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Well,

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welcome to smart regular meeting, regular board of directors.

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Members meeting for August 19th, 2026. Welcome everyone. I just have to say I like the more the closer

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set up of the room, making better use of the room. And we should do it like this all the time.

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And the barn door is nice also.

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Yeah.

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This is what happens when you leave the barn door open.

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All right.

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Tyrene, we're going to start with a roll call.

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Thank you, Chair.

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Director Catertomson.

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Here.

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Director Colin.

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President, Director Fleming, Director Garboreno, Director Jacobs, Absent, Director Kelly,

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Absent, Director Luke,

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Bergen, Director Par, Director Paulson, Director Rabbit, Director Vice Chair Sackett, Chair Corsi,

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and can I go back to Director Kelly.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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Item number two is approval of the July 15th minutes.

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Any questions or comments from board members on the minutes from last month?

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Not seeing anyone will look for a motion to approve.

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Make a motion.

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And we have public comment.

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Public comment on the minutes.

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Anyone else have comments on the minutes?

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Anyone online have comments on the minutes of July 15th.

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Thank you. We have a motion. Can we get a second.

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Second. All right. All in favor. See, I, I, I, any opposed. Stentions.

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All right. That, that causes you to anonymously. Did you have an abstention?

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Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry.

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Director's Fleming, Gavrino, and

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Awesome.

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We'll take a minute for any board member announcements.

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Anyone have anything to share

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to share with the board in the public?

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I just came from

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as some sort of educational

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on how to put screws into some

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on spine at marine general function.

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And the table, the light-hearted table

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conversation was how much everyone

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really enjoyed writing the train.

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And so that was lighthearted while you were avoiding this stuff on the screen.

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Good.

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Nice to be a good diversion.

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Director Keter Thompson.

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This morning I was out on Highway 37.

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Just supporting starting to move forward with work on Highway 37.

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So it's exciting.

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Especially if you take that route a lot, which I do.

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Director Kelly.

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Last month, I had the opportunity as the chair of the STEM Accounting Transportation and Climate Authority to attend a

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immunity and elected official gathering at the Corona Road and Petalumin North Station with some of my colleagues and staff.

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And we had the opportunity to meet with Congressman Thompson and city representatives from the city Paluma.

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It was mind-blowing to see the amount of construction homes and otherwise happening in around the northern pedolumistation and then also really shocking to see the road conditions that pedestrians and bicycles have to take, you know, their lives in their hands to cross over the 101 there to get to downtown pedoluma and everything that happens in pedoluma on the west side of the freeway.

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And so, SETA and our partners and also representatives of Taltrans and the City and all the agencies

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involved were there to really learn about what are the impacts for folks as they're

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trying to cross over the 101.

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But it was really so wonderful to see how much that northern smart station has become a hub

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for that community in Petaluma and the development that's happening around it and how to

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the connections to and from that Smart Station to really make it safe and accessible for folks in

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the community both the business park that's over there as well as getting to the businesses downtown.

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So it was a great opportunity to get to attend and so many of my colleagues and others

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were able to be there and we're hoping to find a solution to get people safely over that over

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past in the coming months and hopefully not years. Thanks. Great. Thank you. Yes, thank you.

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Um, my daughter and I were able to take smart, uh, in the ferry for a trip to see the

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Valkyries last Wednesday.

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It was really, really, really.

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Really fun. But I guess you guys have probably been more interested in hearing that I'm working on getting guys

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are available into the planet MTC.

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But the truth to the city with my daughter was so, but we did

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go to MTC first actually. So before we went to the offerings game and I just wanted to let the

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board know that I'm diligently working with staff there to make progress towards guys are there.

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Great.

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That's see all the sites both MTC and Delqueries.

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And the Delqueries won by the way.

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And the trains were full.

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Both ways as well.

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Oh, very good.

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Other comments.

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Drick to bark.

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That was my purse that one.

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Okay.

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Vice chair.

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Vice chair, sir.

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So Santa Felicity School started school today as I know many of the schools around have.

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And my teenager yesterday, I said,

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what are you going to do with your last day of summer?

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And she said, I'm taking the smart train to spend my tax

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hours in Santa Rosa.

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But sorry, the Santa fell, unfortunately.

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But I'm curious what we'll see in ridership around the school

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starting over the next couple of weeks

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in sort of what it definitely was the teenager activity

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of the summer was to take the train.

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Great. Any other board member announcements?

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If not, we'll move on to the General Manager's report.

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Which comments?

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Thank you. Good afternoon, Chairman Board of Directors.

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I have eight items today.

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Go over contracts with the comments over $100,000.

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I'll provide the ridership report.

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I have some info on our July event service.

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Just a quick update on the Black Point Bridge, and then I want to inform the board

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us some changes that are upcoming with the Cell and Real Paths.

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I have an update on the Pathway status and a little info on the recent app to tech conference,

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and then we will take a moment to recognize our employee of the quarter, and of course,

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it's the end to be happy to answer any questions.

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Starting with contracts and procurement, so over $100,000, I have three items to share.

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the first one is the purchase order with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

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This purchase is for a permit fee for the Hillsburg Extension Project,

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and the award amount was $112,863. Next is a contract with Samuel R. Whitehead BBA

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Precision Wireless Service. This contract is for un-call technical support, inspection, and preventative

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maintenance for SmartSplan mobile radio system, contract amount was $179,520.

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And the third contract was with Hanford Applied Restoration and Conservation.

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This contract is for the Crane Creek Fittal Neck Drainage Repairing Enhancement Project,

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and the contract amount was $130,450 in 50 cents.

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Moving on to ridership, you're going to hear a theme this month, because July was absolutely

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the best month ever for smart in our history. July ridership was 163,276, and for those

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keeping track, this was the fourth straight month of an all-time record. We set the record in April,

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we broke it in May, we broke it again in June, and we broke the record again in July. July ridership was 23

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percent higher than July of 25. And we carried almost 3.2 million passenger miles in July.

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That's a new all-time monthly record in the first time that we've carried over 3 million

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passenger miles in a single month.

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So taking a look at average weekday ridership, the July

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average weekday ridership was 5,568. That was 17% higher than July of 2025. And believe it or not,

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perhaps we're actually doing better this month, August average weekday

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ridership to date is 5,684 and that's 21% higher than August of 25.

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Pathway counts were also at an all-time high July pathway trips were 134,181 and as

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you would expect that is a new all-time monthly record. Not to be outdone July that

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say July, not June, July, connect ridership was 3,378. That was 26% higher than last year and again,

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a new monthly record.

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So a big reason for this success was a special event service. We offered to support

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the Marine County Fair and Windsor Caboom.

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I will start with the Marine County Fair.

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Membership with the Fair Smart Offered Special Service July 1st through the 5th, and over the 5th day period, we supported 11,747 trips to and from Civic Center Station. The extra late night service served 3,758 trips, which was 39% higher than last year.

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We also ran extra event service for the Windsor Caboom fireworks event on July 3rd we supported

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2,099 trips to and from Windsor Station and the extra late night service included 2 train

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trips and served 673 trips which was about 4% higher than last year.

