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Okay, let's go ahead and my sound on. Okay, let's go ahead and call the meeting to order, please. This is the same Mateo County Transportation Authority Board of Directors meeting. It is October 1st, 2026 at 5 p.m. We are here at the public hearing room on the 5th floor of 166 North Rowlands Road. The published agenda has the various ways members of the public may intend in person, attend in person and make public comments and that's the assume.

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through the phone and here in person please again see our published agenda for

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directions on that. Next item please is pledge of allegiance please rise.

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pledge allegiance to the black and the United States of America and to the republic to which

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stands one nation under the indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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Madam Secretary, may we have roll call please.

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Director Corzal is delayed, Director Fung, Director Medina.

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Thank you.

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Director Mueller.

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Here.

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Director Romero.

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Present.

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Vice Chair Nagales.

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Here.

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Chair Mates.

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Here.

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We have a quorum.

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All right.

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Thank you.

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The next item is public comment for items not on the agenda.

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Individual speakers shall be limited to two minutes and items raised that were required.

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response will be deferred for staff. Do we have any public comment in person and then any

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virtual public commenters for item three? We currently do not have any public

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commentations. Okay great no public comment then we will move on to item four which is

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report of the Community Advisory Committee. The report is in our packet and I believe

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also online for folks. Any questions or any board members want to have any

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comments or anything on the Community Advisory Committee's report.

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All right.

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Seeing none, then we'll go ahead and move to item five, which is the consent calendar.

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And there is one item, which is the approval of minutes.

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Any comments on this or does any board member want to remove this item from the consent calendar

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for consideration or discussion?

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How about any public comment on this item?

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We can entertain a motion if there's one.

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I'll move approval.

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A second.

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A roll call please.

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Director Fung.

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Aye.

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Director Medina.

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Yes.

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Director Mueller.

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Yes.

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Director Romero.

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Yes.

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Vice Chair Nagales.

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Yes.

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Chair Mates.

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Yes.

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Motion passes.

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Wonderful.

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All right.

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Great, that moves us to item six, report of the chair.

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Just a couple of things.

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First of all, we had Sam Trans had their 50th anniversary celebration last Saturday.

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It was very well attended, I was there.

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I saw some of the board members and certainly Sam Trans board members wanted to congratulate

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the entire Sam Trans team, including April of course, and it was great.

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I thought it was really well attended, you might want to say more in your report.

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have we had dignitaries there and we're able to show off our building and really talk a lot about what the district does and the different parts of the district and I hope the community enjoyed it as well.

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So maybe more about that item 6a is a reappointment of representative to the San Mateo County Express Lane's joint powers authority.

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Do you want me to just go ahead and take this or does anyone have any? Okay.

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So we have two members currently from the board who currently represent us on the JPA and I believe a director Medina, I mean director Romero is the, I think you're currently the chair right of the JPA.

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And I'm the second person that sits on the JPA and we are looking for to fill those spots again two of the spots.

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Actually, through the chair, we're looking to, for reappointment of your position.

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Just of the TA. Correct.

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Okay, representative for the TA.

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Yes.

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And that is myself.

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I am happy to do it again.

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It is Friday mornings that sometimes can be challenging.

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So I'm also more than happy to allow one of my colleagues to go ahead and put your name in.

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And instead, if you're championing at the bit to take on the responsibility of representing

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the TA at the JPA express lanes, if you want to represent.

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So feel free to chime in and I would love to volunteer.

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Thank you very much, Director Corso, anyone else would like to arm us a little Director Corso for it? All right, then we should go ahead. We have our next meeting is tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. We do need five members present, because we do have several action items.

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So I just wanted to point that out that we do, you know, if we don't have a quorum tomorrow, we will need to postpone.

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If we appoint Director Corso tonight, then I wish she'd be able to, should we just check if she can attend tomorrow?

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Yes, correct.

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So Director Corso, can you attend tomorrow here at 9am?

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Let me just check my calendar briefly here.

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the appointment have to happen today?

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Yes, yes, yes, we could have it start the following month, because the way that the joint powers

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agreement is written, that we need to have a supermajority present for, to take action

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on certain items.

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So remind me, is there an alternate?

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We do not have an alternate currently.

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So we either wait a month and I go tomorrow or we do it now, but then we may not have

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quorum.

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Looks like I've got my plans haven't changed for tomorrow.

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I guess let's go ahead and move this to next month.

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If that's what you'd like to do, yes.

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Well, or do you want us to just-

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If you could vote on it now, Joan, I'll let you-

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I was even suggesting you vote on it now, but make it effective next month.

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So I'll second that motion. Let's move on here.

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Okay. Roll call please. Director Corso. Yes. Director Fung. Yes. Director Medina. Yes. Director Mueller. Yes. Director Romero. Yes.

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Vice Chair Nagales.

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Chair Mates.

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Thank you very much.

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Director Corso for stepping up for that.

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And I wanted to say thank you.

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Chair.

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Mates for actually doing this for the last.

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It's the last year and a half and getting up on Fridays to make those meetings.

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Appreciate it.

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Of course.

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Thank you very much.

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All right.

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Moving on to item seven.

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San Mateo County Transit District liaison report director Medina, who I believe is with us.

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Virtually.

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Director Magita if you want to take 7 and 8 at the same time, that would be great.

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So here I'm right, right.

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Do I go up, no, you know, we go huh, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.

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With that said, it says, highway highway, all these things, even retail facilities are made here later.

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I'm sorry, Director Mijina, we were having some serious echo issues,

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let's, can you try again?

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Let's see, it's better.

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I'm just saying, you in the echo, we have to report first.

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If you have your conference room speaker and your computer on that maybe why we hear an echo, I'm not sure if it's you or us, but unfortunately we can't really get much of what you're saying.

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If the computer is not known, it's not known.

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Maybe it's us then, OK.

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Looking to staff, if we still have technical issues,

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that's fine.

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We can move it to come back to him.

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Is that, or is this something we can take care of?

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Member of the public?

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Sure, go ahead.

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Let's open it for public comment.

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This is happened to me when I've accidentally

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had two of the Zoom pages up.

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I think that's what we suggested.

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but Director Medina said he didn't, so do you want to try one next one last time, director?

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Okay, we'll come back.

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There is a report also in the packet, but I'd like to, of course,

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Good afternoon, directors. I have a couple of items. So the executive director's report is in your packet. I do want it to flag an issue for an item for you. So this, as you know, the TA funded the South San Francisco ferry station, ferry dock project.

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It's probably over a decade ago, but there's some news about that.

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I just want to make sure all of the directors know.

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So the San Francisco Bay Ferry operates ferry service between South San Francisco and

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Alameda.

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They are planning to suspend service to South San Francisco between November 1st and

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November 30th to dredge the waterway near the Oyster Point terminal.

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Dredging is necessary in order to maintain the water depths for ferries and other vessels

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and is conducted every five to seven years.

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Service is expected to resume on December 1st.

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I just want to let all of you know since that is a project that had been funded by the TA.

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And as Director Mates had mentioned, Sam Trance had our 50th anniversary on this past Saturday

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on September 26th. A number of our board numbers here as well as a majority of the Sam Transport

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members were able to attend as well as we have past general managers of Sam Trance as well as

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a number of dignitaries and I do want to mention them Congressman Molen, a state

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senator Josh Becker, assembly member Diane Papin as well as supervisor Lisa Goshe. They were here

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and presented Sam Trance with Proclamation celebrating our 50th anniversary, so I want

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to thank everyone who attended, but I really want to take this time to especially thank

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I would say Emily, Beach, and her team, the communication team, especially Tasha Bathalamu

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and Sarah Lopez.

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They have been planning this event for I would say for a good part of last year and culminated

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in the wonderful community event that we had this past Saturday.

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We had a lot of members of the public who were out here.

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I know that we were also competing with a number of events that were happening around

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the Bay Area, but still a really great turn out.

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And I just want to thank not just the names I mentioned, Emily, Tasha, and Sarah, but the

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entire staff, a number of them, they came out here bringing families, but as well as

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volunteering to be our ambassador. So it was just a great event all around. So thank you.

