[0:00] That sets us to moving into the NAPA Valley Transportation Authority Board of Directors meeting, and can I call that to order it 117.

[0:12] Do we need to do the roll call or pledge over again? I think we're. We have confirmed the pledge of legions at the preceding meeting, along with our quorum. We have an attendance, our PCC representative, Director Devaro Smith, and there are two confirmed absences today.

[0:29] from Directors John Williams and Eric Knight. Thank you. Thank you.

[0:34] Adoption of the agenda. Anyone want to make any changes to the agenda? If not, I'll

[0:41] make a... I'll entertain a motion to accept the agenda as proposed.

[0:49] Alessio. Alessio and Washington. All those in favor say aye. Aye.

[0:55] Any opposed? All right. Public comment now relating to the

[1:00] Annapolis Alley Transportation Authority, anyone in the audience, anyone online?

[1:09] Okay, no public comment. Chairperson's report.

[1:16] I'm going to figure I'm going to do something

[1:17] later on in the agenda, so I'll make my remarks later. Any board member comments?

[1:26] Any MTC

[1:26] comments? All right.

[1:30] Okay, there's a few things here at the May commission meeting, the 2026 bike champions

[1:35] of the year were honored and for NAPA, we had Charles Nickname Mickey Wagner, honored.

[1:42] He's 17 years old and he is helping his friends and neighbors with bike repair, bike mechanics

[1:50] and teaching people and helping them fix their bikes up in St. Helena and at the farmers

[1:54] market up there. So, wonderful bike advocate in our community. Then we have, I'm noting two

[2:02] integrated ecological enhancements to the San Pablo Baylands that are part of the state.

[2:07] Route 37 Sears Point to Mayor Island Improvement Project received funding from the U.S. EPA.

[2:14] I'm pleased to see the U.S. EPA funding, the kinds of things that's supposed to fund.

[2:18] And the first, these are the first environmental funds for this project, which of course has

[2:24] huge cost overrun, so having the environmental end of it paid for through environmental

[2:29] entities is really helpful.

[2:31] So this is 13.9 million over two years for Strip Marsh East Restoration and Sediment Removal

[2:39] and 9.6 million for Tolay Creek Sediment Excavation and Reuse.

[2:43] The Tolay Creek project also received its San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development

[2:48] Permit.

[2:49] So, getting through BCDC is a hurdle for Bayside projects and that's one less thing

[2:55] left to do, and that moves the project at Greenlights for Construction, which is very good

[3:03] news.

[3:04] And then MTC is gearing up for a second round of Safe Routes to Transit and Bay Trail Program

[3:09] call for projects.

[3:10] The commission will take an action on the call later this month.

[3:14] There's a $75 million available pot of funding in this round for

[3:21] Active Transportation and Bay Trail implementation projects.

[3:24] Priority projects are those that serve equity, priority communities, advanced complete streets,

[3:28] improve real and perceived safety concerns, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

[3:33] Project nominations are due later this fall and local agencies are encouraged to work

[3:37] through their county transportation authorities to apply.

[3:41] And I will also note that at the last round of committee meetings the programming and allocations

[3:46] committee allocated the Transportation Development Act funds, which is usually over 30% of NVTA's

[3:54] budget, so we move that forward.

[3:56] And at the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority, they're updating their project application

[4:03] process, and one of their funding goals is Bay Trail elements that feature an ecological

[4:09] component, and so that's also a part of money that this group can go after, as long as

[4:15] the Bay Trail components they're working on also have an ecological benefit, and so that

[4:20] would be a great thing to partner with the resource conservation district on.

[4:23] They have some projects like that underway already, and that's what I got.

[4:28] All right. Thank you. Any questions from the board or the public? All right. Let's go to association of Bay Area governments. A bag update. Yeah. Thank you, Chair.

[4:40] There was a new election for leadership for a bag for 2026, 2028, the term of the new president now as Susan Adams.

[4:50] He has council member for our Monor Park, the vice president ended up in a tie the evening

[4:57] of the first vote so there was a special meeting on May 20th.

[5:00] On the 27th, the tie was between Ken Carlson and Wanda Williams. On the 27th, it was determined

[5:07] that Wanda Williams would be the vice president, so congratulations to her. Susan Adams was

[5:13] succeeding, Bill Euremos, and Bill, you got a lot of applause from everybody on the board

[5:20] and the affiliates around saying how great of a job she did, and I could concur with that

[5:25] same result. I'm just losing my car share person now to ride to San Francisco. I've got to ride

[5:33] by myself. But I believe she's still going to be part of A-Bag. Nothing else to report.

