[0:00] 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.

[0:30] through the phone and here in person please again see our published agenda for

[0:37] directions on that. Next item please is pledge of allegiance please rise.

[0:43] I

[0:47] pledge allegiance to the black and the United States of America and to the republic to which

[0:53] stands one nation under the indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

[1:04] Madam Secretary, may we have roll call please.

[1:07] Director Corzal is delayed, Director Fung, Director Medina.

[1:13] Thank you.

[1:13] Director Mueller.

[1:15] Here.

[1:16] Director Romero.

[1:18] Present.

[1:19] Vice Chair Nagales.

[1:20] Here.

[1:20] Chair Mates.

[1:21] Here.

[1:22] We have a quorum.

[1:23] All right.

[1:24] Thank you.

[1:25] The next item is public comment for items not on the agenda.

[1:28] Individual speakers shall be limited to two minutes and items raised that were required.

[1:31] response will be deferred for staff. Do we have any public comment in person and then any

[1:37] virtual public commenters for item three? We currently do not have any public

[1:42] commentations. Okay great no public comment then we will move on to item four which is

[1:46] report of the Community Advisory Committee. The report is in our packet and I believe

[1:52] also online for folks. Any questions or any board members want to have any

[2:01] comments or anything on the Community Advisory Committee's report.

[2:08] All right.

[2:08] Seeing none, then we'll go ahead and move to item five, which is the consent calendar.

[2:12] And there is one item, which is the approval of minutes.

[2:18] Any comments on this or does any board member want to remove this item from the consent calendar

[2:24] for consideration or discussion?

[2:28] How about any public comment on this item?

[2:32] We can entertain a motion if there's one.

[2:37] I'll move approval.

[2:38] A second.

[2:41] A roll call please.

[2:43] Director Fung.

[2:44] Aye.

[2:45] Director Medina.

[2:46] Yes.

[2:47] Director Mueller.

[2:49] Yes.

[2:50] Director Romero.

[2:53] Yes.

[2:54] Yes.

[2:54] Vice Chair Nagales.

[2:55] Yes.

[2:56] Chair Mates.

[2:57] Yes.

[2:58] Motion passes.

[2:59] Wonderful.

[3:00] All right.

[3:00] Great, that moves us to item six, report of the chair.

[3:04] Just a couple of things.

[3:05] First of all, we had Sam Trans had their 50th anniversary celebration last Saturday.

[3:12] It was very well attended, I was there.

[3:14] I saw some of the board members and certainly Sam Trans board members wanted to congratulate

[3:19] the entire Sam Trans team, including April of course, and it was great.

[3:24] I thought it was really well attended, you might want to say more in your report.

[3:28] 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.

[3:38] So maybe more about that item 6a is a reappointment of representative to the San Mateo County Express Lane's joint powers authority.

[3:48] Do you want me to just go ahead and take this or does anyone have any? Okay.

[3:52] 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.

[4:07] 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.

[4:18] And so.

[4:20] Actually, through the chair, we're looking to, for reappointment of your position.

[4:25] Just of the TA. Correct.

[4:26] Okay, representative for the TA.

[4:28] Yes.

[4:28] And that is myself.

[4:29] I am happy to do it again.

[4:31] It is Friday mornings that sometimes can be challenging.

[4:34] So I'm also more than happy to allow one of my colleagues to go ahead and put your name in.

[4:40] And instead, if you're championing at the bit to take on the responsibility of representing

[4:47] the TA at the JPA express lanes, if you want to represent.

[4:54] So feel free to chime in and I would love to volunteer.

[4:59] Great.

[5:00] 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.

[5:21] 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.

[5:30] If we appoint Director Corso tonight, then I wish she'd be able to, should we just check if she can attend tomorrow?

[5:35] Yes, correct.

[5:35] So Director Corso, can you attend tomorrow here at 9am?

[5:40] Let me just check my calendar briefly here.

[5:46] Does

[5:51] the appointment have to happen today?

[5:55] What question?

[6:03] Yes, yes, yes, we could have it start the following month, because the way that the joint powers

[6:12] agreement is written, that we need to have a supermajority present for, to take action

[6:19] on certain items.

[6:21] So remind me, is there an alternate?

[6:24] We do not have an alternate currently.

[6:26] So we either wait a month and I go tomorrow or we do it now, but then we may not have

[6:31] quorum.

[6:32] Correct.

[6:34] Yeah.

[6:34] Looks like I've got my plans haven't changed for tomorrow.

[6:37] All right.

[6:39] I guess let's go ahead and move this to next month.

[6:43] If that's what you'd like to do, yes.

[6:45] Well, or do you want us to just-

[6:46] If you could vote on it now, Joan, I'll let you-

[6:49] Yes.

[6:49] I was even suggesting you vote on it now, but make it effective next month.

[7:00] So I'll second that motion. Let's move on here.

[7:07] Okay. Roll call please. Director Corso. Yes. Director Fung. Yes. Director Medina. Yes. Director Mueller. Yes. Director Romero. Yes.

[7:18] Yes.

[7:19] Vice Chair Nagales.

[7:19] Yes.

[7:20] Chair Mates.

[7:20] Yes.

[7:21] Motion passes.

[7:22] All right.

[7:22] Thank you very much.

[7:23] Director Corso for stepping up for that.

[7:25] And I wanted to say thank you.

[7:28] Chair.

[7:29] Mates for actually doing this for the last.

[7:32] It's the last year and a half and getting up on Fridays to make those meetings.

[7:36] Appreciate it.

[7:37] Of course.

[7:37] Thank you very much.

[7:38] All right.

[7:39] Moving on to item seven.

[7:40] San Mateo County Transit District liaison report director Medina, who I believe is with us.

[7:46] Virtually.

[7:51] Director Magita if you want to take 7 and 8 at the same time, that would be great.

[7:55] So here I'm right, right.

[7:58] Do I go up, no, you know, we go huh, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.

[8:05] With that said, it says, highway highway, all these things, even retail facilities are made here later.

[8:14] I'm sorry, Director Mijina, we were having some serious echo issues,

[8:17] let's, can you try again?

[8:18] Let's see, it's better.

[8:22] I'm just saying, you in the echo, we have to report first.

[8:38] 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.

[8:48] If the computer is not known, it's not known.

[8:50] Maybe it's us then, OK.

[8:54] Looking to staff, if we still have technical issues,

[8:59] that's fine.