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The last, I wanted to mention a couple of staffing updates. You have a staffing update in my report,

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but I think there's some additional ones I also want to share with you. We have now our newest

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CFO, Chris Andrew Chek, he's sitting right there, he waving his hand. So he replaced Kate Steiner,

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She left us about end of May and took us a while in terms of recruitment, but he just

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officially started about a month ago, so I just wanted to welcome him to our executive

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team.

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He is the CFO, not only for Sam Trance, but for CalTrain, TA, and the Express Lane, so he's

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going to be serving as CFO for all four agencies.

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And then on more of a satir note, I wanted to share with you Jessica Epstein right there.

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She has notified us for personal reasons.

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She is going to be leaving the district, so I just wanted to show my, our appreciation

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for Jessica.

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She has been a gem to the agency.

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She has worked here over nine years, close to a decade.

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I know definitely she was here when we went out to the public with measure W.

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This is for the district as well as for the TA.

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As you know, that brought another half-sent sales tax for all sorts of transportation projects in the county.

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I know she worked very hard as well with the regional measure that we currently have in terms of coming it with this expenditure plan.

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Should the measure pass like what are we going to be investing in?

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And so I just wanted to show our appreciation.

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She has been such a huge asset to the district and the TA.

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And really, we're going to miss her.

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But she's not, she promised she's not going to go too far away.

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She's, she's sticking around.

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And her family. So I just want to wish her well. This is going to be her last TA board meeting. Her last day is going to be sometime next week. So that concludes my report and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. That is very bittersweet. Congratulations and welcome to our new CFO. That's very exciting and bitter because we are definitely going to miss you is abstain. So thanks for everything that you have done. Even if this is your last TA meeting in person every month.

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every first Thursday of the month, you can always tune in more than happy to have you.

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All right.

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Madam Chair, I think it's really deserves a great round of applause.

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Do you want to say anything?

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You don't have to.

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We'll wait.

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We'll wait.

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All right.

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Thank you for that.

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Any public comment on the Executive Director's report?

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There are currently men.

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Let's circle back one last time with Director Medina and see if we can fix the echo problem.

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otherwise we can just refer to the packet update.

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We'll see if there are times in charge.

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Yes, we hear you loud and clear with no echo.

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Thank you, Chair. I was going to say the reports are in the packet and before you,

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and of course, the Chair already mentioned and so did April chain about the 50th anniversary

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with the beautiful day. It was a pleasant celebration to see those that used to work and made

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the system what it was, and those that are making the system what it is, and those that

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will be, I think all of us will be working toward the future. For the JPB report, we went

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ahead and had our meeting. What we try to do is do one in Santa Clara annually, one in this

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county of San Francisco, which we did today, and then the rest are held at your location.

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And that's just so that we try to, shall we say, go to every region and understand and take

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our transportation methods and modes. I would think that what was some good news was just the

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ridership numbers and the reaching out trying to identify where we can do better whether it's

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restrooms or cleanliness and on the ridership numbers they have gone up and that's great but we

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still have more room. On a side note for me I took barbs from San Bruno to the Civic Center

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and then locked it to the facility.

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And I will tell you on part,

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it just might help make director,

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Nikolas feel good, it was packed.

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There was no seats, only standing room

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and even some folks were a little like,

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oh, I hope I can get out on this exit.

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So what it made me think of to sidetrack

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is, you know, if all those folks,

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they were on that train today this morning

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and we're on 101 or somewhere else,

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What would that cause and what would that do to our system?

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So it's just a re-indication of seeing the needed resource that we have.

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And that is it for my report.

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Okay, thank you very much for that.

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Moving on then to our program on item 10.

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10A is the San Mateo Countywide Transportation Plan Update.

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Good evening, directors, Patrick Gilster, Director of Planning and Fund Management for the Transportation Authority.

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I'm joined online by Kaki Chun, the Interim Director of SeaCag, as well, who, since

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her regards, I wish she could be here in person as well.

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But she is available if we have any questions for her as well.

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So tonight, we wanted to give a quick update on the San Mateo County-wide Transportation

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Plan.

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It is a joint effort led by SeaCag and the Transportation Authority.

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I'm the co-project manager with Jeff the cap from SeaCag.

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So a quick overview.

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Tonight, we'll be talking about a little bit about what the CTP processing includes, talk

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about the draft vision and goals and framework for the next CTP. We'll talk about our draft

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project list for the transportation authority specifically, so the projects that we co-sponsor

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that will end up in the plan. And talk about what the next draft programs look like for the plan

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as well. I apologize to many of you, you will hear this twice from us as you will also likely hear

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this at your city council and board of supervisors meetings as well. So this will be a good intro

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for you. So the CTP process updates, we are really looking to create a vision for the future

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of transportation in San Mateo County as we look out toward the next 25 years. This really sets

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the priorities, the help us guide a lot of our decision making here in the county, both at CCAG

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and the TA, and trickles down to many of the other plans here across the county from re-evident

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ZamTrans to what CalTrain does to commute.org and includes all of the county agencies and local

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jurisdiction partners as part of this process, but really it helps us set the planning and

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funding process that we look at with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, what we

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From the last CTP, we then created the updated policy framework, which we're here to present tonight in terms of division goals statements. And then asked every city and the county to provide their draft project list with regionally significant projects. So that's projects over $250 million or any project that is going to increase or decrease capacity in terms of air quality conformance. We also asked every city in the county to provide their top five local priority projects as well.

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because when we're talking about $250 million plus projects,

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not every city is going to have a burst of those.

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So wanting to make sure that this CTP process really

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includes what the local priorities are for every city.

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So every council then in this process,

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when we go back out over the next few months

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to every city council will be asked to provide

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their confirmation of are those the right lists of top five projects as well.

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So you'll all see those as well when we come out to you individually.

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We'll be taking all that information and then drafting

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the final plan over the winter and then releasing the final plan in the spring to be ready for

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plan bay area 2060 when that kicks off. The other part too is that all of the transit agencies are

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involved in this as well. So we are trying to beef up the transit section. The last CTP was a little

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bit sparse. So we've been working with Bart and CalTrain Weta and Sam Trance obviously here in the

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building to make sure that their projects and operating costs are also represented in this as well

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knowing how big transit is a part of our ecosystem here in San Mateo County.

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So in round one, like I mentioned, we talked to 23 different city transportation and

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countywide committees. We also reviewed 15 countywide outreach efforts from other plans

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that occurred in the last few years as well. So think of all our multimodal strategies,

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re-imagined Sam Trans, all those things that had large-scale investments in community outreach

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that we could summarize into this plan as takeaways, we then went out to six

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different CBOs to interview them on what their needs are across the county and

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each region in the county and then had a continuously accessible website as

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well. And so in that last phase we met, like I mentioned, we talked about validating

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travel trends, what the existing conditions is like, talked about what needs and

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challenges are people see in the county and then talked about what the next

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transportation priorities should be like to help guide what the CTP goals will be.

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So a lot of what we heard from community members was really a need for safety and comfort improvements

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across the county, more frequent transit service, a bigger focus on Highway 1 and El Camino

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Rial across the county, closing network gaps in the system, better coastal access east

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west, some smaller things we heard, EVs, e-bikes really celebrating the success of caltrain

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electrification, which was great, even more part in caltrain connections, so first last

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last mile connections and more attention to non-work trips.

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So the last plan was very commute-focused and we want to make sure this is focused

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on mobility for all types of trip purposes in this update.

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So today I'm going to just preface what before we jump into the next few slides.

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We're going to be looking at do the vision and goals resonate with you and is there anything

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we should be thinking about changing?

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Are these the right, I guess I should say, county-wide significant projects for us here at

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transportation authority on our project list and then for programs does the mix of county-wide

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programs address key transportation concerns that you all see when we're looking out towards 2050.

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And then are we missing anything that you would like to see in the next plan update as well?

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So for the vision goals and framework, so the CTP vision is now the San Mateo CTP

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and visions of county where residents, workers and visitors can travel safely reliably

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and with convenient choices across all modes,

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people easily connect to daily needs via streets,

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trails, transit service, and highways that are resilient

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and endure for generations.

