to ten

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percent inflation that's really challenging you know for you to make

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your bills just let you know I'm pretty sure everybody on the board does not

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make that just to let you know I'm pretty sure but you know that's gonna

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be a talk about another time because I've been up here for the last couple

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of years. So I do want to congratulate everybody that has participated in the Dixon Circle Restoring

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the Service Back. Ms. Lee, I thank you so very much. I remember a message, a letter from you,

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and we thought things were going to be doubtful that it wouldn't get taken care of. So I appreciate

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your leadership in getting that done on a personal level, and all the other contribution

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that was also paid to the cause. I do want to give a special thank you, thank you,

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thank you to all the bus drivers that came out with bravery and came out to

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speak on behalf of this underserved community. I do encourage the DART that

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DART really in establishing the service back in the beginning of the year to

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really reach out to the community of Dixon Circle to make sure that we have

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a connect. We reconnect with the community to let them know that you

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are here to service the people. That's what I'm basically here for to make

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sure we don't have the same opportunities and other underserved communities throughout

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the city. Thank you so much and thank you so much again for the bus drivers.

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Thank you. Next speaker is Valerie Hutchins followed by the boss Christian.

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Good evening. My name is Valerie Hutchins and I'm coming before the board today because

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for the last 35 years I have done the election work for Dallas County. We moved from 2377

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North Simmons Freeway, which had bus service, multiple buses that went by to 1520 and 1460

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round table. These are public facilities that's open to the public. However, two years ago,

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bus 525 the route ended.

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I worked with some dart officials there and we had a shuttle bus to drive from the bus stop

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at Empress and Titan. This election, we don't have any bus service. Today, a lady came in

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for training and she failed coming from the bus stop. So it's hard to get people to come

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out and vote if they need to register to vote, if they need to pick up a mail ballot. This

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This is a public facility.

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We need a bus or a go-link service or something to the Elections Department.

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I find it hard to believe that my public information can be out on the Internet from the Elections

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Department, but I cannot get public transportation to get there, yet everybody knows that my

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personal information.

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So I'm asking on behalf of the employees there that are walking from the train

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station at Burbank to the Elections Department to please get a bus stop there in front of

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the Elections Department as soon as possible because February 2024 starts our primaries

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for presidential primaries, it's the midterms, so we need to make sure that we have proper

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transportation.

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Thank you so much.

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The boss, Christian, followed by Kenneth Day.

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Good evening.

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And it is interesting, interesting how I got to come up here and ask you to do what's

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right because it's the right thing to do for the employers of D.O.I.

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Now I sit here a month after month, year after year, and watch how you Board of Directors,

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y'all figure out how to give money away,

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y'all figure out how to give it away, especially

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the contractors.

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I heard last month you were talking about let's do five million, six million for MV contractors.

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But the interesting point is the employees.

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You'd rather pay a contractor to do employees of dark work.

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What's realistic about that?

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You can find a way to put money in other people's pocket, but when it comes to the

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employees, no one has a clue.

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No one has a vote.

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No one says, hey, let's take care of the employers or the people that take care of us.

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Let's represent the people that represent us.

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We also want to talk about policy change.

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You chose not to utilize the policy because you were trying to keep the butts in the seats

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on the streets.

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You didn't utilize lose the house, you didn't utilize accidents, but now you want to come

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back and you want to change it.

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Now, as hard as it was for you to go out and hire people to do the work that we do day

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in and day out,

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how do we make sense of that?

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You want to come back and you want to take away, you want to reduce,

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when do the employees

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get a vote?

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Ms. Nene Lee, I'm asking you again for you to sit down with me, for us to have

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a discussion,

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a common-sense discussion consisting of the employees of Doug.

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I want you, I want everybody on this board to do one thing for me.

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I want to pretend that we're talking about the employees of Doug and I want everybody

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on the board to figure out how can we make their life a little bit better than what it

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is today.