[5:40] Okay, great. And Wanda Williams being the vice president is good because she's Solano and that's

[5:45] close enough to Napa. So, good outcomes. Executive Director's report.

[5:53] Yes. Good afternoon. Executive

[5:56] give director Schmitz.

[5:58] You'll notice some artwork around the board room.

[6:01] I would just like to give kudos to both Kathy and Emily

[6:05] for their beautification efforts.

[6:07] We are also going to put some artwork in the lobby,

[6:11] including our regional network transit map,

[6:16] which is a very nicely done map by MTC,

[6:19] and our runner up for our bus art contest,

[6:22] we will be displaying their artwork

[6:24] work in the lobby as well.

[6:27] NVTA was notified by this Cal Transustainable Communities Grant that we are going to receive

[6:33] $250,000 for our South Napa County Station Area Plan.

[6:38] So that's very exciting.

[6:41] It was our, I think, third time going after that funding source.

[6:45] The Station Area Plan aims to establish and enhance multimodal transportation connections

[6:50] to a potential future passenger rail station in South

[6:54] Napa County, working with a consultant team and VTA will

[6:57] conduct stakeholder outreach and deliver actionable

[7:00] recommendations at a high level for funding strategy

[7:03] to guide future station area development.

[7:06] The County of Napa has agreed to partner with us on that.

[7:10] Project will and they'll be providing the local match.

[7:14] Vine Transit provided late night and extended service for

[7:17] bottle rock, and the numbers came in very, looking very well. The vine provided over

[7:23] 83,800 trips during the three-day festival, which was a 36% increase compared to last year's

[7:31] festival. Again, I would like to thank Emily and the transit team on the major marketing efforts

[7:39] that I think were responsible for this, as well as transit did decide to run Route 21, which

[7:47] is the route that connects to Sassoon and Amtrak and Fairfield over there and I believe

[7:52] that was a huge contributor to a lot of the additional ridership that we received.

[7:58] Rebecca and her staff were out in the field all three days covering and helping direct

[8:06] festival goers to their individual bus routes.

[8:09] So thank you.

[8:11] NVTA is moving several capital projects along and so we have some upcoming public outreach

[8:16] meetings, including tonight at in the city of Napa at crosswalk community church for the state

[8:22] route 29 comprehensive multimodal corridor plan workshop. It's at 5.30 p.m. and then next week on

[8:31] June 24th, we will be having a airport intersection public open house down at the Hampton Inn in

[8:40] in South Napa County at 5.30 p.m. to talk about the different alternatives for the State Route 29 James and Canyon Airport Intersection.

[8:52] And I'm happy to report that the City of American Canyon is the first jurisdiction to adopt their section of the Countywide Active Transportation Plan into their general plan just last night, hot off the press.

[9:04] So thank you, Patrick, for all your work, and he'll be working with other jurisdictions to adopt your sections of the act of transportation network into your general plans.

[9:15] And then lastly, long time executive director, so my counterpart in Salano Darrell Halls, the Salano Transportation Authority executive director who's been there for over 25 years is retiring at the end of this month.

[9:29] And he has been a great partner to NVTA from collaboration on the Jameson Canyon widening to our route 21 that goes to

[9:40] So soon to the Salano Napa commuter information and state route 37.

[9:44] So I just wanted to take this moment to acknowledge his contributions to the North Bay transportation and wish him well from this board in his retirement.

[9:52] So that concludes my report.

[9:54] Good, thank you very much.

[10:00] Any comments?

[10:03] No, it's just, I mean, Solano Transportation Authority is like one of our partner agencies that's been around for a long time, and we've collaborated with Daryl since, I mean, the beginning. So we just need to acknowledge that. And yeah.

[10:19] He's a good guy. Director Eisenberg. Yes, as a loyal transit user for during

[10:26] Bottle Rock from Kalastoga to Bottle Rock, I just want to express my

[10:30] appreciation to Rebecca and her team. They were out there working very hard,

[10:35] especially if people were trying to get home. It's not perfect, but it's really

[10:41] good. Thank you. And if you'd express that to Rebecca, that my appreciation.

[10:45] Yeah, she's right here, but I we will. Yeah. Oh, there you go. Okay, thank you. It's always

[10:52] the beginning. I'll give you my full update. It's always good to hear the first hand accounts.