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Our updated goals in the last CTP we had,

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I would say, a more significant number of goals,

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but we've been trying to narrow those down

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to very specific transportation goals

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that we figure we can track a lot easier

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with different metrics as well.

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So our four goals for the next CTP we've narrowed down

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to reduce how much people need to drive every day, enhance resilience and comfort of our streets,

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trails and transit stops, make streets safer and prevent serious crashes and move people faster

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So, right now, SeaCag currently had, as part of the last bicycle and pedestrian plan for the county, they created a definition there when Sam Trance did re-imagine. Sam Trance, there was also a definition there, so we've been working with two competing definitions. This attempt was to bring in all the county agencies, including commute.org, CalTrain, Sam Trance, to the TA, and SeaCag, to help create a more defined definition that we can all agree on the methodology for, and then use more consistently.

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So this methodology actually mimics more of the methodology that Sam trans uses currently.

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So it's a simplified definition that's based on income, race, vehicle ownership, and rental cost burden.

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And then we also knew this time as part of this definition have two tiers that we're looking at, severity of equity.

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So by introducing this, we now consider more of the county in the equity-based definition as meeting this as well.

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So 49% of households are covered as opposed, which is a 21% increase over CTAG's last definition.

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Yep.

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How is it that pescadero doesn't fall within either the tier 1 or tier 2 equity regions?

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I would have to go back and look at the methodology itself. I know we did that, but I can do that for you.

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I appreciate it. I believe it's because it's so small that the census tract is so big that there's

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There's some mathematical thing behind it, but I will find a more concrete definition for you.

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If it is adjusted to actual, like, per capita residential use, I think it's going to fall into the area into this either tier.

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We can definitely look into that.

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So then we take a look at the draft projects and programs in the next CTP.

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As I mentioned, the most CTPs across the Bay area in the state,

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Let's take a look at regionally significant projects, and so that's really anything that

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meets the following criteria of expanding and reducing capacity, expands rail network

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or stations, adjust transit service levels, changes the cost of the transportation systems

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of tolling or transit fares, or really our projects estimated over $250 million.

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How are most other projects captured?

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So when we look at the regional transportation plan with MTC, most are considered funding,

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or programmatic funding categories.

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So those cover smaller transportation efforts

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that are not regionally significant.

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Most local jurisdiction projects will fall

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within one of those said categories.

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So you show consistency with the category,

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but you're not necessarily a listed project.

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And in general, those categories include things like

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active transportation, intelligent transportation systems,

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great separations, or roadway operations.

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So I think if a singular, complete streets project

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came through that was about a $25 million project,

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they would not be listed necessarily in the county-wide transportation plan, but we would say it

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is consistent with the programmatic funding category for active transportation in that instance.

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So why are we generating a list? So how will this inform the CTP? Like I mentioned, we're asking

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every city to identify their top five or so local transportation priorities. That will help us better

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understand from sea kegs and the TA's level about what types of projects our local jurisdictions are

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interested in and how can we look at providing additional support for them over the next life of

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the CTP to get those into our different funding programs and help them achieve their visions as well.

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So continue to use things like our technical assistance program to move those forward.

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And look at also helping the to position other projects for other regional and state funding sources.

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As I mentioned, this list is a list that we will be using for Plan Bay Area 2060.

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The CTP, I would think of as the under constrained list of those projects, MTC will give us a constrained

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amount of funding for the next regional transportation plan for Plan Bay Area 2060, and then

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will be financially constraining that list later half of next year or following the CTP development

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once MTC shares those targets.

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So hopefully many of these look familiar.

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So we take a look here at the SMCTA-sponsored projects.

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We currently have sponsors, the 101 Managed Lanes North of I-380 project that is a regionally

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significant project.

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The U.S. 101-82 Direct Connectors project also co-sponsored with C-Cag and potentially

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upcoming regionally significant projects is the El Camino Real Multimodal Improvements project,

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which we're looking at co-sponsoring with CMTRANS starting in 2027 in the highway program

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as well, based on feedback we've heard from this board.

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And then our draft CTP initiatives, so currently we have a Safe Routes to School program,

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I conduct the community-based transportation plans, effort, and looks at how to implement those in partnership with jurisdictions, and then the Intelligent Transportation Systems Program. Kind of looking forward. The other emergency emerging initiatives we've heard a lot of feedback on is more formalizing autonomous vehicles integration and shared autonomous vehicles here in the county. Lots of discussions about e-devices and bike share, especially e-bikes, green streets and climate resilience, and the mobility for older adults as well.

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In our next steps, like I mentioned, today we're looking for feedback on the vision and goals whether or not these resonate with you or if there's anything else you'd like to see are these the right sponsored or planned sponsorship projects.

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I will note that the TA also provides a lot of technical assistance to a lot of other projects across the county, but these are just the ones of countywide significance that we would look to sponsor.

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And then programs, do those mix of programs, address your key transportation concerns between

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now and 2050.

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And are we missing anything that you're not seeing in this update?

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And with that, it will pass it back to you, Madam Chair.

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Thank you.

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Right.

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Thank you for the presentation.

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Staff has asked us for feedback on these bullet points.

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Before we address that, does anyone have any questions for staff at this point?

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No questions?

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Okay.

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How about any public comment on this item?

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there are no public comments okay bring it back to staff for feedback if you'd

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like to provide anything to staff I think we've got one comment that during

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the presentation you said you'd go ahead and look into yep for the equity

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definition yeah I mean just following up on that so pesca dera is some of our most

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Most vulnerable residents in the county, they traveled back and forth to Half Moon Bay specifically for health care to our coastside clinic in Half Moon Bay.

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And so I really, it's an area that when I was on Sam Trans, and I was trying to take nothing but public transit for a month, I had to, I forced myself to have people come and have to pick me up when I would show up there to get the pescat arrow.

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to find out what it would be like to try to get around that portion of the county.

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So I really think, I know it's going to end up if it's adjusted to actual residential land use.

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That it'll end up being in that area and it's an area that we need to give.

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We certainly need to give attention to.

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The other thing that kind of jumped out at me is to what extent we are looking at,

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within our definitions of equity, or how are we capturing senior populations who are

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transportation challenged?

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And so I don't know how that's in there, but I do know that in my mid-coast, I have

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a lot of seniors who are transportation challenged, and they're not showing up in this map.

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So I don't know, I mean, they might have money.

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I don't know what the issue is, why they're not, but I would just just maybe that be looked

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up to.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Anyone else have any comments or feedback for staff?

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This was, well, first, I should have, this was a question.

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Since you're redefining the equity definition, is there a written definition of what that is?

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I see the tiers, I understand that, I understand what the other inputs that go into creating it.

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But do we actually have a definition of written wise,

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or this is a simplified definition?

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So what is, what is the definition is referring mainly

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to the methodology of how we're defining it

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in terms of the spatial equity criteria.

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So in most of our funding sources,

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or most of our funding applications,

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we have two questions.

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One is, are you located in a defined equity area

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in the county or equity zone?

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So that's the spatial ask,

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and that's what this layer is meant to represent.

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and then we also ask normally a qualitative question.

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Are you, is your project serving any other area

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or affordable housing, seniors, youth like that,

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that you can answer more qualitatively?

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That with the understanding that not everything

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is gonna show up in this definition,

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but that that would be a great way.

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If for some reason this doesn't capture that,

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but you are serving a senior center

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or a community that is smaller,

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that might not meet that definition,

449
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,880
that there's still ways we can give points for that

450
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:38,160
in our funding criteria.

451
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,880
So if the simplified definition is based on income raise,

452
00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:44,760
vehicle ownership and rental cost burden,

453
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,600
there must be benchmarks below,

454
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,120
which then you qualify, is that correct?

455
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:59,920
I mean, what trips the equity moniker?

456
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:30,470
That creates the layers. So, and is that, so are those thresholds something that we're, that we're just assuming it's, you know, 200 times. Poverty, it's, I mean, what, what are those thresholds? I mean, indeed, I think that probably is the more salient issue for me is like, how, how, how those are set or what they are? And, you know, maybe I could see them later, but it's just, and not.