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For what we put up day in and day out, for what we go through day in and day out,

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if fear of coming to work, but yet no one has a clue of what we do.

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But we come in day in and day out and we get the job done.

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You talked about the 40 years of service.

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Well, the 40 years of service are the people that drove the buses, the people that drove

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operated the trains, the police officers, the station monitors, the fire enforcers.

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It's a collaboration of all employees.

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And I'm asking you, hey, look out for the employees of D.A.W.Y. because they looked

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out for you.

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Thank you.

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Appreciate you.

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Kenneth Day followed by Thomas Hutchins. Hutchinson.

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Well, good evening.

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How's everyone? Good. Good to be back.

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Congratulations, Mr. Chairman.

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I'm here to talk about the ploy's concerns.

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We're here because we have a process that's known as meet and confer.

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and it is mandatory as a condition of dark receiving federal dollars. We're not

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claiming a right to collect the bargaining, but we have a history of

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sitting down having dialogue. But this my way of the highway attitude I don't

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know where it come from.

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Refuse to answer your phone because you disagree

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free. It's not the way you handle business. Your employee is going to stay in this board

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room. We filed our general grievance back in June. Our first meeting was in August. We

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had two days in August.

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After that meeting, we sent numerous letters to Dart asking when

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When can we have a follow-up meeting?

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When are our meetings going to happen?

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We got a call about two weeks ago, said the meeting is going to be on the 18th.

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Well, that's not the way you do business.

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I've been assigned to represent the local.

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I have a schedule too.

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We were asking to meet.

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Let's sit down and have a conversation.

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Now employees are confused.

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news. You got a proposed modification out here. A lot of this stuff, we don't understand it

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because you know why? We don't have a dialogue. My way of the highway because you get mad and

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you turn your phone off. That's not the way you conduct business. We've never conducted

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business that way around here. Before I sit down, employ these unmarked vehicles that's

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rolling up on employees, about 15 SUVs, black and gray, unmarked. This is a public agency.

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You should be accountable to the public. We should know who you are when you up and down

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the street in a taxpayer vehicle. If you want to go about a club, you want to go about

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a grocery store, take your own vehicle. When you're working in a dark vehicle, it should

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be marked. I should know who's pulling up on me. It's a lot of disrespect.

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My way to

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highway is unacceptable. We have never operated in that fashion. Ms. Lee, is my

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understanding that you were going to work with us? And hopefully that remains

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to be true. Thank you. Thank you.

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00:38:05,770 --> 00:38:08,530
All right. Thomas Hutchinson, followed by

470
00:38:08,530 --> 00:38:09,550
Donnie Jolly.

471
00:38:30,270 --> 00:38:36,030
Good evening. Slee, board, new chairman.

472
00:38:40,310 --> 00:38:43,310
I'm coming here tonight to

473
00:38:43,310 --> 00:38:49,710
ask the board to sit down and meet with your management staff all the way to

474
00:38:49,710 --> 00:38:57,290
Ms. Lee. Because I don't think the new people that come in, personal with

475
00:38:57,290 --> 00:39:02,310
transportation, that person over, human resources,

476
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,880
they act like they don't have a clue. Because

477
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:10,020
let me say something like this.

478
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:16,540
I understand that one of the board members said that maybe

479
00:39:16,540 --> 00:39:25,140
employees should deserve a 6%. Your HR said no, I told them a 3%. So the value of employees

480
00:39:25,140 --> 00:39:36,520
mean you don't care about us. That's sad. You come in here with these new ideas and if you

481
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:42,400
don't agree, they upset. In fact, I was in a meeting and they said, well, we spoke on

482
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,520
this side of the table and then when they got ready to serve the side of the table,

483
00:39:45,740 --> 00:39:50,700
we raised our voice. I guess that offended them, so they don't want to do that. If

484
00:39:50,700 --> 00:39:53,380
If your temperature is that low,

485
00:39:54,380 --> 00:39:55,440
maybe this ain't the job for you.