[8:59] We can move it to come back to him.

[9:01] Is that, or is this something we can take care of?

[9:07] Member of the public?

[9:09] Sure, go ahead.

[9:10] Let's open it for public comment.

[9:11] This is happened to me when I've accidentally

[9:13] had two of the Zoom pages up.

[9:17] I think that's what we suggested.

[9:18] but Director Medina said he didn't, so do you want to try one next one last time, director?

[9:29] Okay, we'll come back.

[9:32] There is a report also in the packet, but I'd like to, of course,

[10:06] 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.

[10:29] It's probably over a decade ago, but there's some news about that.

[10:36] I just want to make sure all of the directors know.

[10:39] So the San Francisco Bay Ferry operates ferry service between South San Francisco and

[10:46] Alameda.

[10:47] They are planning to suspend service to South San Francisco between November 1st and

[10:52] November 30th to dredge the waterway near the Oyster Point terminal.

[10:56] Dredging is necessary in order to maintain the water depths for ferries and other vessels

[11:01] and is conducted every five to seven years.

[11:05] Service is expected to resume on December 1st.

[11:08] I just want to let all of you know since that is a project that had been funded by the TA.

[11:15] And as Director Mates had mentioned, Sam Trance had our 50th anniversary on this past Saturday

[11:21] on September 26th. A number of our board numbers here as well as a majority of the Sam Transport

[11:28] members were able to attend as well as we have past general managers of Sam Trance as well as

[11:37] a number of dignitaries and I do want to mention them Congressman Molen, a state

[11:42] senator Josh Becker, assembly member Diane Papin as well as supervisor Lisa Goshe. They were here

[11:49] and presented Sam Trance with Proclamation celebrating our 50th anniversary, so I want

[11:57] to thank everyone who attended, but I really want to take this time to especially thank

[12:01] I would say Emily, Beach, and her team, the communication team, especially Tasha Bathalamu

[12:07] and Sarah Lopez.

[12:09] They have been planning this event for I would say for a good part of last year and culminated

[12:16] in the wonderful community event that we had this past Saturday.

[12:22] We had a lot of members of the public who were out here.

[12:25] I know that we were also competing with a number of events that were happening around

[12:29] the Bay Area, but still a really great turn out.

[12:34] And I just want to thank not just the names I mentioned, Emily, Tasha, and Sarah, but the

[12:41] entire staff, a number of them, they came out here bringing families, but as well as

[12:46] volunteering to be our ambassador. So it was just a great event all around. So thank you.

[12:52] The last, I wanted to mention a couple of staffing updates. You have a staffing update in my report,

[13:00] but I think there's some additional ones I also want to share with you. We have now our newest

[13:06] CFO, Chris Andrew Chek, he's sitting right there, he waving his hand. So he replaced Kate Steiner,

[13:13] She left us about end of May and took us a while in terms of recruitment, but he just

[13:20] officially started about a month ago, so I just wanted to welcome him to our executive

[13:28] team.

[13:29] He is the CFO, not only for Sam Trance, but for CalTrain, TA, and the Express Lane, so he's

[13:36] going to be serving as CFO for all four agencies.

[13:38] And then on more of a satir note, I wanted to share with you Jessica Epstein right there.

[13:46] She has notified us for personal reasons.

[13:49] She is going to be leaving the district, so I just wanted to show my, our appreciation

[13:57] for Jessica.

[13:58] She has been a gem to the agency.

[14:01] She has worked here over nine years, close to a decade.

[14:06] I know definitely she was here when we went out to the public with measure W.

[14:11] This is for the district as well as for the TA.

[14:14] As you know, that brought another half-sent sales tax for all sorts of transportation projects in the county.

[14:21] 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.

[14:29] Should the measure pass like what are we going to be investing in?

[14:35] And so I just wanted to show our appreciation.

[14:38] She has been such a huge asset to the district and the TA.

[14:43] And really, we're going to miss her.

[14:45] But she's not, she promised she's not going to go too far away.

[14:48] She's, she's sticking around.

[15:00] 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.

[15:29] every first Thursday of the month, you can always tune in more than happy to have you.

[15:35] All right.

[15:36] Madam Chair, I think it's really deserves a great round of applause.

[15:47] Do you want to say anything?

[15:48] You don't have to.

[15:51] Okay.

[15:51] We'll wait.

[15:52] We'll wait.

[15:53] All right.

[15:54] Thank you for that.

[15:55] Any public comment on the Executive Director's report?

[15:58] There are currently men.

[16:00] Let's circle back one last time with Director Medina and see if we can fix the echo problem.

[16:04] otherwise we can just refer to the packet update.

[16:07] We'll see if there are times in charge.

[16:09] Yes, we hear you loud and clear with no echo.

[16:13] Thank you, Chair. I was going to say the reports are in the packet and before you,

[16:18] and of course, the Chair already mentioned and so did April chain about the 50th anniversary

[16:25] with the beautiful day. It was a pleasant celebration to see those that used to work and made

[16:32] the system what it was, and those that are making the system what it is, and those that

[16:36] will be, I think all of us will be working toward the future. For the JPB report, we went

[16:44] ahead and had our meeting. What we try to do is do one in Santa Clara annually, one in this

[16:49] county of San Francisco, which we did today, and then the rest are held at your location.

[16:55] And that's just so that we try to, shall we say, go to every region and understand and take

[17:01] our transportation methods and modes. I would think that what was some good news was just the

[17:07] ridership numbers and the reaching out trying to identify where we can do better whether it's

[17:13] restrooms or cleanliness and on the ridership numbers they have gone up and that's great but we

[17:18] still have more room. On a side note for me I took barbs from San Bruno to the Civic Center

[17:26] and then locked it to the facility.

[17:29] And I will tell you on part,

[17:30] it just might help make director,

[17:32] Nikolas feel good, it was packed.

[17:35] There was no seats, only standing room

[17:38] and even some folks were a little like,

[17:41] oh, I hope I can get out on this exit.

[17:43] So what it made me think of to sidetrack

[17:46] is, you know, if all those folks,

[17:49] they were on that train today this morning

[17:53] and we're on 101 or somewhere else,

[17:55] What would that cause and what would that do to our system?

[17:58] So it's just a re-indication of seeing the needed resource that we have.

[18:04] And that is it for my report.

[18:06] Okay, thank you very much for that.

[18:08] Moving on then to our program on item 10.