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I'm also very very very very happy to report that the Black Point Bridge emergency repairs

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were completed and the bridge is open for service.

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I also wanted to take a moment to update the board and the public on an upcoming cancellation of the sale in railpass.

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The sale in railpass was originally a launch as a one year pilot project.

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At the request of Golden Gate, the pass is being phased out. Passes can be purchased until October 31st and November 30th will be the last day the passes can be used.

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So moving forward with the Clipper Interagency Transfer Credit, adult fares for trips on smart transferring to the ferry range from $8.15 to $14.15 depending on the number of zones and individual rides.

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One to provide a quick update on our pathway projects, we have some that are close to construction and others that are still in the grant phase.

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I will start with those that are close to construction. First up is Joe Redo to the third street in Santa Rosa.

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We plan to award that contract in January of 27 and we are planning for construction in the summer of 27.

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And a wrench to roll in in Nevada, we are currently awaiting federal environmental clearance

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and an execution of an FDA grant and we are aiming for construction contract in the spring of 2027.

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Santa Rosa North to airport is in the same boat as Santa Ranch.

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We are waiting for that federal environmental clearance and execution of the FDA grant.

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And again, we're aiming for construction contract in the spring of 27.

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in a perfect world we would do these two projects at the same time. We also have other

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pathway projects in the pipeline and we have several new grant applications pending. First

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up is O-Bag 4, S-E-C-E-C-A staff recommendations include three segments. The first would be $800,000

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that would go to the city of Petaloma for Lakeville to water street construction. The segment is

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to sum is the missing 500 feet.

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This is also 2.1 million that would go for East Railroad to PIN Grove.

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Sorry, 2.1 million for the East Railroad to PIN Grove segment.

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This funding is not enough to construct this project, but would allow us to make a significant progress.

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And then there's also a recommendation for $2 million for Cloverdale station area planning and preliminary engineering.

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this project is currently pending eligibility.

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We also submitted an application to TAN for 4.5 million to construct the Smith Ranch to

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Mane Gate segment and we will be submitting an application for RM3 safe routes to transit

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and Bay Trail program. This application is due to MTC on October 5th and we will be requesting

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an additional 10.5 million for the Smith Ranch to Mane Gate construction.

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And as this board knows, our information technology team supports the systems and the communications that are vital to smart daily operations from the systems that control train operations.

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To the office technology systems to the broadcasting of these board meetings and please to recognize information systems manager Brian Crowley.

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We represent its smart at the recent 2026 at the tech conference in St. Louis and serves as chair of the app's information technology subcommittee.

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His involvement keeps smart connected to national conversations on emerging technology, cybersecurity, data, and fair modernization.

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His involvement helps bring back valuable ideas and best practices to smart.

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So thank you Brian and the information technology team for all you do.

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And last but not least today we are recognizing our employees of the second quarter of 2026 as a reminder employees are nominated by

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And the winners receive a certificate and day off with pay. This month's employee of the quarter, we only have one, this month is Cody Sosa. Cody is a vehicle maintenance labor. Unfortunately, he was not able to be here today, but we are thrilled to recognize Cody as our employee of the quarter. Please join me in giving Cody a round of applause.

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And with that, I would be happy to answer any questions.

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Thank you, Eddie.

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Questions on the General Manager's report?

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Director Hooken.

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I just a quick one, Eddie.

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Thank you so much for the update on the pathways.

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I think you covered most all of the key remaining segments.

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Is there anything you could provide on it?

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I believe it would be a Hamilton Parkway to kind of the portion of the Bay Trails.

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That segment and also the segment over Nevada Creek.

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Bill, you want to take that?

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just kind of just a quick little status update of where those. I think those are the private two other remaining segments.

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Bill game on chief engineer was smart.

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In terms of design, we've got those two about a 50% level.

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We're probably going to pursue design build on them.

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But for funding, I would have to defer to the grant side of the house.

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All right. We need to go find money. I get it.

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That's all I need. Thank you.

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Thank you so much, I, you know, have a city council meeting tonight.

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I always love coming back with the, you know, Olympic record breaking that goes on here.

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Two questions.

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One was, you know, I actually lately installed mascots.

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And, you know, I wrote smart this week and I'm writing it.

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For all of the events that we had, like the Morin Fair and just generally,

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are, you know, how is the coordination going with the transit partners or, you know, I'm just curious because it looks very impressive, you know, when I get in there and I'm wondering if there are any glitches or, you know, how that's how that's coordinating with, you know, obviously better ridership.

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Yeah, things are going well. I heard from, from Golden Gate the other day that their ridership is up eight to half percent.

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And so they're seeing a bump in ridership as well.

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So that's always good to see when you're seeing ridership gains, not just on smart, but also on the bus.

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They are planning to make some additional changes.

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I don't want to see the day because I don't know exactly when it is.

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I think sometimes in August they're going to make some just schedule adjustments.

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They've made a lot of changes so that we make in a couple more

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little tweaks to the schedule to better align and things like that.

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But overall so far things have gone really, really well.

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and I look forward to doing more of this in the future.

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Do we get data from them as to what the real good connectors are, where the bottlenecks might be?

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I mean, I feel like we probably have a pretty good network, you now, of end-to-end ridership,

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and that is that becoming something useful to you.

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Yeah, I can share some information with you.

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We gave a presentation last month at the board meeting here.

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And so with there was some there was some transfer data and things like that. And there the big transfer location as you was suspect is that downtown San Rafael.

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But yeah, we we are tracking that data looking at how things work and looking at how much transfers have done up since we put this service out there.

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Thank you.

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Great to have it.

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Yeah, I feel obligated to just thank you for the announcement or the rail in the sale.

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I think it's important to get that out there.

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So thank you for transparency there.

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And as one of three Golden Gate board members here,

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the discontinuation of that pilot program,

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hopefully at some point we can bring that back,

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we look at the overall pricing.

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I know that some people get a benefit.

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If you're closer, it's going to be cheaper without it.

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If you're other way, it's going to be a little bit more.

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But finding that sweet spot.

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And then also, I'm not sure if it's related to you,

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that I know that Clifford 2.0 will provide a lot more flexibility in terms of those pricing

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packages.

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Yes.

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And all these unique one-offs take up bandwidth within the existing system that I know has

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been a problem for years that we're trying to fix.

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So look forward to advocating and cooperating, collaborating with smart, maybe a spring-time

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launch or a summer launch that will drive up some ridership will be a good thing in the future.

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Great.

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I just want to talk about the ping rope, the katati trail.

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That is the one trail that I get the most comments on because it's so dangerous right now.

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So I'm grateful that that's moving forward.

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But the extra 500 feet what it means is it takes people off a very narrow.

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Part of Lakeville to get to Washington Street. So they'll be able to connect with Washington Street from the bridge from downtown to Lakeville. It's so much safer for families and commuters. So this is fantastic.

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Yes, Dr. Kelly.

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I'm at a question. I don't know if you're able to put the slides back up from your report presentation, but the slide regarding the Oback funded projects and segments.

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So, I had a question about, I think it was like the third of the fourth one on the list of projects that are being recommended for funding.

