[0:11] Good morning, everyone, it is 10

[0:13] o'clock, I would like to call the Puget

[0:18] Sound regional Council executive board

[0:21] to order Thursday, February 22, 2024.

[0:24] Thank you all for joining us. This is a

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[1:53] Sheila, would you like to do the roll

[1:59] call, please.

[2:02] >>[ CALLING ROLL ]

[5:12] >>We do have a quorum.

[5:14] >>Thank you, Sheila. Has anyone

[5:16] signed up for public comment

[5:18] either remotely or in person,

[5:20] or have we received any written

[5:22] comments? We have nothing this

[5:23] week, this month. Okay. So no

[5:25] public comments. I'm going

[5:27] to call out

[5:28] in the chamber here,

[5:30] the meeting room. Is there any

[5:35] public comment? Okay. Seeing

[5:36] that we have no public

[5:39] comments. So the next thing I'd

[5:40] like to just a few remarks, I

[5:43] was, you know,

[5:45] we've had a little trouble

[5:46] with ferries these days,

[5:47] and I'm happy to tell you that

[5:49] I rode the ferry from

[5:50] Bainbridge Island this morning.

[5:52] It was on time. It was

[5:53] beautifully clean. It was a

[5:55] bright, sun, shiny day. The

[5:57] galley was open. The copy was

[5:59] great. So When everybody starts

[6:00] complaining about ferries,

[6:02] please remember, please,

[6:04] they're doing really fabulous

[6:05] work, and they've been, you

[6:07] know, struggling lately. But

[6:08] When they run, I can't think

[6:10] of a nicer thing to do

[6:12] on a beautiful morning, is

[6:14] to come

[6:15] across the sound and look

[6:17] at the mountains and, it was a

[6:18] it was a great commute. So the

[6:20] ferries are running,

[6:22] maybe not as regular as 1,

[6:24] but when they do run,

[6:25] they're wonderful. So please

[6:27] keep that in mind. I'd also

[6:29] like to say, in March, I will

[6:31] announce the 2024 nominating

[6:33] Committee which is tasked

[6:35] for proposing the candidates

[6:36] for the positions of PSRC

[6:39] president and vice president,

[6:41] which we will do

[6:42] at the general assembly.

[6:44] Well, those will be announced

[6:45] and to end confirmed. I'm also

[6:49] working with president, vice

[6:50] president, summers

[6:52] to finalize the 2024

[6:54] performance goals for PSRC

[6:56] Executive Director, Josh

[6:58] Brown, in March board members

[7:00] will receive an email from me

[7:01] for waiting the goals. Those

[7:02] goals that I will forward

[7:05] to you will be used

[7:06] to evaluate performance during

[7:07] his next annual performance

[7:09] review in December of 2024. I

[7:11] think Josh is doing a terrific

[7:12] job, but this is obviously

[7:14] something that we need to do

[7:16] to establish, you know, which

[7:18] direction we want this agency

[7:21] to go in and, Josh is our key

[7:23] person. And so as a board,

[7:27] we need to make sure that those

[7:28] expectations are really clear.

[7:30] Additionally, we have several

[7:32] new board members. Let's

[7:34] welcome Council member,

[7:36] Jennifer Chamberland, an

[7:37] alternate for the city of

[7:38] Bremerton. Is Jennifer here

[7:41] today? No? Okay. Council

[7:43] member, Scott Bader, alternate

[7:44] for the city of Everett.

[7:46] Scott's here. Welcome, Scott.

[7:48] Welcoming back Commissioner

[7:50] Carrie Bozeman. As an alternate

[7:52] for the Port of Bremerton. I

[7:54] don't know if Carrie's here,

[7:56] you know, and mayor, Victoria

[7:58] Woodard's as an alternate

[7:59] for the city of Tacoma. So

[8:02] those are our new members. And

[8:04] with that, I'm just going

[8:06] to turn it over to Josh Brown

[8:07] for your report.

[8:09] >>Alright. Excellent. Thank

[8:10] you, Mayor Erickson. Thank you

[8:12] for everybody

[8:13] for joining us and

[8:14] participating

[8:15] in the meetings today. So this

[8:17] board meeting

[8:18] of the executive board is going

[8:19] to be a little different than

[8:20] last month. We took on a lot

[8:22] of funding actions

[8:24] at the last board meeting in

[8:26] January. This month,

[8:27] we're going to be bringing to

[8:28] you several important

[8:30] discussion items related to

[8:32] major planning efforts that we

[8:33] have as an agency. Our next

[8:35] update to our regional

[8:36] transportation plan,

[8:37] which we have to adopt every 4

[8:38] years under federal law.

[8:41] Bringing to you our scope

[8:43] of work for updating our

[8:45] center's framework and

[8:46] important conversation

[8:48] around how we're guiding growth

[8:49] in the region. And then we're

[8:50] going to be reporting

[8:51] on important data that,

[8:53] you've asked us

[8:54] to bring back as part

[8:55] of a dashboard for the regional

[8:57] transportation plan. As part

[8:58] of the last, update to the to

[9:00] the regional transportation

[9:01] plan. So a lot

[9:03] of important things. A couple

[9:04] of things I wanted to note

[9:06] in your packet first. We do

[9:08] have a date, a hold for our

[9:09] next general assembly meeting.

[9:10] That'll be May 30th. And, the

[9:14] tentative hold is from 9:30

[9:17] to 1. We are hoping to be

[9:20] at the new expansion,

[9:23] the new annex

[9:25] for the convention center

[9:26] in downtown Seattle. So staffs

[9:28] working to finalize those

[9:32] details will be a great

[9:33] opportunity

[9:34] to highlight a regional asset,

[9:36] a asset for the state of

[9:37] Washington. I know many

[9:38] of you worked very hard. I know

[9:39] King County did a lot of work

[9:40] to ensure that that project

[9:41] moved forward

[9:42] during the pandemic. So great

[9:43] opportunity to bring the reach

[9:44] in together. The other thing I

[9:45] just wanted to note, and,

[9:47] we have our fund, our fairy

[9:49] support letter that has been

[9:50] attached

[9:51] in your packet. I want

[9:53] to thank many members of the

[9:54] executive board. I'm looking

[9:56] around the room, looking

[9:58] at folk style then. Many

[9:59] of your jurisdictions, we have

[10:01] about 25, I believe,

[10:03] elected officials who signed

[10:04] on to that fund our ferries,

[10:06] support letter. So thank you so

[10:07] much for your help and your

[10:10] advocacy. Our next convening is

[10:11] tomorrow, for, for, the focus

[10:12] on ferries, and it's going

[10:17] to be from 10:45 to, 11:45. So

[10:20] thanks for our elected

[10:21] officials that'll be joining

[10:24] us, the chair of the House

[10:26] Transportation Committee

[10:27] chairman Jake Fye has agreed

[10:28] to join us. So he's taking 20

[10:29] minutes out

[10:30] of his busy schedule

[10:31] to join us tomorrow. As many

[10:32] of you know, that that both the

[10:33] house and the senate

[10:34] transportation budgets were

[10:36] just released. So, you know, if

[10:38] we got some things that we

[10:39] wanted those budgets,

[10:40] there's other things related to

[10:41] ferries that aren't included.

[10:43] So it'd be a good opportunity

[10:44] for dialogue and

[10:45] to provide feedback

[10:46] for chairman Fye. The other

[10:48] thing I wanted

[10:49] to highlight next Friday is

[10:50] PSRC is going to be hosting our

[10:52] new elected official workshop.

[10:55] So I know many of you

[10:56] participated when you were new

[10:58] elected officials,

[10:59] it's a great opportunity

[11:00] for PSRC

[11:01] to share regional data, to,

[11:03] you know,

[11:05] for new elected officials

[11:06] to learn about collaboration

[11:07] and regionalism,

[11:08] we'll be hosting it

[11:10] in person here at our offices

[11:12] at 1201 Third Avenue. I'd

[11:13] encourage you if you have a

[11:14] colleague that hasn't yet

[11:16] registered. It's not quite too

[11:17] late,

[11:18] although it's getting close.

[11:19] We're going to send

[11:20] out our final push

[11:21] for RSVP soon. And, look

[11:23] forward to having folks,

[11:25] attend that that workshop.

[11:26] It's always a lot of fun. A

[11:28] couple other just updates I

[11:30] wanted to provide on February

[11:32] 7th PSRC hosted a tribal

[11:34] coordination meeting. So one of

[11:36] the things that we've been

[11:37] exploring at the staff level is

[11:39] different ways that we can

[11:41] engage with our region's

[11:42] tribes. I'm proud

[11:44] to report that we had 6 of our

[11:46] region's tribes participate

[11:48] at the meeting There were

[11:49] multiple staff people for

[11:51] from most

[11:52] of our tribal governments who,

[11:53] were there participating

[11:55] in person or pardon me,

[11:57] virtually. And we received

[11:59] really, really great feedback

[12:01] on our work. You know,

[12:02] the goal

[12:03] of this meeting wasn't to have

[12:04] a meeting where we're talking

[12:05] to our tribes, but instead to

[12:06] really listen and get feedback,

[12:08] we received a lot

[12:09] of really great direction. And

[12:10] I think moving forward,

[12:12] what we're going to do is,

[12:13] turn this into maybe a

[12:14] semiannual meeting where couple

[12:16] times a year, we're engaging

[12:18] with our tribes. They're

[12:20] developing the agenda, and

[12:21] we're giving them an

[12:23] opportunity

[12:24] to provide feedback. So we

[12:25] couldn't have been more pleased

[12:26] with the way that that meeting

[12:27] came together. Our directors,

[12:29] joined me in that meeting,

[12:30] and I wanted

[12:32] to give a big shout out to

[12:33] Erica Harris and our staff who

[12:34] did a lot of the late work.

[12:36] Putting together the agenda and

[12:37] handling the logistics. So

[12:39] really, an important meeting.

[12:40] Just a couple other brief

[12:41] updates. So,

[12:43] in the past month,

[12:44] I've been busy out in the

[12:45] region. I joined the housing

[12:47] development consortium

[12:48] for meeting that they held

[12:49] on housing in Redmond, near

[12:50] Ernie, counsel of Herbal

[12:52] Ducci, among others,

[12:53] were there in attendance. So it

[12:55] was great to catch up with all

[12:56] of you. I was asked

[12:57] to give a presentation to

[12:59] King County Realtors, the

[13:00] master builders and Bellevue

[13:01] Chambers Transportation

[13:03] Committee. And, something I

[13:04] wanted to flag for everybody

[13:06] in March We're really going

[13:07] to lean into the topic

[13:09] of climate at our March

[13:10] executive board meeting. We'll

[13:12] be providing staff reports and

[13:14] updates

[13:15] on the work that we're doing

[13:16] at PSRC, but we also have a

[13:18] special guest. Our March

[13:19] meeting will be will be

[13:21] finished

[13:23] with a legislative session.

[13:25] And we're going to have a house

[13:26] majority leader, Joe

[13:28] Fitzgibbon join us, in person

[13:30] to be able

[13:31] to provide an update

[13:33] on the legislative session

[13:34] with a special focus on the

[13:36] Climate Commitment Act. I know

[13:38] many of you have been tracking

[13:40] not only a lot of the important

[13:42] investments that the Climate

[13:43] Commitment Act has been

[13:44] providing, but also the fact

[13:46] that we're going to have,

[13:48] some initiatives

[13:51] on the ballot, this year as

[13:52] well that that could impact,

[13:55] the Climate Commitment Act. So

[13:56] we just appreciate majority

[13:59] leader Fitzgibbon's joining us

[14:02] and, taking time out

[14:04] of his busy schedule

[14:05] to update the executive board.

[14:09] So more to come on that. And

[14:11] that's a perfect segue to

[14:12] Robin Koske, PSRC's director of

[14:13] government relations and

[14:14] communications

[14:15] to provide an update

[14:16] on the legislative session.

[14:17] So, Robin, let me hand things

[14:18] over to you.

[14:20] >>Thanks, Josh. There we go. I

[14:24] hope everybody can see my

[14:25] screen. Nice to be here today

[14:28] with some legislative updates.

[14:30] I guess the, first thing I'll

[14:31] say too is that I just got back

[14:33] from a visit to Washington DC

[14:35] for the National Association

[14:37] of Regional Council's

[14:39] Meeting. Where I also checked

[14:41] in with, just

[14:43] about every member

[14:44] of our delegation, both

[14:47] Senator Marie and Cantwell, and

[14:48] then the whole House of

[14:49] Representatives delegation.

[14:51] And, I would say that I got,

[14:53] you know,

[14:54] a very positive response to

[14:55] PSRC's work. I think that they

[14:57] were very interested in the

[15:00] things we're doing where we're

[15:01] collaborating regionally

[15:02] on federal grants

[15:03] to make sure grants are getting

[15:04] out communities

[15:05] across our region, you know,

[15:07] safe streets and roads

[15:08] for all and other things. And

[15:09] we also were looking

[15:11] for toward, surface

[15:13] transportation,

[15:14] reauthorization, and how a

[15:15] metropolitan planning

[15:17] organizations might show up

[15:18] in that. So that's a couple

[15:19] years. I hope are already

[15:21] starting to think about it. So

[15:22] we want to be proactive and

[15:23] make sure we're part of the

[15:26] conversation as that happens.

[15:27] So very good visit to DC and,

[15:28] nice to be there

[15:30] with our delegation. As far as

[15:33] the state legislative session

[15:35] goes, this is the 7th week

[15:38] We're now in day 46. So

[15:40] after today, just 2 weeks 2

[15:42] weeks left in the session went

[15:44] by pretty fast. This week was

[15:47] quite a week. All

[15:49] of the budgets came out

[15:51] between Friday Tuesday, one

[15:53] on Sunday, 3 on Monday. So, I

[15:54] will preface that, you know,

[15:57] we're still kind of combing

[15:58] through things and figuring out

[16:01] exactly what everything means,

[16:02] but, you know,

[16:04] I do have some updates for you

[16:05] around that. The, opposite

[16:08] house policy cutoff was, the

[16:11] week, just yesterday. So more

[16:12] and more bills are are going

[16:15] away and that the priority and

[16:16] then we have fiscal cutoff

[16:20] on the 26th, and then the

[16:21] opposite house bill cutoff on

[16:22] March 1st. And then finally,

[16:23] signing dye on the 7th. So

[16:25] rapidly, careening

[16:26] toward the end here. I wanted

[16:29] to share something a little bit

[16:30] light as I always do. I think

[16:33] last year, I shared with you

[16:34] all the state dinosaur bill.

[16:35] This year, there was a bill

[16:36] before the legislature that was

[16:38] actually quite controversial.

[16:41] The bill was to designate the

[16:42] Pacific raise razor clam as the

[16:49] state clam. And, there was some

[16:52] competition from the So that

[16:54] bill did actually not move

[16:55] forward, but there was a group

[16:57] I I share. I have a drawing

[16:58] here. There was a a group

[17:00] of medals from for monitoring

[17:04] the bill and had some art

[17:06] contests, to support, the razor

[17:08] clam as the state clam. So they

[17:10] said that they're going

[17:12] to continue working

[17:13] on the issue because they

[17:15] Passionate laser clams should

[17:16] be the clam of Washington. So

[17:18] one of those, a nice sort

[17:20] of lighthearted things

[17:22] to watch out for, next session

[17:24] I didn't actually do a slide

[17:27] on the operating budgets,

[17:29] but I would say, you know,

[17:30] of course, that just

[17:31] to remind everyone,

[17:33] this is the 2nd year

[17:35] of the biennium. So these are

[17:36] supplemental budgets. They're

[17:37] meant to be sort of, you know,

[17:38] trimming around the edges

[17:40] of the policy,

[17:42] statements that were made

[17:43] with the budget last year.