[18:11] 10A is the San Mateo Countywide Transportation Plan Update.

[18:21] Good evening, directors, Patrick Gilster, Director of Planning and Fund Management for the Transportation Authority.

[18:25] I'm joined online by Kaki Chun, the Interim Director of SeaCag, as well, who, since

[18:30] her regards, I wish she could be here in person as well.

[18:33] But she is available if we have any questions for her as well.

[18:37] So tonight, we wanted to give a quick update on the San Mateo County-wide Transportation

[18:41] Plan.

[18:42] It is a joint effort led by SeaCag and the Transportation Authority.

[18:45] I'm the co-project manager with Jeff the cap from SeaCag.

[18:51] So a quick overview.

[18:52] Tonight, we'll be talking about a little bit about what the CTP processing includes, talk

[18:56] about the draft vision and goals and framework for the next CTP. We'll talk about our draft

[19:02] project list for the transportation authority specifically, so the projects that we co-sponsor

[19:06] that will end up in the plan. And talk about what the next draft programs look like for the plan

[19:11] as well. I apologize to many of you, you will hear this twice from us as you will also likely hear

[19:16] this at your city council and board of supervisors meetings as well. So this will be a good intro

[19:21] for you. So the CTP process updates, we are really looking to create a vision for the future

[19:27] of transportation in San Mateo County as we look out toward the next 25 years. This really sets

[19:33] the priorities, the help us guide a lot of our decision making here in the county, both at CCAG

[19:38] and the TA, and trickles down to many of the other plans here across the county from re-evident

[19:44] ZamTrans to what CalTrain does to commute.org and includes all of the county agencies and local

[19:50] jurisdiction partners as part of this process, but really it helps us set the planning and

[19:56] funding process that we look at with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, what we

[20:00] 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.

[20:29] because when we're talking about $250 million plus projects,

[20:33] not every city is going to have a burst of those.

[20:36] So wanting to make sure that this CTP process really

[20:39] includes what the local priorities are for every city.

[20:43] So every council then in this process,

[20:45] when we go back out over the next few months

[20:46] to every city council will be asked to provide

[20:49] their confirmation of are those the right lists of top five projects as well.

[20:53] So you'll all see those as well when we come out to you individually.

[20:56] We'll be taking all that information and then drafting

[20:58] the final plan over the winter and then releasing the final plan in the spring to be ready for

[21:04] plan bay area 2060 when that kicks off. The other part too is that all of the transit agencies are

[21:10] involved in this as well. So we are trying to beef up the transit section. The last CTP was a little

[21:15] bit sparse. So we've been working with Bart and CalTrain Weta and Sam Trance obviously here in the

[21:21] building to make sure that their projects and operating costs are also represented in this as well

[21:25] knowing how big transit is a part of our ecosystem here in San Mateo County.

[21:32] So in round one, like I mentioned, we talked to 23 different city transportation and

[21:36] countywide committees. We also reviewed 15 countywide outreach efforts from other plans

[21:42] that occurred in the last few years as well. So think of all our multimodal strategies,

[21:47] re-imagined Sam Trans, all those things that had large-scale investments in community outreach

[21:51] that we could summarize into this plan as takeaways, we then went out to six

[21:55] different CBOs to interview them on what their needs are across the county and

[21:58] each region in the county and then had a continuously accessible website as

[22:02] well. And so in that last phase we met, like I mentioned, we talked about validating

[22:06] travel trends, what the existing conditions is like, talked about what needs and

[22:10] challenges are people see in the county and then talked about what the next

[22:14] transportation priorities should be like to help guide what the CTP goals will be.

[22:18] So a lot of what we heard from community members was really a need for safety and comfort improvements

[22:25] across the county, more frequent transit service, a bigger focus on Highway 1 and El Camino

[22:30] Rial across the county, closing network gaps in the system, better coastal access east

[22:36] west, some smaller things we heard, EVs, e-bikes really celebrating the success of caltrain

[22:43] electrification, which was great, even more part in caltrain connections, so first last

[22:48] last mile connections and more attention to non-work trips.

[22:51] So the last plan was very commute-focused and we want to make sure this is focused

[22:54] on mobility for all types of trip purposes in this update.

[22:59] So today I'm going to just preface what before we jump into the next few slides.

[23:04] We're going to be looking at do the vision and goals resonate with you and is there anything

[23:08] we should be thinking about changing?

[23:10] Are these the right, I guess I should say, county-wide significant projects for us here at

[23:14] transportation authority on our project list and then for programs does the mix of county-wide

[23:19] programs address key transportation concerns that you all see when we're looking out towards 2050.

[23:24] And then are we missing anything that you would like to see in the next plan update as well?

[23:29] So for the vision goals and framework, so the CTP vision is now the San Mateo CTP

[23:35] and visions of county where residents, workers and visitors can travel safely reliably

[23:40] and with convenient choices across all modes,

[23:43] people easily connect to daily needs via streets,

[23:46] trails, transit service, and highways that are resilient

[23:48] and endure for generations.

[23:52] Our updated goals in the last CTP we had,

[23:55] I would say, a more significant number of goals,

[23:57] but we've been trying to narrow those down

[23:59] to very specific transportation goals

[24:01] that we figure we can track a lot easier

[24:05] with different metrics as well.

[24:07] So our four goals for the next CTP we've narrowed down

[24:10] to reduce how much people need to drive every day, enhance resilience and comfort of our streets,

[24:15] trails and transit stops, make streets safer and prevent serious crashes and move people faster

[25:01] 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.

[25:27] So this methodology actually mimics more of the methodology that Sam trans uses currently.

[25:32] So it's a simplified definition that's based on income, race, vehicle ownership, and rental cost burden.

[25:38] And then we also knew this time as part of this definition have two tiers that we're looking at, severity of equity.

[25:45] So by introducing this, we now consider more of the county in the equity-based definition as meeting this as well.

[25:50] So 49% of households are covered as opposed, which is a 21% increase over CTAG's last definition.

[26:00] Yep.

[26:05] How is it that pescadero doesn't fall within either the tier 1 or tier 2 equity regions?

[26:15] I would have to go back and look at the methodology itself. I know we did that, but I can do that for you.

[26:20] I appreciate it. I believe it's because it's so small that the census tract is so big that there's

[26:26] There's some mathematical thing behind it, but I will find a more concrete definition for you.

[26:29] 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.

[26:42] We can definitely look into that.