457
00:35:30,470 --> 00:35:38,590
But quite an understanding, what puts you into inequity, you know, is it that you have, you know, 50% whatever people

458
00:35:38,590 --> 00:35:42,710
of color or, you know, 75% of your folks are recently arrived immigrants or something,

459
00:35:42,870 --> 00:35:44,890
just what are those factors?

460
00:35:45,430 --> 00:35:47,090
I don't know those off the top of my head.

461
00:35:47,310 --> 00:35:49,850
They're all those type of thresholds for each one of those categories.

462
00:35:50,410 --> 00:35:53,730
So I'd have to look that up in the technical analysis and we can provide that.

463
00:35:54,290 --> 00:35:57,630
Yeah, I would, I certainly would like to see it and I think, I don't know if my board members,

464
00:35:57,630 --> 00:35:59,650
There's other board members would, but yeah, thanks.

465
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:21,120
A question under projects, so I was thinking about Grand Corridor, and I guess the El Camino Multimodal Improvements Project somewhat intersects with the Grand Boulevard.

466
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,100
I mean, right, that corridor for your people.

467
00:36:23,100 --> 00:36:26,540
I mean, a real multimodal improvement is the grandpa of our initiative.

468
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:27,220
That is.

469
00:36:27,460 --> 00:36:27,640
Okay.

470
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,960
We've renamed it.

471
00:36:31,820 --> 00:36:35,980
Well, there's the initiative in the project versus what the actual name of the roadway.

472
00:36:36,020 --> 00:36:36,820
So that is capture here.

473
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:37,140
Yes.

474
00:36:37,380 --> 00:36:38,740
That is what that is intended to capture.

475
00:36:39,180 --> 00:36:50,560
And then is re-imagined Dunbarton, considered, I know we are doing that right now, but is

476
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:54,760
that considered a regionally significant project

477
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,780
that would be an SMCTA sponsored project

478
00:36:58,780 --> 00:37:02,940
or in the future plan?

479
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:04,580
It is something we fund

480
00:37:05,140 --> 00:37:07,620
and it would be considered a regionally significant project

481
00:37:07,620 --> 00:37:08,800
in the CTP.

482
00:37:09,380 --> 00:37:10,740
It would be up to this body

483
00:37:10,740 --> 00:37:12,180
and I request from Sam Trans

484
00:37:12,180 --> 00:37:14,800
if there was a desire to have our help

485
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:15,680
co-sponsoring that.

486
00:37:17,260 --> 00:37:18,560
So I only bring it up

487
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,600
because it affects actually four cities.

488
00:37:21,020 --> 00:37:23,380
I mean, I think Atherton, Ben Lopark.

489
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,360
You should see it on your city list when it comes to you.

490
00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:28,860
So every city will also see,

491
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,100
every city that like El Camino passes through,

492
00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:32,860
you will see El Camino on your list too,

493
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,000
even though it's a Sam Trion sponsored project,

494
00:37:35,500 --> 00:37:37,140
it's still to your point significant

495
00:37:37,140 --> 00:37:38,560
in each of those cities as well.

496
00:37:39,620 --> 00:37:42,840
So is there any reason we would not want to include it

497
00:37:43,340 --> 00:37:45,840
on this sponsored project list?

498
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,780
I mean, since it does require the coordination between those four cities,

499
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:51,640
remote cities, but I don't accept that.

500
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:55,000
That is up to this body, if you would like to talk to famed trans about

501
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:56,340
co-sponsoring that project.

502
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:01,260
So this is really about which projects that the transportation authority is currently

503
00:38:01,260 --> 00:38:05,620
co-sponsoring or would like to co-sponsor, as well as our listed projects.

504
00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:09,140
Not necessarily our projects that we are funding partners on.

505
00:38:09,140 --> 00:38:10,100
So

506
00:38:13,750 --> 00:38:31,370
and these I guess what you're saying is this body would have to approve adding that particular project which is in South, which is in the southern jurisdiction, which is my jurisdiction, but I'm not advocating it because it's in the southern jurisdiction.

507
00:38:31,370 --> 00:38:33,550
I'm just saying it is a regional significance.

508
00:38:35,870 --> 00:38:39,770
That would be an item that we'd have to bring back to this body later than is that correct.

509
00:38:41,410 --> 00:38:50,610
We normally co-sponsored projects with requests from other agencies, and don't always necessarily put ourselves ahead of

510
00:38:50,610 --> 00:38:58,190
non-request, so normally it would be Sam Trance because they're leading that discussion at this point and have been for the last several decades.

511
00:38:59,350 --> 00:39:06,010
And we have funded it through the design phase, I believe, through the Regional Transit Connections program for that project.

512
00:39:06,010 --> 00:39:10,790
So I would defer to our executive director if there was anything different from Sam

513
00:39:10,790 --> 00:39:22,630
Trans. So if this, so we're going to be reviewing the types of projects that need to be included in the county transportation plan for Sam

514
00:39:22,630 --> 00:39:31,950
Trans. So Sam Trans will work with both the TA and CCAC to see what projects need to be included in it because we do want it to make sure that we line up the

515
00:39:31,950 --> 00:39:33,730
appropriate funding for some of those projects.

516
00:39:34,530 --> 00:39:38,170
Probably going to go beyond the Dunbarton Project, you know, for example,

517
00:39:38,650 --> 00:39:42,470
although I do see there's some El Camino real, that's also a

518
00:39:42,470 --> 00:39:44,070
co-sponsor project with the TA.

519
00:39:45,350 --> 00:39:49,690
And so we're going to be looking at those or if we're looking to do any major

520
00:39:50,330 --> 00:39:55,210
other capital investments, for example, something at our bases that we also might

521
00:39:55,210 --> 00:39:57,650
like to include it in the plan.

522
00:39:57,650 --> 00:39:59,890
And those are the things that ass-

523
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:29,460
The city's that we will work with a TA on. Yes, so Dunbarton is listed as a regionally significant project in the inventory already. And it is a project that is sponsored by Sam Trance. Correct. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I think that answers my question. I may circle back with staff about the TAPs. Again.

524
00:40:29,460 --> 00:40:43,880
But we will we I don't think we have to do that today at this meeting. So thank you any other comments or anything else feedback for staff. Yes, Director Corso. Thank you. I just wanted to say that I also had questions about the

525
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:52,720
What was the equity definitions, but I do appreciate the

526
00:40:52,720 --> 00:41:00,740
the definition being expanded a bit because I think there are different ways that it can

527
00:41:00,740 --> 00:41:13,400
look, for example, you know, language barriers or if can we pull back that slide? Thank

528
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:13,800
you.

529
00:41:18,890 --> 00:41:30,970
Yeah, like the rental cost burden so while someone may be not super low income but let's

530
00:41:30,970 --> 00:41:38,670
say they're paying well over 50% of their income to rent that's still I think worthy

531
00:41:38,670 --> 00:41:45,590
of, I think they're still worthy of including because they're still living on a type budget

532
00:41:45,590 --> 00:41:47,530
in that in that situation.

533
00:41:49,850 --> 00:41:51,570
Yeah, so I appreciated that.

534
00:41:51,970 --> 00:41:55,070
And can we click through to some of the projects as well?

535
00:41:59,750 --> 00:42:00,410
Thank you.

536
00:42:02,630 --> 00:42:10,250
Yeah, I think the 101, 92, 1 is definitely very important.

537
00:42:10,830 --> 00:42:14,670
And I don't know how I feel about the,

538
00:42:18,630 --> 00:42:24,430
It's funny because I just volunteer to be on the express lane, JPA, but I don't know

539
00:42:24,430 --> 00:42:30,030
I feel about the managed lanes north of I-380.

540
00:42:31,830 --> 00:42:37,890
So that one is one that I think we should talk about a little bit more.

541
00:42:38,770 --> 00:42:42,910
It will add that being listed in this plan does not decide for this body whether or not

542
00:42:42,910 --> 00:42:46,790
we continue to fund it. I know that is still a question that will come back to this body as well,

543
00:42:47,310 --> 00:42:52,550
probably early next year following the environmental phase. It does not commit us. It just makes us

544
00:42:52,550 --> 00:43:00,690
eligible for regional funds. Thank you. And then the, you mentioned MTC and I'm guessing

545
00:43:03,580 --> 00:43:08,920
I'm on MTC, but it hasn't even been a full year yet. And so I'm still learning.