[17:44] Although I think, you know,

[17:46] more and more,

[17:47] we see pretty major investments

[17:48] in the budgets. I think one

[17:49] of the things that we saw in

[17:50] the operating budget was just a

[17:51] significant investment

[17:52] through all three

[17:53] of the budgets, the

[17:54] transportation, capital, and

[17:55] operating, but both the Senate

[17:56] and the house invest quite a

[17:57] bit of climate commitment act

[17:58] dollars, in

[18:00] in various programs. The

[18:02] housing trust fund, just

[18:15] another, item of note, oh,

[18:16] I guess I'm still talking

[18:18] about the operating budget. So

[18:19] one other thing to point out

[18:20] about that is that the document

[18:22] recording fees, which are,

[18:23] fund many

[18:26] of our homelessness programs,

[18:27] those fees have, of course,

[18:28] been down with the rise in

[18:29] interest rates and less real

[18:30] estate transactions happening.

[18:32] So there is a a quite a bit

[18:34] of a shortfall, and there has

[18:35] been a very big advocacy effort

[18:37] going on to try and see if

[18:38] those funds can't be restored

[18:39] through other means

[18:41] in the state budget. And, the

[18:43] Senate puts in $20,000,000 and

[18:45] the house puts in $70,000,000.

[18:47] And my understanding from the

[18:48] Department of Commerce is that

[18:50] the actual deficit is

[18:51] $70,000,000. So $20,000,000

[18:53] wouldn't quite cut it. So it'll

[18:56] be interesting

[18:58] to see how that falls out.

[18:59] There was also,

[19:00] the governor you may remember

[19:02] had, almost $12,000,000

[19:04] in his budget for local housing

[19:06] programs that could be accessed

[19:07] directly you know, housing

[19:09] people who are experiencing

[19:10] homelessness and other things,

[19:12] that was included in the

[19:18] Senate budget. And then the

[19:19] house included as well

[19:21] in a package of of 46 point

[19:23] $4,000,000, sort

[19:25] of a bucket of, housing

[19:28] for vulnerable populations,

[19:29] and they funded that at 7.4.

[19:33] Full of highlights. And then as

[19:35] I said, there were investments

[19:36] in the operating budget

[19:38] in the Climate Commitment Act

[19:39] and then significant

[19:40] investments

[19:41] in the capital budget of

[19:42] $650,000,000 $670,000,000,

[19:45] respectively. Housing trust

[19:46] fund, both made pretty

[19:49] significant investments and you

[19:51] see the house comes

[19:52] in a little bit higher than the

[19:53] Senate, neither

[19:55] of the budgets interested

[19:57] in what the governor had wanted

[19:59] to do around,

[20:00] rapid acquisition of mostly

[20:02] hotels and motels so they

[20:04] invested directly in in funds

[20:06] to

[20:08] of fund affordable housing. So

[20:09] I think that decisively,

[20:11] decision that's been made that

[20:12] we won't see that rapid

[20:14] acquisition, And then both

[20:16] capital budgets,

[20:17] significantly invest

[20:18] in behavioral health, as well

[20:20] as the operating budget and the

[20:22] operating budget also does

[20:23] some, work on opioids. Let's

[20:26] see. Moving on

[20:28] to the transportation budget,

[20:30] I just wanted

[20:31] to talk a little bit about,

[20:33] you know,

[20:34] the background considerations

[20:35] for the transportation budget

[20:37] because we're seeing a lot

[20:39] of cost increases. And so I

[20:41] just wanted

[20:43] to also just talk a little bit

[20:44] about what some of the reason

[20:45] behind that. You know,

[20:47] the pandemic was, of course,

[20:49] very disruptive. Revenues have

[20:51] decreased I think one

[20:52] of that's one issue certainly

[20:54] with the ferry system, revenues

[20:55] that we saw the a very

[20:57] significant reduction

[20:59] in that. And then, of course,

[21:00] costs have gone up due

[21:01] to supply chain issues. And

[21:03] then we've also seen workforce

[21:05] shortages Another thing that's

[21:07] kind of looming in the

[21:08] background is that there are 6

[21:09] ballot initiatives that have

[21:11] been certified, and, 2 of those

[21:13] would very significantly impact

[21:14] the budget One, of course,

[21:16] for the repeal of the Climate

[21:17] Commitment Act and,

[21:19] then the other for the repeal

[21:20] of the capital gains tax. The

[21:22] climate Commitment Act is a

[21:23] very significant issue for our

[21:25] transportation budgets because

[21:26] the move ahead Washington

[21:27] package that passed 2 years ago

[21:29] relied heavily on Climate

[21:31] Commitment Act Investments

[21:33] of the 17,000,000,000 that was,

[21:34] in the total of that budget,

[21:37] about 5,400,000,000 was climate

[21:39] Commitment Act revenues. So

[21:41] almost a third of the budget

[21:43] would be impacted if those

[21:46] funds were to go away. And

[21:50] then, of course, additionally,

[21:52] there are the court decision on

[21:55] fish passage and culprit

[21:56] replacement 4,000,000,000

[22:01] of that. We have a sort of a

[22:02] $4,000,000,000 issue that needs

[22:03] to be solved. But if you take

[22:05] away the CCA funds,

[22:06] that goes all the way up to

[22:07] 9,000,000. So just wanted

[22:08] to kind

[22:09] of highlight the background

[22:10] before I talked about the

[22:11] transportation budget. And I

[22:12] know secretary Malar is

[22:13] on the phone is

[22:14] on the line today. So, he may

[22:15] have some additional things

[22:16] to add when I am finished,

[22:18] because as I said,

[22:19] we're still kind of calling

[22:21] through exactly what all

[22:23] of these, budget things mean.

[22:25] Both of the budgets made some

[22:29] investments in safety. They

[22:31] kind of total it a little bit

[22:33] differently. So it's kind

[22:35] of hard to tell exactly

[22:37] to compare, the senate

[22:39] to house. The senate very

[22:40] clearly called

[22:43] out the what they labeled as

[22:44] $31,000,000 in investments.

[22:46] Both the budgets put

[22:47] $8,500,000 into the Washington

[22:49] traffic safety commission

[22:51] for public, education

[22:52] enforcement and other grants.

[22:54] And all both budgets also put

[22:55] $1,000,000 into wrong way

[22:58] driving prevention. The Senate

[23:00] collects some Washington state

[23:01] patrol, investments

[23:03] into their safety bundle, but

[23:05] the house budget also does some

[23:07] investment there. So I think

[23:08] in the end, they come

[23:10] out pretty close,

[23:11] on the safety issue. Yeah,

[23:12] preservation,

[23:14] both budgets and invest

[23:15] in preservation, the house

[23:17] budget, adds $40,000,000, and

[23:20] the Senate budget says that

[23:22] they add a 150, but I think

[23:24] 50,000,000 of that is active

[23:26] transportation and the house

[23:27] budget also has some active

[23:29] transportation dollars. So I I

[23:30] think maybe that they come

[23:32] out a little, closer than,

[23:33] comparing 150 to 40

[23:35] in the end. I think one of the

[23:37] most significant differences

[23:38] between the transportation

[23:40] budgets is how they handle

[23:42] Portage Bay. The house budget

[23:43] directs the Department of

[23:45] Transportation to cancel the

[23:48] Portage Bay bid, for both

[23:50] for that whole project And

[23:52] then, only, send the north end

[23:55] of the bridge out for, forbid

[23:57] The Senate budget on the other

[23:58] hand adds some funds

[24:02] for additional costs,

[24:03] and we proceed

[24:04] with the project I think based

[24:05] on the theory,

[24:07] from what I heard Senator,

[24:09] Liisa,

[24:10] in his press conference,

[24:11] around the budget,

[24:13] that they think that we're you

[24:15] know, costs are never going

[24:19] to go down. They're only going

[24:22] to go up. So we'd be better

[24:25] off to just proceed ahead and

[24:26] kind of, you know,

[24:27] swallow our lumps. So we shall

[24:29] see how the 2, just decide that

[24:30] when we get out to conference

[24:35] As far as ferries go, both made

[24:36] very significant investments

[24:38] in ferries, and I think that,

[24:39] you know,

[24:40] certainly the advocacy of all

[24:41] of you who signed on

[24:43] to her letter made a difference

[24:44] in making sure that there was a

[24:45] focus on that. The house does

[24:47] have a, $50,000 per mile

[24:48] program for the Department of

[24:50] Licensing to explore how that

[24:53] would work out. Not a huge

[24:55] amount of money, but,

[24:57] something in the budget. I

[24:59] think everyone will remember

[25:01] that there were some funding

[25:02] for a study

[25:03] of a road usage charge. Last

[25:05] year in the budget that the

[25:06] governor ended up line item

[25:08] vetoing. So, I understand

[25:09] from what chairman Fai said in

[25:11] his press conference that

[25:12] there's some agreement that

[25:14] this is appropriate, with the

[25:15] governor's office this year.

[25:18] So that's a good thing

[25:19] from our perspective here

[25:21] at PSRC since we have the road

[25:22] uses charge in our regional

[25:24] transportation plan. I'm going

[25:26] to move on to ferries. So, kind

[25:28] of a lot of work. Haven't

[25:29] actually compared exactly the

[25:32] governor's budget on the

[25:33] workforce development issues,

[25:35] but both the house and the

[25:38] senate make investments there

[25:39] to make sure that the ferry

[25:40] workforce, has what they need

[25:42] to get back up

[25:43] to full service. Both invest in

[25:45] the passenger only routes

[25:47] continues this extended service

[25:49] on the Bremerton, of about

[25:51] $3,000,000 in both budgets

[25:59] for some additional service

[26:00] on the Bastion Seattle route.

[26:02] So, interesting because that

[26:03] was not

[26:05] in the governor's budget, and

[26:06] they both considered important.

[26:07] In terms of preservation, the

[26:10] Senate invests some additional

[26:12] money to make sure that ferries

[26:14] are able to be fixed when they

[26:16] have problems or

[26:17] before they have problems. So

[26:19] hopefully, the house does not

[26:21] put any new preservation money

[26:22] in,

[26:23] but they direct the ferries

[26:25] to create a plan and ask

[26:26] for what funding is needed

[26:28] for appropriate preservation

[26:29] in 2025. The I say the capital

[26:32] part is the is the part that

[26:33] you know, kind of hard to dig

[26:38] into in the budgets, but they

[26:40] both clearly provide funding

[26:41] for 5 new vessels and 3

[26:44] conversions

[26:46] over the next several years,

[26:48] but the Senate is very over in

[26:50] saying that they are investing

[26:52] 307,000,000 additional dollars

[26:53] and 237 of that from a CCA

[26:55] to create those vessels,

[26:57] indicating that then what could

[27:00] happen is that when those bids

[27:01] go out this April that

[27:04] potentially,

[27:05] if there was a bid that could

[27:07] do 2 vessels at 1, we might be

[27:09] able to build 3 vessels. So

[27:11] they kind

[27:12] of front load those funds to

[27:13] try and get those ferries

[27:15] online as fast as possible. As

[27:17] far as, studies go. There's,

[27:20] 300,000,000

[27:21] in the house budget

[27:22] for a work group plus

[27:23] 200,000,000

[27:24] for an economic impact study,

[27:25] and then there's a

[27:26] $140,000,000

[27:27] for an economic impact study

[27:28] in the senate, which is, around

[27:30] this bill that representative

[27:33] Nance proposed on the

[27:35] Washington State Prairie 75

[27:36] work group That bill has died,

[27:39] but the you can see that the

[27:41] both the work group and the

[27:42] study showed up

[27:43] in the budgets,

[27:45] only the study only in the

[27:46] Senate budget. So we shall see

[27:47] how that works out

[27:48] with budget providers.

[27:49] Secretary Malar, yes,

[27:52] you can go ahead if you'd like

[27:53] to comment.

[27:56] >>Yeah. I was just on those

[27:57] studies. I don't think they're

[27:58] a 140,000,002 100,000,000.

[28:01] >>I think they're Okay. 1000.

[28:02] Oh, a 200,000. Yes. Right.

[28:04] 200,000,000. Excuse me. As I

[28:06] said, I, you know,

[28:09] I was I've been sort

[28:11] of burning the midnight oil

[28:13] to get all

[28:14] of these budget information up.

[28:16] So thank you. Right? Of course,

[28:17] that doesn't make any sense

[28:18] at all.

[28:19] >>No. And, you know,

[28:20] we're ready to rip the covers

[28:22] off of the studies we've

[28:23] already done and send them back

[28:24] in. And if I can get a

[28:25] 140,000,000 for that,

[28:27] that would be out standing.

[28:28] >>Yes. I know that that there's

[28:31] some consternation on behalf

[28:32] of the ferry system

[28:34] around those secretary. So

[28:35] Thank you very much for the

[28:37] important clarification. I'll

[28:39] make sure before Sheila puts

[28:40] those slides up

[28:42] on that I changed the m

[28:45] to a k. And Josh already

[28:46] mentioned the fund or fairy

[28:48] sign on letter,

[28:50] but just also wanted

[28:51] to express my deep gratitude

[28:52] to everyone for signing on to

[28:53] that letter. I really do think

[28:55] it makes a difference,

[28:56] chairman Fye mentioned

[28:58] in his, remarks to when he was

[29:01] unveiling the budget that he

[29:02] had heard about ferries

[29:04] from very many emails. So,

[29:06] thank you. I think you

[29:08] definitely,

[29:09] made an impact this legislative

[29:11] session, so we really

[29:13] appreciate it. I'm going

[29:15] to switch from talking

[29:17] about the budgets, and then

[29:19] that I think are probably

[29:21] important to all of you the

[29:23] housing stability bill,

[29:25] which was a very interesting,

[29:27] legislature thing

[29:29] to watch this year. Is still

[29:31] alive. House bill 2114.

[29:33] They're the senate version

[29:34] of that bill actually died

[29:37] in the senate committee because

[29:41] Senator Cleveland, voted yes

[29:42] for the bill, and then in an

[29:45] unusual move did not sign,

[29:47] officially when the hearing was

[29:49] over, and then came out

[29:50] publicly and said that she was

[29:51] not in support

[29:53] of the bill causing it

[29:54] to die. So then the house

[29:55] version

[29:57] of the bill passed the house

[30:00] And in a very unusual move,

[30:02] they bypass the housing

[30:03] committee and sent that bill

[30:05] directly to the ways and means

[30:06] committee,

[30:08] where it will have a hearing,

[30:10] I think later this,

[30:12] what was scheduled for a public

[30:14] hearing actually today. So we

[30:15] shall see what happens

[30:16] with that bill. Of course,

[30:18] quite a big deal, down in

[30:20] Olympia this year, one of the

[30:22] biggest policy things I think

[30:23] the legislature's discussing.

[30:25] The housing, subsidy bill,

[30:28] the real estate transfer tax

[30:29] bills, both

[30:31] of those are still alive,

[30:32] because they are

[30:34] to implement the budget,

[30:36] bills. They've been marked

[30:38] that. So, they could still

[30:39] pass. They both had public

[30:40] hearings,

[30:42] but they have not been

[30:43] scheduled

[30:44] for executive session. So we'll

[30:45] see what happens with those

[30:46] over the next couple

[30:47] of weeks. And then

[30:48] on the supply side,

[30:51] representative doers bill that

[30:53] would do some work

[30:54] on the state building code,

[30:56] passed out of the local

[30:57] government committee,

[30:58] and that's

[30:59] in the rules committee over

[31:00] in the senate. The co living

[31:01] bill is also the house version

[31:02] still alive and awaiting floor

[31:04] action in the senate. And then

[31:06] the last splitting bill did not

[31:08] make it forward this year. And

[31:10] then my final bill that I

[31:11] wanted to mention to you is the

[31:13] transit oriented development

[31:14] bill. I think everyone has

[31:15] heard a lot about this PSRC's

[31:17] data team has done some

[31:18] incredible work

[31:19] on the mapping tool that you

[31:21] see on the left side where

[31:22] there's also a link that you'll

[31:24] be able to find on the website

[31:25] on the agenda page later today.

[31:27] And, so, of course, thank you

[31:31] to them for just doing all this

[31:32] incredible work

[31:34] to visualize what this look

[31:35] like on the ground

[31:37] for communities,

[31:38] in our region. And that bill is

[31:41] actually still alive, it,

[31:43] passed the house. It's over

[31:48] in the senate. It came

[31:49] out of,

[31:50] the local government committee.