[10:58] Actually, Public Works Director Jessica Lowe took the Route 21 from Bauderok to and from Bauderok

[11:05] and she was giving me play-by-play updates of what things were working really well. So appreciate

[11:12] the feedback. Excellent. And I also want to do a shout out to director Eisenberg for he was part

[11:19] of that vine trail bike ride marathon. You exceeded your estimated miles. I exceeded my estimated

[11:28] miles by three miles because I was out there getting just the estimated miles and I realized I wasn't

[11:34] home yet. So I added another few miles. All right well again it's always good to say you

[11:42] exceeded it even if three miles might be argued as poultry but it's a good thing I'm glad I could

[11:49] have helped you so good good for you. All right now we don't have any presentations so we're going to

[11:57] move straight into consent. Oh, wait a minute. Do we have a CalTrans report?

[12:02] No, there's a CalTrans in your packet, the map, but we don't have a report today.

[12:08] Okay. I apologize for skipping over, but I do remember talking in the agenda review

[12:14] that we weren't going to have one. So I am not, I appear flaky, but I'm not completely

[12:19] flaky. All right. Well, we're back to consent. Who would like to approve the consent calendar?

[12:25] or make a motion to that effect.

[12:29] All right, man-free and or vies.

[12:33] All those in favor say aye.

[12:36] Any opposed?

[12:39] All right, so now we run to regular agendas.

[12:43] Ooh, election of the chair and vice chair

[12:45] for fiscal year 2627.

[12:50] Well, I guess I get to make the report.

[12:55] We had a nominating committee consisting of myself, Vice Chair Doring, and prior Chair

[13:02] Alessio.

[13:04] We discussed it.

[13:06] We felt that the next jurisdiction in line should be Napa County, and given the fact

[13:13] that Director Alessio had already served, we, oh, okay, I jumped ahead.

[13:20] First, we decided that or vice chair dooring should be nominated to be the chair, and then

[13:28] the question was who should the vice chair be?

[13:31] And that gets you back into, we thought Napa County should be next in line, and we reached

[13:36] out to Director Manfrey who is willing to serve as vice chair.

[13:42] So number one, the nominating committee is recommending that we elect Director Dooring

[13:48] to be chair and director man-free to be vice chair and then we also got into some policy

[13:55] direction and raise the issue of sometimes it doesn't make sense to select our officers

[14:05] at the beginning of the fiscal year that it might make more sense to the beginning of

[14:08] the calendar year because there's going to be an election in the fall and we all like to

[14:15] thinking incumbents can get reelected, especially if you are one, but that doesn't always happen.

[14:20] So we're also recommending that we give direction to staff to come back with an amendment

[14:27] to the bylaws that talk about making the term of office in either January or February,

[14:34] that way the board will know exactly who's going to be around at least for the next two years.

[14:39] So, that is the nominating committee's report.

[14:45] If there's any questions, I'm happy to answer them, or at least comment on them.

[14:51] If I may add a comment, the vice chair and the chair roles are two-year commitments each.

[14:59] page.

[15:00] So it's a really a four-year commitment, ideally, when you become vice chair. That's why looking at the elections in terms of like, who's going to run again? And that whole election aspect kind of came into play in this discussion. So I think it's a great policy discussion to have. And then when I was vice chair, we had the county had a representative as the chair. So it just worked in the natural rotation. So the next rotation would be the same.

[15:29] of Napa, so I just want to put that out there too. That's all I want to add.

[15:35] Right. And I know Director Manfer will do a great job being

[15:40] representative on MTC. I think it's going to be really beneficial for your role

[15:45] there on MTC and your role here too. So I think it's a good match. I appreciate

[15:49] you being willing to do this. Thank you and I'll say I look forward to being

[15:53] an understudy with Mr. Doring. I think I'll learn a lot, so very good.

[15:58] and I will second all of that. Director Doring doesn't get as much credit for all of the insights

[16:05] that he offers usually during the board review and in point of fact it was his suggestion about

[16:12] when should the cycle start. So I do think that you will probably get some great leadership for the

[16:27] First, I guess we could do both.

[16:31] You could approve the nominating committees,

[16:33] recommendations for Chair and Vice Chair.

[16:36] I move to approve the nominating committee's recommendations.

[16:39] All right, all those in favor say aye.

[16:44] Discussion, discussion?

[16:46] Discussion, no.

[16:49] I did everything I could to finagle my way out of this position.

[16:53] And I was outvoted so appreciate the confidence

[16:56] in the subcommittee. Thank you. Yes, we know how to railroad Paul. All right, those were

[17:04] in any opposed. And yes, I should have provided some public comment. But we're going to say that

[17:13] you only did the nominating. The second half is the amendment to the bylaws. And in that regard,

[17:21] I would entertain any public comment on either or both because I forgot the first one.