546
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:17,320
And is this set, is this third one here part of that, or is all of these part of that?

547
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:24,060
All of these will end up in the regional transportation plan if they're listed regionally

548
00:43:24,060 --> 00:43:25,480
significant projects for us.

549
00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:31,320
Unless for some reason there is a reason MTC dollar value requires us to constrain the list

550
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:35,300
in a way that we have to eliminate a listed regionally significant project.

551
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,920
That doesn't mean we still couldn't pursue it.

552
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,860
Even if it's not in the RTP, it would just be a little bit more difficult.

553
00:43:43,060 --> 00:43:52,100
Okay. And then something I wanted to share, and I'm not totally sure if this is the appropriate time or place.

554
00:43:52,280 --> 00:44:03,960
But as we're talking about this generally, I'm wondering if there's a place somewhere here in this conversation to talk about

555
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:09,240
So, where we have funding for, where

556
00:44:15,420 --> 00:44:22,820
and whether we have any funding for public art and

557
00:44:22,820 --> 00:44:33,980
transit because when I went to the impact conference in Toronto that I saw April at, I took

558
00:44:33,980 --> 00:44:43,180
a couple of sessions that used where I learned about how the use of transit dollars to

559
00:44:43,180 --> 00:44:59,980
a improved safety for bike-ped was really effective and impactful, and be the

560
00:45:00,270 --> 00:45:17,850
It was really beautifully done and just incredibly vibrant and inspirational. And not just for the sake of being beautiful and inspirational, but I

561
00:45:22,300 --> 00:45:32,720
can't even really put it into words. But one of the speakers talked about it being like the budget dust that they used.

562
00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:39,000
to do that with, and I was like, do we have some budget

563
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:39,440
dust?

564
00:45:41,500 --> 00:45:43,540
Maybe I can beg.

565
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,400
I don't know you wanted to take a crack, or you want me to?

566
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,960
Those type of station upgrades could be eligible under the regional transit connections

567
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:52,400
program.

568
00:45:52,700 --> 00:45:55,920
For station, we have a capital program as part of that.

569
00:45:56,900 --> 00:46:01,660
I'm not sure if SamTrans or Celterine has those kind of programs to apply for, but.

570
00:46:01,660 --> 00:46:06,720
So, I mean, if we're talking about whether or not we need to include those types of projects to be included in here,

571
00:46:06,900 --> 00:46:10,860
I don't think we need to because they're kind of under a programmatic category.

572
00:46:11,620 --> 00:46:18,380
I think we may have some kind of transportation enhancements or something like that if we like to include such a category,

573
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:22,680
but that's a catch-off or that types of projects that we wanted to pursue.

574
00:46:23,380 --> 00:46:29,320
And they can be pursued more in an individual level as each transit agency or

575
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:34,420
each maybe transportation organization want to pursue some of those projects to

576
00:46:34,420 --> 00:46:39,160
do those things. You know as Patrick said even the TA as we do these call for

577
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:42,600
projects that we're just talking about there's a certain component that we

578
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:47,140
wanted to pursue included in the project then that just need to be designed into

579
00:46:47,140 --> 00:46:51,040
it. It doesn't need to be specifically called out in the plan itself to get

580
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:52,320
that? Okay.

581
00:46:54,730 --> 00:46:59,270
Any other feedback for staff at this point? Yes, please. Thank you so much, Chair.

582
00:47:00,250 --> 00:47:07,310
For the equity definitions on that plan with the different layers of purple, is there a more

583
00:47:07,310 --> 00:47:09,070
granular plan that you could see?

584
00:47:11,410 --> 00:47:14,150
I believe we do have an interactive map version of that, too.

585
00:47:15,230 --> 00:47:20,190
So CKAC has already been using this in their current funding that just went out for the OBAG

586
00:47:20,190 --> 00:47:25,890
recommendations, you know, TDA article three. Yeah, I realize that. And there's been some challenges

587
00:47:25,890 --> 00:47:31,870
with that too. And so it will be nice to be able to get in there and look at it a little bit

588
00:47:31,870 --> 00:47:37,950
more granular wise. Where are some of the areas that is more needed than others? If this body would

589
00:47:37,950 --> 00:47:42,310
like, there is a technical memorandum on that and the web link, we'd be happy to send that to you all

590
00:47:42,310 --> 00:47:49,330
as well. Yep. Be nice to have. Great. Yes, please. Thank you, teacher. I was interested in terms of

591
00:47:49,330 --> 00:47:54,890
the draft, CTP initiatives, especially their mergers initiatives, especially around e-bikes

592
00:47:54,890 --> 00:47:59,070
in autonomous vehicles, because we're not really driving that conversation in a lot of

593
00:47:59,070 --> 00:47:59,210
ways.

594
00:47:59,230 --> 00:47:59,990
It's really the states.

595
00:47:59,990 --> 00:48:04,390
I'm just kind of understanding how, I guess we're just going to take, like I know that

596
00:48:04,390 --> 00:48:09,530
some of you have happened just past a bill in terms of just doing pilot program with e-bikes.

597
00:48:09,670 --> 00:48:12,850
And so I'm trying to see how we get involved in that conversation.

598
00:48:13,250 --> 00:48:15,450
So maybe you can just expand a little bit more about that.

599
00:48:15,450 --> 00:48:21,370
This is more on sea kegs side, more helping to coordinate countywide policy.

600
00:48:21,810 --> 00:48:25,850
We tend to help more on countywide capital projects on our end.

601
00:48:26,590 --> 00:48:32,170
But they are currently undertaking a grant from the federal government that includes looking

602
00:48:32,170 --> 00:48:36,350
at different e-bike policies and things that cities could adopt as well.

603
00:48:36,610 --> 00:48:41,290
And then really looking at things like bike share, so sea keg does have like a bike share

604
00:48:41,290 --> 00:48:45,430
your micromobility feasibility study and how to expand that program across the county too.

605
00:48:45,550 --> 00:48:47,690
So it's just looking at those types of different opportunities.

606
00:48:48,270 --> 00:48:53,410
I appreciate that because I think every city is having their own conversation about e-bikes and

607
00:48:53,410 --> 00:48:55,130
what policies or ordinance we can do.

608
00:48:55,330 --> 00:49:00,030
So I think it's great there were somewhat kind of coordinated with the state so I appreciate that.

609
00:49:00,370 --> 00:49:04,610
I also like the idea of the bike sharing programs.

610
00:49:04,770 --> 00:49:09,590
I know that my colleagues, especially my colleague in Millbury has a very successful bike sharing program.

611
00:49:09,590 --> 00:49:13,610
I would love to see that, how that can be shared up and down San Mateo County.

612
00:49:13,870 --> 00:49:19,090
Because I was going to a little jealous when I would see my colleagues in the peninsula where they were able to have that.

613
00:49:19,190 --> 00:49:20,870
I'm like, I can't have that in South San Francisco.

614
00:49:21,590 --> 00:49:24,050
I would love to see the expanded, how we have that conversation.

615
00:49:30,550 --> 00:49:31,010
Thank you.

616
00:49:31,130 --> 00:49:32,110
All right, great, thank you.

617
00:49:32,690 --> 00:49:33,930
Yes, please go ahead.

618
00:49:34,390 --> 00:49:34,650
Thank you.

619
00:49:35,110 --> 00:49:40,030
Just getting back to going back to the sponsored projects.

620
00:49:42,910 --> 00:49:49,250
Director Corso did mention U.S. 101 managed lanes north I-380.

621
00:49:50,390 --> 00:49:54,370
We at this point are engaged in the environmental kind of analysis on that.

622
00:49:54,690 --> 00:49:54,970
Correct.

623
00:49:55,570 --> 00:49:55,630
Right.

624
00:49:55,910 --> 00:49:55,930
Right.

625
00:49:55,930 --> 00:49:59,870
So our ability or yeah our ability

626
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:29,680
We're going to move forward with this. We'll eventually depend on when the funding and whether or not this body wants to go and approve that. So I have my concerns with it. I'm not going to say what they are at this point. I want to see where the environmental review is, but certainly I think as a project. I mean, we are kind of in for a dime on this until we get that environmental document. I know supervisor spear when she was here. She actually wanted to just yank it immediately. And I think we agreed.