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It was pending if there was feasibility regarding eligibility for the Cloverdale station area planning $2 million.

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And since really apologize since this is probably a CTA item and not a smart item, but do you know, since there's four CTA folks here.

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If that smart stationary planning $2 million is ineligible for O-backed for what does that mean?

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Does that mean that there is capacity in smart kind of carve out there that we can

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submit a different project or does that mean that it's kind of a user who's isn't if it's ineligible

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then that's $2 million that we're unable to secure and then what does eligibility look like?

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I'll let you in into that one.

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Good afternoon, Joanne Parker, Grant's manager.

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There's a couple of answers.

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One is SCTCA, like Tam has been given a budget of O-Bag funds larger than there is available.

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And I don't remember the exact dollar figure, but it's like a couple million more for Sonoma County.

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Then there's available to be programs.

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So, once SSETA approves the list of projects that will go to NTC for final arbitration, in terms of the content of the Cloverdale related item, we're sorting through eligibility based on what work we're planning to tackle, specifically the jurisdictions have to be compliant with the host of NTC requirements, complete streets policy,

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in communities policy a few others and there's some confusion over whether

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Cloverdale is eligible.

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So we're just sorting through that.

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If for some reason we can't do the work in our right of way.

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And then we will be given the opportunity to put it somewhere else inside the

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System if needed.

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Great. Thank you.

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Got the SETA board discretion.

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You know what the timeline looks like for the determination of the eligibility on that.

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It's MTC that's evaluating it.

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I think we're going to have a conversation with some staff people to figure out what pieces

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might fit.

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The SECA board is going to take up the full list of recommendations in September.

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Yes.

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So this is all going to get ironed out before the full list comes back to the STTCA board in less than a month.

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Okay.

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Sure.

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Great.

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We're here to hear first.

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Any other questions on Joe Managers report?

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We'll go to public comment on the General Managers report.

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Anyone in the room?

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Want to comment to the board?

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We'll see anyone.

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Anyone online?

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Oh, sorry.

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come on up

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to I just want to find out if this is the item where General Manager is going

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to talk about the the future plan that he talked about the future direction

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in this.

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is you came in in the middle of his general

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in the middle in the hall of ties.

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There are several items on the agenda that talk about future.

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Is there anything?

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I'm sorry.

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Just a bit.

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It was about the strategic plan.

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So hopefully I can address it here.

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You can do that on our next item.

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Next item.

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Thank you.

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That matters not on the agenda.

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Thank you.

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So anyway, anyone online do you comment on the General Manager's report?

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We have one rent hand raised for public comment. Matthew Hartsell.

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Thank you. This is Matthew Hartsell, Director of Planning and WTB Tim,

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and want to thank the General Manager for the Smart Pathway update and

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express our strong support for the grant applications that were

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That is...

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Pathway from...

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This ranch road to main gate road. That is the key connection on the smart pathway between Santa

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Fell and Nevada, but two largest cities in Marin County. It's been a big gap out there for many

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years and it's great that Smart is now going after that one full speed ahead with two, it

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looks like two different grand applications. Good luck and we're available to support that application

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in whatever way we can. Also, please to see the inclusion of the Lakeville to water street segment

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in downtown Petaluma. That's a key local downtown connection that will help better connect downtown

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Petaluma and the existing Petaluma River and Lynch Creek Trail system in Petaluma to the

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smart pathway and great to see that that segment is being advanced as well. Thank you. Thank you, Matthew.

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Anyone else online?

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All right.

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Okay, no action on that one. We'll move to public comment on matters

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not listed on the agenda as your time?

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I think it's on, yeah, still.

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Well, one thing I'd notice is I want to thank

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the board members, all of them, particularly supervisor

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rabbit, for all his contributions over these many years.

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Really, I have been serving in our church for 22 years

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and they're not just Sundays, there are other days

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things like that, and it takes something. It's a commitment. It's a long-term thing. And there are

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a number of you who are doing that. I'm sure all of you, and I just wanted to say thank you

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for all those times, and they'll be another time when I can say thank you, but I wanted to say that.

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And, and, and, and, and to,

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um, you might be now, are you a assembly man or is that happening yet not yet so, okay, um, great.

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Well, we had a chance to meet with the manager, Eddie Cummins last month, and he was offering his

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he was asking us to consider things and describing some of the things that he anticipated for

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where we would go. And I want to congratulate everyone about the election being part of Francis

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smart and the transportation line use coalition that began this is really wonderful that we

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have going forward with a tremendous result, you know, sending a percentage huge. And it just

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shows how he has changed the perception and with the things that he did. And the board has supported

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him and you work great together. In the future, he has discussed some things, equipment, executive

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personnel. These things are really necessary to improve the effectiveness going forward

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that he's looking forward. That ask you to wrap it up. Okay. So those are those are things

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that we all acknowledge and going to the East as well and maybe we talk about

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Sassum, but maybe it's the capital quarter that we want to connect to and

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there may be different ways to do that. And so I want to acknowledge that and thank

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you all. Thank you. Anyone else in the room want to address the board for items

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not on the agenda? Anyone on mine? We have one hand raised for a public comment,

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Thank you. Good afternoon. Susan Kirk's Petalena. I've spoken in general public comment

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at your meetings for, I think, several meetings and exchange some written information with

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your staff appreciating your board court, Kairin, who seems to be very effective and I really

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appreciate her assistance. I did receive one written response from the chair, chair,

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Unfortunately, that only responded to one question that I had had not the core other issues, and those issues are, whether or not your organization has guardrails established boundaries, in other words, of policy when you own.

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Or to contract to affirm or an individual, bleeding affirm or specifically affirm about political activism in the county and the region.

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And that is because there is a political activist who is very active on social media regarding one of your current board members.

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and other candidates for office who are currently running, and some very pointed social media

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post-criticisms are frequent, and I would like to see your organization have a policy about

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political activism when you have persons doing work for all of Sonoma County, all of Morin County,

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for your organization. And I'd really appreciate it if someone could

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would could address this or point me to the place where the policy exists that I could

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review.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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Anyone else on that?

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At this time, there are no more hands raised for public comment.

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Thank you.

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Move on to our consent calendar which consists of items six A through six D.

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We have any questions

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from the board on any of the consent items?

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All right.

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Just a real quickly on consent.

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Because I know, Council Member Jake, if this is not here,

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but I know we'd probably want to mention,

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6C and just express the appreciation

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between the city of Nevada and Smart.

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This portion of all of Avenue has been a long plan

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within the city of Nevada, and this is a key milestone

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for the community.

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So, just thank you, and I want to express the appreciation there.

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Thank you, Director.

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who can, near the comments or questions on the consent calendar, go to public comment down

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the consent calendar.

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Anyone in the room,

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nope, anyone online,

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not there either, okay, look for a motion to

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accept and approve the consent calendar.

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May I come for you?

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Second.

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Move by Dr. Kelly, second by Director Luken, all in favor?

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Say aye.

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Aye.

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And he posed, abstained, all right,

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we'll move on to the regular calendar.

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Adam seven involves the proposed geyserville station, the the

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secret exemption determination and the information about the project from Zoe

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andra.