[31:52] It's in the rules committee

[31:54] right now. And, in So we'll see

[31:57] what happens. PSRC has also

[32:00] done some work

[32:01] around suggesting how

[32:03] to define bus rapid transit for

[32:04] this bill because there is no

[32:06] definition

[32:07] in federal statutes And there

[32:09] is no definition

[32:11] in state law either. So, it's

[32:12] kind of one of those know it

[32:13] when you can see it things.

[32:14] There are some efforts

[32:15] to put some language

[32:16] in the bill,

[32:17] that would clarify it. So we

[32:18] tried to help out a little bit

[32:19] with that in the background.

[32:22] And then I would also say that

[32:23] the senate transportation

[32:24] budget has some

[32:25] in it that would direct the

[32:27] University of Washington

[32:28] in cooperation with PSRC

[32:29] to complete a review of a DOD

[32:31] development conditions and look

[32:34] at zoning and some other

[32:36] things. So we shall see,

[32:37] if the bill does not pass, I

[32:40] assume that that study will

[32:44] move forward and, you know,

[32:47] some work will be done

[32:48] in the interim to look

[32:50] at what the impacts are. So

[32:51] that I will stop there and,

[32:54] take any questions if anyone

[32:56] has them. And I invite

[32:57] secretary Malar to help me if

[32:59] anyone has budget questions

[33:01] some

[33:02] of those mega project delays,

[33:04] are kind of interesting in

[33:05] in how each of the house

[33:06] incident handled them.

[33:08] >>You know, secretary, Malar,

[33:10] do you have any statements or

[33:11] comments, now that Robin's that

[33:12] was an excellent report,

[33:14] Robin. Thank you so much. But

[33:16] Now, Roger, is there anything

[33:17] you'd like to say

[33:18] to the group,

[33:20] before I open it up

[33:21] for questions?

[33:22] >>No. I think Robin, did a good

[33:23] job summarizing what's going

[33:24] on. From my perspective,

[33:26] both houses have listened

[33:27] to us, among us, all the other

[33:30] people they listen to. A lot of

[33:31] our issues have been addressed,

[33:33] very differently. So, it's

[33:35] going

[33:37] to be quite a challenge,

[33:39] but I think, people

[33:40] with goodwill will we'll get

[33:41] to wherever they're going

[33:43] to be. We have more funding now

[33:45] than we've ever had,

[33:47] and the need is still greater.

[33:48] And, you know,

[33:50] and everybody wants it now.

[33:52] So, we'll see you. We'll see

[33:55] what comes out in, a little

[33:57] over 2 weeks, but I'd be happy

[33:59] to help

[34:00] with any questions.

[34:02] >>Alright. Thank you, Roger.

[34:03] Questions for either, Robin or

[34:05] secretary Millar regarding the

[34:07] presentation. Any questions?

[34:09] We got a pretty quiet group

[34:14] today. Okay, Robin. That was

[34:18] wonderful. Great report. Thank

[34:20] you very much,

[34:21] and looking forward

[34:22] to seeing you soon. Okay?

[34:23] Thank you. Okay. So we are

[34:26] going to move on. Is there any

[34:29] other that was part

[34:30] of your report? So is there any

[34:32] other? Okay. So, we're going

[34:34] to move on

[34:35] to the committee reports.

[34:37] Please refer

[34:38] to your agenda packet

[34:39] for reports on the February

[34:40] transportation and growth

[34:42] management policy board

[34:43] meetings. The operations

[34:45] committee met this morning,

[34:46] and I'll ask vice president,

[34:48] Dave Summers,

[34:50] to give a report. Good morning,

[34:51] Dave.

[34:52] >>Good morning. Good morning,

[34:53] everybody. Good

[34:55] to see you all. So it, today's

[34:56] operations can meeting the

[34:58] committee recommended board

[34:59] approval of items 6b

[35:03] through 6d on your executive

[35:04] board consent agenda. And those

[35:06] items were vouchers,

[35:08] contract authority

[35:10] for waterfront place, office

[35:11] repair, and restoration,

[35:12] and contract authority

[35:15] for the 2024 General

[35:17] Assembly. So those are

[35:18] recommended unanimously

[35:20] for your approval. Reminder

[35:22] state auditors' office is

[35:24] conducting their annual audit

[35:26] with PSRC and the economic

[35:27] development district,

[35:28] and we've been invited

[35:29] to a report out

[35:31] by the audit team on March 7th.

[35:34] And we also learned that a

[35:35] number

[35:36] of jurisdictions have been,

[35:37] stopping by PSRC's old offices

[35:39] to take some surplus equipment

[35:41] and furniture,

[35:42] and that's going

[35:43] to reduce the actual cost of

[35:45] the waterfront place office

[35:46] restoration efforts. And Huge

[35:47] thanks, shout out to Council

[35:49] member Merrill

[35:51] for suggesting PSRC. Do some

[35:52] outreach and a great number

[35:54] of jurisdictions, are reusing

[35:57] the items PSRC couldn't find

[35:59] room for in its new offices.

[36:01] So I, I understand that carcass

[36:03] is being picked clean.

[36:05] Rapidly. And so,

[36:07] that's great use of, PSRC's,

[36:09] old equipment and many folks

[36:11] very grateful to have it. So

[36:13] thank you for that. So that

[36:15] concludes my report. Any

[36:17] questions?

[36:19] >>Any questions for executive

[36:20] summers?

[36:22] >>Thank you.

[36:23] >>I want

[36:24] to welcome councilmember

[36:25] Walker. Thank you

[36:26] for being here today. Okay.

[36:27] Seeing none, we're going

[36:28] to move on to consent agenda,

[36:30] would anyone

[36:31] like anything removed

[36:32] for discussion

[36:34] on the consent agenda? That's

[36:35] items a through g. K? Seeing

[36:39] none,

[36:42] I would entertain a motion to

[36:44] approve the consent agenda

[36:45] items A through G,

[36:47] as presented.

[36:49] >>I moved to approve the

[36:50] consent agenda. This is

[36:52] Brian.

[36:53] >>Second.

[36:54] >>We have a motion and a second

[36:55] to approve the consent agenda

[36:57] as presented. Any questions or

[36:59] concerns? Seeing none, hearing

[37:03] none, all in favor, say aye.

[37:05] >>Aye.

[37:08] >>Anyone opposed? Anyone

[37:11] abstaining? Okay. Motion

[37:14] carries. Next, we are moving

[37:16] on to discussion item about the

[37:18] regional transportation plan

[37:20] dashboard. And this is Craig

[37:22] Hillman, our data guru,

[37:24] Craig? Where are you, Craig?

[37:27] >>Can y'all hear me and see me,

[37:31] okay?

[37:35] >>Yep. You're there.

[37:37] >>Alright. Hopefully, this

[37:38] starts

[37:40] to share the slideshow.

[37:41] Alright. Everyone can see my

[37:42] slideshow. Okay?

[37:44] >>Sounds great.

[37:45] >>Thank you. Alright. So I'm

[37:48] here to talk to you all

[37:49] about the RTP dashboard,

[37:51] and I'll warn you if you were

[37:52] at the transportation policy

[37:53] board. This is the exact same

[37:55] presentation,

[37:56] exact same slides. That we

[37:57] shared just a couple weeks ago,

[37:59] as well as we shared at the

[38:00] regional staff committee just

[38:02] last week,

[38:03] to see if you have background,

[38:04] We shared the development

[38:06] of the RTP dashboard last year,

[38:07] with all our boards,

[38:09] including you all,

[38:10] and we shared it last in

[38:12] January as we're developing it

[38:13] just as a reminder, the

[38:16] performance dashboards are

[38:17] resource to help our region

[38:19] understand how we're meeting

[38:20] our long range goals,

[38:21] and it was directed directly

[38:22] out of our recently adopted

[38:24] regional transportation plan.

[38:25] So we spent, early 2023 taking

[38:27] feedback. We took it down

[38:30] to all our boards and lots of

[38:32] different committees and little

[38:33] groups, and we made changes

[38:40] to the dashboard based

[38:41] on that feedback. And now what

[38:43] we're doing each year is coming

[38:45] as what we're calling this kind

[38:46] of annual briefing or annual

[38:47] report. We ended up doing the,

[38:48] briefing in February, just

[38:49] because we got a lot

[38:50] of year end data

[38:51] by the end of, early in

[38:52] February. So if we come in

[38:53] February, we can share year end

[38:54] stuff more,

[38:55] readily than if we say come

[38:56] in January. So you can expect

[38:57] to see us each, February or

[38:58] kind of talking

[39:00] about different things

[39:01] in the dashboard. My other

[39:02] highlight at the end

[39:04] of this dashboard, end

[39:05] of this presentation,

[39:06] I apologize. There's a link

[39:07] to the dashboard. If you're

[39:09] following along,

[39:10] you're welcome to go look

[39:11] at the dash board. My only

[39:12] warning

[39:13] to you all is we size it. We

[39:14] it's spun up

[39:15] on servers outside

[39:16] of PSRC. I don't have the link

[39:18] at the beginning of it because

[39:19] then everybody the dashboard

[39:21] at the same time. It slows

[39:22] things down on the dashboard.

[39:24] We generally size the thing

[39:25] to meet probably five

[39:26] to ten people

[39:28] at a time looking at it.

[39:29] Realistically

[39:30] in our organization, not that

[39:32] many people. I love our data. I

[39:33] love what we put out there

[39:34] for people to see. We rarely

[39:35] were not Amazon. We don't have

[39:37] hundreds of people at any given

[39:38] clicking our stuff. So if all

[39:40] of you go to click it

[39:41] at the exact same time, it'll

[39:42] probably be a little slow. So

[39:43] if you're all looking

[39:44] at it now, just the warning,

[39:45] it'll be a little slow

[39:46] for you. On this kind

[39:48] of table, what is shown

[39:49] in bold, these are the

[39:51] highlights I'm going

[39:52] to show you just some of the

[39:53] highlights and the trends and

[39:54] direction things are going I'm

[39:56] going to give you, basically,

[39:57] regional numbers for most

[39:59] of this stuff. If you actually

[40:00] go into the dashboard, you'll

[40:01] see a lot more geographies

[40:02] for these different metrics.

[40:03] As well as the ones that are

[40:05] not bolded,

[40:06] you can look and kind

[40:07] of see what those are. The

[40:08] other part we have

[40:09] on here is this kind

[40:10] of progress column. And this is

[40:12] one I've been expecting

[40:13] pushback from folks,

[40:14] but I haven't gotten any yet.

[40:16] The idea of the progress column

[40:17] is just as look

[40:18] at the trends we're seeing,

[40:20] are they moving

[40:21] in the way that we want them

[40:22] to move according

[40:23] to our goals and our plans?

[40:24] That would be the green check

[40:25] mark. Kind

[40:27] of the green dashes,

[40:28] things are good,

[40:30] but they're maybe moving

[40:31] in the wrong direction. So we

[40:32] should really keep our eyes on

[40:34] them and make sure that green

[40:35] dash doesn't turn

[40:36] into what is the third thing,

[40:37] which is the red x. Those are

[40:39] the ones that are clearly

[40:40] from the data not going

[40:41] in the direction,

[40:43] that we would like them

[40:44] to go in. So just orient folks

[40:45] to that as we kind of go

[40:47] through it and you'll see it

[40:48] on some of the slides. So I

[40:49] will take you

[40:51] through these kind of 5 main

[40:52] topic areas in the dashboard.

[40:54] So we can start with climate

[40:55] and just as a refresher

[40:56] for everyone. The goal

[40:58] in our plan is to be 80%

[40:59] below 1990 GHG levels

[41:01] by the year 2050. It's 50%

[41:02] below those 1990 levels

[41:04] by the year 2030. We don't have

[41:09] a sensor out in the air

[41:10] measuring the GH that's

[41:12] submitted. So we use a lot

[41:13] of proxy measures

[41:14] to see where we're going

[41:16] on these. So some

[41:18] of the ones we've talked about

[41:19] here are the transportation

[41:20] Carbonization as an example.

[41:21] Here's one where we've actually

[41:23] seen pretty significant changes

[41:25] just in a short amount of time

[41:26] that green line chart showing

[41:27] there. These are coming from

[41:29] 2017 onward. These are

[41:30] for new vehicle registrations.

[41:32] And so if you're

[41:33] on the dashboard,

[41:34] this is just showing you

[41:35] but if you're actually

[41:36] on the dashboard,

[41:37] you can see what it is

[41:38] for used vehicles as well. So

[41:39] by the end of 2023, about 43%

[41:41] of all new vehicle

[41:43] registrations were either

[41:44] electric or hybrid, and you can

[41:45] actually see where the purple

[41:46] line, that's the battery

[41:48] electric vehicles have actually

[41:49] and surpass the hybrid electric

[41:52] vehicles in early 2023. They

[41:53] each make up about 20 some

[41:56] percent

[41:57] of the overall registrations.

[42:00] On the dashboard. If you look

[42:01] at it, you can also see a map

[42:03] by, census track. So it can

[42:05] give you an idea of where some

[42:07] of those higher and lower

[42:10] levels are,

[42:11] and we overlay that with some

[42:12] of our equity focus areas

[42:13] for people

[42:15] of color and low income. So you

[42:16] can kind

[42:17] of see how that matches. Maybe

[42:18] not surprising. There's some

[42:19] census tracks in the east side

[42:21] of the lake where over 3

[42:22] quarters of the new vehicle

[42:24] registrations or electric

[42:25] vehicles. And there are places

[42:27] in, say, Kitsap County where

[42:29] it's less than 10% of new

[42:31] vehicle registrations are,

[42:32] electric fields, but it's

[42:33] really interesting how rapidly

[42:34] it is changing. Even

[42:36] on the used car market,

[42:37] if you look

[42:38] at the dashboard and look

[42:39] at the used vehicles right now,

[42:41] about 90%

[42:42] of the used vehicle market is

[42:43] for internal combustion

[42:45] engines. It's about 10% now for

[42:46] electric and battery electric

[42:48] and hybrid electric vehicles.

[42:50] It's definitely changing fairly

[42:51] rapidly as these vehicles are

[42:53] actually now starting to hit

[42:54] the used car market as well.

[42:56] So that kind

[42:58] of highlight that one. That was

[42:59] a green check mark. That idea

[43:01] of kind of a green dash

[43:02] Williams, we look at kind

[43:03] of vehicle miles traveled. We

[43:05] are definitely still

[43:06] below where we're

[43:07] at pre pandemic levels, but

[43:08] we're getting closer the last

[43:10] set

[43:11] of regional data we have were

[43:12] about 9% pre pandemic levels,

[43:13] but we've definitely been

[43:15] increasing

[43:16] since the lows coming out

[43:17] of the pandemic where we were

[43:18] about 20% below.

[43:20] On the dashboard, you can look

[43:21] at both per mile or, sorry,

[43:23] per capita metrics. That's what

[43:24] I'm showing you

[43:25] on the chart here.

[43:27] But you can also look

[43:28] at the total VMT as well. Both

[43:29] per capita and totals are

[43:31] below what they were, pre

[43:33] pandemic,

[43:34] but they're definitely starting

[43:35] to increase a bit. And there

[43:37] are other metrics, as I had

[43:38] mentioned, and other

[43:39] geographies that you can kind

[43:40] of see

[43:41] on the dashboard as you kind

[43:42] of flip through,

[43:43] those climate related measures.

[43:46] On the safety side of things,

[43:47] our goal is, similar

[43:50] to the state and many

[43:51] of our jurisdictions is 0 fatal

[43:53] and serious collisions

[43:54] by the year 2030. This is

[43:56] definitely one where the

[43:57] numbers are going

[43:58] in the wrong direction,

[44:00] hence the red x we have there.

[44:01] The data for 2023 will become

[44:03] available and May. And so a few

[44:05] months from now, we'll be able

[44:06] to see where we're at in 2023.