486
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,660
We've been had two bites of apple ever since I came in.

487
00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:01,660
We sit at the table, we come down and share with the board

488
00:40:01,660 --> 00:40:05,000
because I'm asking the board, the gene and the rest of them,

489
00:40:05,100 --> 00:40:06,340
meet with your staff and understand

490
00:40:06,340 --> 00:40:07,660
what they're proposing out there.

491
00:40:08,860 --> 00:40:10,420
They're not proposing anything good.

492
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:12,560
Somebody come with a crazy idea,

493
00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:15,020
want to classify accident in two days.

494
00:40:15,620 --> 00:40:17,320
They don't have the manpower to do it.

495
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,340
We take one day to put it in the system.

496
00:40:20,980 --> 00:40:22,760
We got to meet with the man in two days.

497
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,020
What if my next two days is off?

498
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:27,300
Somewhere ain't ticking up here.

499
00:40:27,860 --> 00:40:28,560
Something ain't right.

500
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:31,260
I've been in this business a long time,

501
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:37,180
but I'm telling you, meet with your staff, the boy.

502
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:39,580
Tell us we deserve a three.

503
00:40:40,420 --> 00:40:43,980
When General Motors just got a 23% rate.

504
00:40:43,980 --> 00:40:48,080
And there's somebody talking about so many people off every day.

505
00:40:48,540 --> 00:40:51,820
Yeah, 10% of the workforce is normally off because we run a big workforce.

506
00:40:52,780 --> 00:40:53,780
Let me say it like this.

507
00:40:54,520 --> 00:41:00,500
I just seen where they gave four weeks of unpaid leave for people to have a chance to recoup their body

508
00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:01,640
because our job is stressful.

509
00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:03,880
We have heart attacks with strokes.

510
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:06,960
We are in a high job.

511
00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:08,340
I'm a former instructor.

512
00:41:09,340 --> 00:41:10,260
I come from Greyhound.

513
00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:12,480
I thought I knew how to drive.

514
00:41:12,940 --> 00:41:16,060
I got on a commerce, they cut the front end off my bus, my heart and mouth.

515
00:41:16,700 --> 00:41:19,120
For the first six months, I couldn't get comfortable in my seat.

516
00:41:19,860 --> 00:41:22,800
So when you hire all these new people, yeah, they're going to go out the door.

517
00:41:23,420 --> 00:41:25,600
You hire them, they go up, they walk, they can't make it.

518
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:30,640
It takes, it takes a heck of a person to be a bus driver, a train driver.

519
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:31,940
That's a stressful job.

520
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:33,760
Y'all looking to the, how are you?

521
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:34,640
Sit down with your book.

522
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:36,160
Sit down with your manager, Mr. Heffley.

523
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:42,600
Next speaker is Donnie Jolley, followed by Latonya Walker.

524
00:41:54,450 --> 00:41:55,270
Evening everybody.

525
00:41:57,150 --> 00:42:01,750
We've had a lot of speakers tonight with concerns.

526
00:42:02,950 --> 00:42:05,230
And if we didn't have no issues, we wouldn't be down here.

527
00:42:06,950 --> 00:42:13,190
This is a platform that DARPA provided for people to speak their minds and speak on issues.

528
00:42:13,770 --> 00:42:14,910
We have a lot of them.

529
00:42:16,790 --> 00:42:17,350
As

530
00:42:22,150 --> 00:42:24,350
you looked at the news around the country,

531
00:42:26,450 --> 00:42:28,430
the workforce is in an uproar right now.

532
00:42:29,530 --> 00:42:30,510
An uproar.

533
00:42:31,350 --> 00:42:34,850
That things are not like they used to be and I keep bringing up COVID, but when COVID

534
00:42:34,850 --> 00:42:36,390
came it changed the whole game.