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Good afternoon chair members of the board.

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The item before you today is an action item.

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The recommendation is as follows to receive an update on the outreach efforts and receive

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the California Environmental Quality Act exemption to termination for the proposed

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Guide to Ville Station, adopt Resolution 2026-26 adopting the Guise of Ville Station project

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into Smart's program and approving the project and directing staff to file this sequence notice

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of exemption and directing staff to request the Guise of Ville Station be amended into relevant

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local, regional, state, and federal plans.

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So to start, I'd like to provide a little bit of context

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about Geiserville.

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Geiserville is located in Unincorporated Sonoma County.

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Geiserville is a census designated place,

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with or a CDP, and the Geiserville CDP population,

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according to the 2020 census, is 861.

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The CDP is depicted on the map here in Brownish, yellow.

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Within the CDP, there are 1,667 jobs according to the 2023 launch atonal employer household

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dynamics data and the proposed station that smart is putting forward is located within the urban

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service area and in the unincorporated area, the urban service area serves as the urban growth boundary

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for guides or bell. Also featured on the map are schools as well as the River Rock Casino,

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which is a large employer because he knows currently in a phase of expansion, which will bring

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it from 300 jobs to 700 jobs in a future expansion of the casino could result in a thousand jobs

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at that location. So while the station is proposed within the urban service area, we believe that a

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potential station will serve the broader geyser travel bill truck.

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Kaiserville, travel shed, mouthful.

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Just as a reminder, this effort really stems from community engagement

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with our general manager and our agency. It went back to conversations that took place in 2023,

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but the timeline on the screen is highlighting a focused engagement effort that took place starting in June,

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around the proposed Guisabilitation.

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We were here before this board in July

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and we are back to present the results of all of that outreach

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and for your consideration of project adoption.

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So those focused discussions with the board,

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the community of Guisville and the broader public occurred

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across several forums.

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Some of these were virtual, many were in person.

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The most recent being,

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our August 10th community meeting,

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which I will detail in the next slide.

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In August 10th, smart held a community meeting

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in Guiseville, where our general manager

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provided a brief presentation on the proposed station.

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We also had lots of staff on hand,

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from different departments to answer questions.

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Spanish translation was available.

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We had information boards that featured

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the station location, station rendering,

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as well as the pathway alignment and we had 140 people attending not including staff.

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A consistent with that kind of community spirit that's really driven this project, one of

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the things that was not anticipated was a member of the public asked for a handful for support

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for the station, which many of you may have seen in media coverage and you can see on this slide here.

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We were really pleased with the attendance if the event was well promoted through social media as well as with our partners.

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The guys reveal community in particular, the planning committee got the word out and we were pleased to see a lot of people in the room.

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There was also a lot of media coverage of the event and this picture is from the press Democrat article that ran the following day.

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In addition to the in-person and virtual meetings we also had a public survey available between July 1st and August 16th.

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The survey was available in English and Spanish.

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At the meeting we also had hard copies of the survey to complete and were very pleased with the responses.

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We had 797 responses in total.

454
00:42:42,900 --> 00:42:50,340
9 were in Spanish, 698 were in English and the survey was very well promoted across social media.

455
00:42:50,340 --> 00:42:54,000
digital newsletter, print flyers, and our project website.

456
00:42:57,220 --> 00:43:00,020
So to quickly get into the survey results,

457
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,500
on the question of should smart ad estation and geyserville,

458
00:43:04,220 --> 00:43:08,380
among all respondents 90% were in support of the station,

459
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:14,200
9% were not supportive and 1% left that response blank.

460
00:43:14,940 --> 00:43:17,500
And this cross section here, you can see,

461
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,860
among different population sectors responding to the survey,

462
00:43:21,860 --> 00:43:27,080
There was consistent support for the stations, so on the screen you can see support among

463
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:33,060
guisable residents, support among guisable workers, as well as the support from Cloverdale

464
00:43:33,060 --> 00:43:33,720
residents.

465
00:43:37,550 --> 00:43:41,850
This is true even when you look at responses by age demographic.

466
00:43:42,470 --> 00:43:48,810
The graph on the left shows the percentage of support versus opposition by age brackets.

467
00:43:48,810 --> 00:43:57,210
Notably, respondents in the 18 and under 18 to 24 and 25 to 34 age groups were strongly

468
00:43:57,210 --> 00:43:58,010
in favor.

469
00:43:58,310 --> 00:44:03,110
However, all age brackets had at least 90% or greater rate of support.

470
00:44:08,100 --> 00:44:15,060
And on the question of should smart locate a station at Highway 28 and Remmel Road, 88%

471
00:44:15,060 --> 00:44:21,240
of all respondents supported the proposed location, 90% of respondents that reside in

472
00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:26,880
as a grid with the location, you can see here on the left a picture of the proposed station

473
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,380
location relative to downtown Guiserville.

474
00:44:30,940 --> 00:44:35,880
12% of total respondents disagreed with the station location and I will go into a little

475
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,220
detail on that group.

476
00:44:40,530 --> 00:44:47,370
So among the 12% respondents that disagreed with the station location, 61% of those opposed

477
00:44:47,370 --> 00:44:55,370
the project outright, and that's equivalent to 5% of all the survey respondents and 20%

478
00:44:55,370 --> 00:44:59,970
of those disagreed with the location saying that Cloverdale should instead be proud.

479
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:08,380
And I'm sorry, there are labels on my version of this pie chart that you are not seeing, but I can just briefly label them for you.

480
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:17,380
The purple color was 61% represents those respondents who do not support the project at all.

481
00:45:18,580 --> 00:45:26,580
20% in the other kind of perplish color. Those are people that feel that clover dayl should be prioritized first.

482
00:45:26,580 --> 00:45:56,280
We had, in the next to the left there, the two small slivers, both represent 3%, we had 3% of respondents say they preferred a heelsberg station, another 3% preferred another location in Guiserville, 8% in that light blue pie slice, believe other smart priorities are more important, i.e. completing halfway gaps, and the 6% in that kind of lightish blue,

483
00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:04,180
preferred adding a station elsewhere on the corridor, suggesting places like Nevada, Santa Rosa, or Pengrove.

484
00:46:09,410 --> 00:46:15,970
When asked if you were able to connect to Guiseville via a smart station, where would you travel to or from?

485
00:46:16,450 --> 00:46:18,770
The responses on the right show.

486
00:46:19,310 --> 00:46:29,390
What is confirmed already with existing and established travel patterns that are strong between Guiseville and neighboring communities, such as Cloverdale fields, Bergen Windsor,

487
00:46:29,390 --> 00:46:31,450
as well as San Arosa.

488
00:46:32,810 --> 00:46:35,030
And what this tells us is that a real connection

489
00:46:35,030 --> 00:46:38,650
could effectively serve an existing travel market.

490
00:46:42,580 --> 00:46:45,400
So in terms of equity and demographic considerations,

491
00:46:45,980 --> 00:46:49,680
63% of the population in the Guidesville CDP

492
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:53,660
is white alone, 36% is non-white,

493
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:55,980
or identify as more than one race,

494
00:46:56,420 --> 00:46:59,700
and 34% of the population are Hispanic or Latino,

495
00:47:00,380 --> 00:47:01,860
and this tracks pretty consistently

496
00:47:01,860 --> 00:47:06,460
with the proportion of white and non-white residents in SMART's two county district.