[44:07] So, unfortunately,

[44:09] this data is through 2022, but

[44:10] you can see that rapid increase

[44:11] in the amount

[44:12] of people who died

[44:13] on our regions roadways. This

[44:17] is just in our Four counties

[44:18] in 2022. We had 300 almost 3

[44:22] 30 people die

[44:23] on roadways almost 1 a day.

[44:25] All numbers from 2023 look like

[44:27] it's worse than it was. I think

[44:29] many of you are familiar with

[44:31] the work that PSRCs been

[44:32] embarked upon on the street and

[44:34] our safe streets

[44:35] for all grant work

[44:36] with the federal government.

[44:38] There's now been 2 different

[44:39] funding rounds come out. The

[44:41] first one, we collaborated

[44:42] with 6 other local

[44:44] jurisdictions to get almost

[44:45] $5,000,000 in grants to develop

[44:47] a safety action plan. And just

[44:48] in the last month, PSRC is,

[44:49] kicked

[44:51] off our safety action plan

[44:53] with our consultant team. And

[44:54] so all and all those other six

[44:56] jurisdictions are also

[44:58] under contract as well with us

[44:59] to get their work going

[45:00] on their safety action plans.

[45:03] Since then, we were,

[45:05] notified that in 2023, another

[45:07] 10 jurisdictions got, grants

[45:08] with the safe streets

[45:10] for all work to also embark

[45:11] upon safety action plans

[45:13] for their jurisdictions,

[45:14] but we were definitely going in

[45:15] the wrong direction when we

[45:17] look at annual traffic related

[45:20] deaths. And this metric as we

[45:21] kind of see and some

[45:22] of the things we're trying

[45:24] to put in the dashboard is

[45:25] share more information about

[45:26] racial disparities and whatever

[45:28] data that we can share it. So

[45:29] this is an example

[45:30] on the traffic rate

[45:31] of the desk

[45:32] by race and ethnicity. And you

[45:33] can see that American Indian,

[45:35] our Alaska native member of our

[45:36] community was seven times more

[45:38] likely to die in a traffic

[45:39] related collision than a white

[45:40] resident in the year 2022. And

[45:41] you can also see kind

[45:42] of how that varies by other

[45:43] race and ethnicity groups As

[45:44] you go on to the dashboard,

[45:46] you can also see we have it

[45:47] by gender. We have it by age.

[45:48] We have information

[45:50] by different geographies. We

[45:52] also have it by cities. And

[45:54] then you can also look and kind

[45:55] of see how things vary maybe

[45:56] by time of day or day

[45:58] of week. We have lots of

[45:59] different metrics that are

[46:00] available for folks to pull

[46:01] off of the dashboard. But this

[46:03] is definitely another one

[46:04] of those that is not moving

[46:05] in the right direction.

[46:09] On the growth side, the goals

[46:10] on our growth come

[46:11] from vision 2050. It's really

[46:12] about where our population and

[46:14] employment growth. So 65%

[46:16] of our population and 75%

[46:17] of our job growth. Is to occur

[46:19] near high-capacity transit

[46:21] in our regional centers. Once

[46:22] again, there's more data

[46:24] on the dashboard. You can kind

[46:25] of see just

[46:26] from the little bullets

[46:27] at the top there. If you're

[46:30] on the dashboard,

[46:31] you could click those and look

[46:32] at each one. I'm going

[46:34] to add a line to these to show

[46:35] you actually what the goal is.

[46:36] I should have had that

[46:38] on there, originally. So the

[46:39] population goal is 65%. So you

[46:40] can kind

[46:41] of see where we've been since

[46:42] 2011. Coming out

[46:43] of the great recession

[46:45] about 3rd of our population

[46:46] growth was occurring

[46:47] near high-capacity transit.

[46:49] In the last several years,

[46:50] we've been closer

[46:52] to 50% mark. You can kind of

[46:53] see we've definitely rash it

[46:55] up, early on

[46:56] into the forties. And we'd I

[46:57] always say

[46:59] for a data perspective, that

[47:00] 2020 2021 year are really,

[47:02] really hard to look at.

[47:04] They're so anomalous,

[47:08] so it's hard to see. So another

[47:09] couple of years of data,

[47:10] we'll see if we continue

[47:11] to keep hovering

[47:12] around that 50% mark.

[47:13] On the job side,

[47:15] we definitely go up and

[47:16] down and hover pretty close

[47:18] to that 75%

[47:19] of our job growth. You can kind

[47:20] of see how things vary year

[47:22] by year. It kind of bounces

[47:23] around there. We can see in

[47:25] 2022 is hovering about 60%.

[47:26] Some years, it it's been

[47:28] over 80%. Is definitely one

[47:29] of those ones that kind

[47:32] of comes up and down. Hence,

[47:34] the reason, once again,

[47:35] for the kind of sideways dash

[47:36] on both of these for kind

[47:40] of where we're going in terms

[47:43] of our growth. I combined

[47:44] transit and the walk and bite

[47:45] measures into 1

[47:46] for the presentation just

[47:47] to try to keep things simple.

[47:48] This is an example where I've

[47:50] brought up in our previous

[47:52] presentations that really our

[47:53] goals and our plan are

[47:54] about growth. Are fatal and

[47:57] serious collisions,

[47:59] and they're about climate. And

[48:00] so we really look at transit,

[48:02] walk, and bike, non-motorized,

[48:04] all that stuff is kind of

[48:05] metrics that help us meet our

[48:06] climate goals. So in

[48:07] in many ways,

[48:08] all these measures could also

[48:09] go under the climate, section

[48:11] of So as we separate those out,

[48:13] that's why I've actually

[48:14] mentioned in this case, and

[48:15] you'll see the difference

[48:16] language on the plan where you

[48:17] have a goal. It's called goal

[48:19] and where it's just an outcome

[48:21] of the plan. So a lot

[48:22] of these are outcome measures.

[48:24] They're called plan outcomes.

[48:25] And so in this case, if you're

[48:26] to look at our plan, our

[48:27] regionally,

[48:29] adopted transportation plan.

[48:30] We're looking

[48:31] at triple transporting

[48:32] by the year 2050. And probably

[48:34] before I even go

[48:35] to the next slide, you're

[48:36] probably all fully aware that

[48:37] the impact

[48:39] of the pandemic has been huge

[48:40] on transit ridership. So this

[48:41] is showing annual transit

[48:43] boardings as an example

[48:44] by year. So this is

[48:45] through the end of the year

[48:46] 2023. We are definitely

[48:50] below where we're at. 2019 as

[48:53] well as we were forecasted

[48:55] to be. It might be hard

[48:56] for you to see on the screen,

[48:58] but the slope of that line

[48:59] since 2021 It's actually

[49:01] growing more rapidly than the

[49:02] slope of the orange line,

[49:04] which is the forecast,

[49:05] but it's definitely

[49:06] down below. It's about 70%

[49:07] of where we're

[49:08] at forecasted before. It

[49:10] definitely varies by mode,

[49:11] and you can see that

[49:12] on the dashboard. If you click

[49:14] through it, you can look at,

[49:15] things by bus, rail, commuter,

[49:17] I should say when I say rail,

[49:18] light rail,

[49:20] car versus commuter rail,

[49:22] and you can kind of see that

[49:23] in the bullet points here,

[49:25] light rail,

[49:26] since the pandemic, especially

[49:27] since, Northgate stations

[49:29] opened. It's actually now in

[49:30] 2023 above where it was

[49:32] in pre pandemic levels. The bus

[49:33] routes are about 70%

[49:35] of where they're at. Commuter

[49:36] rail and van pools,

[49:38] which serve our kind

[49:39] of employment centers. Those

[49:42] places are most likely

[49:43] to have still higher shares

[49:45] of work from home,

[49:46] for instance, are some

[49:48] of the ones who are furthest

[49:49] down in terms

[49:50] of where they're at. They're

[49:51] more like 30 or 40%

[49:53] of what it was

[49:54] in pre pandemic measures. When

[49:55] we look

[49:56] at it and compare ourselves

[49:58] to other metro areas,

[49:59] and we do this for a lot

[50:00] of the measures

[50:01] in the dashboard. So you can

[50:02] kind of click

[50:03] through and you can kind

[50:04] of compare us to 27

[50:05] of the largest MPOs

[50:07] around the country. This is

[50:08] where I'd say our,

[50:09] we're very similar

[50:10] to everybody else. We're middle

[50:11] of the pack. So there's 27 bars

[50:13] here. We're number 13. So we're

[50:14] almost smack dab

[50:15] in the middle. So we're at

[50:17] about 68% of pre pandemic

[50:18] transit boardings in 2023. And

[50:20] you can kind of see,

[50:21] where some of those ones

[50:24] at the top bar that were closer

[50:25] to that kind of Miami, San

[50:28] Diego, Austin, Houston.

[50:30] They're closer to a 100%. No

[50:32] one is at a 100%. You can see

[50:34] we're very similar to places

[50:35] like Boston. We're actually

[50:36] above Boston, slightly below

[50:38] Washington, DC. When you're

[50:39] in the dashboard,

[50:40] you can also look

[50:41] at the totals,

[50:42] not just these ratios. So the

[50:44] other thing I bring up when

[50:45] I've I shared this slide is

[50:46] places like Miami have a lot

[50:48] less transit ridership than we

[50:49] have in our region. They have a

[50:51] lot less transit service than

[50:52] we have. This is just showing

[50:53] how much closer they are

[50:54] to those places, but you

[50:56] definitely see the sun belt

[50:57] for the most part of those

[50:58] places that have recovered a

[51:00] lot quicker, than the rest

[51:01] of us. But as I mentioned,

[51:03] we're kind of middle

[51:05] of the pack. Hovering right

[51:06] near that kind of 70%

[51:07] of the pre pandemic levels

[51:09] for transit ridership. This one

[51:11] is about walking to work. And I

[51:12] thought this measure might be

[51:14] interesting to folks. And I and

[51:16] I looked back

[51:17] in the data all the way to

[51:18] 2006. It's been pretty

[51:20] consistent, actually. So when

[51:21] you look at the dashboard,

[51:22] that's the other thing you'll

[51:23] find is We generally do 3 years

[51:24] of data. So we have 2012,

[51:25] 2017, 2022. This is all census

[51:27] related data. So 2022 is the

[51:29] most recent data that we have.

[51:31] Geographies. This is the

[51:33] by county and region again,

[51:35] but also if you're on here,

[51:36] you can actually see it

[51:38] by city as well. We had the 3rd

[51:39] highest walk to work, in 2022

[51:41] of any metro region, only

[51:43] Boston, New York are higher

[51:45] than us. We're somewhere

[51:47] between 3 5 every year back

[51:49] to 2000 6. So we're

[51:51] consistently one of the top 5

[51:53] highest shares of walk to work

[51:55] in the country. Having said

[51:56] that when we're number 3,

[51:58] there's a big difference

[52:00] between us and New York. So

[52:01] we're hovering right here a

[52:02] little about 3 a half percent.

[52:04] New York is about 12%. Now

[52:06] having said that, New York

[52:08] isn't 40%. It's about 40%

[52:09] of people using transit to get

[52:10] to work in New York City,

[52:12] but there's still about triple

[52:13] of what we are,

[52:15] even though we're number 3 in

[52:16] Boston, maybe not surprisingly,

[52:18] is kind of in between the 2.

[52:19] So there's even a decent amount

[52:21] of distance between us and

[52:22] in places like Boston as an

[52:23] example.

[52:25] But having said that,

[52:27] we are definitely one

[52:28] of the we have one

[52:29] of the higher shares

[52:30] of walked work

[52:31] in the country,

[52:32] and you can kind

[52:34] of see how it varies by,

[52:35] county. It's maybe always

[52:36] surprising to people. We

[52:37] actually have a pretty high

[52:38] share of walk to work in

[52:39] Kitsap. So Kitsap County

[52:41] actually has a higher share

[52:42] of walk

[52:43] to work residents than King

[52:44] County does. It's an example. A

[52:45] bit of that is a lot

[52:46] of people living in Bremerton

[52:47] working at the Puget Sound

[52:48] Naval Shipyard. That is have a

[52:51] couple more slides here. I

[52:52] think time wise,

[52:54] I'm doing okay. These are just

[52:55] a couple on delay. Once again,

[52:57] this was a plan outcome. So in

[52:59] the plan where you were looking

[53:01] at an actual reduction and

[53:03] delay per household, these ones

[53:06] might be a little hard

[53:08] to decipher. This is,

[53:10] quarterly charts, and these are

[53:11] stacked bars showing the

[53:12] percent of the system that is

[53:14] either heavy heavily congested

[53:16] or severely congested. So heavy

[53:18] congestion,

[53:20] it means you're going

[53:21] on a freeway

[53:22] under thirty miles an hour. If

[53:24] you're severely congested,

[53:25] you're averaging 9 or 15 miles

[53:27] an hour. So, so very,

[53:28] very slow on the freeway. You

[53:30] know, I think about that. And

[53:31] then the same ratios are

[53:32] applied to arterials. You can

[53:34] see going in the morning peaks

[53:36] before the pandemic, about 60%

[53:38] of the network was congested

[53:39] with a big chunk of it

[53:41] about 20%

[53:43] of it being severely congested.

[53:45] You can see that we're still

[53:46] not back to those levels. I

[53:48] think most people who've seen

[53:49] that morning commutes

[53:50] definitely are not as bad as

[53:52] they were yet. They're getting

[53:53] worse, but you can also see

[53:55] that severe congestion. It's

[53:56] about half of what it was,

[53:57] pre pandemic. So we're hovering

[53:59] about 50% of the network is

[54:01] congested now. We have a

[54:03] federal performance target.

[54:04] That is one

[54:06] of the things FHWA requires us

[54:08] to have. And our performance

[54:11] target, what these numbers were

[54:12] actually performing better than

[54:14] our federal performance target,

[54:16] maybe not too surprisingly.

[54:17] The afternoon's a little

[54:19] different. In

[54:20] on the dashboard,

[54:21] you can see it in the middle.

[54:22] On the dashboard, you can look

[54:23] at what it is in the middle

[54:25] of the day. Things have

[54:26] definitely gotten worse

[54:27] in the middle of the day. I've

[54:28] shared the story of all

[54:29] of us who work from home. It

[54:30] seems like we go shopping at

[54:31] Costco in the middle

[54:33] of the day, you got a lot

[54:34] of more activity that happens

[54:36] in the middle of the day. This

[54:37] afternoon congestion, the

[54:38] afternoons were never really

[54:40] just people going

[54:42] to going home from work.

[54:43] There's also people going out

[54:44] to dinner, doing stuff

[54:45] with their families. So there's

[54:47] always a lot bigger mix. So

[54:49] it's gotten closer. It's still

[54:50] lower, but you can kind

[54:51] of see that pre pandemic. It

[54:53] was about 70%

[54:54] of the network was congested.

[54:55] Now we're about 60%

[54:57] of the network. And once again,

[54:58] that kind of severe congestion

[54:59] is less than it was, but it's

[55:00] definitely growing and getting

[55:02] closer to what it was

[55:03] in those pre pandemic. Years,

[55:05] and you can definitely kind of

[55:07] see as that growth is happening

[55:08] in the congestion. Once again,

[55:09] if you go on the dashboard,

[55:10] we also have maps So you can

[55:12] see, facilities. So you can

[55:14] zoom in and see where your

[55:16] facility is at. I will say

[55:17] though when 70%

[55:19] of the network is congested,

[55:20] pretty much every bar on the

[55:22] network will show congestion.

[55:23] It's a it's a pretty,

[55:25] in some ways, ugly map. If you

[55:26] want to look at it that way,

[55:28] there's not a lot of places

[55:29] that are not congested. So that

[55:30] that's the last bit

[55:32] of slides I have. The link,

[55:34] as I promised, is here. So you

[55:36] can get the presentation

[55:38] on the dash on this

[55:40] presentation is already online.