535
00:42:37,770 --> 00:42:43,970
Everybody down from the lowest of nomination of occupation is for hotel workers, shelves,

536
00:42:44,830 --> 00:42:48,130
auto workers, Starbucks, everybody.

537
00:42:48,130 --> 00:42:53,450
everybody. They're dissatisfied. People are voicing their opinion. And all we're asking

538
00:42:53,450 --> 00:42:56,810
is that you listen. Those who are in power, of course, without us, you don't have no power.

539
00:42:56,910 --> 00:43:02,250
Without us, you don't have no job. Who's you going to manage? These are not fairy tales.

540
00:43:02,690 --> 00:43:05,790
I hear a lot of times when people in management tells me, Mr. Jolly, I just be a driver.

541
00:43:05,870 --> 00:43:10,070
I just be a train operator. I just be this and that. But somehow when that happens,

542
00:43:10,150 --> 00:43:16,070
that position comes along, they have a mind change. And that mind change is not good

543
00:43:16,070 --> 00:43:20,770
for everybody. It's easy to just treat somebody right. I mean, we're human beings.

544
00:43:23,390 --> 00:43:23,710
And everybody

545
00:43:23,710 --> 00:43:29,890
has flesh. And as my pastor said one time ago, one of his sermons, he said, you can

546
00:43:29,890 --> 00:43:33,170
take a bath one minute, go back and shower next, and wash them away, because we're disappearing

547
00:43:33,170 --> 00:43:40,710
day by day. Now, the issues we have is, you know, work was calm. Five falls. Ms.

548
00:43:40,790 --> 00:43:43,710
Bryce has came up here a minute ago. She's been calling, burning my phone. I'm glad

549
00:43:43,710 --> 00:43:46,770
that she came out and spoke because at least somebody

550
00:43:46,770 --> 00:43:50,630
could go here and answer a phone if somebody got an issue.

551
00:43:51,070 --> 00:43:52,050
These opportunities getting hurt,

552
00:43:52,130 --> 00:43:53,030
they're not getting hurt on their own

553
00:43:53,030 --> 00:43:54,170
because that's what they decided to do.

554
00:43:55,310 --> 00:43:56,670
And also the board.

555
00:43:56,930 --> 00:43:59,510
The board is a life changing event.

556
00:43:59,770 --> 00:44:04,010
The AM PM board is like Mr. Bright said, Mr. Blank said,

557
00:44:04,270 --> 00:44:06,770
is that it's for people to have

558
00:44:06,770 --> 00:44:07,890
some kind of norms in their lives.

559
00:44:08,010 --> 00:44:09,050
You guys have norms in your lives.

560
00:44:09,170 --> 00:44:10,410
You know, I already know your schedule every day

561
00:44:10,410 --> 00:44:12,530
is gonna be 85, no change,

562
00:44:12,530 --> 00:44:15,130
no midnight, nothing like that. You know when you come in, what your set is going to be,

563
00:44:15,210 --> 00:44:19,390
where the operators want the same thing. That's why they have the AMP and board. It's to give

564
00:44:19,390 --> 00:44:23,370
the ones who wants to work in the morning with kids to have that opportunity. The one in

565
00:44:23,370 --> 00:44:26,670
the evening that wants to work in the afternoon and tend to the family, because sometimes

566
00:44:26,670 --> 00:44:29,770
these are split families. They have the choice of the mother and father taking the choice

567
00:44:29,770 --> 00:44:32,470
of taking care of the kids. They want that opportunity.

568
00:44:35,820 --> 00:44:37,640
As far as the salaries,

569
00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:45,060
The 3% is for the operator. What are the salary people are going to get? Because the HM and

570
00:44:45,060 --> 00:44:48,680
the AM says, okay, you're supposed to get 10% more than we get anyway. But what's the

571
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:53,920
real deal? We want the same fair salary as anybody else get.

572
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:56,060
Thank you.

573
00:44:56,380 --> 00:44:56,940
Thank you.