[26:45] So then we take a look at the draft projects and programs in the next CTP.

[26:49] As I mentioned, the most CTPs across the Bay area in the state,

[26:55] Let's take a look at regionally significant projects, and so that's really anything that

[26:59] meets the following criteria of expanding and reducing capacity, expands rail network

[27:04] or stations, adjust transit service levels, changes the cost of the transportation systems

[27:09] of tolling or transit fares, or really our projects estimated over $250 million.

[27:16] How are most other projects captured?

[27:18] So when we look at the regional transportation plan with MTC, most are considered funding,

[27:22] or programmatic funding categories.

[27:25] So those cover smaller transportation efforts

[27:27] that are not regionally significant.

[27:29] Most local jurisdiction projects will fall

[27:31] within one of those said categories.

[27:33] So you show consistency with the category,

[27:35] but you're not necessarily a listed project.

[27:38] And in general, those categories include things like

[27:39] active transportation, intelligent transportation systems,

[27:43] great separations, or roadway operations.

[27:45] So I think if a singular, complete streets project

[27:49] came through that was about a $25 million project,

[27:51] they would not be listed necessarily in the county-wide transportation plan, but we would say it

[27:57] is consistent with the programmatic funding category for active transportation in that instance.

[28:04] So why are we generating a list? So how will this inform the CTP? Like I mentioned, we're asking

[28:10] every city to identify their top five or so local transportation priorities. That will help us better

[28:16] understand from sea kegs and the TA's level about what types of projects our local jurisdictions are

[28:22] interested in and how can we look at providing additional support for them over the next life of

[28:27] the CTP to get those into our different funding programs and help them achieve their visions as well.

[28:32] So continue to use things like our technical assistance program to move those forward.

[28:37] And look at also helping the to position other projects for other regional and state funding sources.

[28:42] As I mentioned, this list is a list that we will be using for Plan Bay Area 2060.

[28:47] The CTP, I would think of as the under constrained list of those projects, MTC will give us a constrained

[28:55] amount of funding for the next regional transportation plan for Plan Bay Area 2060, and then

[29:00] will be financially constraining that list later half of next year or following the CTP development

[29:07] once MTC shares those targets.

[29:12] So hopefully many of these look familiar.

[29:13] So we take a look here at the SMCTA-sponsored projects.

[29:18] We currently have sponsors, the 101 Managed Lanes North of I-380 project that is a regionally

[29:24] significant project.

[29:25] The U.S. 101-82 Direct Connectors project also co-sponsored with C-Cag and potentially

[29:32] upcoming regionally significant projects is the El Camino Real Multimodal Improvements project,

[29:37] which we're looking at co-sponsoring with CMTRANS starting in 2027 in the highway program

[29:43] as well, based on feedback we've heard from this board.

[29:48] And then our draft CTP initiatives, so currently we have a Safe Routes to School program,

[30:00] 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.

[30:30] 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.

[30:44] 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.

[30:53] And then programs, do those mix of programs, address your key transportation concerns between

[30:58] now and 2050.

[31:00] And are we missing anything that you're not seeing in this update?

[31:04] And with that, it will pass it back to you, Madam Chair.

[31:06] Thank you.

[31:07] Right.

[31:08] Thank you for the presentation.

[31:09] Staff has asked us for feedback on these bullet points.

[31:13] Before we address that, does anyone have any questions for staff at this point?

[31:18] No questions?

[31:20] Okay.

[31:20] How about any public comment on this item?

[31:22] there are no public comments okay bring it back to staff for feedback if you'd

[31:26] like to provide anything to staff I think we've got one comment that during

[31:33] the presentation you said you'd go ahead and look into yep for the equity

[31:36] definition yeah I mean just following up on that so pesca dera is some of our most

[31:46] 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.

[31:59] 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.

[32:16] to find out what it would be like to try to get around that portion of the county.

[32:21] So I really think, I know it's going to end up if it's adjusted to actual residential land use.

[32:29] That it'll end up being in that area and it's an area that we need to give.

[32:33] We certainly need to give attention to.

[32:39] The other thing that kind of jumped out at me is to what extent we are looking at,

[32:46] within our definitions of equity, or how are we capturing senior populations who are

[32:52] transportation challenged?

[32:55] And so I don't know how that's in there, but I do know that in my mid-coast, I have

[33:00] a lot of seniors who are transportation challenged, and they're not showing up in this map.

[33:05] So I don't know, I mean, they might have money.

[33:08] I don't know what the issue is, why they're not, but I would just just maybe that be looked

[33:12] up to.

[33:13] Thank you.

[33:17] Anyone else have any comments or feedback for staff?

[33:20] This was, well, first, I should have, this was a question.

[33:25] Since you're redefining the equity definition, is there a written definition of what that is?

[33:33] I see the tiers, I understand that, I understand what the other inputs that go into creating it.

[33:40] But do we actually have a definition of written wise,

[33:45] or this is a simplified definition?

[33:47] So what is, what is the definition is referring mainly

[33:50] to the methodology of how we're defining it

[33:52] in terms of the spatial equity criteria.

[33:55] So in most of our funding sources,

[33:57] or most of our funding applications,

[33:58] we have two questions.

[34:00] One is, are you located in a defined equity area

[34:03] in the county or equity zone?

[34:05] So that's the spatial ask,

[34:07] and that's what this layer is meant to represent.

[34:08] and then we also ask normally a qualitative question.

[34:11] Are you, is your project serving any other area

[34:14] or affordable housing, seniors, youth like that,

[34:18] that you can answer more qualitatively?

[34:20] That with the understanding that not everything

[34:23] is gonna show up in this definition,

[34:24] but that that would be a great way.

[34:26] If for some reason this doesn't capture that,

[34:28] but you are serving a senior center

[34:31] or a community that is smaller,

[34:32] that might not meet that definition,

[34:34] that there's still ways we can give points for that

[34:36] in our funding criteria.

[34:39] So if the simplified definition is based on income raise,

[34:43] vehicle ownership and rental cost burden,

[34:45] there must be benchmarks below,

[34:49] which then you qualify, is that correct?

[34:52] I mean, what trips the equity moniker?

[35:00] 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.

[35:30] But quite an understanding, what puts you into inequity, you know, is it that you have, you know, 50% whatever people

[35:38] of color or, you know, 75% of your folks are recently arrived immigrants or something,

[35:42] just what are those factors?