497
00:47:07,540 --> 00:47:11,660
But what does stand out is that the proportion of households in Gyeserville with the household

498
00:47:11,660 --> 00:47:19,060
income of $50,000 or lower is greater relative to the proportion in the two county district.

499
00:47:23,180 --> 00:47:28,440
In terms of the project rationale and objectives, a Gyeserville station will allow train access

500
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:34,020
for residents, workers, and visitors to Gyeserville. It will maximize the utility of the rail system

501
00:47:34,020 --> 00:47:38,440
without harming railroad operations, it will make more trips on the pathway between

502
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:44,200
Cloverdale, Guyserville, and Hieldsburg possible, and it will also allow for the segmentation

503
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:48,260
of the delivery of the extension between Hieldsburg and Cloverdale.

504
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:53,820
So to summarize, the station really fulfills many of smart strategic objectives.

505
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:56,940
Number one, completing the system to Cloverdale.

506
00:47:57,260 --> 00:48:02,080
Number two, maximizing the benefits and usefulness of the system, and three, effectively

507
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:06,680
connecting communities along the corridor to offer a transit alternative to the 101.

508
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:16,200
Some other business case considerations, the station will provide a rail alternative to those

509
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:20,800
existing and future travel markets between guiserville and communities on the corridor.

510
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:28,780
Of the workers in the central, excuse me, in the census designated place area, 40% of that

511
00:48:28,780 --> 00:48:33,840
that's coming into guys or they'll come from places along SmartScore at or.

512
00:50:04,900 --> 00:50:12,640
So I'll just start from the top apologies. Just in terms of other business case considerations, but we believe that

513
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:20,820
this station will provide a real alternative to existing and future travel markets. I was mentioning that the census

514
00:50:20,820 --> 00:50:29,540
designated place that is Geyserville has 1,067 jobs, about 1,030 of those jobs are held

515
00:50:29,540 --> 00:50:35,600
by people who live outside of Geyserville and commute in. And 40% of that incoming workforce

516
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:39,880
are coming from places already served by the smart corridor. So we believe we have a built-in

517
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:46,020
travel market that could be served if we had a station there. With that established travel market

518
00:50:46,020 --> 00:50:51,960
That means there's great potential for mode shift, both in terms of the benefits of reducing

519
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:59,000
vehicle miles traveled and the associated transportation, transportation generated CO2 emissions

520
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:04,100
from those trips that would occur by getting those trips onto the train and out of a car.

521
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:11,480
Importantly, the station would provide access to education, jobs, affordable housing, and health care.

522
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:17,460
The nearest healthcare facilities are located in Cloverdale and Hillsburg, and it would also

523
00:51:17,460 --> 00:51:22,800
make employment education and other opportunities more accessible to you guys with the residents.

524
00:51:23,720 --> 00:51:28,780
And finally, it supports economic impact by increasing business reach to a broader customer base

525
00:51:28,780 --> 00:51:31,320
as well as a larger employee pool.

526
00:51:35,230 --> 00:51:39,450
Staff evaluated the project relative to Sequa and the project

527
00:51:39,450 --> 00:51:49,190
is statutorically exempt under the public resources code section 21080.25 subdivision

528
00:51:49,190 --> 00:51:55,830
be paragraph six sub paragraph a as it is a public project for the improvement institution

529
00:51:55,830 --> 00:52:01,610
or increase of passenger rail service including the maintenance construction or rehabilitation

530
00:52:01,610 --> 00:52:07,990
of stations. The project meets all the following conditions of the exemption as it will be

531
00:52:07,990 --> 00:52:15,750
by a public agency. It is within existing public right-of-way. It will be exclusively used by

532
00:52:15,750 --> 00:52:22,730
certified Tier IV locomotives. It is located within the North Coast Air Basin, which is in attainment

533
00:52:22,730 --> 00:52:30,470
for particulate matter and ozone. It does not include single occupancy vehicle trips, adding additional

534
00:52:30,470 --> 00:52:36,610
highway lanes or capacity. It does not require the demolition of affordable housing units and the

535
00:52:36,610 --> 00:52:44,910
project cost is under $50 million. In meeting the conditions of the statutory exemption, the board must

536
00:52:44,910 --> 00:52:51,410
certify that the project will be completed by a skilled and trained workforce. This clause is specified

537
00:52:51,410 --> 00:52:53,890
in the resolution attached to this item.

538
00:52:56,430 --> 00:52:59,050
So with that, I bring it back to the recommendation

539
00:52:59,050 --> 00:53:08,590
that is before this board and should the board choose to act and approve the project, staff will

540
00:53:08,590 --> 00:53:13,990
file the notice of exemption and we will work with our local, regional, state and federal partners

541
00:53:13,990 --> 00:53:20,270
to include the project in the relevant plans. We will also continue to pursue grant funding

542
00:53:20,270 --> 00:53:25,930
opportunities to complete the system to global, global, inclusive of a geyserville station,

543
00:53:25,930 --> 00:53:33,570
and we'll do ongoing outreach work, outreach work with the community. With that, I open for any

544
00:53:33,570 --> 00:53:34,110
questions.

545
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:42,880
Thank you, Zoing. Before we go to questions, I just want to compliment staff on what

546
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:50,620
appears to be a really amazing planning and outreach effort in a very short time. You know,

547
00:53:50,720 --> 00:54:02,620
doing a survey that focuses on a town of 800 and some people and getting 780 responses is pretty good

548
00:54:02,620 --> 00:54:03,560
in my opinion.

549
00:54:06,020 --> 00:54:13,060
I did want to start with the question of my own, and that is that there

550
00:54:13,060 --> 00:54:21,620
seems to be some perception, not a lot, but some, that doing this planning effort around

551
00:54:21,620 --> 00:54:30,920
a geyserville station somehow indicates a prioritization of geyserville over Cloverdale

552
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:33,500
or other parts of the system.

553
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:36,960
And I'm just wondering if we could address that right up front.

554
00:54:41,170 --> 00:54:44,310
This actually helps Clover Dell very much.

555
00:54:45,030 --> 00:54:47,470
You know, I explain this at the community meeting,

556
00:54:47,890 --> 00:54:50,150
and I think most people understood it very clearly.

557
00:54:51,090 --> 00:54:53,390
Anytime that you go and try to get a grant

558
00:54:53,390 --> 00:54:56,610
for an 18-mile segment, that's a heavy lift,

559
00:54:57,670 --> 00:54:59,570
there's a, that's a tall border.

560
00:54:59,570 --> 00:54:59,970
And...

561
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:14,200
Very difficult to get. What bringing in a Guiderville station does is allows us to segment this project, which means we can get from Hillsborough to Guiderville and then we can go seek the funding to complete the project to get to Cloverdale.

562
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:23,780
So I think that adding Guiderville is a huge help to Cloverdale and is ultimately a big part of our strategy to complete this project.

563
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:26,440
Thank you.