627
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:37,680
We need as a body that we would move forward with the environmental doc and then perhaps other

628
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:42,560
members on this board would decide whether we want to engage or we'd all decide whether

629
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:43,700
we want to engage in the next step.

630
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:48,420
So I assume that's still the case, it's the environmental piece that we're working on here

631
00:50:48,420 --> 00:50:49,300
that we're cosmonauts.

632
00:50:49,460 --> 00:50:50,100
That is correct.

633
00:50:50,240 --> 00:50:54,380
This body requested to finish the environmental analysis, so we had the final analysis to

634
00:50:54,380 --> 00:51:00,240
share and so that would be completed. And then we had programmed the design phase of the project,

635
00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:04,620
but we did not allocate that when we put a condition on it that we would bring the results back to

636
00:51:04,620 --> 00:51:09,380
this body and that you all would be able to decide whether or not we would allocate those funds or

637
00:51:09,380 --> 00:51:14,340
stop the project at that time from the Transportation Authority side. Great. I appreciate those fine

638
00:51:14,340 --> 00:51:20,640
details. Thank you. No problem. So through the chair, we do have Kackie Chen on my, she had raised

639
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:25,420
her hand, so I believe she wants to offer some comments if you'd like to entertain us.

640
00:51:30,150 --> 00:51:30,690
Hi, Jackie.

641
00:51:31,270 --> 00:51:31,590
Oh, sorry.

642
00:51:31,930 --> 00:51:32,710
Thank you, Chair.

643
00:51:32,970 --> 00:51:33,910
And good evening, everyone.

644
00:51:34,710 --> 00:51:37,350
Jackie Chong, interim executive director for C-CAC.

645
00:51:37,970 --> 00:51:40,670
I'm sorry that I couldn't be there with you in person today.

646
00:51:40,990 --> 00:51:45,370
I just wanted to expand a little bit more on what Patrick shared earlier about the e-bike

647
00:51:45,370 --> 00:51:48,490
safety work that we are currently doing as C-CAC.

648
00:51:49,010 --> 00:51:54,110
Certainly, it is a hot topic that many of our local member agencies are in.

649
00:51:54,110 --> 00:51:58,210
extremely interested in and would member patents bill

650
00:51:58,210 --> 00:52:00,030
being signed into law yesterday.

651
00:52:00,670 --> 00:52:02,570
So it's a very current topic.

652
00:52:03,650 --> 00:52:06,990
On e-bite safety, I just want to add that, yes,

653
00:52:07,190 --> 00:52:12,230
CECC received a grant to do safety work in this area

654
00:52:12,230 --> 00:52:15,930
and we're currently developing a model ordinance template

655
00:52:16,630 --> 00:52:21,410
that could be shared with member agencies to model after

656
00:52:21,410 --> 00:52:26,490
and it's something that local jurisdictions can consider and tailor to their community.

657
00:52:27,070 --> 00:52:31,530
Mainly the template will talk about the different e-bike classes, facility type,

658
00:52:32,010 --> 00:52:37,910
what are some of the enforcement or citation provision and how that meet with the California vehicle code.

659
00:52:39,030 --> 00:52:44,610
And we also see as an opportunity for greater consistency across jurisdictions.

660
00:52:45,670 --> 00:52:48,630
The other thing that we are including as part of that work,

661
00:52:48,630 --> 00:52:55,530
it's that we're developing an e-bike decision tool, what that does is depending on the

662
00:52:56,550 --> 00:53:03,910
physical environment and the facility type, the tool will be able to identify like which kind

663
00:53:03,910 --> 00:53:09,430
of e-bike rules or safety treatments or counter measures are appropriate for that facility.

664
00:53:10,130 --> 00:53:16,370
So all those work are in development and we'll be sharing the we've been giving our

665
00:53:16,370 --> 00:53:23,350
safety task for folks that heads up and those resources will become available in the next few months.

666
00:53:23,610 --> 00:53:27,430
So, just wanted to share a little bit additional detail on that.

667
00:53:27,990 --> 00:53:34,330
And in terms of bike share expansion in response to the director's comment,

668
00:53:34,710 --> 00:53:41,350
we currently have it in the city of Daily City in partnership with MTC

669
00:53:41,350 --> 00:53:46,570
see and have been really advocating for the expansion in those area.

670
00:53:47,430 --> 00:53:50,330
So looking forward to working with others on that.

671
00:53:51,010 --> 00:53:57,870
Last I understand we are seeing about 700 trips a month at the daily city part station.

672
00:53:58,090 --> 00:54:05,270
So I think it shows promise, but certainly that program requires a bit of subsidy to get it going.

673
00:54:05,870 --> 00:54:07,130
So that's all I wanted to share.

674
00:54:07,270 --> 00:54:07,550
Thank you.

675
00:54:08,450 --> 00:54:09,610
Thank you very much.

676
00:54:09,610 --> 00:54:10,370
That's very helpful.

677
00:54:11,350 --> 00:54:11,730
All right.

678
00:54:11,870 --> 00:54:15,450
We've taken public comment already unless anyone else has any other comments.

679
00:54:15,670 --> 00:54:18,690
I don't have any that my colleagues haven't already touched upon.

680
00:54:18,810 --> 00:54:19,490
I'm looking at staff.

681
00:54:19,610 --> 00:54:21,690
Do you think you have enough feedback to move forward?

682
00:54:22,050 --> 00:54:22,810
That is great feedback.

683
00:54:22,990 --> 00:54:23,190
Thank you.

684
00:54:23,290 --> 00:54:23,410
Great.

685
00:54:23,630 --> 00:54:24,890
Well, thank you very much again.

686
00:54:25,850 --> 00:54:28,590
Thank you for the presentation and the great discussion.

687
00:54:28,770 --> 00:54:30,450
Moving on to item 10B.

688
00:54:31,050 --> 00:54:35,530
Programming and allocating highway program funds for three highway program special

689
00:54:35,530 --> 00:54:38,770
Social Circumstance Request for additional funding and approval of a special circumstance

690
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:05,820
Approval of a special circumstance request for a fund swap. You're back. I'm back. Patrick

691
00:55:05,820 --> 00:55:10,280
Elser, Director of Planning and Fund Management. So again, tonight we have three highway

692
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:14,760
program special requests, so we're bringing those as one item, and one unique one for a

693
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:19,720
fund swap that I'll walk through as well. So as a reminder, we talked a little bit last

694
00:55:19,720 --> 00:55:23,060
time actually, but we don't tend to bring special circumstance requests very often.

695
00:55:28,780 --> 00:55:29,520
So as

696
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:31,820
to advance funding outside of competitive calls

697
00:55:31,820 --> 00:55:34,600
for projects under two criterion urgency.

698
00:55:34,900 --> 00:55:36,200
So whether or not we will lose funding,

699
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:39,180
so lose grant opportunities if it doesn't have enough funding,

700
00:55:39,860 --> 00:55:41,340
or there are potential future impacts

701
00:55:41,340 --> 00:55:42,760
to the measure A and W program.

702
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:44,660
Will we be responsible for more money

703
00:55:44,660 --> 00:55:47,000
if we also are unable to deliver something now?

704
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:50,720
And then as a reminder, in February of this year,

705
00:55:50,980 --> 00:55:53,740
the board adopted a policy for requests

706
00:55:53,740 --> 00:55:55,840
for additional funds that we did as part

707
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:58,180
of the great separation policy,

708
00:55:58,180 --> 00:56:02,260
but we ended up applying it to all programs to treat all the programs equally with this.

709
00:56:02,900 --> 00:56:09,460
So 50% of a cost increase may be requested if there are delays, if the addition is due

710
00:56:09,460 --> 00:56:16,000
to delays, project management, redesign or rework, and then staff can consider requests for

711
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:22,480
a standard use of the match, or 10% match, if the additional funds and the cost increase

712
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:26,680
are due to any unforeseen or permitting or standard requirements that change during

713
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:30,720
that process. So something like if CalTrans changes their standards in the middle of the process

714
00:56:30,720 --> 00:56:34,900
and we're now forced to update design standards that weren't understood at the time in order to

715
00:56:34,900 --> 00:56:35,660
approve the project.