[35:45] I don't know those off the top of my head.

[35:47] They're all those type of thresholds for each one of those categories.

[35:50] So I'd have to look that up in the technical analysis and we can provide that.

[35:54] Yeah, I would, I certainly would like to see it and I think, I don't know if my board members,

[35:57] There's other board members would, but yeah, thanks.

[36:03] 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.

[36:21] I mean, right, that corridor for your people.

[36:23] I mean, a real multimodal improvement is the grandpa of our initiative.

[36:26] That is.

[36:27] Okay.

[36:27] We've renamed it.

[36:31] Well, there's the initiative in the project versus what the actual name of the roadway.

[36:36] So that is capture here.

[36:37] Yes.

[36:37] That is what that is intended to capture.

[36:39] And then is re-imagined Dunbarton, considered, I know we are doing that right now, but is

[36:50] that considered a regionally significant project

[36:54] that would be an SMCTA sponsored project

[36:58] or in the future plan?

[37:03] It is something we fund

[37:05] and it would be considered a regionally significant project

[37:07] in the CTP.

[37:09] It would be up to this body

[37:10] and I request from Sam Trans

[37:12] if there was a desire to have our help

[37:14] co-sponsoring that.

[37:17] So I only bring it up

[37:18] because it affects actually four cities.

[37:21] I mean, I think Atherton, Ben Lopark.

[37:24] You should see it on your city list when it comes to you.

[37:27] So every city will also see,

[37:29] every city that like El Camino passes through,

[37:31] you will see El Camino on your list too,

[37:32] even though it's a Sam Trion sponsored project,

[37:35] it's still to your point significant

[37:37] in each of those cities as well.

[37:39] So is there any reason we would not want to include it

[37:43] on this sponsored project list?

[37:45] I mean, since it does require the coordination between those four cities,

[37:49] remote cities, but I don't accept that.

[37:51] That is up to this body, if you would like to talk to famed trans about

[37:55] co-sponsoring that project.

[37:57] So this is really about which projects that the transportation authority is currently

[38:01] co-sponsoring or would like to co-sponsor, as well as our listed projects.

[38:05] Not necessarily our projects that we are funding partners on.

[38:09] So

[38:13] 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.

[38:31] I'm just saying it is a regional significance.

[38:35] That would be an item that we'd have to bring back to this body later than is that correct.

[38:41] We normally co-sponsored projects with requests from other agencies, and don't always necessarily put ourselves ahead of

[38:50] 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.

[38:59] And we have funded it through the design phase, I believe, through the Regional Transit Connections program for that project.

[39:06] So I would defer to our executive director if there was anything different from Sam

[39:10] 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

[39:22] 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

[39:31] appropriate funding for some of those projects.

[39:34] Probably going to go beyond the Dunbarton Project, you know, for example,

[39:38] although I do see there's some El Camino real, that's also a

[39:42] co-sponsor project with the TA.

[39:45] And so we're going to be looking at those or if we're looking to do any major

[39:50] other capital investments, for example, something at our bases that we also might

[39:55] like to include it in the plan.

[39:57] And those are the things that ass-

[40:00] 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.

[40:29] 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

[40:46] What was the equity definitions, but I do appreciate the

[40:52] the definition being expanded a bit because I think there are different ways that it can

[41:00] look, for example, you know, language barriers or if can we pull back that slide? Thank

[41:13] you.

[41:18] Yeah, like the rental cost burden so while someone may be not super low income but let's

[41:30] say they're paying well over 50% of their income to rent that's still I think worthy

[41:38] of, I think they're still worthy of including because they're still living on a type budget

[41:45] in that in that situation.

[41:49] Yeah, so I appreciated that.

[41:51] And can we click through to some of the projects as well?

[41:59] Thank you.

[42:02] Yeah, I think the 101, 92, 1 is definitely very important.

[42:10] And I don't know how I feel about the,

[42:18] It's funny because I just volunteer to be on the express lane, JPA, but I don't know

[42:24] I feel about the managed lanes north of I-380.

[42:31] So that one is one that I think we should talk about a little bit more.

[42:38] It will add that being listed in this plan does not decide for this body whether or not

[42:42] we continue to fund it. I know that is still a question that will come back to this body as well,

[42:47] probably early next year following the environmental phase. It does not commit us. It just makes us

[42:52] eligible for regional funds. Thank you. And then the, you mentioned MTC and I'm guessing

[43:03] I'm on MTC, but it hasn't even been a full year yet. And so I'm still learning.

[43:10] And is this set, is this third one here part of that, or is all of these part of that?

[43:19] All of these will end up in the regional transportation plan if they're listed regionally

[43:24] significant projects for us.

[43:26] Unless for some reason there is a reason MTC dollar value requires us to constrain the list

[43:31] in a way that we have to eliminate a listed regionally significant project.

[43:35] That doesn't mean we still couldn't pursue it.

[43:37] Even if it's not in the RTP, it would just be a little bit more difficult.

[43:43] Okay. And then something I wanted to share, and I'm not totally sure if this is the appropriate time or place.

[43:52] But as we're talking about this generally, I'm wondering if there's a place somewhere here in this conversation to talk about

[44:03] So, where we have funding for, where

[44:15] and whether we have any funding for public art and

[44:22] transit because when I went to the impact conference in Toronto that I saw April at, I took

[44:33] a couple of sessions that used where I learned about how the use of transit dollars to

[44:43] a improved safety for bike-ped was really effective and impactful, and be the

[45:00] It was really beautifully done and just incredibly vibrant and inspirational. And not just for the sake of being beautiful and inspirational, but I

[45:22] can't even really put it into words. But one of the speakers talked about it being like the budget dust that they used.

[45:32] to do that with, and I was like, do we have some budget

[45:39] dust?

[45:41] Maybe I can beg.

[45:44] I don't know you wanted to take a crack, or you want me to?

[45:48] Those type of station upgrades could be eligible under the regional transit connections

[45:51] program.

[45:52] For station, we have a capital program as part of that.

[45:56] I'm not sure if SamTrans or Celterine has those kind of programs to apply for, but.

[46:01] So, I mean, if we're talking about whether or not we need to include those types of projects to be included in here,

[46:06] I don't think we need to because they're kind of under a programmatic category.

[46:11] I think we may have some kind of transportation enhancements or something like that if we like to include such a category,

[46:18] but that's a catch-off or that types of projects that we wanted to pursue.