564
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:29,240
Just put it even simpler.

565
00:55:29,740 --> 00:55:32,500
You can't get to Cloverdale without going through a crisis, though.

566
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:34,380
That's fact.

567
00:55:35,980 --> 00:55:38,040
At least not if you go in from South to North.

568
00:55:38,740 --> 00:55:39,000
All right.

569
00:55:39,540 --> 00:55:42,720
We'll go to Board questions on this item.

570
00:55:44,060 --> 00:55:44,640
Any questions?

571
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:46,060
Coach Keller.

572
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:47,560
Thank you.

573
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:53,180
It's been fascinating to really see this process unfold

574
00:55:53,180 --> 00:55:56,360
And I used to be a planning commissioner for

575
00:55:56,360 --> 00:56:00,840
Sonoma County that included the area representing that area that included guys areville.

576
00:56:01,100 --> 00:56:04,780
So I feel like compared to most people, I thought it guys were like I tend to

577
00:56:04,780 --> 00:56:09,520
know a little bit more about what the full of the community has never have

578
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:14,360
I seen this many people in guysville all mostly overwhelmingly agree on something

579
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:17,680
which is really interesting. I mean, I think the same thing could be said for

580
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:21,740
any community, right? When you put out, you know, how many options and

581
00:56:21,740 --> 00:56:27,520
people are like there's just no consensus. So this is wild to see and wonderful and heartwarming.

582
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:32,800
I did have a question about the station location and some issues that have come up historically

583
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:39,080
about flooding in that area and how if that is something that has come up in the conversations you

584
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:44,920
had with guys or residents, I see Eddie also grab expert's phone and just what type of evaluation

585
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:50,660
would need to take place based on the likelihood that flooding would occur there and what we would

586
00:56:50,660 --> 00:56:56,200
to do about it to ensure that the train can still pass through when those conditions are happening.

587
00:56:57,100 --> 00:57:02,200
Yes, that did come up at the community meeting. It's several people that talked to me. We had a map

588
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:08,540
up, you know, one of the boards, so they were actually able to show me exactly what happens and how the

589
00:57:08,540 --> 00:57:14,020
water backs up. And so yeah, we did have some of our engineering team there to talk through that. Obviously,

590
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:20,640
we would have to look at how the hydrology and things like that work in the area to make decision

591
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:22,320
and so we move forward that project,

592
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:24,820
but that would definitely be part of it.

593
00:57:26,310 --> 00:57:30,070
Is it possible that when, if we are to move forward with this

594
00:57:30,070 --> 00:57:31,410
and when construction's happening,

595
00:57:31,670 --> 00:57:33,910
that it could be a net benefit to the community

596
00:57:33,910 --> 00:57:37,270
because ideally we're not gonna be placing a platform

597
00:57:37,270 --> 00:57:41,130
without looking at opportunities to ensure

598
00:57:41,130 --> 00:57:44,710
that water is able to kind of move more freely in that area.

599
00:57:44,830 --> 00:57:46,530
And so that should we proceed,

600
00:57:47,210 --> 00:57:48,930
there could be a reduction in some of the flooding

601
00:57:48,930 --> 00:57:51,690
if we can maintain or improve some of those

602
00:57:51,690 --> 00:57:53,310
the infrastructure that's there.

603
00:57:53,530 --> 00:57:56,370
Right. Yeah, I definitely think there would have to be some level of improvement.

604
00:57:56,530 --> 00:58:00,710
I don't know exactly what would be done until we get in there and study it, but according

605
00:58:00,710 --> 00:58:04,530
to the local residents, they were telling me that when it's really bad, the water goes

606
00:58:04,530 --> 00:58:08,970
all the way up to the rail. So if that's the case, that's something that we would definitely

607
00:58:08,970 --> 00:58:13,150
be looking at and trying to manage. And so yeah, we just have to get in there and as a part

608
00:58:13,150 --> 00:58:16,850
of the project, that'll be something that we will look at and do our best to manage that.

609
00:58:18,570 --> 00:58:24,790
And then has there been a conversation, I know in addition to some of the work travel and

610
00:58:24,790 --> 00:58:28,890
travel habits and where people are coming from that you mentioned in your comments,

611
00:58:29,250 --> 00:58:34,450
has there been a conversation with the tribe that operates the casino that's expanding

612
00:58:34,450 --> 00:58:39,870
up there just in terms of the number of buses that they're currently running to the casino

613
00:58:39,870 --> 00:58:45,150
from all over the Bay Area and if there is an opportunity to get those, you know, should the

614
00:58:45,150 --> 00:58:52,150
come to town if get those buses off the 101 and potentially have writers using smart to visit there.

615
00:58:52,590 --> 00:58:59,870
Yes, Zoe and I did go meet with the folks from the tribe. We had a really good conversation.

616
00:59:00,310 --> 00:59:05,750
They did tell us that they were very supportive of a guy's civil station and went on to tell

617
00:59:05,750 --> 00:59:11,830
us that they plan on running bus service whenever Hillsford goes in and planning to connect Hillsford

618
00:59:11,830 --> 00:59:16,670
to the casino and so that's kind of in their thought process and they would want to think

619
00:59:16,670 --> 00:59:21,030
about first and last mile connection from a guy's ofville station to their casino.

620
00:59:21,490 --> 00:59:25,670
So, yeah, that was, we did reach out, we did have a great, really great conversation

621
00:59:28,750 --> 00:59:29,250
with them.

622
00:59:29,430 --> 00:59:30,050
Thank you.

623
00:59:32,690 --> 00:59:32,910
Thank you.

624
00:59:32,910 --> 00:59:33,770
Yeah, thank you very much.

625
00:59:33,770 --> 00:59:37,850
Sorry, thank you so much for the great and thorough presentation, very much appreciate

626
00:59:37,850 --> 00:59:38,570
that.

627
00:59:40,710 --> 00:59:45,270
And what's the, I know it's in the staff report, but the distance between the two points

628
00:59:45,270 --> 00:59:52,870
Um, again, guys or bills right in the middle, and uh, I'm tip my card earlier. I'm totally supportive.

629
00:59:53,250 --> 00:59:57,310
I know I have residents in the Pengrove that would love a station there.

630
00:59:57,490 --> 00:59:59,550
A little more difficult to put a station within.

631
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:13,480
We don't want to, we are more of a commuter rail with some time frames that we're going to have to commit to. Talk about that. This, this particular stop, how that affects the overall trip to Cleverdale. Does it not.

632
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:20,280
It adds a minute or two, but it stays within the promise that we made to voters way back when.

633
01:00:21,820 --> 01:00:29,000
Given the spacing between the stations, it supports the performance without compromising the

634
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:34,760
competitiveness of the rail relative to what we're competing against, which are travel times

635
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:40,020
on the highway. So it allows us to operate effectively without undermining that rail performance.

636
01:00:40,740 --> 01:00:45,880
And just for transparency, could you talk about any additional infrastructure that would be needed

637
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:50,900
in terms of passing tracks or laying tracks or the rock

638
01:00:52,060 --> 01:00:52,980
with the additional.