716
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:43,260
So tonight we have one new request and two additional fund requests.

717
00:56:44,060 --> 00:56:50,640
So the City of Redwood City in conjunction with SamTrans and CalTrans is completing a safety project

718
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:57,920
on El Camino Rial. So the request is from Redwood City in SamTrans to add funds to the

719
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:03,200
CalTrans contract to have CalTrans deliver bus boarding islands as part of their safety project.

720
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:09,140
So, SamTrans was successful in securing a grant through MTC through the bus aid program,

721
00:57:10,100 --> 00:57:16,160
but we still have a small funding shortfall as well. And so with all the other matching funds

722
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:22,320
from CalTrans and from SamTrans, they have 70% of the funds secured, so they are looking for 2.3 million.

723
00:57:22,900 --> 00:57:26,260
And this is under the urgency clause. We are proposing the Special Circumstance

724
00:57:26,260 --> 00:57:31,140
grants criteria be met because it was supposed to the MTC funding at risk if we aren't able

725
00:57:31,140 --> 00:57:35,900
to close the funding gap and get that into CalTrans process to deliver that work.

726
00:57:37,150 --> 00:57:44,020
The second special request is from East Pello Alto as part of the University Avenue Interchange

727
00:57:44,020 --> 00:57:47,460
and Pedestrian Overcrossing Project and it is an additional funds request.

728
00:57:47,860 --> 00:57:54,660
It meets the 50% match criterion looking for an additional $125,000 to work to close out

729
00:57:54,660 --> 00:57:59,880
the effort and we have put this under the impact to measure A and W programs because if they're

730
00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:03,740
further delays to closing out the project, it will further increase the ultimate cost.

731
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:09,520
And then for Colma, they are currently working on the El Camino Real Multimodal Improvements

732
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:15,320
project and they are looking for additional funds request to the PA and ED phase that is currently

733
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:15,820
underway.

734
00:58:17,130 --> 00:58:23,320
In this, it's similarly a 50% request with $135,000 request to the TA board and similarly

735
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:28,840
meets the impact to measure A&W programs criterion as well as the cost increase could further

736
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:29,640
delay the project.

737
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:37,920
So in total, we have about $2.5 million or $2.6 million in additional or new special

738
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:38,820
circumstance requests.

739
00:58:40,820 --> 00:58:46,760
And then there is a more unique special circumstance fun swap that we are covering tonight too from

740
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:50,900
the town of Colma for the El Camino Real Multimodal Project.

741
00:58:50,900 --> 00:58:57,880
So the project is currently at risk of losing $4.64 million in MTC-O-Bag Cycle 3 funds

742
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:03,340
that were awarded from CCAG for construction due to delays in the current PA and AD phase.

743
00:59:03,500 --> 00:59:04,940
That we were just discussing in the last slide.

744
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:11,160
We have been working diligently CCAG, the town of Kolma and the TA, with MTC to identify

745
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:15,920
a path forward so we don't lose that $4.64 million on the project, since that is a sizable

746
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:16,520
amount of money.

747
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:22,100
So to meet the OVAG requirements, MTC will allow us to do a fun swap from construction

748
00:59:22,100 --> 00:59:28,960
to design if this body approves reallocating our design award portion of our previous design

749
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:31,340
award from the last highway cycle to construction.

750
00:59:31,780 --> 00:59:36,800
So this would then both meet special circumstances, both special circumstance requests that we are

751
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,740
potentially losing funding if we don't meet the current grant funding.

752
00:59:40,180 --> 00:59:44,140
And then that 4.6 million would be something we may have to fill in the future and impact

753
00:59:44,140 --> 00:59:49,300
the measure A and W programs as well. So the town will lose a sizable amount of overall match toward

754
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:27,200
Guideline exception from us since the construction phase will not start within one year of a fun swap award. So you all may remember as part of our guidelines for most of our programs, we say, if you're going to apply, you have to start within a year of the award. So because we're just going to be starting the final design phase, we won't quite meet that one year timeline for this. So it would be a little bit different. It will say the town, as you'll see in our notes, has also started securing awards for construction as well.

755
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:36,100
So through the STIP program, the state transportation improvement program from CalTrans as well, so they are working diligently to continue to fund the project.

756
01:00:38,780 --> 01:00:58,760
And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions, but our recommendation is to program and allocate a total of 2.5 million from the Measure W Highway program under the Board's special circumstance authority and reprogram and reallocate 4.64 million in previously awarded measure a highway program funds from the PSNE phase to the construction phase.

757
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,900
use as well to help Colma not lose the funding.

758
01:01:03,340 --> 01:01:06,840
And with that, I have representatives from the town of Colma and East Palo Alto here,

759
01:01:07,260 --> 01:01:09,040
and I believe Redwood City is online.

760
01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:11,000
All right.

761
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:11,680
Thank you very much.

762
01:01:12,820 --> 01:01:18,120
Are there any questions for staff this time regarding their presentation or anything in the

763
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:18,500
staff report?

764
01:01:20,420 --> 01:01:21,060
Director Fung?

765
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:22,100
Oh, sorry.

766
01:01:22,220 --> 01:01:22,400
Thank you.

767
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:23,300
You're safe from me.

768
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:23,860
All right.

769
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:26,220
How about any public comment on this item?

770
01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:27,360
There are no public comments.

771
01:01:27,780 --> 01:01:27,920
Oh.

772
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:27,920
So,

773
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:45,220
Tuesday night, the CAC actually recommended that you pass this, but not only that, I think

774
01:01:45,220 --> 01:01:45,980
it was unanimous.

775
01:01:46,060 --> 01:01:48,480
I don't remember anybody voting against or abstaining.

776
01:01:49,020 --> 01:01:53,440
There's some great projects on here I can outline of one of them that I really like.

777
01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:55,400
The Colma bike lanes, I thought were great.

778
01:01:56,240 --> 01:01:58,600
And they're going to fit in with South San Francisco's bike lanes.

779
01:01:59,020 --> 01:02:04,160
And there's a big project that's proposed for that corner there on Colma, and these bike

780
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:07,480
the claims will give them advantage of the protected by claims.

781
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:08,020
Thank you.

782
01:02:08,560 --> 01:02:09,260
Thank you.

783
01:02:10,340 --> 01:02:12,040
Any other public comment at this time?

784
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:13,080
There are none.

785
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:14,360
Right.

786
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:15,440
Yes.

787
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:16,160
Director Chair.

788
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:17,220
A question.

789
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:24,240
So to understand the matching funds proposed for the request column because Redwood City's

790
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:31,820
project is a new project, we are taking all of the money that they have secured outside

791
01:02:31,820 --> 01:02:36,660
of our funds and saying that is more than the 50% match.

792
01:02:36,900 --> 01:02:37,060
Correct.

793
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:41,880
Okay, so it's a slightly different striped animal than the other two.

794
01:02:42,060 --> 01:02:42,500
That is correct.

795
01:02:42,900 --> 01:02:43,120
Okay.

796
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:44,420
I guess I understand.

797
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:44,800
Thank you.

798
01:02:47,290 --> 01:02:47,710
All right.

799
01:02:48,130 --> 01:02:54,480
Any comments or would anyone like to offer motion?

800
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:59,680
I'll go ahead and just make the comment that I think staff's recommendations.

801
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:00,780
I support them.

802
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:01,960
I think they make sense.

803
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:10,460
and I appreciate the cities also doing what they can to help securing funding for these projects.

804
01:03:10,740 --> 01:03:16,140
And I think the special category also makes sense, so I can support the recommendation.

805
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:20,280
Did you make a motion?

806
01:03:20,580 --> 01:03:20,900
I did not.

807
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:22,920
I'll make the motion to approve.

808
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:28,140
And I did want to say, we all participated in putting these guidelines together.

809
01:03:28,940 --> 01:03:32,780
They have always slipped my mind and I'm so glad to bring them up.

810
01:03:32,780 --> 01:03:40,040
It's like, ah, this is how we can do this, so it doesn't look like, and it's not as if we are favoring one project over another.