[46:23] And they can be pursued more in an individual level as each transit agency or

[46:29] each maybe transportation organization want to pursue some of those projects to

[46:34] do those things. You know as Patrick said even the TA as we do these call for

[46:39] projects that we're just talking about there's a certain component that we

[46:42] wanted to pursue included in the project then that just need to be designed into

[46:47] it. It doesn't need to be specifically called out in the plan itself to get

[46:51] that? Okay.

[46:54] Any other feedback for staff at this point? Yes, please. Thank you so much, Chair.

[47:00] For the equity definitions on that plan with the different layers of purple, is there a more

[47:07] granular plan that you could see?

[47:11] I believe we do have an interactive map version of that, too.

[47:15] So CKAC has already been using this in their current funding that just went out for the OBAG

[47:20] recommendations, you know, TDA article three. Yeah, I realize that. And there's been some challenges

[47:25] with that too. And so it will be nice to be able to get in there and look at it a little bit

[47:31] more granular wise. Where are some of the areas that is more needed than others? If this body would

[47:37] like, there is a technical memorandum on that and the web link, we'd be happy to send that to you all

[47:42] as well. Yep. Be nice to have. Great. Yes, please. Thank you, teacher. I was interested in terms of

[47:49] the draft, CTP initiatives, especially their mergers initiatives, especially around e-bikes

[47:54] in autonomous vehicles, because we're not really driving that conversation in a lot of

[47:59] ways.

[47:59] It's really the states.

[47:59] I'm just kind of understanding how, I guess we're just going to take, like I know that

[48:04] some of you have happened just past a bill in terms of just doing pilot program with e-bikes.

[48:09] And so I'm trying to see how we get involved in that conversation.

[48:13] So maybe you can just expand a little bit more about that.

[48:15] This is more on sea kegs side, more helping to coordinate countywide policy.

[48:21] We tend to help more on countywide capital projects on our end.

[48:26] But they are currently undertaking a grant from the federal government that includes looking

[48:32] at different e-bike policies and things that cities could adopt as well.

[48:36] And then really looking at things like bike share, so sea keg does have like a bike share

[48:41] your micromobility feasibility study and how to expand that program across the county too.

[48:45] So it's just looking at those types of different opportunities.

[48:48] I appreciate that because I think every city is having their own conversation about e-bikes and

[48:53] what policies or ordinance we can do.

[48:55] So I think it's great there were somewhat kind of coordinated with the state so I appreciate that.

[49:00] I also like the idea of the bike sharing programs.

[49:04] I know that my colleagues, especially my colleague in Millbury has a very successful bike sharing program.

[49:09] I would love to see that, how that can be shared up and down San Mateo County.

[49:13] Because I was going to a little jealous when I would see my colleagues in the peninsula where they were able to have that.

[49:19] I'm like, I can't have that in South San Francisco.

[49:21] I would love to see the expanded, how we have that conversation.

[49:30] Thank you.

[49:31] All right, great, thank you.

[49:32] Yes, please go ahead.

[49:34] Thank you.

[49:35] Just getting back to going back to the sponsored projects.

[49:42] Director Corso did mention U.S. 101 managed lanes north I-380.

[49:50] We at this point are engaged in the environmental kind of analysis on that.

[49:54] Correct.

[49:55] Right.

[49:55] So our ability or yeah our ability

[50:00] 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.

[50:29] We need as a body that we would move forward with the environmental doc and then perhaps other

[50:37] members on this board would decide whether we want to engage or we'd all decide whether

[50:42] we want to engage in the next step.

[50:43] So I assume that's still the case, it's the environmental piece that we're working on here

[50:48] that we're cosmonauts.

[50:49] That is correct.

[50:50] This body requested to finish the environmental analysis, so we had the final analysis to

[50:54] share and so that would be completed. And then we had programmed the design phase of the project,

[51:00] but we did not allocate that when we put a condition on it that we would bring the results back to

[51:04] this body and that you all would be able to decide whether or not we would allocate those funds or

[51:09] stop the project at that time from the Transportation Authority side. Great. I appreciate those fine

[51:14] details. Thank you. No problem. So through the chair, we do have Kackie Chen on my, she had raised

[51:20] her hand, so I believe she wants to offer some comments if you'd like to entertain us.

[51:30] Hi, Jackie.

[51:31] Oh, sorry.

[51:31] Thank you, Chair.

[51:32] And good evening, everyone.

[51:34] Jackie Chong, interim executive director for C-CAC.

[51:37] I'm sorry that I couldn't be there with you in person today.

[51:40] I just wanted to expand a little bit more on what Patrick shared earlier about the e-bike

[51:45] safety work that we are currently doing as C-CAC.

[51:49] Certainly, it is a hot topic that many of our local member agencies are in.

[51:54] extremely interested in and would member patents bill

[51:58] being signed into law yesterday.

[52:00] So it's a very current topic.

[52:03] On e-bite safety, I just want to add that, yes,

[52:07] CECC received a grant to do safety work in this area

[52:12] and we're currently developing a model ordinance template

[52:16] that could be shared with member agencies to model after

[52:21] and it's something that local jurisdictions can consider and tailor to their community.

[52:27] Mainly the template will talk about the different e-bike classes, facility type,

[52:32] what are some of the enforcement or citation provision and how that meet with the California vehicle code.

[52:39] And we also see as an opportunity for greater consistency across jurisdictions.

[52:45] The other thing that we are including as part of that work,

[52:48] it's that we're developing an e-bike decision tool, what that does is depending on the

[52:56] physical environment and the facility type, the tool will be able to identify like which kind

[53:03] of e-bike rules or safety treatments or counter measures are appropriate for that facility.

[53:10] So all those work are in development and we'll be sharing the we've been giving our

[53:16] safety task for folks that heads up and those resources will become available in the next few months.

[53:23] So, just wanted to share a little bit additional detail on that.

[53:27] And in terms of bike share expansion in response to the director's comment,

[53:34] we currently have it in the city of Daily City in partnership with MTC

[53:41] see and have been really advocating for the expansion in those area.

[53:47] So looking forward to working with others on that.

[53:51] Last I understand we are seeing about 700 trips a month at the daily city part station.

[53:58] So I think it shows promise, but certainly that program requires a bit of subsidy to get it going.

[54:05] So that's all I wanted to share.

[54:07] Thank you.

[54:08] Thank you very much.

[54:09] That's very helpful.