[17:27] and nobody cares about bureaucratic details.

[17:31] Chair, we're staff's able to receive your direction

[17:35] for recommending the by-law amendment.

[17:37] We will bring that for final approval

[17:39] at the next board meeting.

[17:41] Perfect.

[17:41] Yeah, it'll be an agenda item for...

[17:44] Yes.

[17:44] Okay.

[17:45] And so, with that...

[17:47] If I understand it correctly,

[17:49] I get to finish out the meeting,

[17:50] and that's exciting,

[17:52] but I'm going to take a few moments

[17:54] to say that I appreciate the opportunity. I probably want to apologize for those meetings that

[18:01] just went kind of squirrely and everybody had to put up with it. That's just what you got to do.

[18:07] But I do want to acknowledge a few incredible accomplishments. I don't necessarily take credit

[18:13] for any of them, but they happened on my watch and I've been titled to brag. First and foremost,

[18:18] we selected a new executive director and that is actually a bigger deal than anything

[18:28] than I said because the quality of your executive director is about 80% of the effectiveness

[18:35] of the organization. A good director and you do great things, not so good director and

[18:40] you just kind of fuddle through. So I'm glad that we were able to select an excellent executive

[18:46] of Director, that we finished Sausco and Buying Trail, that we started or actually continued

[18:52] the American Canyon 29 corridor project and initiated the 2912 interchange project.

[18:59] We are moving forward on a strategic plan.

[19:02] We looked over the JPA and decided not to change any of it.

[19:05] We even did an RFP to hire a new legal service, which tends to be the same person, but still.

[19:11] So, and I would like to think that we have a more cohesive board today than a few years

[19:19] ago, and again, I don't take credit for any of it, it just happened on my watch, and that's

[19:25] that.

[19:25] So, I want to thank everybody for putting up with me, and I hope I can continue to do a good

[19:31] job sitting on the sidelines for the next few months, and with that, with that, yeah, with

[19:45] Just that. Thank you. With that, we'll move to 10-2, the Transportation Development

[19:50] Act Article 3 Resolution and Countywide Claim, which Patrick will handle.

[20:01] Thank you, Chair, members of the board. Item 10.2, the TDA 3 resolution and countywide claim authorization. I will try to be brief on this one. TDA 3, the TDA 3 program provides grants to local jurisdictions for bicycle and pedestrian projects and improvements. It is funded through approximately 2% of the quarter percent statewide sales tax measure and generates roughly $200,000 a year for projects

[20:31] projects in Napa County.

[20:33] We do a call for projects on a regular basis to solicit applications and evaluate funding opportunities.

[20:40] We did a call in April of 2026 and received three applications.

[20:45] One from the city of Calistoga or the Oak Street Bridge project.

[20:49] One from the town of the Auntville for improvements on California between 29 and under 29 near the Vetsome

[21:00] and the third application from NVTA for a sidewalk project on Bernal just outside the doors here.

[21:08] NVTA staff evaluated those projects. They went through both our active transportation advisory committee,

[21:14] which, although they did not have a quorum at their meeting where they evaluated these projects,

[21:18] did express their unanimous support of those members and attendance to go forward with the staff

[21:23] recommendation. That recommendation is also brought forward to the TAC, which also supported that

[21:29] recommendation. The staff recommendation is to fund the Cal Stoga Oak Street Bridge project

[21:35] with $150,000 for this next fiscal year and the NVTA Burnell Street sidewalk project

[21:42] for $100,000. I'm happy to go into additional detail on individual applications or the application

[21:49] process and next steps, but I will stop my presentation there.

[21:53] Okay. Thank you very much. Now the yonple request I think that is is going to be considered for the next. That is correct. Yes. So as I mentioned, we have about 200 or $250,000 annually that comes in through the sales tax stream, we have about 250,000 available for this next fiscal year and 200,000 for the subsequent fiscal year.

[22:19] in order to be able to fully fund as many projects as possible and not just kind of partially, you know, piecemeal out dollars.

[22:27] We worked with all three applicants and evaluated their applications, also looked at how far progressed those applications were and were they able to deliver the projects or just kind of start moving forward.

[22:39] So yes, the plan is to when you do our next call for projects next year to prioritize the on bill applications.

[22:48] Any questions from the board, Director Eisenberg?

[22:52] I just want to compliment the group on the choices upon completion of the Oak Street Bridge project.