639
01:00:53,500 --> 01:00:56,980
That may be all part of the Cloverdale extension anyway,

640
01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:58,920
I'm not sure if guys available

641
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:02,800
would add any additional pressure in that regard.

642
01:01:05,940 --> 01:01:08,180
So the scope of this project is really focused

643
01:01:08,180 --> 01:01:10,000
on the station platform.

644
01:01:11,980 --> 01:01:15,760
Our environmentally cleared project through,

645
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:18,620
from Mark's bill, Lark's for to Cloverdale,

646
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:21,740
includes the kind of track and the signals,

647
01:01:21,860 --> 01:01:24,860
the communications, all of the elements of the track

648
01:01:24,860 --> 01:01:27,740
that would be required to operate to Cloverdale.

649
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:29,900
The infrastructure that's really needed

650
01:01:29,900 --> 01:01:33,320
to support this service is the station platform.

651
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:37,720
And because of we're month over month

652
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:41,720
record setting ridership, and thank you all for that,

653
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:44,500
would we do anything different

654
01:01:44,500 --> 01:01:48,380
with the this platform as opposed to what the platforms we built in the past

655
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:55,180
Would it be longer would it be and I know that puts the other platforms in at a different. Yeah, obviously

656
01:01:55,180 --> 01:02:00,200
We take a we take a good look at everything before we build it, but as of right now

657
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:06,360
I would say that it would look just like the rest of our platforms whether that would be a side platform or a

658
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:09,460
Center platform. I don't know quite yet. Yeah, we'd have to work through that

659
01:02:09,460 --> 01:02:13,440
But as far as appearance, I think it would look very similar and then I'll just go one step further

660
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:21,320
You know, in the spacing of the stations, I think it's about eight to nine miles from Hillsburg to Cloverdale.

661
01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:29,460
And this board served me, say, time and time again, but about seven miles in between commuter rail stations is pretty much ideal.

662
01:02:30,260 --> 01:02:33,380
And so that that's right in with that.

663
01:02:33,460 --> 01:02:39,080
It would be a long stretch to go 18 miles from Hillsburg to Cloverdale without a stop.

664
01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:43,500
So, yeah, I think this is, I think this is a good move on multiple times.

665
01:02:43,500 --> 01:02:49,660
I think our conductors would have to be waking at one up to get off the train at the distance.

666
01:02:50,140 --> 01:03:03,600
I appreciate that. And so I don't have to buzz in again, I'll just say I'm supportive and I totally after being in this business now for quite a long time and advocating for many big projects.

667
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:09,900
I think people have the full sense that there's just money waiting to be grabbed and it's all from one source and that's never true

668
01:03:09,900 --> 01:03:21,820
It is always a battle to cobbled together funds from many different sources and you do that in the best way you can and the best way you can is to start off by being competitive and realistic in what you could achieve

669
01:03:22,460 --> 01:03:27,220
this being the halfway point really cuts the project in two, which is

670
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:32,820
positive thing and makes getting to Cloverdale that much more realistic, and

671
01:03:32,820 --> 01:03:36,760
that's really for me the most important thing, and you know, again I'll go back

672
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:42,100
and say, you know, if we knew today what we didn't know way back when when we

673
01:03:42,100 --> 01:03:45,940
were starting this whole thing, would we have additional stops at different places

674
01:03:45,940 --> 01:03:51,800
and probably, and I think this is a good move for smart one that

675
01:03:51,800 --> 01:04:00,800
will be very beneficial to be able to complete what was promised to the voters way back when

676
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:05,000
and really excited about it. And again, thank you for all the work. Thank you to all staff

677
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:12,520
for making everything so successful. Any further questions from the board, Director Garberigan?

678
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:19,120
Comment, Kate and I were over here mumbling about how you well you drilled down into those.

679
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:23,220
What was it not even 10% of the people that maybe it was fighting?

680
01:04:23,900 --> 01:04:25,820
90% of the people who were unhappy.

681
01:04:26,540 --> 01:04:27,940
And we wish them well.

682
01:04:28,500 --> 01:04:33,620
But now we know what could happen in the future

683
01:04:33,620 --> 01:04:36,260
that we've got a challenge to bring them on board.

684
01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:40,000
The good news is though the lion share are really thrilled.

685
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:43,180
And I was happy to see there are 700 jobs there

686
01:04:43,180 --> 01:04:45,020
and 600 people live there.

687
01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:47,080
So obviously people are commuting in and out.

688
01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:52,340
this will be a service. And I just echo what everybody else said, but that way your presentation

689
01:04:52,340 --> 01:04:54,220
was delicate. Thank you.

690
01:04:56,780 --> 01:04:58,520
There's a question to come and check the gun.

691
01:04:58,720 --> 01:04:59,980
Maybe just a quick observation we get.

692
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:09,760
7.4.5% of the ballot box, but about 90% approval in Geiserville. So just a couple months later, I mean, I've already added 15 points that's impressive.

693
01:05:12,260 --> 01:05:13,580
Next time, 110.

694
01:05:15,860 --> 01:05:25,100
All right. Is there no more questions for the board? We will go to the public. Anyone in the room want to comment on this item? Sorry.

695
01:05:25,100 --> 01:05:31,500
Oh, we're going to do this backwards. Okay. Sorry. We're going to go first to online comments.

696
01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:40,240
Just for fun. There you go, Brian. Yeah, we have three hands raised for public comment. First is S.

697
01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:41,640
Thank

698
01:05:45,800 --> 01:06:00,700
you. Susan Kirk's Petalima. I support this extension, this new station, and the new platform 100% and so pleased for the residents of

699
01:06:00,700 --> 01:06:07,980
and for all of the residents in the North County who will eventually, maybe, able to use this,

700
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:13,880
I appreciated Director Kelly's comments and her experience in that area of the county,

701
01:06:14,460 --> 01:06:20,700
and also Director Rabbits' comments, and I too would love to see a station in Pengrove,

702
01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:27,040
a stop in Pengrove. I know so many people who would really benefit from that.

703
01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:34,800
on having said all of that, I really wish that your board would direct your manager and staff

704
01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:42,360
on certain environmental impact issues such as the hydrology issues and potentially other

705
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:54,780
issues that really do need engineering, complete evaluation and planning so that the building

706
01:06:54,780 --> 01:07:02,140
of the platform will not be inundated by flooding, and there could be other environmental impacts

707
01:07:02,140 --> 01:07:09,620
as well, but since you're being sent to from Sequa, obviously there are environmental impacts

708
01:07:09,620 --> 01:07:10,700
that need to be evaluated.

709
01:07:10,900 --> 01:07:12,580
And I hope you will support that.

710
01:07:12,580 --> 01:07:13,540
Thank you.

711
01:07:17,140 --> 01:07:18,740
Thank you.

712
01:07:32,820 --> 01:07:33,180
Thank you.

713
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:34,480
Thank you.

714
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:34,840
Thank you.

715
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:38,620
Appreciate your taking this up today.

716
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:44,220
As many of you know, I've been following this project since its inception.

717
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:48,660
It's been part of public service in Cloverdale through the planning commission.

718
01:07:48,660 --> 01:08:04,380
and two-time mayor during the inception and the attended many of the events concurrent with all of this whole smart project.