811
01:03:40,380 --> 01:03:42,960
So I think this is important, it's transparent.

812
01:03:43,540 --> 01:03:47,820
And with your help and the help of staff, we've been able to put these guidelines together.

813
01:03:47,980 --> 01:03:48,360
So thank you.

814
01:03:50,060 --> 01:03:50,820
Is that a motion?

815
01:03:51,940 --> 01:03:53,060
Looking for a second?

816
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:53,500
Second.

817
01:03:57,100 --> 01:03:57,780
Oh, roll call please.

818
01:03:58,700 --> 01:03:59,340
Director Corzo.

819
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:00,620
Yes.

820
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:01,280
Director Fong.

821
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:01,640
Hi.

822
01:04:01,980 --> 01:04:03,460
Director Medina has stepped away.

823
01:04:03,660 --> 01:04:04,200
Director Miller.

824
01:04:05,020 --> 01:04:14,980
Director Romero. Yes. Vice Chair Nagas. Yes. Chair Mates. Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Thanks very much. Moving on to item 11 legislative matters. 11 a is a legislative update.

825
01:04:21,330 --> 01:04:24,470
Make it good. Your last one Jessica.

826
01:04:38,140 --> 01:04:42,160
Your bike is not all there we go. Green.

827
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:50,160
They worked for a whopping two days and went departed for the midterms on September 16th.

828
01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:52,780
The senate also returned on the 14th of September

829
01:04:52,780 --> 01:04:55,320
and will be leaving on October 7th.

830
01:04:55,340 --> 01:04:58,800
Both chambers are expected to return November 9th

831
01:04:58,800 --> 01:04:59,660
after the election.

832
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:14,660
Manual, fiscal year 27, bills by the current December 11 deadline. The House Appropriations Committee has passed 12, but only 3 on the floor and the Senate Appropriations Committee is still expecting to share drafts.

833
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:28,600
At this state level, the legislature has been on recess since September 1st. The governor has until September 30th, designed or vetoed bills, sent to his desk.

834
01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:33,580
Obviously, this is a gubernatorial election, so there's a lot of right now, wait and

835
01:05:33,580 --> 01:05:37,000
see what things will be like next year with a new governor.

836
01:05:37,820 --> 01:05:42,900
The November 3rd general election beyond the governor, we have several local races, Assembly

837
01:05:42,900 --> 01:05:47,840
Member Mark Burman, Catherine Stephanie, and Diane Papin are in what I would call relatively

838
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:49,180
non-competitive races.

839
01:05:49,820 --> 01:05:53,600
Senator Scott Weiner is running for Congress, that is a competitive race.

840
01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:58,660
should he win his race, his seat will be filled with a special election.

841
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:05,700
The state legislature will convene the 27-28 legislative session on December 7th for

842
01:06:05,700 --> 01:06:07,080
swearing in of members.

843
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:12,240
And then in terms of bills, you're going to get a much more robust overview of what happens

844
01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:14,040
over the year at a future meeting.

845
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:18,260
I'm also very excited to say that it's looking like at your January meeting,

846
01:06:18,260 --> 01:06:21,320
both your state and federal lobbyists will be here in person.

847
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:26,040
And it has been a pre-pandemic since we actually saw our federal lobbyists in person.

848
01:06:26,660 --> 01:06:29,540
He's very tall apparently, I've never actually met him in person.

849
01:06:30,020 --> 01:06:31,620
There's been a lot of time on the phone with the man.

850
01:06:32,500 --> 01:06:41,940
One bill of note, AB 2160 Wix, Active Transportation Program Guidelines side, the governor, it's a nice bill.

851
01:06:42,180 --> 01:06:50,080
And it expands ATP to allow funding for projects that include access to transit and school bus stops.

852
01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:52,200
So that's a nice expansion of that program.

853
01:06:54,380 --> 01:06:58,740
If that, I'm happy to answer questions on the legislative side.

854
01:07:00,340 --> 01:07:01,400
Any questions at this time?

855
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:07,840
Well, then I would like to say it has been a true pleasure and honor to be in this role.

856
01:07:08,660 --> 01:07:16,220
As April said, I've been here for nine years and I predate most of those TA staff folks back there.

857
01:07:16,220 --> 01:07:43,440
And it has been amazing to be part of this organization, which when I started was focused on grant giving and delivering mega highway projects to one that is really convening all of San Mateo County on what is modern and what is forward thinking and really leading the conversation on multimodal transportation and becoming a model I think for the country.

858
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:49,740
So, that has been great to be part of that transformation and I'm not going far.

859
01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:55,720
I have some significant plans to deal with a really ugly passion for my garden, my son's

860
01:07:55,720 --> 01:08:02,380
bar mitzvah's next month, so, and then I'm not going far, I'm taking a beat, and then we'll

861
01:08:02,380 --> 01:08:03,220
figure out what's next.

862
01:08:03,420 --> 01:08:03,920
But thank you.

863
01:08:04,060 --> 01:08:06,020
This has been a truly wonderful experience.

864
01:08:07,060 --> 01:08:07,880
Thank you very much.

865
01:08:09,300 --> 01:08:12,120
Thank you so much for your hard work and your dedication.

866
01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:19,840
and for everything you've done to help move this organization forward in the big way that it has, so thanks, you'll be missed.

867
01:08:20,240 --> 01:08:20,480
Thank you.

868
01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:23,520
All right, then we will move on.

869
01:08:23,620 --> 01:08:28,860
Oh, we should just let's just check in real quick on public comment for the legislative update, anything?

870
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:29,820
From the other end.

871
01:08:30,060 --> 01:08:33,260
All right, then we will move on to item 12, request from the authority.

872
01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:37,080
Yeah, I just, I did want to say something, I just didn't have questions.

873
01:08:37,460 --> 01:08:38,100
Oh, sure, please.

874
01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:39,380
Thank you.

875
01:08:39,380 --> 01:08:53,140
I just wanted to say that I am grateful for all of the many updates that we've

876
01:08:53,140 --> 01:09:09,080
got in all of the times that we have grilled you with questions and you've

877
01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:20,620
always been easy, but you've helped us navigate some complicated conversations and complicated

878
01:09:20,620 --> 01:09:28,020
topics. Thank you for all of your work. I think these past four years I've learned a lot

879
01:09:28,020 --> 01:09:36,900
from you and a lot from all of the team here, but I'm sure that you have seen a lot these

880
01:09:36,900 --> 01:09:42,560
past nine years and that you have mentored and trained and shared your

881
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:01,440
Anywhere for nine years.

882
01:10:03,460 --> 01:10:29,980
So I admire that you've stayed this long. And as someone that loves to garden myself, I love that for you. And I watched a video today on the Internet that said that people that live in the blue zones. Have you heard about that? Live longer. They have that in common. That they garden well.

883
01:10:29,980 --> 01:10:38,180
to like old age and that it's really good for you so keep gardening, you'll live longer.

884
01:10:39,060 --> 01:10:48,360
So congratulations on taking time for yourself and enjoy your kids' farm itswa and wish you the best.

885
01:10:50,120 --> 01:10:50,940
All right, thank you.

886
01:10:51,500 --> 01:10:54,560
For move on, any other comments on this item?

887
01:10:55,660 --> 01:10:56,140
All right.

888
01:10:56,140 --> 01:11:04,000
Thank you. Moving on then to item 12 requests from the authority. There is nothing under this item on the agenda at this time.

889
01:11:05,600 --> 01:11:10,040
Written communication to the authority. That's item 13 and that's also in our packet.

890
01:11:11,300 --> 01:11:22,840
The date and time item 14 of the next regular meeting is Thursday, November 5th, 2026 at 5 p.m. here in person in the San Mateo County Transit District Public Hearing Room on the 5th floor.

891
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Also, our public agenda will have all the various ways you can access the meeting via zoom and calling in item 15 is report of legal counsel.

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Yes.

893
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Thank you.

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We have on the agenda tonight a closed session.

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It is a real property closed session.

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It pertains to property located in the city of San Mateo at 2777 South El Camino Real.

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I do not anticipate that we will have any reportable action so we might consider a

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journey in our meeting to the close