[22:59] It will be quite a boon for active transportation.

[23:03] We will have, it's a critical juncture for children going to and from school who walk or bike.

[23:10] It will eliminate their being required to go through a lot of very high traffic areas.

[23:16] So, thank you very much.

[23:19] Could I think, Director.

[23:21] I just want some clarification on the next year's funding.

[23:26] At least $200,000 available.

[23:28] Is that all already programmed for a yacht bill?

[23:31] That is what there will be invitations for either.

[23:32] That is not.

[23:33] There will be okay for projects.

[23:34] It will be competitive.

[23:35] We've identified that, you know, our staff's recommendation is to prioritize.

[23:40] The yacht bill application is assuming that they submit at that next poll for projects.

[23:44] The $200,000 is also an estimate based on projections for sales tax revenues in the next year.

[23:51] We will have to wait and see generally we get a couple of updates from MTC on those revenues annually.

[23:58] And so we'll update those numbers should they shift in a substantial way.

[24:02] Any sort of big picture comments in terms of the maybe missteps or applications are not quite right.

[24:11] Are there general comments you can make about that without getting into the detail about these these applications for the good of all of the agencies?

[24:20] Yeah, please.

[24:22] So NVTA has in the last two application cycles established a priority or preference for what we call quick build projects efforts to make kind of medium term, you know, expedited improvements to improve bicycle pedestrian safety.

[24:38] I know the city of St. Helena was successful in application a year or two ago, that is certainly

[24:44] our intent moving forward. We're also every time we do this call for projects identifying other

[24:49] opportunities to improve the application process and make it easier for jurisdictions to apply,

[24:55] you know, fix little things that may better communicate what

[25:00] And VTA's priorities are obviously in alignment with the program guidance that we received through MTC.

[25:06] All right. Thank you. And Director Sejley. Thank you, Patrick. And a lot of my questions were

[25:13] answered through Director Doaring's question on why agencies wouldn't apply for next year's

[25:19] funding for the 2728, right? Did we miss the boat? I answered that, I understand that. And like

[25:25] Calistoga I'm also happy to see Mernell look that I mean it's the fund door to

[25:31] the transit center and it's it's in it's in pretty bad shape for a lot of

[25:35] reading safety is the biggest ones so glad to see that on the list. Thank you. Any

[25:40] other comments from the board? Any comments from the public?

[25:47] All right seeing none

[25:48] I'll entertain a motion to remove approval. Doring? I'll second.

[25:55] all those in favor say aye aye any opposed all right chair they I think that we

[26:03] have somebody here that would like to provide public comment that arrived around

[26:06] 130 I'm not sure but if that no okay I thought maybe you were here for I was gonna

[26:12] ask if we could reopen public comment for the person yeah that's not the case

[26:15] great then we don't need to okay and and I you're perfectly entitled to stand but

[26:21] if you'd like to grab a chair,

[26:22] you're welcome to sit as well.

[26:25] So, okay, thank you.

[26:27] Then let's go to number 10.3,

[26:30] an agreement number 26 CO8 with Sloan Sakai Young and Wong, LLP,

[26:37] for General Counsel and Professional Legal Advisory Services.

[26:40] Take it away Antonio.

[26:42] So good afternoon chair and members of board.

[26:43] My name is Antonio Anorado

[26:45] and I am the Director of Finance and Administration for NVTA.

[26:48] So, Director Joseph alluded to this a little bit earlier today, but for this item, staff

[26:53] is asking the board to authorize the Executive Director to execute a five-year agreement

[26:58] with Sloan Sakai, Yuang and Wang LLP for general counsel and professional legal advisory

[27:05] services in an amount not to exceed $350,000 over the five-year period.

[27:13] For a little bit of background, NVTA has utilized Lensokai as its legal counsel since 2018, and the current agreement expires in July, 2026, next month, in anticipation of that expiration staff conducted a competitive procurement process to ensure we evaluated a marketplace and selected the firm's best qualified to meet NVTA's legal needs.

[27:38] A request for proposals was released on May, in May, 2026, and for four firms submitted proposals.

[27:46] Alice Shire and Winder, Hanson Bridget, White Brenner, and of course, our incumbents, Lone Sakai.

[27:52] The proposals were evaluated by a selection committee consisting of the two board members that share in the vice chair, the Executive Director and myself.

[28:00] The evaluation criteria included the firm's understanding of the work,

[28:05] experience representing public agencies, qualifications of proposed team,

[28:09] and of course cost value to the agency.