[54:11] All right.

[54:11] We've taken public comment already unless anyone else has any other comments.

[54:15] I don't have any that my colleagues haven't already touched upon.

[54:18] I'm looking at staff.

[54:19] Do you think you have enough feedback to move forward?

[54:22] That is great feedback.

[54:22] Thank you.

[54:23] Great.

[54:23] Well, thank you very much again.

[54:25] Thank you for the presentation and the great discussion.

[54:28] Moving on to item 10B.

[54:31] Programming and allocating highway program funds for three highway program special

[54:35] Social Circumstance Request for additional funding and approval of a special circumstance

[55:00] Approval of a special circumstance request for a fund swap. You're back. I'm back. Patrick

[55:05] Elser, Director of Planning and Fund Management. So again, tonight we have three highway

[55:10] program special requests, so we're bringing those as one item, and one unique one for a

[55:14] fund swap that I'll walk through as well. So as a reminder, we talked a little bit last

[55:19] time actually, but we don't tend to bring special circumstance requests very often.

[55:28] So as

[55:29] to advance funding outside of competitive calls

[55:31] for projects under two criterion urgency.

[55:34] So whether or not we will lose funding,

[55:36] so lose grant opportunities if it doesn't have enough funding,

[55:39] or there are potential future impacts

[55:41] to the measure A and W program.

[55:43] Will we be responsible for more money

[55:44] if we also are unable to deliver something now?

[55:48] And then as a reminder, in February of this year,

[55:50] the board adopted a policy for requests

[55:53] for additional funds that we did as part

[55:55] of the great separation policy,

[55:58] but we ended up applying it to all programs to treat all the programs equally with this.

[56:02] So 50% of a cost increase may be requested if there are delays, if the addition is due

[56:09] to delays, project management, redesign or rework, and then staff can consider requests for

[56:16] a standard use of the match, or 10% match, if the additional funds and the cost increase

[56:22] are due to any unforeseen or permitting or standard requirements that change during

[56:26] that process. So something like if CalTrans changes their standards in the middle of the process

[56:30] and we're now forced to update design standards that weren't understood at the time in order to

[56:34] approve the project.

[56:37] So tonight we have one new request and two additional fund requests.

[56:44] So the City of Redwood City in conjunction with SamTrans and CalTrans is completing a safety project

[56:51] on El Camino Rial. So the request is from Redwood City in SamTrans to add funds to the

[56:57] CalTrans contract to have CalTrans deliver bus boarding islands as part of their safety project.

[57:03] So, SamTrans was successful in securing a grant through MTC through the bus aid program,

[57:10] but we still have a small funding shortfall as well. And so with all the other matching funds

[57:16] from CalTrans and from SamTrans, they have 70% of the funds secured, so they are looking for 2.3 million.

[57:22] And this is under the urgency clause. We are proposing the Special Circumstance

[57:26] grants criteria be met because it was supposed to the MTC funding at risk if we aren't able

[57:31] to close the funding gap and get that into CalTrans process to deliver that work.

[57:37] The second special request is from East Pello Alto as part of the University Avenue Interchange

[57:44] and Pedestrian Overcrossing Project and it is an additional funds request.

[57:47] It meets the 50% match criterion looking for an additional $125,000 to work to close out

[57:54] the effort and we have put this under the impact to measure A and W programs because if they're

[57:59] further delays to closing out the project, it will further increase the ultimate cost.

[58:05] And then for Colma, they are currently working on the El Camino Real Multimodal Improvements

[58:09] project and they are looking for additional funds request to the PA and ED phase that is currently

[58:15] underway.

[58:17] In this, it's similarly a 50% request with $135,000 request to the TA board and similarly

[58:23] meets the impact to measure A&W programs criterion as well as the cost increase could further

[58:28] delay the project.

[58:32] So in total, we have about $2.5 million or $2.6 million in additional or new special

[58:37] circumstance requests.

[58:40] And then there is a more unique special circumstance fun swap that we are covering tonight too from

[58:46] the town of Colma for the El Camino Real Multimodal Project.

[58:50] So the project is currently at risk of losing $4.64 million in MTC-O-Bag Cycle 3 funds

[58:57] that were awarded from CCAG for construction due to delays in the current PA and AD phase.

[59:03] That we were just discussing in the last slide.

[59:06] We have been working diligently CCAG, the town of Kolma and the TA, with MTC to identify

[59:11] a path forward so we don't lose that $4.64 million on the project, since that is a sizable

[59:15] amount of money.

[59:17] So to meet the OVAG requirements, MTC will allow us to do a fun swap from construction

[59:22] to design if this body approves reallocating our design award portion of our previous design

[59:28] award from the last highway cycle to construction.

[59:31] So this would then both meet special circumstances, both special circumstance requests that we are

[59:36] potentially losing funding if we don't meet the current grant funding.

[59:40] And then that 4.6 million would be something we may have to fill in the future and impact

[59:44] the measure A and W programs as well. So the town will lose a sizable amount of overall match toward

[1:00:00] 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.

[1:00:27] 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.

[1:00:38] 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.

[1:00:58] use as well to help Colma not lose the funding.

[1:01:03] And with that, I have representatives from the town of Colma and East Palo Alto here,

[1:01:07] and I believe Redwood City is online.

[1:01:09] All right.

[1:01:11] Thank you very much.

[1:01:12] Are there any questions for staff this time regarding their presentation or anything in the

[1:01:18] staff report?

[1:01:20] Director Fung?

[1:01:21] Oh, sorry.

[1:01:22] Thank you.

[1:01:22] You're safe from me.

[1:01:23] All right.

[1:01:24] How about any public comment on this item?

[1:01:26] There are no public comments.

[1:01:27] Oh.

[1:01:27] So,

[1:01:37] Tuesday night, the CAC actually recommended that you pass this, but not only that, I think

[1:01:45] it was unanimous.

[1:01:46] I don't remember anybody voting against or abstaining.

[1:01:49] There's some great projects on here I can outline of one of them that I really like.

[1:01:53] The Colma bike lanes, I thought were great.

[1:01:56] And they're going to fit in with South San Francisco's bike lanes.

[1:01:59] And there's a big project that's proposed for that corner there on Colma, and these bike

[1:02:04] the claims will give them advantage of the protected by claims.

[1:02:07] Thank you.

[1:02:08] Thank you.

[1:02:10] Any other public comment at this time?