[55:42] You can download it. You could

[55:43] follow the link. You could dig

[55:44] around and look

[55:45] at the different, pages

[55:46] on the dashboard. The other

[55:47] thing we have on there,

[55:49] there's a circle icon circle

[55:51] with an eye for information.

[55:52] If you go on that one, you can

[55:53] actually download the data. If

[55:54] you click the button,

[55:56] it'll take 15, 20 seconds

[55:57] because it's downloading all

[55:58] the data, but it actually gives

[56:00] you every piece of data that's

[56:01] in the dashboard. So you're

[56:03] welcome to use it however you

[56:04] like to use it. We'll continue

[56:05] to update data throughout the

[56:07] year. So as data becomes

[56:09] available, we update it. We

[56:10] don't wait till the end

[56:11] of the year to update it. And

[56:13] then each year will come and

[56:14] share kind of the highlights

[56:16] in this February time frame as

[56:17] I mentioned. So folks can see

[56:18] what's up there,

[56:20] but welcoming you all

[56:21] to go check it out. See what's

[56:22] there. And if you have any

[56:23] questions about it, reach out

[56:24] at any time. And we're happy

[56:26] to add stuff to it,

[56:28] take stuff away from it. It is

[56:29] a online living thing,

[56:32] and we will definitely continue

[56:33] to update and change. So

[56:35] with that, I'm happy to stop

[56:36] sharing and take any questions.

[56:38] >>Great report, Craig. Thank

[56:39] you so much. Mayor Robinson,

[56:41] question for Craig.

[56:42] >>Yeah. This is fantastic.

[56:45] And, obviously, I just looked

[56:46] at it briefly just now.

[56:47] But it it does kind of appear

[56:49] like you are actually getting

[56:50] people out. We are getting

[56:51] people out of cars. And if

[56:53] that's the case, and we're

[56:57] seeing more collisions and

[56:58] fatal fatalities,

[57:01] we have just got to really

[57:02] emphasize the alternative mode

[57:04] infrastructure so that as we

[57:06] encourage people

[57:08] to take the bus to, to get out

[57:10] of their cars,

[57:12] we're actually putting them

[57:13] in a safe situation. So I hope

[57:15] that as a as a group that we

[57:17] are going to emphasize that.

[57:18] Thank you.

[57:22] >>Sorry. I was going

[57:24] to share you. If you look

[57:25] on the dashboard

[57:27] at the collisions by type,

[57:28] there's definitely been a

[57:29] noticeable increase

[57:31] in the amount

[57:32] of pedestrians and cyclists,

[57:33] but especially pedestrians

[57:34] who've been dying

[57:35] on our roadways since 2010.

[57:37] It's definitely it's increasing

[57:38] for all categories, but it's

[57:39] definitely seen a noticeable

[57:40] increase for those pedestrians.

[57:44] >>Secretary Malar.

[57:47] >>Thank you. And, Craig, thank

[57:48] you for a great presentation

[57:49] and a great product. I'm

[57:51] curious whether you're

[57:52] coordinating

[57:55] with our gray notebook folks

[57:56] at Washdot. There's, it's

[57:58] interesting. Some of the stuff

[58:00] like the congestion figures you

[58:02] showed. When we talk

[58:05] about reliable travel times.

[58:08] And everybody freaks out

[58:10] about the reliable travel time

[58:11] from Snohomish County down

[58:12] into Seattle or from Pierce

[58:13] County into Seattle. What they

[58:15] don't pick up is if you look

[58:17] at our data, it takes longer

[58:20] to drive by yourself. From

[58:23] Everett to Seattle than it does

[58:25] to carpool from Everett to

[58:27] Seattle. And that takes longer

[58:29] than it takes to ride a bus.

[58:32] From Everett to Seattle. So the

[58:34] word, the thing that got

[58:36] in the paper, was it takes 90

[58:38] minutes to drive. What didn't

[58:40] get

[58:41] in the paper is it's less than

[58:42] 60 minutes if you take the bus.

[58:43] And so it would be useful if it

[58:45] while it's important to tell

[58:47] everybody how congested the

[58:49] highways are, that there are

[58:50] solutions, to manage your life

[58:53] in that congested space. So I

[58:55] hope we can use the data that

[58:58] we're presenting to tell more

[58:59] of those stories. But, yeah,

[59:01] thanks. It's a great stop.

[59:03] >>Yeah.

[59:04] >>And just so you, for context,

[59:05] we're trying

[59:06] to put more and more context

[59:08] on each of our pages. And so

[59:09] one of the things that this

[59:10] clicked is mentioning that is

[59:11] we have links off of as you go

[59:12] into each page. We have,

[59:14] different relevant links

[59:16] for that kind of data So one of

[59:19] the things we should do is

[59:20] definitely link to watch dot

[59:21] screen notebook as an example.

[59:22] We definitely have worked at,

[59:24] reached out to folks in your

[59:25] in your shop as we've talked

[59:26] about getting data, sharing

[59:28] data, what's there, but that

[59:29] would be a great resource

[59:31] to add that as a link. So when

[59:32] you're looking at that,

[59:33] we can connect people

[59:34] to other places. We're planning

[59:35] to do the same thing on the

[59:37] transit slides as an example.

[59:38] Point people to what our

[59:39] transit agencies have and other

[59:40] information. They might be

[59:42] sharing as well.

[59:44] >>Great. I just put the link

[59:45] in, the chat.

[59:47] >>Thank you. Executive summers.

[59:49] >>I'm just wondering if we have

[59:51] a heat map or a geographic

[59:53] location where fatalities are

[59:54] occurring, interesting,

[59:56] or does anybody put anything

[59:57] like that together get an idea

[59:59] if they're clustered or

[1:00:01] scattered or >>It is definitely

[1:00:04] underway. We don't have it yet

[1:00:06] as part of our regional safety

[1:00:08] action plan. We're working

[1:00:09] on identifying one of the,

[1:00:10] kind of requirements of that

[1:00:13] safety action plan is a high

[1:00:14] injury network. But we have

[1:00:16] also been talking about,

[1:00:17] and we had the same,

[1:00:19] same idea come up at the

[1:00:21] transportation policy board as

[1:00:22] well. It'd be great to kind

[1:00:23] of see a heat map just a a way

[1:00:24] to highlight or concentrations

[1:00:26] these have been occurring.

[1:00:29] Definitely have some stuff

[1:00:30] internal,

[1:00:31] that I've been working

[1:00:32] on that, but we are definitely

[1:00:33] working and an plan

[1:00:34] to incorporate that as part of

[1:00:35] our safety action plan.

[1:00:39] >>I'm not seeing any more hands

[1:00:41] up. Any more questions for

[1:00:42] Craig. I want to say Craig has

[1:00:45] helped me out several times

[1:00:47] when I've had data questions,

[1:00:48] he's been really good about,

[1:00:50] you know, responding and, and,

[1:00:52] providing really good

[1:00:55] information, just as I asked

[1:00:56] for it. So I want

[1:00:57] to say thank you for that,

[1:00:59] Craig. We have a great data

[1:01:00] team here at Puget Sound

[1:01:03] Regional Council. So any other

[1:01:04] questions for Craig? Okay.

[1:01:06] Thank you, Craig. Okay. So, now

[1:01:10] we're moving on to miss Kelly

[1:01:14] McGurdy with the discussion of

[1:01:15] the regional transportation

[1:01:18] plan 2026, 2050 development

[1:01:20] process. Kelly.

[1:01:24] >>Good morning. Thank you. And

[1:01:28] the information that Craig

[1:01:30] shared

[1:01:31] with you queued up a number

[1:01:32] of my slides as, Josh did in

[1:01:34] his introductory remarks as

[1:01:35] well. We are, officially

[1:01:37] launching, the development of

[1:01:39] our next regional

[1:01:41] transportation plan. And today,

[1:01:42] I'm just I'm going

[1:01:44] to I we thought it was

[1:01:45] important

[1:01:46] to give some foundation,

[1:01:47] especially for new members who

[1:01:48] weren't a part

[1:01:49] of the development

[1:01:51] of our current plan, just

[1:01:52] Reminding folks what some

[1:01:53] of the requirements are,

[1:01:54] what's in our regional

[1:01:55] transportation plan and how we

[1:01:56] got there. There's been a lot

[1:01:57] of work happening since then,

[1:01:58] and Craig shared a little bit

[1:01:59] of that. And then we'd like

[1:02:00] to chat with you

[1:02:01] about where we go next

[1:02:02] in terms of developing this

[1:02:03] next plan and get some,

[1:02:04] preliminary feedback

[1:02:06] on priorities. But this is just

[1:02:08] the this is the con

[1:02:09] conversation 1 of many more

[1:02:11] to come. So this is kind

[1:02:14] of the boring stuff. The

[1:02:16] requirement part stuff. So, we

[1:02:17] are required to have a where

[1:02:19] it's the long range regional

[1:02:21] transportation plan

[1:02:22] with a minimum of 20 years. We

[1:02:24] everything we do is based

[1:02:25] in vision. And so right now,

[1:02:27] we are going out to a Horizon

[1:02:28] year of 2050, which is a little

[1:02:29] bit longer than a 20 year

[1:02:30] planning horizon. We are

[1:02:32] required to update or develop a

[1:02:34] new plan every 4 years. And the

[1:02:36] current plan was adopted in

[1:02:38] May of 2022. So now it's time

[1:02:40] to develop the plan that will

[1:02:41] be adopted in May of 2020 I

[1:02:42] won't go through all

[1:02:45] of the bullets here, but a lot

[1:02:47] of the requirements that we see

[1:02:48] for this product from both the

[1:02:50] federal legislation and state

[1:02:51] legislation very much aligned

[1:02:53] with the priorities and the

[1:02:55] vision and policies and vision

[1:02:57] 2050 as well, an integrated

[1:02:59] system I will talk a little bit

[1:03:01] about the financial strategy.

[1:03:03] All of the most current and the

[1:03:04] best data we can pull together

[1:03:05] on our, growth and our travel

[1:03:07] patterns and Craig mentioned,

[1:03:10] touched on this. So performance

[1:03:12] measures and targets is also

[1:03:13] something that not only that we

[1:03:15] do and we try to do very, very

[1:03:16] well, but it is something

[1:03:17] that's also anchored

[1:03:18] in federal state legislation.

[1:03:20] My presentation doesn't have

[1:03:21] that. We do have a wealth

[1:03:22] of information, and Craig

[1:03:24] touched on a lot of it,

[1:03:25] but can always come back at a

[1:03:26] future presentation and talk

[1:03:28] more about that. So moving

[1:03:31] into some Background

[1:03:34] information on the current

[1:03:35] regional transportation plan.

[1:03:37] As we began developing this

[1:03:38] current tip,

[1:03:40] the board had conversations

[1:03:41] about what are the objectives

[1:03:42] and the overall priority. And

[1:03:44] these were the 2 objectives

[1:03:45] that we landed on. Again, as I

[1:03:47] mentioned,

[1:03:48] everything we do is based

[1:03:50] in vision 2050. And the

[1:03:51] regional transportation plan is

[1:03:53] really the implementation arm

[1:03:54] of that vision, and to support

[1:03:57] vision 2050's leading edge, our

[1:03:59] ambitious transit focused

[1:04:01] regional growth strategy. And I

[1:04:02] just realized I'm doing it

[1:04:03] again. I'm moving my head. So

[1:04:05] apologies. I will try to stop

[1:04:06] doing that so everyone can hear

[1:04:07] me. As part

[1:04:09] of this current plan,

[1:04:10] we also really tried to,

[1:04:12] achieve better data collection

[1:04:14] and analysis tools, not just to

[1:04:16] support the plan that we were

[1:04:18] building, but

[1:04:19] in recognition that the updates

[1:04:21] to local comprehensive plans

[1:04:22] were happening, So really

[1:04:24] helping to support that local

[1:04:25] investment planning as well.

[1:04:27] But also recognizing that there

[1:04:28] are existing challenges on the

[1:04:30] ground today we are planning

[1:04:32] out for 2050. So thinking about

[1:04:34] those bigger picture thinking

[1:04:35] on investments that might be

[1:04:36] needed into the future.

[1:04:38] In addition, recognizing that

[1:04:42] the region continues to grow,

[1:04:43] in addition to those 2 key

[1:04:44] objectives, the board spent

[1:04:46] some time really focusing on,

[1:04:47] 6 key policy focus areas that

[1:04:50] they wanted to use

[1:04:51] to direct development

[1:04:53] of the plan,

[1:04:55] not just building a transit

[1:04:56] network, but accessing that

[1:04:57] transit network, safety,

[1:04:59] equity, climate, supporting our

[1:05:01] local agencies and the needs

[1:05:03] on their local systems as a,

[1:05:04] again, as well as that forward

[1:05:05] thinking, looking

[1:05:06] at the future investment. And I

[1:05:08] love the little fidget spinner

[1:05:09] to the right, and I have

[1:05:11] to give community transit

[1:05:12] credit for this. Many years

[1:05:14] ago, they invited us

[1:05:16] to a swift tour,

[1:05:17] and they handed out this fancy

[1:05:20] green fidget spinner. And we

[1:05:21] took that and ran with it

[1:05:22] because it was such a good

[1:05:23] representation

[1:05:24] of how each element

[1:05:25] of the plan is interconnected.

[1:05:26] So maintenance and

[1:05:27] preservation, for example,

[1:05:28] is woven throughout all

[1:05:29] of the modes of the plan.

[1:05:30] Safety and equity are woven

[1:05:32] throughout all elements

[1:05:33] of the plan,

[1:05:34] transit is connected to our

[1:05:35] bicycle and pedestrian network,

[1:05:41] etcetera. So that became a real

[1:05:43] theme as we developed the plan.

[1:05:49] Another important thing

[1:05:50] to acknowledge is that The plan

[1:05:52] includes investments

[1:05:54] for the entirety

[1:05:55] of the transportation system.

[1:05:56] It includes both larger scale

[1:05:57] projects, but it also includes

[1:05:58] what we call,

[1:06:00] programmatic investments. And

[1:06:01] all of the,

[1:06:03] the representation that you see

[1:06:04] on the slide here,

[1:06:05] local and regional transit,

[1:06:06] cities, counties, the state

[1:06:08] investments, our ports, All of

[1:06:09] these investments are

[1:06:10] represented

[1:06:11] in the current plan. Part of

[1:06:16] the current plan that we're

[1:06:18] very proud of is,

[1:06:20] we spent a substantial amount

[1:06:21] of time trying

[1:06:22] to do more when it came to data

[1:06:24] collection and really having a

[1:06:25] better understanding of the

[1:06:26] current transportation system

[1:06:28] on the ground at that moment

[1:06:29] in time,

[1:06:30] what was being planned for

[1:06:32] in terms of investments, and

[1:06:34] then really trying understand

[1:06:35] where are the needs,

[1:06:36] where are the opportunities

[1:06:37] in there.

[1:06:39] For the first time ever, we

[1:06:40] have a regional sidewalk

[1:06:41] inventory. We don't have,

[1:06:42] every facility, throughout the

[1:06:45] region,

[1:06:47] because we are a very large

[1:06:48] region,

[1:06:49] but we have some thresholds

[1:06:50] about what we consider the

[1:06:51] regional system. And we're very

[1:06:52] excited

[1:06:53] about the work that was done

[1:06:54] to update those inventories.

[1:06:55] And then we compiled all that

[1:06:56] data

[1:06:57] into a new visualization tool.

[1:06:59] And this was a great tool

[1:07:00] for us as we did our planning,

[1:07:01] but we also wanted it

[1:07:03] to be useful to our member

[1:07:04] jurisdictions as they do their

[1:07:05] planning. So the users can zoom

[1:07:07] into a specific area,

[1:07:09] see what's on the ground

[1:07:10] in terms of facilities,

[1:07:12] see what's planned in terms

[1:07:14] of investments,

[1:07:15] but do so within,

[1:07:17] other contextual data. So

[1:07:18] for example,

[1:07:19] where regional centers are,

[1:07:20] where activities are, where our

[1:07:21] demographic and our equity

[1:07:23] focus areas are. So this is a

[1:07:24] really born fruit for us,

[1:07:26] and we're going to continue

[1:07:27] to utilize this

[1:07:28] into the future. An additional

[1:07:33] element

[1:07:34] of the current plan is we try

[1:07:35] to do some extensive outreach

[1:07:37] And, of course, we developed

[1:07:38] the plan. I think we started

[1:07:40] just as the pandemic began in

[1:07:42] 2020. So we did have

[1:07:44] to pivot and move more

[1:07:45] to more online tools,

[1:07:47] more social media.