[28:12] So following that thorough review, Sloan Sakai received the highest overall score

[28:17] from every evaluator and was ranked first among all the firms.

[28:22] Based on the strength and the consistency of the scoring,

[28:25] the committee unanimously concluded that interviews were not necessary

[28:28] and recommended to this board that the board award a contract to slums a

[28:36] chi. In addition to being the high-strength

[28:39] proposal, slums a chi has extensive experience representing public

[28:42] agencies and has provided reliable legal counsel to NVTA or the past several

[28:46] years. Their proposed rates are consistent with current services and the

[28:53] current to the contract structure allows NVTA to only pay for services

[28:57] is actually rendered. So the contract is a not to exceed amount, but the payment will

[29:02] be based on actual services rendered to the agency. In conclusion, staff recommends that

[29:07] the Board authorize the execution of the agreement with Solonce a Chi for General Counsel

[29:11] and Professional Legal Advisory Services. And that concludes my report. I can answer any

[29:15] questions you may have. Thank you. Anyone on the board have any questions?

[29:19] I will echo staff's report having had the opportunity to review all four RFPs and

[29:29] Sloan Sakai was the best when you consider everything.

[29:34] So any other comments, any directors, said to the area?

[29:41] Well, just we're currently with Sloan Sakai all along, you've been with Sloan Sakai, yeah.

[29:47] Is it Daniel?

[29:49] Sikai?

[29:50] What is his first name?

[29:53] Charles Sikai.

[29:54] Charles Sikai.

[29:55] Yeah.

[29:55] What I was in the firefighters' union, I negotiated against him.

[30:00] Right. Our representative and Charles Sakai, if you can extend my compliments to him, he is very good. He was very, he was a lot better than us. Try to get, and try to get, to get a contract approved, but very high quality firm. So it's great. Re-enforced that directly. I think American Canyon used Charles Sakai, not necessarily for labor negotiations, but he was on our side. So I'm sure under the circumstances.

[30:29] We did well with whatever we were dealing with, so it ain't great.

[30:35] Charles, no.

[30:38] Are there any comments that are probably more germane to the topic?

[30:44] Director, Alessio.

[30:45] Oh, yeah, I'm just going to say, thank you so much, Alessio, for your good work.

[30:51] You've been, you transitioned with us, you're the part, there's a previous legal representative.

[30:56] It wasn't quite a good fit to be honest with you, but when you came on, it's been a great

[31:01] fit.

[31:01] We really appreciate your service.

[31:03] I'm really glad that this all worked out and that we get to keep Sloan's a guy.

[31:07] So that might vote my endorsement on this and emotion, if needed, and ready.

[31:13] Director, Vice Chair, George.

[31:15] Well, I would echo the comments made by my colleagues.

[31:17] I think that you have to sort of take a look at what the general services are.

[31:22] It's a general counsel.

[31:23] also, I think that the services to be provided and that had been provided align well with

[31:31] our needs at a cost that is just not even comparable really, but some of the firms that

[31:39] we're looking at, the costs were just immense, and these are outstanding firms, there's no

[31:44] question about it, but I think when you look at a general services firm, you have to look

[31:47] at it, what are the day-to-day needs, and there are going to be times that we're going to

[31:51] go outside of that, those general needs and go into more specialized needs, but I think

[31:56] at the cost and the services that your firm has provided us, I strongly recommend that

[32:01] we continue with the status quo.

[32:04] Excellent. Any public comment before we take an action?

[32:09] All right. Then I'll entertain a motion. We've kind of heard one, so we'll just take

[32:13] I'll move back.

[32:14] Dr. LESSIO.

[32:15] All right.

[32:20] Uh...

[32:21] LESSIO makes the motion.

[32:22] I think I heard something as a second, but okay, LESSIO and Man-Free.

[32:31] All those in favor say aye.

[32:34] Any opposed, perfect.

[32:37] We're now at future agenda items.

[32:41] would any board member want to bring anything up other than we're going to talk about amendments to the bylaws?

[32:50] All right, if nothing else, that means we're moving into closed session.

[32:55] And we have two items, and Oz, if there's anything you need to announce before we move?

[33:01] I just want to make sure there's no public comment. The board's now entering into closed session.

[33:07] on the two items is the agenda's public employee performance evaluation and

[33:11] conference with labor negotiators.

[33:19] The

[33:30] board met in close session on the two

[33:32] agenda's items. There is no reportable action for either item.

NVTA Board of Directors on 2026-06-17 1:00 PM - Zoom

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