574
00:44:58,910 --> 00:44:59,550
Thanks, Speaker.

575
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:02,320
My

576
00:45:09,260 --> 00:45:15,080
name is Latanya Walker. I am a customer service information representative. I am also

577
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:25,200
a union rep for ATU. I would like to say echo what everyone has said up here tonight. And I

578
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:29,820
would also like to say that when we come before you, we're coming before you for a reason.

579
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:36,520
I've looked at some of y'all, some people are listening, some people are not. They're

580
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:38,000
falling asleep, whatever it may be.

581
00:45:38,500 --> 00:45:41,980
But we come up here to speak for the bus drivers,

582
00:45:42,260 --> 00:45:45,360
the customer service reps, all the people

583
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:49,680
that are putting in time to make Dart a five-star service.

584
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,200
Three percent, Ms. Lee, you know that's not right.

585
00:45:53,740 --> 00:45:55,220
The board, you know it's not right.

586
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,080
We do deserve more.

587
00:45:57,580 --> 00:45:58,620
We work hard.

588
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:02,240
We make sure the customers get to where they need to be.

589
00:46:02,620 --> 00:46:04,240
We give them correct information.

590
00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:10,240
We try to make dark look good, and I think we do a great job doing so.

591
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:14,560
We're asking y'all to be a blessing to us.

592
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:21,380
Talk amongst yourselves and give us what we deserve.

593
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:23,540
We deserve more than 3%.

594
00:46:23,540 --> 00:46:26,060
Insurance is 18%.

595
00:46:26,060 --> 00:46:30,060
Like they say, it's ridiculous.

596
00:46:30,060 --> 00:46:33,400
And I'm echoing what they're saying.

597
00:46:34,780 --> 00:46:37,080
Y'all get bonuses at the end of the year.

598
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:41,940
If we're out two days, we don't get the bonus to 750.

599
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:47,440
I had a co-worker that had an unforeseen situation with her daughter,

600
00:46:48,100 --> 00:46:50,340
had to go to have emergency surgery.

601
00:46:51,140 --> 00:46:52,440
She doesn't get the bonus.

602
00:46:52,820 --> 00:46:53,480
Is that fair?

603
00:46:55,020 --> 00:46:59,120
There needs to be some changes made because life does happen.

604
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:00,820
We work hard.

605
00:47:01,780 --> 00:47:02,880
We come to work.

606
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:04,460
We do what we're supposed to do.

607
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:13,180
We're asking y'all to look over things, change some plans or whatever you have to do.

608
00:47:13,820 --> 00:47:14,380
Change it.

609
00:47:14,460 --> 00:47:19,180
We need changes at dark because like they say, without us, there's no y'all.

610
00:47:20,500 --> 00:47:26,020
So listen to what we have to say and apply it to us.

611
00:47:26,380 --> 00:47:27,400
We deserve it.

612
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:33,340
No one should be at work and then something happened and they don't get the bonus.

613
00:47:34,140 --> 00:47:38,380
But I guarantee at the end of the year, y'all will get y'all bonus.

614
00:47:39,420 --> 00:47:45,220
The VPs will get their bonus, and it's way more than 750, and we work hard.

615
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:53,240
Whenever there's a need like the fair, people put in overtime, and it's not easy.

616
00:47:53,240 --> 00:47:59,820
We get complaints from customers because the trains may be doing something or some kind

617
00:47:59,820 --> 00:48:01,200
of mechanical issue.

618
00:48:01,460 --> 00:48:04,880
We have to cover for DART and we do it well.

619
00:48:06,240 --> 00:48:12,460
So taking consideration that the employees that are standing before you today that we're

620
00:48:12,460 --> 00:48:15,360
doing our job and we're representing DART well.

621
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:23,100
That concludes the speaker section of the meeting.

622
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:28,600
We will go to the next item, which is adjournment, and we are adjourned.

623
00:48:28,720 --> 00:48:29,760
Thank you for being here.