[1:07:48] But we tried to do some new and

[1:07:50] innovative things. We had

[1:07:52] online open houses. We of

[1:07:53] course did the surveys and our

[1:07:55] formal public comments as we

[1:07:56] normally do,

[1:07:57] but we also did focus groups.

[1:07:59] We reached out

[1:08:00] to youth groups. So we try

[1:08:01] to do more. And

[1:08:02] for this new next plan,

[1:08:03] we will continue to try

[1:08:04] to do even more. We even,

[1:08:06] they made stuff,

[1:08:07] do some videos. So they made me

[1:08:08] go on camera and do videos.

[1:08:10] Now I'm now I'm a little more

[1:08:11] used to it since we have to do

[1:08:13] it every day now. I think all

[1:08:15] told, when we think about all

[1:08:17] of the different engagement, I

[1:08:19] think, Literally thousands of

[1:08:21] comments throughout the course

[1:08:22] of the plan development,

[1:08:23] which was really,

[1:08:25] really helpful. Moving

[1:08:29] into a little bit more

[1:08:30] of the detail

[1:08:31] about what are the investments

[1:08:32] in the plan and some

[1:08:33] of the other background. The

[1:08:35] plan is a $300,000,000,000

[1:08:37] plan. It does go out again to

[1:08:38] 2050. And I think an important

[1:08:40] note is that over half

[1:08:41] of the plan is dedicated

[1:08:44] to maintaining, preserving,

[1:08:45] and operating the system. As I

[1:08:47] mentioned, the plan includes

[1:08:49] both what we call programmatic

[1:08:50] investments, including things

[1:08:52] like maintenance and

[1:08:53] preservation, including things

[1:08:54] like local investments, But

[1:08:56] for the but

[1:08:57] for those investments

[1:08:58] in system expansion, this,

[1:08:59] percentage really resonates

[1:09:01] with me 70%

[1:09:02] of those system investments.

[1:09:04] The system improvements are

[1:09:05] dedicated

[1:09:06] for local and regional transit.

[1:09:07] And you can see

[1:09:08] from the bottom of the slide,

[1:09:10] By 2050, we will have pretty

[1:09:12] extensive expansion

[1:09:13] of the transit network plan.

[1:09:14] 36 bus rapid transit routes

[1:09:15] will be in operation 10

[1:09:17] passenger only ferry routes and

[1:09:20] over a hundred miles

[1:09:22] of light rail. And we did a

[1:09:23] little digging, and we believe

[1:09:24] this is the most aggressive

[1:09:25] transit expansion

[1:09:26] in the country. We are required

[1:09:29] to have a financially

[1:09:30] constrained plan, which means

[1:09:32] that funding sources that are

[1:09:33] currently available plus a

[1:09:35] reasonable strategy for

[1:09:37] potential new revenue sources

[1:09:38] must be enough to pay

[1:09:41] for the full suite

[1:09:42] of investments. And so

[1:09:43] for the $300,000,000,000, 84%

[1:09:45] of the plan is funded with our

[1:09:47] forecast current law revenues,

[1:09:49] and I believe that is the

[1:09:50] largest percentage that we've

[1:09:51] seen

[1:09:52] to date as we've moved forward

[1:09:53] with our plan. I'm seeing some

[1:09:54] head nods in the back.

[1:09:56] Thanks, Ben. The remaining 16%

[1:09:58] is coming

[1:10:01] from what we call our strategy.

[1:10:04] And this was a built a menu of,

[1:10:06] menu of new revenue options

[1:10:07] that could be compiled and

[1:10:08] deployed

[1:10:10] to fill that 16% gap. And I

[1:10:11] know that, a lot of things are

[1:10:12] moving and changing

[1:10:13] with financial forecast both

[1:10:15] in terms

[1:10:16] of revenues and expenditures,

[1:10:17] and that will be a big topic

[1:10:18] of discussion as we move

[1:10:19] into the next plan. Yeah.

[1:10:26] These next two these next two

[1:10:27] slides really illustrate the

[1:10:29] expansion

[1:10:30] of the transit network. So this

[1:10:31] is just a map showing the high

[1:10:32] capacity transit network that

[1:10:33] was on the ground in 2018,

[1:10:35] which is our base year

[1:10:37] at the time. And this is just

[1:10:39] the visual representation

[1:10:40] of what that network will look

[1:10:41] like in 20 So that's pretty

[1:10:42] exciting. So now I'd like

[1:10:47] to pivot a little bit and talk

[1:10:48] about what have we done

[1:10:50] since the plan was adopted in

[1:10:51] 2022 I mentioned this plan is

[1:10:53] really about, implementation

[1:10:54] and, making progress towards

[1:10:56] our vision and priorities. So

[1:10:58] I'm going to give just a a few

[1:10:59] highlights related to each

[1:11:02] of these five bullet points.

[1:11:06] First on safety, and Craig just

[1:11:08] shared with you,

[1:11:09] some information on the

[1:11:10] regional safety action plan,

[1:11:12] which is now underway. We have

[1:11:13] our consultants on board. We

[1:11:15] actually know that about up

[1:11:16] to 25 jurisdictions

[1:11:18] in addition

[1:11:19] to the work we'll be doing

[1:11:20] at the regional scale up to 25

[1:11:21] of our local jurisdictions are

[1:11:22] also developing local safety

[1:11:24] action plans under the Sage

[1:11:25] Streets and Ritzborough grant

[1:11:27] program. And our regional

[1:11:28] safety action plan will be done

[1:11:29] hopefully early 2025 in time

[1:11:31] for informing and incorporating

[1:11:34] into this next regional

[1:11:35] transportation plan.

[1:11:37] But I also it would be remiss

[1:11:39] of me if I didn't also talk

[1:11:40] about our first ever regional

[1:11:42] safety summit. We were very

[1:11:43] excited about that. It was a

[1:11:44] lot of work, but it was,

[1:11:46] a really great event. We had,

[1:11:48] over a 140, participants join

[1:11:50] us to talk about safety. We had

[1:11:52] some national speakers And the

[1:11:54] feedback from that summit will

[1:11:55] definitely inform,

[1:11:56] not just development of our

[1:11:58] regional safety action plan,

[1:11:59] but also the regional

[1:12:01] transportation plan as we move

[1:12:02] forward. On equity, you may

[1:12:05] remember that in January, just

[1:12:08] last month,

[1:12:09] you adopted the policy

[1:12:11] framework for our 2024 project

[1:12:12] selection process, and that

[1:12:14] included recommendations

[1:12:16] for improvements from our

[1:12:17] equity advisory committee

[1:12:18] related to that came directly

[1:12:20] out of our FHWA Equity pilot.

[1:12:22] That project selection process

[1:12:25] is underway moving forward,

[1:12:27] and we'll come back to you in

[1:12:28] July with the results

[1:12:29] of the total suite

[1:12:31] of project investments. But

[1:12:32] in addition, what you may not

[1:12:35] remember is in 2023 as well,

[1:12:36] the board adopted a new way

[1:12:38] of how we distribute a portion

[1:12:40] of our federal transit

[1:12:42] administration funds. So we are

[1:12:44] now dedicating a portion

[1:12:46] of these funds to distribute

[1:12:47] to transit, projects with a

[1:12:49] very focused and very

[1:12:50] intentional methodology that

[1:12:51] will support and improve

[1:12:52] transit service for our equity

[1:12:54] focused populations. We did our

[1:12:55] 1st round

[1:12:56] of that new distribution late

[1:12:58] in 2023. We'll do our next

[1:13:00] round as part of our 2024

[1:13:03] project selection process.

[1:13:05] Moving on to climate,

[1:13:09] there is a lot

[1:13:11] of work that has been going

[1:13:12] on climate as well. The current

[1:13:14] regional transportation plan,

[1:13:16] we always do an analysis out

[1:13:19] to our horizon year. So we

[1:13:21] provided a lot

[1:13:22] of performance metrics out to

[1:13:24] 2050, but the plan directed us

[1:13:25] to also use,

[1:13:26] to also conduct an analysis

[1:13:28] of the interim year of 2030,

[1:13:30] which is an alignment with our

[1:13:31] regional climate goals. So we

[1:13:34] concluded this work, earlier

[1:13:36] in 2020 3. We identified where

[1:13:38] we were in comparison

[1:13:40] to our climate goals for

[1:13:41] 2030, but we also conducted

[1:13:43] some sensitivity testing. So we

[1:13:45] could pull on different policy

[1:13:46] levers and see, the potential

[1:13:48] for further emission reductions

[1:13:49] depending on,

[1:13:51] which lever we wish to pull.

[1:13:53] That was a very valuable

[1:13:54] exercise for us. We provided a

[1:13:56] lot of information

[1:13:58] to the boards earlier in 2023.

[1:14:00] Shortly

[1:14:02] after that work was concluded,

[1:14:03] we convened a climate expert

[1:14:04] review We brought in, experts

[1:14:06] from around the country and

[1:14:07] other MPOs,

[1:14:08] and they reviewed not just our

[1:14:09] 2030 work, but all of our

[1:14:11] modeling framework and our

[1:14:12] assumptions. That was a very

[1:14:13] valuable exercise for us

[1:14:16] to conduct as well. And we'll

[1:14:17] be working on a summary

[1:14:18] to come back. And I believe

[1:14:19] next month,

[1:14:20] we will come back and share,

[1:14:22] reminds the board

[1:14:23] of what was done in 2030 and

[1:14:24] share some results

[1:14:26] of the panel as well as,

[1:14:27] next steps for all the other

[1:14:28] work that's going on. I also

[1:14:29] wanted

[1:14:30] to note that there are a number

[1:14:32] of partnership efforts. We work

[1:14:33] very closely with our partners

[1:14:34] at the Puget Sound Clean Air

[1:14:35] agency, and I wanted to

[1:14:36] highlight a few things that

[1:14:38] have been going on. In 2022, I

[1:14:40] believe, is when we completed a

[1:14:42] partnership project to update

[1:14:43] the regional greenhouse gas

[1:14:45] emissions inventory. And we

[1:14:46] brought the base year inventory

[1:14:48] up to 2019. This is a very

[1:14:50] important body of work,

[1:14:52] and I'm very excited

[1:14:54] about this for a couple

[1:14:55] of reasons. 1, it was a

[1:14:56] partnership between, our

[1:14:57] agency, the Clean Air agency,

[1:15:00] all 4 of our counties,

[1:15:01] and the city of Seattle. And

[1:15:04] the importance of doing this as

[1:15:05] a partnership is now, I think

[1:15:06] for the first time,

[1:15:08] we are all working

[1:15:09] from the same playbook. We're

[1:15:10] working

[1:15:11] from the same were working from

[1:15:12] the same assumptions and

[1:15:13] methodology,

[1:15:14] which was very important. The

[1:15:15] other benefit of this project

[1:15:16] is it didn't just,

[1:15:17] update the base year inventory

[1:15:19] Tory. It also looked into the

[1:15:20] future and had some

[1:15:21] projections,

[1:15:23] for what would need

[1:15:25] to happen. How close are we to

[1:15:26] our future goals and what could

[1:15:27] need to happen they developed a

[1:15:29] tool very similar to the

[1:15:30] sensitivity testing I mentioned

[1:15:31] that we conducted where you

[1:15:32] can, look

[1:15:33] at a county or jurisdiction

[1:15:36] in King County, for example.

[1:15:37] And use the tool to pull

[1:15:39] on certain levers. And if you

[1:15:40] did more of, more transit,

[1:15:43] more electric vehicles,

[1:15:45] what does that do

[1:15:46] to overall emission reduction.

[1:15:47] So that was a, a really,

[1:15:49] important project,

[1:15:51] and it's it's continuing

[1:15:53] to bear fruit

[1:15:54] for the next bullet that I want

[1:15:55] to talk about, which is the

[1:15:56] climate pollution reduction

[1:15:57] grant program. I've, been

[1:15:58] in front of you a couple

[1:16:00] of times talking

[1:16:01] about that as has the Clean

[1:16:03] Air Agency. And this is really

[1:16:04] an alignment

[1:16:05] with an action item

[1:16:07] in our current plan that calls

[1:16:08] for us to do with partners at

[1:16:10] our clean air agency conducting

[1:16:11] a regional climate

[1:16:13] implementation plan. So very

[1:16:14] timely under the current

[1:16:16] federal legislation,

[1:16:18] this grant program came out.

[1:16:19] It provided,

[1:16:21] a direct allocation of funding

[1:16:22] to states and

[1:16:24] to large regions such as ours

[1:16:26] to do, climate,

[1:16:27] implementation planning. So

[1:16:30] climate planning. So the

[1:16:31] Clean Air Agency is leading the

[1:16:33] work on behalf of the region,

[1:16:34] again, with a group

[1:16:35] of stakeholders, including

[1:16:36] PSRC,

[1:16:37] including all four counties

[1:16:39] in a few of the major cities.

[1:16:41] And there were 2 things

[1:16:42] in related to the to the

[1:16:43] planning work that were due.

[1:16:44] The first one was a

[1:16:46] near term look, which is

[1:16:47] actually that that document

[1:16:48] called the priority climate

[1:16:49] action plan is due to EPA,

[1:16:51] in less than 2 weeks. And so

[1:16:54] much work had already been done

[1:16:55] in the region including that

[1:16:56] inventory I mentioned,

[1:16:57] that this was really just kind

[1:16:59] of compiling all

[1:17:00] of the work and identifying all

[1:17:02] of the things that are going

[1:17:03] on. So we felt pretty good

[1:17:05] about that. But the next step

[1:17:06] is a more comprehensive climate

[1:17:07] action plan that will get

[1:17:08] started shortly. That will be

[1:17:10] due in, summer of 2025. The

[1:17:12] timing is great to feed into

[1:17:14] our regional transportation

[1:17:17] plan and inform that. So we

[1:17:19] will definitely come back

[1:17:20] with more information

[1:17:21] with our partners

[1:17:23] at the clean area to see

[1:17:24] on this work, it will include,

[1:17:27] disadvantaged communities

[1:17:28] analysis. It will include

[1:17:29] workforce development analysis,

[1:17:30] and it'll include a lot

[1:17:31] of outreach. So as soon as we

[1:17:32] launch that work program,

[1:17:34] we will let you know. And then

[1:17:35] last but not least,

[1:17:37] we have been spending time

[1:17:39] since 2019 with our partner

[1:17:40] at the Clean Air Agency,

[1:17:41] to advance regional, electric

[1:17:44] vehicles,

[1:17:46] to support that work. So

[1:17:48] throughout the last 5 years,

[1:17:50] we've been holding,

[1:17:51] various workshops and events,

[1:17:52] trying to just support our

[1:17:54] member agencies in their

[1:17:55] in their work

[1:17:56] to move this forward. And I

[1:17:57] believe it was, last year that

[1:17:59] we also developed a regional EV

[1:18:00] clearinghouse.

[1:18:02] With everything else going on,

[1:18:04] this one kind of fell

[1:18:05] to the back

[1:18:06] in our work program, but the

[1:18:07] state published their

[1:18:09] transportation electric

[1:18:11] electrification strategy,

[1:18:12] which is a lot

[1:18:13] of great work. A lot

[1:18:14] of great information. So we

[1:18:16] hope to get back to that and,

[1:18:17] continue to improve and expand

[1:18:19] our resources to, to,

[1:18:20] support our local agency work

[1:18:22] to decarbonize the system. And

[1:18:24] ultimately, we hope

[1:18:26] to develop a, a more detailed

[1:18:28] and helpful regional EV plan.