[1:02:12] There are none.

[1:02:14] Right.

[1:02:15] Yes.

[1:02:15] Director Chair.

[1:02:16] A question.

[1:02:17] So to understand the matching funds proposed for the request column because Redwood City's

[1:02:24] project is a new project, we are taking all of the money that they have secured outside

[1:02:31] of our funds and saying that is more than the 50% match.

[1:02:36] Correct.

[1:02:37] Okay, so it's a slightly different striped animal than the other two.

[1:02:42] That is correct.

[1:02:42] Okay.

[1:02:43] I guess I understand.

[1:02:44] Thank you.

[1:02:47] All right.

[1:02:48] Any comments or would anyone like to offer motion?

[1:02:55] I'll go ahead and just make the comment that I think staff's recommendations.

[1:02:59] I support them.

[1:03:01] I think they make sense.

[1:03:01] and I appreciate the cities also doing what they can to help securing funding for these projects.

[1:03:10] And I think the special category also makes sense, so I can support the recommendation.

[1:03:19] Did you make a motion?

[1:03:20] I did not.

[1:03:21] I'll make the motion to approve.

[1:03:23] And I did want to say, we all participated in putting these guidelines together.

[1:03:28] They have always slipped my mind and I'm so glad to bring them up.

[1:03:32] 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.

[1:03:40] So I think this is important, it's transparent.

[1:03:43] And with your help and the help of staff, we've been able to put these guidelines together.

[1:03:47] So thank you.

[1:03:50] Is that a motion?

[1:03:51] Looking for a second?

[1:03:53] Second.

[1:03:57] Oh, roll call please.

[1:03:58] Director Corzo.

[1:04:00] Yes.

[1:04:00] Director Fong.

[1:04:01] Hi.

[1:04:01] Director Medina has stepped away.

[1:04:03] Director Miller.

[1:04:05] 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.

[1:04:21] Make it good. Your last one Jessica.

[1:04:38] Your bike is not all there we go. Green.

[1:04:43] They worked for a whopping two days and went departed for the midterms on September 16th.

[1:04:50] The senate also returned on the 14th of September

[1:04:52] and will be leaving on October 7th.

[1:04:55] Both chambers are expected to return November 9th

[1:04:58] after the election.

[1:05:00] 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.

[1:05:16] 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.

[1:05:28] Obviously, this is a gubernatorial election, so there's a lot of right now, wait and

[1:05:33] see what things will be like next year with a new governor.

[1:05:37] The November 3rd general election beyond the governor, we have several local races, Assembly

[1:05:42] Member Mark Burman, Catherine Stephanie, and Diane Papin are in what I would call relatively

[1:05:47] non-competitive races.

[1:05:49] Senator Scott Weiner is running for Congress, that is a competitive race.

[1:05:53] should he win his race, his seat will be filled with a special election.

[1:05:59] The state legislature will convene the 27-28 legislative session on December 7th for

[1:06:05] swearing in of members.

[1:06:07] And then in terms of bills, you're going to get a much more robust overview of what happens

[1:06:12] over the year at a future meeting.

[1:06:14] I'm also very excited to say that it's looking like at your January meeting,

[1:06:18] both your state and federal lobbyists will be here in person.

[1:06:21] And it has been a pre-pandemic since we actually saw our federal lobbyists in person.

[1:06:26] He's very tall apparently, I've never actually met him in person.

[1:06:30] There's been a lot of time on the phone with the man.

[1:06:32] One bill of note, AB 2160 Wix, Active Transportation Program Guidelines side, the governor, it's a nice bill.

[1:06:42] And it expands ATP to allow funding for projects that include access to transit and school bus stops.

[1:06:50] So that's a nice expansion of that program.

[1:06:54] If that, I'm happy to answer questions on the legislative side.

[1:07:00] Any questions at this time?

[1:07:03] Well, then I would like to say it has been a true pleasure and honor to be in this role.

[1:07:08] As April said, I've been here for nine years and I predate most of those TA staff folks back there.

[1:07:16] 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.

[1:07:43] So, that has been great to be part of that transformation and I'm not going far.

[1:07:49] I have some significant plans to deal with a really ugly passion for my garden, my son's

[1:07:55] bar mitzvah's next month, so, and then I'm not going far, I'm taking a beat, and then we'll

[1:08:02] figure out what's next.

[1:08:03] But thank you.

[1:08:04] This has been a truly wonderful experience.

[1:08:07] Thank you very much.

[1:08:09] Thank you so much for your hard work and your dedication.

[1:08:12] 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.

[1:08:20] Thank you.

[1:08:21] All right, then we will move on.

[1:08:23] Oh, we should just let's just check in real quick on public comment for the legislative update, anything?

[1:08:29] From the other end.

[1:08:30] All right, then we will move on to item 12, request from the authority.

[1:08:33] Yeah, I just, I did want to say something, I just didn't have questions.

[1:08:37] Oh, sure, please.

[1:08:38] Thank you.

[1:08:39] I just wanted to say that I am grateful for all of the many updates that we've

[1:08:53] got in all of the times that we have grilled you with questions and you've

[1:09:09] always been easy, but you've helped us navigate some complicated conversations and complicated

[1:09:20] topics. Thank you for all of your work. I think these past four years I've learned a lot

[1:09:28] from you and a lot from all of the team here, but I'm sure that you have seen a lot these

[1:09:36] past nine years and that you have mentored and trained and shared your

[1:10:00] Anywhere for nine years.

[1:10:03] 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.

[1:10:29] to like old age and that it's really good for you so keep gardening, you'll live longer.

[1:10:39] So congratulations on taking time for yourself and enjoy your kids' farm itswa and wish you the best.

[1:10:50] All right, thank you.

[1:10:51] For move on, any other comments on this item?

[1:10:55] All right.

[1:10:56] Thank you. Moving on then to item 12 requests from the authority. There is nothing under this item on the agenda at this time.

[1:11:05] Written communication to the authority. That's item 13 and that's also in our packet.

[1:11:11] 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.

[1:11:22] 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.

[1:11:33] Yes.

[1:11:33] Thank you.

[1:11:34] We have on the agenda tonight a closed session.

[1:11:38] It is a real property closed session.

[1:11:40] It pertains to property located in the city of San Mateo at 2777 South El Camino Real.

[1:11:48] I do not anticipate that we will have any reportable action so we might consider a

[1:11:55] journey in our meeting to the close

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