[1:18:30] So more to come on all

[1:18:32] of that. And then,

[1:18:36] just a couple more things. Our

[1:18:38] in in terms

[1:18:39] of transit access,

[1:18:41] which is one of the 6 key

[1:18:42] policy focus areas as well. I

[1:18:45] mentioned that there's been

[1:18:46] extensive expansion

[1:18:47] of the transit network

[1:18:48] in the plan

[1:18:49] But it's important not just

[1:18:50] to build the network,

[1:18:51] but make sure that we have,

[1:18:53] comprehensive and equitable

[1:18:54] access to that system. So last

[1:18:56] year, the team initiated a

[1:18:57] transit access work program to

[1:18:59] 1st and foremost assess the

[1:19:01] existing tools and resources

[1:19:03] that we've been providing to

[1:19:05] see how we can make them

[1:19:06] better. Ultimately identify

[1:19:09] where, what is this state

[1:19:11] of the access to transit

[1:19:12] throughout the region and

[1:19:13] under various context,

[1:19:15] update our tools

[1:19:16] to provide more resources, and

[1:19:17] then ultimately do a regional

[1:19:19] needs assessment come up with

[1:19:20] some potential recommendations.

[1:19:22] So this work has started. The

[1:19:23] teams have been working with

[1:19:24] our transit agencies and a and

[1:19:26] a work group that spans various

[1:19:29] interest on this topic. And,

[1:19:31] again, this work will feed

[1:19:33] into development of the

[1:19:35] regional transportation plan.

[1:19:38] Last on the kind

[1:19:39] of what's been going on, as I

[1:19:40] mentioned, how excited we were

[1:19:41] with the data collection and

[1:19:42] the analysis tools and the

[1:19:44] visualization tool,

[1:19:46] the team has already started to

[1:19:47] update that those data

[1:19:48] collection efforts. So we've

[1:19:49] been, reaching out to all

[1:19:51] of your addictions

[1:19:52] on your staff

[1:19:53] to help us just update the

[1:19:54] state of the system. We're

[1:19:56] going to continue to work on

[1:19:57] improving our analysis

[1:19:59] capabilities and really

[1:20:00] focusing in

[1:20:01] on those needs and

[1:20:02] opportunities

[1:20:03] of the current system. So we

[1:20:10] are now officially launched

[1:20:11] for development of the next

[1:20:13] regional transportation plan,

[1:20:14] which will be adopted in May

[1:20:16] of 2026. And I know. We did

[1:20:19] just do this. We are viewing

[1:20:21] 2024 really as a year

[1:20:23] of engagement and

[1:20:25] identification of priorities.

[1:20:26] So that's engagement with all

[1:20:28] of you and our other boards,

[1:20:29] engagement

[1:20:30] with our member jurisdictions,

[1:20:32] engagement with the public,

[1:20:33] and a variety

[1:20:34] of other stakeholders. And so

[1:20:35] this first,

[1:20:36] the next few slides I'm going

[1:20:37] to share with you, we're really

[1:20:38] starting the conversation

[1:20:39] with you

[1:20:40] about what are the priorities

[1:20:42] for this next For example,

[1:22:00] being centered on people,

[1:22:02] it's love to see the back

[1:22:03] to basic repairs and focusing

[1:22:04] in on maintenance. And so we're

[1:22:06] going

[1:22:07] to take this and we'd love

[1:22:08] to hear from you today as well

[1:22:09] and then start working with the

[1:22:10] transportation policy board on,

[1:22:12] what are what are our top

[1:22:15] priorities? The second question

[1:22:18] that we asked them was a little

[1:22:19] bit more, more

[1:22:22] of a sticky note exercise,

[1:22:24] I would say,

[1:22:26] a little bit broader. Given

[1:22:28] everything that we shared

[1:22:29] in terms of the performance

[1:22:31] metrics and the things that

[1:22:32] we've done in the plan, what

[1:22:33] are some new things that they

[1:22:34] wanted us to to do

[1:22:35] for this plan update? And as an

[1:22:36] example, Are there new things

[1:22:37] they would like us

[1:22:38] to analyze? Are there new ideas

[1:22:39] or investments that they're

[1:22:40] that don't see

[1:22:41] in the current plan? Again,

[1:22:42] always looking for better ways

[1:22:43] to engage with the public This

[1:22:44] is just, this is just some

[1:22:46] highlights, some examples

[1:22:47] of what we heard at the

[1:22:49] transportation policy board.

[1:22:51] One was better linking

[1:22:52] to land use decisions. We

[1:22:53] certainly are supporting our

[1:22:55] transit focused growth

[1:22:57] strategy. So we'll dig

[1:22:58] in a little bit more

[1:23:00] about that that better linkage

[1:23:01] to land use decisions,

[1:23:02] what does that look like

[1:23:04] for our work ahead? A number of

[1:23:05] these things I would

[1:23:06] characterize, I'll sum up and

[1:23:08] characterize this with all of

[1:23:09] the data collection that we're

[1:23:10] doing, all of the data that's

[1:23:12] out there,

[1:23:13] really digging deeper

[1:23:14] to really understand some

[1:23:15] of the reasons. And this came

[1:23:16] up particularly as it related

[1:23:18] to some of our safety data.

[1:23:20] And then 2 other things I would

[1:23:21] highlight are, 1, continued

[1:23:22] decarbonization

[1:23:23] of our transportation system,

[1:23:24] and then, of course,

[1:23:25] our financial As you've as

[1:23:26] you've heard,

[1:23:27] there were some agenda items

[1:23:29] in the in the packet today. It

[1:23:31] is getting more and more

[1:23:33] difficult costs are increasing.

[1:23:34] Revenues are challenging. So

[1:23:36] really digging into our current

[1:23:38] financial strategy and seeing

[1:23:39] where those adjustments are

[1:23:41] going to need to be made. So

[1:23:44] those are my prepared slides.

[1:23:46] I'd be happy

[1:23:47] to answer questions,

[1:23:48] but really, we wanted

[1:23:49] to turn it over to you all and

[1:23:51] see if you had initial thoughts

[1:23:52] for us. Again, conversation,

[1:23:53] one of many,

[1:23:54] but any initial thoughts on,

[1:23:56] priorities as we move forward.

[1:23:57] >>Hello. Questions for Kelly,

[1:24:00] Mayor Robinson.

[1:24:03] >>Really quickly. Thank you

[1:24:04] for that presentation. You

[1:24:05] know, I'm a lifetime transit

[1:24:07] rider, and I always call it my

[1:24:08] magic carpet ride. And I think

[1:24:09] to Roger's point,

[1:24:12] we really need to be talking

[1:24:14] about the strong benefits

[1:24:16] to everybody, switching out

[1:24:18] of cars and onto transit. But

[1:24:21] at the same time, I love how

[1:24:23] in that word bubble thing,

[1:24:26] it has safety, front and

[1:24:27] center, the largest wearing.

[1:24:29] So again, I'm just going

[1:24:31] to encourage that we continue

[1:24:33] to prioritize the safety as we

[1:24:34] encourage people

[1:24:36] to try walking and walking to

[1:24:37] transit and taking multimodal

[1:24:39] transportation systems.

[1:24:43] Thanks.

[1:24:44] >>Thank you, Mayor.

[1:24:48] >>Questions for Kelly. Okay.

[1:24:52] Council member Kitchener from

[1:24:53] Redmond. Go ahead. Can I get

[1:24:56] your name right, Crister?

[1:24:58] It's Crister.

[1:25:00] >>Sorry. Go ahead. No worries.

[1:25:01] Hi. Well, thank you so much.

[1:25:04] >>And I just would say, first

[1:25:05] of all, it's really cool to see

[1:25:06] the plans that that we've made

[1:25:08] actually going

[1:25:09] into action and see some of

[1:25:11] those results and just

[1:25:12] appreciate everyone who's been

[1:25:14] working really hard on these

[1:25:15] and also all the different,

[1:25:17] jurisdictions that have been

[1:25:18] contributing the outcomes that

[1:25:20] that we're starting to see

[1:25:22] on these. I think just from,

[1:25:24] our perspective in in

[1:25:25] Redmond, you know, some

[1:25:27] of the priorities that we want

[1:25:29] to continue to focus on, obviously

[1:25:31] really exciting to see the work on

[1:25:37] equity. Safety is one similar to us

[1:25:38] Mayor Robinson noted on the mind of

[1:25:39] people in our jurisdiction and as were

[1:25:47] working on our vision zero goals being

[1:25:48] able to work on this collectively is so

[1:25:49] critical. As we have the arrival of

[1:25:51] labor in our community and are doing a

[1:25:52] lot of planning and just think about

[1:25:54] multi-model or immobility and how we

[1:25:59] make all those connections and make

[1:26:00] them connected all throughout our

[1:26:01] region. So, I think that is a big one.

[1:26:04] And for our city in Council, I one of

[1:26:08] the biggest focuses is those climate

[1:26:09] objectives. Good to see some of the

[1:26:12] progress of their etiquette is one that

[1:26:13] they want to keep laser focusing on and

[1:26:19] that making sure that they are doing

[1:26:20] what we can collectively do you move

[1:26:21] the needle on that. Because it's really

[1:26:22] one of the most because items that we

[1:26:24] have to work regionally on together.

[1:26:27] Thanks.

[1:26:30] >>Great comments, thank you very much.

[1:26:32] I got a couple of questions here.We are

[1:26:38] 16 percent out right now. And is that

[1:26:40] including the anticipation of the road

[1:26:44] user charge or have you put that in at

[1:26:48] this point where are we at with that?

[1:26:52] The plant is great, they cannot pay for

[1:26:53] it

[1:26:54] >>Great question. They four percent is

[1:26:59] all of the funding sources are already

[1:27:00] locked and in on the books and 16

[1:27:03] percent is covered by the financial

[1:27:04] strategy which currently does presume

[1:27:09] the road uses charged beginning in 2030

[1:27:10] at higher rates we know that what the

[1:27:11] state has assumed you could also

[1:27:12] include the menu bar options. You heard

[1:27:18] loud and clear what the action item to

[1:27:19] the current plan was through the

[1:27:23] (INAUDIBLE) to the current analyzer. We

[1:27:24] deftly heard that, we now these are

[1:27:25] recent conversations and where people

[1:27:28] stand with (INAUDIBLE) definitely a

[1:27:29] topic (INAUDIBLE)Were going to dig

[1:27:33] into. We do see some sensitivity

[1:27:36] analysis in our future looking at those

[1:27:40] as they share data 2030 (INAUDIBLE) we

[1:27:41] did one of the levers wasThe road uses

[1:27:45] charge.Various rates or no raise on our

[1:27:56] finance. And I'll just put the plug,

[1:28:01] everything that we are moving to the

[1:28:02] Carbonite system. Craig mentioned the

[1:28:12] kind of rapid penetration of EVs into

[1:28:13] the fleet. We need to look at the

[1:28:14] revenue impact of that as well.

[1:28:15] >>You got a lot of different levers the

[1:28:21] faculty also have " " that was the

[1:28:24] amendments for today.You got

[1:28:30] accelerating cost. We don't really have

[1:28:31] revenue pieces. We're going to have to

[1:28:42] do some heavy financial Quenching on

[1:28:43] this.

[1:28:49] >>We made substantial progress to get

[1:28:57] to 84 percent. The highest level we had

[1:29:11] in our regional plan since start doing

[1:29:12] regional plans. For example,

[1:29:13] interconnection today where this cost

[1:29:17] is (INAUDIBLE) treatment

[1:29:20] programs national transportation plan

[1:29:26] we treat high capacitytransit as

[1:30:01] fully funded. This

[1:30:12] doesn't mean that all of our

[1:30:15] partnership dealing with cost situation

[1:30:16] of project delivery challenges. That is

[1:30:18] happening to everyone. When we take the

[1:30:24] big step back and look at the financial

[1:30:25] picture, there's some elements in the

[1:30:26] plan that are dependent on our revenue

[1:30:27] sources for the next 2025 years are just

[1:30:32] now helping us in our sustainable.

[1:30:38] >>Thank you. I heard a call for ideas.

[1:30:42] As a couple for you. One said that

[1:30:45] we've been looking at is state highways

[1:30:49] that pass through population centers

[1:30:56] and not interstate. Not the limited

[1:30:57] access stuff. The state Route 99, 97

[1:31:01] Pieces of 509 and 167, 45 miles in our,

[1:31:09] driveway every 55th, no place for

[1:31:15] parking bikes. We are up at 1100 miles

[1:31:16] of those highways in the state of

[1:31:23] Washington. The fatality rate on those

[1:31:24] highways is twice the state average.

[1:31:25] The jury is three times the state

[1:31:28] average. The facilities areAnd often

[1:31:35] how is, the legacy highways, nobody

[1:31:38] wants to, we maintain them but we do

[1:31:46] not have a program for making safety

[1:31:47] improvements on those highways. And

[1:31:51] having an inventory of those facilities

[1:31:54] , we got 1100 miles lot of them are

[1:32:01] within the PS RC region. That is where

[1:32:04] people are getting killed and get

[1:32:05] seriousInjuries.The statements of a

[1:32:13] statewide program. If you are really

[1:32:16] going deep dive into safety, that is a

[1:32:18] place where some investments can make a

[1:32:20] significant difference.For something

[1:32:27] completely different, we really need to

[1:32:29] be thinking as to go forward, what is

[1:32:33] the communicating doing the

[1:32:37] transportation and land use, and

[1:32:39] economic development space. A lot of

[1:32:40] downtown is concerned about(INAUDIBLE)

[1:32:45] work. Everybody teleworking to me is

[1:32:52] one less customer in my heavy system

[1:32:53] but it's the impact on transit and

[1:32:54] downtown retail, impacting commercial

[1:32:57] market downtown. I would hope that as

[1:32:58] we look into this plan, we are looking

[1:33:01] at it long-term and rather than

[1:33:08] thinking ways to (INAUDIBLE) back to

[1:33:09] the office, how do we leverage this new

[1:33:12] behavior to change development patterns

[1:33:16] in our downtown. To change commerce

[1:33:23] pattern, how to change how we use our

[1:33:24] public transportation. It is something

[1:33:25] that Reagan be dealing with. If I were

[1:33:31] to tell my people to come back to the

[1:33:32] office, I would lose 1/4. Of them

[1:33:33] right away.

[1:33:47] >>Thank you for mentioning that. I

[1:33:48] should have noted that. As I mentioned

[1:33:49] that the current plan was built kind of

[1:33:52] a while they were independent. And

[1:33:53] started before we are independent of the

[1:33:55] now, we all hesitate to say after the

[1:33:58] pandemic, the but now we are hearing

[1:33:59] 2034, 70 looking at new travel

[1:34:07] behavior. We have a 2023 survey

[1:34:14] definitely everything you said, and to

[1:34:15] select mitigating but overall she is

[1:34:16] and travel behavior, we are keeping an

[1:34:17] eye on that.

[1:34:25] >>Thank you.I'll echo few comments or

[1:34:44] restate and emphasize a few comments I

[1:34:45] made during that sort of interactive

[1:34:50] session that we had a TPV. I want to

[1:34:53] highlight the importance of safety,

[1:34:54] focusing on the basics and prioritizing

[1:35:05] bridge, maintenance, road repairs. We

[1:35:06] need to new a lot of new sidewalk

[1:35:08] investments those last mile our

[1:35:11] personality does, and make sure our

[1:35:14] communities are truly connected is

[1:35:20] really important. Electrification is

[1:35:21] also really important and by that, I

[1:35:24] don't mean just electrification the

[1:35:25] transferring " " Transit fleet.Transit

[1:36:06] service and reliability without having

[1:36:07] a Pardo conversation about how we can

[1:36:08] improve the public safety experience on

[1:36:09] while before " " While people are on

[1:36:14] transit. And lastly

[1:36:34] cleanliness. One thing

[1:36:52] I've learned the private sector, they

[1:36:54] don't build new products or features

[1:37:01] for shift new features that people are

[1:37:03] going to use or adopt.People actually

[1:37:24] want to take transit. Just want to

[1:37:33] emphasize those areas. That is also

[1:37:34] going to contribute to not only our

[1:37:35] transit ridership goals. That is a lot

[1:37:36] of areas. It is often enforcing

[1:37:40] overloads specific opportunity that is

[1:37:48] a lot of really critical areas. Thank

[1:37:49] you.

[1:37:50] >>Yes, good morning. I just want to

[1:37:55] take the opportunity to introduce

[1:38:01] myself, this my second meeting. His

[1:38:11] comments as to where the public safety

[1:38:12] committee and also a member of our

[1:38:13] transportation committee that the

[1:38:18] public safety pieces is very important

[1:38:21] that is something that would be

[1:38:22] definitely part of our work plan 2024.

[1:38:26] And I echo his comments and also want

[1:38:27] to take the opportunity to say I was

[1:38:30] the center the earlier data, this want

[1:38:31] to, the public safety aspects of this

[1:38:33] in terms of the dataIs may be needs to

[1:38:37] be adjusted. For example, we have a

[1:38:42] death on Aurora at the underpass, an

[1:38:47] older lady, she decided to cross. That

[1:38:51] is a divided highway at that point. In

[1:38:52] the reason why it was because of that

[1:38:54] your underpass is so unsafe for her and

[1:38:55] her mind in reality, she decided to go

[1:39:04] across 29 itself instead of taking the

[1:39:05] underpass. I do think that point will

[1:39:06] be was captured.Yes, pedestrian that

[1:39:14] but really it is tied to public safety'

[1:39:15] have on 99 in the South Aurora bridge.

[1:39:20] That is something that we are working

[1:39:21] constantly. That is the point there.

[1:39:23] Separately, property owner, we have

[1:39:26] seen people " " we can assume that is

[1:39:31] accidental. Recently, we had some young

[1:39:32] people purposely targeting pedestrians.

[1:39:34] Just like a different category not sure

[1:39:41] if that is caught up in the data sets.

[1:39:42] That is something that needs to be

[1:39:43] addressed. These two examples are just

[1:39:48] examples of how were trying to work

[1:39:49] public safety piece. You have had

[1:39:56] safety bus riding environment you want

[1:39:57] people to come downtown to visit the

[1:39:58] downtown businesses in all the points

[1:39:59] that (INAUDIBLE) on that. I just want

[1:40:00] to take the opportunity to introduce

[1:40:04] myself as a Councilmember here in

[1:40:05] Seattle but also to kinda echo what was

[1:40:06] just said and with that extra piece in

[1:40:09] terms of this data collection in terms

[1:40:13] of which is driving that pedestrian that

[1:40:15] . Those examples it is not additional

[1:40:18] loops, there's an accident for speeding

[1:40:19] or whatever. There is really public

[1:40:26] safety posture consideration that led

[1:40:27] to that on 99 and the targeting

[1:40:32] pedestrians by those two young people.

[1:40:33] Anyways, just want to put that out and

[1:40:34] also introduce myself but Kelly here in

[1:40:35] Seattle. I will get the next meeting

[1:40:38] with my colleague Rob down there in

[1:40:41] (INAUDIBLE) Avenue.

[1:40:47] >>Thank you, really appreciate your

[1:40:48] comments. We are running therefore it

[1:40:51] on time. Is there any other comments

[1:40:53] about Kelly's presentation on the plan

[1:40:55] going forward?

[1:41:02] >>I just wanted to reiterate Mayor

[1:41:08] Robinson 40 highlighting the pedestrian

[1:41:09] safety that is really important.

[1:41:16] Secretary Millar, I appreciate the

[1:41:17] highlights of I don't know what the

[1:41:18] term is.Is highlight them, and you think

[1:41:46] we have a TDM committee that needs

[1:41:47] regularly may be make my blood here but

[1:41:52] to the PDT really dig into that data. I

[1:41:53] think utilizing those organizations are

[1:41:54] over doing that work will be really

[1:41:55] helpful to again, just to reiterate

[1:42:03] (INAUDIBLE) Post Covid. Thank you for

[1:42:04] my colleagues for being those of.

[1:42:10] >>Thank you. Healthy discussion. I

[1:42:17] appreciate all the comments. Thank you

[1:42:18] Kelly, great job. Okay, we are now

[1:42:21] moving onto discussion item the

[1:42:29] regional centers monitoring scope of

[1:42:30] work and this is Maggie Moore.

[1:42:31] >>Today I'll be talking about our

[1:42:43] regional centers monitory and scope of

[1:42:44] work. And I have limited time but I'm

[1:42:52] going to hold some time for discussion

[1:42:53] at the and 40 group. So we are going to

[1:42:57] go through the scope of work is

[1:42:58] included in your packet if you want to

[1:42:59] follow along for that. The scope of

[1:43:00] work over the next three years. And

[1:43:01] then, are located to provide any

[1:43:08] feedback and then also direction to

[1:43:09] proceed on this work. You don't have a

[1:43:10] formal action today but you looking for

[1:43:11] some agreement to move forward on this

[1:43:12] quote. You want to regional

[1:43:15] subcommittee in January on this as well

[1:43:16] as our growth management Baltimore in

[1:43:19] February. And that the corrections

[1:43:24] received from them at the time too.

[1:43:48] Original centers, I think they have

[1:43:49] been mentioning vote of the previous

[1:43:50] presentation but just taking a step

[1:43:54] back, these are key part of vision 2050

[1:43:55] and the regional growth strategy. They

[1:43:58] guy the regional growth allocations

[1:44:01] both population and jobs. Craig

[1:44:06] mentioned and shows some chart

[1:44:07] measuring the growth in centers that

[1:44:09] are really looking at this allocations

[1:44:11] and how we are doing. It protects our

[1:44:19] rule of natural resources land with the

[1:44:20] allocation of girls and advanced local

[1:44:21] planning. There's a lot of work that

[1:44:22] goes in that. The local level around

[1:44:23] the centers. As well as informing

[1:44:25] transit service planning to priority

[1:44:28] areas and transit service and then

[1:44:33] priorities areas for PSR assisted our

[1:44:34] transportation funding. In a recent

[1:44:41] today, we are 13 original growth

[1:44:42] centers you may remember the latest one

[1:44:43] was vaccinated this past year Kirkland

[1:44:46] greater downtown. And then we have 10

[1:44:47] manufacturing industrial centers. 40

[1:44:49] centers altogether is read into those

[1:44:50] two categories. The regional growth

[1:44:52] Centers are central basis with mix of

[1:44:55] activities and transportation options.

[1:45:01] The manufacturing and industrial centers

[1:45:04] support employment growth and protect

[1:45:06] industrial areas. And also there is

[1:45:11] countywide and local center regions.

[1:45:16] This is important for growth and

[1:45:17] learning weight they don't have the

[1:45:23] same (INAUDIBLE) their designated in

[1:45:24] original " " You have our regional

[1:45:30] centers and has a well information of

[1:45:37] each individual center. As you can see

[1:45:38] here, Tocoma, downtown chose

[1:45:40] information on population and housing

[1:45:41] there's a lot of chart.The framework

[1:46:03] recognizes Hallmark region " " Federal

[1:46:18] funding. We also recognize that centers

[1:46:19] have been designated at different

[1:46:20] times. There's different plans that has

[1:46:21] gotten to all of our centers today. So

[1:46:24] it really is the purpose is to build

[1:46:28] consistencies around our regional

[1:46:29] centers. Both existing centers as well

[1:46:32] as designation of new centers. And

[1:46:38] enclose for this designation of new

[1:46:39] centers and redesignation of the

[1:46:40] existing centers in 2024 " 2025

[1:46:46] timeframe. That is really why am here

[1:46:47] talking through the scope of work we

[1:46:49] are doing. Page 45 of your packet.

[1:47:05] Looking at the outcomes from monitoring

[1:47:06] and redesignation over the next three

[1:47:07] years, we are looking to evaluate the

[1:47:08] success of the system of centers. So

[1:47:11] the region achieving the desired

[1:47:12] outcomes from the system? Does the

[1:47:13] region have the right numbers of

[1:47:15] centers? Any changes needed to the

[1:47:16] regional centers framework for future

[1:47:20] updates to vision 2015 to better

[1:47:21] achieve the desired outcomes for

[1:47:22] centers. Also looking at considering

[1:47:24] the designation applications for new

[1:47:29] regional centers. Give us a new

[1:47:30] original centers to be designated. And

[1:47:39] confirming designation of existing

[1:47:40] centers would agree redesignation

[1:47:41] process is looking at our existing

[1:47:42] individual centers. Are they meeting

[1:47:45] criteria? And if not, how should the

[1:47:46] board address those centers?I just want

[1:47:54] to prep you for them, this line of text

[1:47:55] here but the gist of this are

[1:47:56] remeasuring the right things over the

[1:48:03] next three years to successfully

[1:48:05] monitors our centers? No so looking for

[1:48:08] some direction to proceed on the scope

[1:48:11] of work. I'll bring this up again at

[1:48:14] the N. Looking at the timeline for the

[1:48:15] scope, 2024 is very at right now. Bring

[1:48:20] the scope of this board and were going

[1:48:21] to start on our system monitoring data

[1:48:23] in collection. In 2025, we will open

[1:48:28] our window for applications of new

[1:48:29] centers and were also looking at our

[1:48:35] existing centers during that week

[1:48:36] designation process using creature

[1:48:37] reports to evaluate them. Franchises,

[1:48:41] we will be doing assistance monitory

[1:48:42] refresh, there's some new data

[1:48:45] available then. We will be including

[1:48:46] that. Also I want to mention this time

[1:48:48] is the process of local (INAUDIBLE)

[1:48:52] plan update on adoption certification

[1:48:54] not only will be " " Local staff are

[1:49:01] also doing a lot of work right now.This

[1:49:08] is happening 2024, building a

[1:49:14] monitoring report to see how our

[1:49:15] centers doing comparison to the goals

[1:49:16] and outcomes we have for the center. In

[1:49:21] 2026, we will do some of days to

[1:49:24] reflect this conference a plan updates

[1:49:27] there will be new growth targets

[1:49:28] associated with our centers and revise

[1:49:38] capacities and other data. Looking at

[1:49:47] growth in both population " " how

[1:49:51] people are getting around our centers,

[1:49:55] getting to them and what transit

[1:49:56] options are available there. And then,

[1:50:03] some urban form considerations, we are

[1:50:04] both from safety perspective that

[1:50:06] they talked about that also just walk

[1:50:08] ability and what people have access to

[1:50:16] if you are living in a center or

[1:50:17] (INAUDIBLE). And then, in 2025, we will

[1:50:23] open the call for application for the

[1:50:24] new centers. So this process will be

[1:50:28] initiated by the SRC to open a call but

[1:50:32] local jurisdictions will apply with the

[1:50:33] center.Is RC staff overview for those

[1:50:40] applications and bring them to the

[1:50:41] board for designationI also know that

[1:50:48] they are currently working with our

[1:50:49] county wide to coordinate timing with

[1:50:50] this. And so this is really trying to

[1:50:51] answer the questions should any new

[1:50:53] original centers should be designated

[1:50:58] or anyplace in the region that really

[1:50:59] elevates originals centers status.And

[1:51:09] then in 2025, we will also be focusing

[1:51:10] on our existing centers by developing

[1:51:13] criteria reports. Directly related to

[1:51:17] the criteria, we have four centers have

[1:51:22] see how individual (INAUDIBLE) see that

[1:51:24] creature. And how the board " " We will

[1:51:34] be working closely with local

[1:51:35] jurisdictions to make sure we are also

[1:51:38] giving this quality approach in

[1:51:39] addition to that quantity data to make

[1:51:43] sure we are telling the right story for

[1:51:44] the centers and with recognizing the

[1:51:45] local planning that has been done.We

[1:51:55] did some scooping and 2023, we went to

[1:51:56] a number of SRC's committees and also

[1:51:58] work with the red management policy

[1:51:59] board.This is to lay out the scope of

[1:52:03] work and determine a lot of the data we

[1:52:07] are looking at. As well as the process

[1:52:10] and timing. As I mentioned, the

[1:52:14] February growth management board

[1:52:18] meeting, we are given direction to

[1:52:19] proceed on the scope of work.Is

[1:52:23] highlight a few of these things. We

[1:52:30] have heard a bit about the background

[1:52:31] and purpose Inc. to the scope. We work

[1:52:34] really talking about what our goals are

[1:52:35] here specially when it comes to

[1:52:37] redesignation of those existingCenters

[1:52:43] on what the process looks like. Also we

[1:52:44] provide opportunity to future changes

[1:52:51] to the framework. This process over the

[1:52:52] next two years are not planning 2000

[1:52:53] centers framework that recommendations

[1:52:58] may come out of all this data

[1:52:59] monitoring doing for the future of this

[1:53:00] of the framework.For this is a monitory

[1:53:08] report, we got a lot of feedback and

[1:53:09] data we should be including a lot

[1:53:10] related to housing portability,Urban

[1:53:15] form considerations and we are working

[1:53:16] with the team to see what you can do

[1:53:27] for the centers. In terms of individual

[1:53:28] sinners, we need that qualitative

[1:53:29] approach special presenters who may not

[1:53:30] be meeting requirements, looking at

[1:53:31] trendlines that are not currently

[1:53:32] meeting their goals for density, what

[1:53:33] have they been moving into right

[1:53:34] direction to do so. Open up for

[1:53:48] discussion. This just a reminder, are

[1:53:53] we looking at the right things for the

[1:53:56] scope of work to successfully monitor

[1:53:57] our centers? And then, looking for that

[1:54:00] direction to proceed. Those the Jeff

[1:54:07] Scoble work adequately covert needed

[1:54:08] steps for successful centers monitoring

[1:54:09] with designation? Any additional

[1:54:12] information that may be needed for

[1:54:13] successful monitoring of the system

[1:54:15] stars? And does the board agree PSR to

[1:54:16] staff should proceed on the scope of

[1:54:19] work for regional monitoring?

[1:54:20] >>Will open it up for questions and

[1:54:23] comments.

[1:54:34] >>Is a continuation of this agency

[1:54:35] really being a leader in this around

[1:54:36] the country. On-the-job housing balance

[1:54:42] and monitoring jobs housing balance, we

[1:54:43] are doing a deeper dive than just

[1:54:44] employment, housing.Executive housing

[1:54:47] in Walmart job is not a job housing

[1:54:55] balance. Other than that, and happy to

[1:54:58] see this happens.

[1:55:01] >>Thank you.

[1:55:04] >>Thank you, that's a question on the

[1:55:06] monitoring, we talk about monitoring is

[1:55:13] that including updating current

[1:55:14] information. Because of look at some of

[1:55:15] these charts here.

[1:55:18] >>They been working with the individual

[1:55:26] centers jurisdictions a check Tech Data

[1:55:30] we will continue updating it as new

[1:55:31] data is available but if using

[1:55:32] something specific, I'd like to talk

[1:55:33] about it I'll talk with Craig too.

[1:55:40] >>Okay, questions for Maggie?I'm not

[1:55:50] seeing any. Either they are getting

[1:55:51] tired or you are right on track. Last

[1:55:53] call, questions for Maggie? All right,

[1:56:00] thank you very much Maggie, I

[1:56:01] appreciate it. Included in your packet

[1:56:04] is a couple of flyers those 14 save the

[1:56:07] date for the general assembly. We have

[1:56:10] a great speaker.We also have a call for

[1:56:22] vision 2050 awards. You guys have

[1:56:26] unique and unusual " " 2050

[1:56:28] Words Are Really Great Pl. to recognize

[1:56:38] what to do. And recognizing staff that

[1:56:39] does it. And then it there is a letter

[1:56:40] where find our Ferries it will

[1:56:41] continue to do on very works. Other

[1:56:43] than that, anything else that you would

[1:56:46] like to talk about? Anything for the

[1:56:50] good of the order? Seeing none, I think

[1:56:55] we are adjourned. Thank you.

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