719
01:08:04,760 --> 01:08:12,680
I attended the meeting in Cloverdale because I was very interested in to see how their feeling was.

720
01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:22,380
and it was not surprised to see that it was overwhelmingly accepted and I'm totally in favor of it.

721
01:08:22,500 --> 01:08:27,040
It's to me it's a no-brainer. It makes all of the sense.

722
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:32,140
It's it's it's got to be a

723
01:08:32,140 --> 01:08:40,520
done deal. So I'm excited for it and hopefully it will get past without a problem. Thank you very much.

724
01:08:42,830 --> 01:08:45,470
next up for public comment is Savannah.

725
01:08:52,830 --> 01:08:55,410
Savannah, please unmute and begin your comment.

726
01:08:55,810 --> 01:09:00,870
So, so I'm not Savannah. I'm actually need a handshot on the director of the

727
01:09:00,870 --> 01:09:07,790
Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce. And we represent about 200 a little more than 220 businesses.

728
01:09:08,390 --> 01:09:11,270
It's small and large in both Cloverdale and Geiserville.

729
01:09:11,750 --> 01:09:14,650
And we've been waiting for the train for a long time.

730
01:09:14,650 --> 01:09:19,590
And I think that the slide that we showed that had shown that

731
01:09:19,590 --> 01:09:23,630
Cloverdale residents weren't as supportive of the station and guys of

732
01:09:23,630 --> 01:09:28,390
real didn't understand how the sectional funding and all of that would

733
01:09:28,390 --> 01:09:31,630
actually make it more realistic to come to Cloverdale.

734
01:09:33,350 --> 01:09:36,250
It was, it's perfect.

735
01:09:36,570 --> 01:09:41,010
Guys of real has lots of dining and hospitality opportunities.

736
01:09:41,010 --> 01:09:46,490
Cloverdale would love to write on the hotels and actually show off what we have here.

737
01:09:47,550 --> 01:09:53,830
The community meeting on August 10th was amazing and one of the, I wanted to start off by saying

738
01:09:53,830 --> 01:09:59,970
the ridership levels that you talked about earlier. Everybody's excited about that and we have

739
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:07,420
I hope it continues and continues. But I, on behalf of my board and my chamber, we fully support the

740
01:10:07,420 --> 01:10:13,340
training government to close it. Guys are all in then, Cloverdale. So, that was very informative

741
01:10:13,340 --> 01:10:19,040
to learn that that will hopefully make it a little bit easier to come to Cloverdale and make

742
01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:21,120
more sense. So, thank you.

743
01:10:23,740 --> 01:10:28,100
Last hand raise for public comment is Mike Peckner. Go ahead, Mike.

744
01:10:29,340 --> 01:10:36,940
Thank you. Thank you to the board and to Eddie Cummings. I want people to know that we still have

745
01:10:36,940 --> 01:10:47,380
freight service on the smart line and before freight service was ended by floods and debris on

746
01:10:47,380 --> 01:10:54,920
the tracks and February of 1998 that was what's in Pacific railroad ran a train from here to

747
01:10:54,920 --> 01:11:03,040
and Willets south to the connection with the main national railroad network at Shellville.

748
01:11:03,860 --> 01:11:10,300
And that guys areville had a passing track, a 5200 feet, one train ran from Willets to

749
01:11:10,300 --> 01:11:15,940
Geiserville, the other train ran from Shellville to Geiserville. They met in the middle and

750
01:11:15,940 --> 01:11:24,180
the cruise changed engines and went back to their home depots. And I would think that possibly

751
01:11:24,180 --> 01:11:31,620
in the planning that we think of freight service in Guiseville and keeping the 6200 foot

752
01:11:31,620 --> 01:11:41,160
siding that is there now for logistics purposes and that we have a center platform instead

753
01:11:41,160 --> 01:11:51,080
of a side platform and of course make sure that we have gauntlet tracks at Guiseville so that

754
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:56,040
can continue the freight service to the north. I'm fully in favor of a

755
01:11:56,040 --> 01:12:01,340
guys reveal station. I think it's exciting and it's glad I'm happy to see it

756
01:12:01,340 --> 01:12:05,320
happened. Just want to make sure that freight services considered through

757
01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:11,320
guys reveal as well. There are three lumber companies in Cloverdale that

758
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:19,240
used to be railroad serviced and would certainly go back to using the freight

759
01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:21,680
instead of trucking. Thank you.

760
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:27,880
That's the last of the online portion of public on it.

761
01:12:28,740 --> 01:12:34,900
All right. For the folks in the room, thanks for your patience. I'd like to address the board on this

762
01:12:34,900 --> 01:12:36,740
item. Please come to the podium.

763
01:12:45,900 --> 01:12:49,000
Good afternoon. My name is Bryce Jones. I am president of the

764
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:55,120
guys of all planning committee. First off, I'd like to thank staff for the amazing outreach they did.

765
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:59,860
was really a huge amount of engagement within the community.

766
01:13:00,380 --> 01:13:02,800
We were pleased to be able to help share the survey.

767
01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:07,060
Really, really impressed with the number of respondents to it.

768
01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:15,020
Also, we wanted to comment today on the potential impact of a train station in Guiseville.

769
01:13:15,440 --> 01:13:20,040
For those of you who don't know, we'll redwood highway used to run right through downtown

770
01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:22,180
and when the highway bypassed Guiseville.

771
01:13:22,180 --> 01:13:25,780
a lot of the economy ended up bypassing our community as well.

772
01:13:26,220 --> 01:13:30,260
If you saw the news coverage from one of the San Francisco news stations,

773
01:13:30,720 --> 01:13:34,160
a lot of our business owners commented that they love to have a station there

774
01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:36,600
because it might bring more people in.

775
01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:41,980
And the news coverage is another great example of the potential impact of a smart station.

776
01:13:42,860 --> 01:13:46,140
Guys, your vote was in the news more in the last six weeks

777
01:13:46,140 --> 01:13:49,440
than it probably has been in the last 16 years.

778
01:13:49,440 --> 01:13:54,660
So, it was really impressive to see all the newspapers basically from the San Francisco

779
01:13:54,660 --> 01:13:59,120
Chronicle, all the way to Cleverdale, cover this and cover it prominently.

780
01:13:59,860 --> 01:14:04,240
So, it really does show you the potential impact of this station coming to town.

781
01:14:04,900 --> 01:14:07,060
We love seeing these statistics on the workers.

782
01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:09,020
We do have a shortage of housing.

783
01:14:09,640 --> 01:14:13,380
A lot of people work the jobs and guys will do commute to town, so this could create

784
01:14:13,380 --> 01:14:15,980
another opportunity for them.

785
01:14:15,980 --> 01:14:24,060
Love the comment that you guys outreached in the casino, they are partnering with Caesar's to develop the casino quite a bit.

786
01:14:24,380 --> 01:14:26,780
So there's a lot more potential with that as well.

787
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:30,860
I can comment a little bit on the drainage comments.

788
01:14:31,720 --> 01:14:36,180
So once again, I am president of the guysville planning committee, one of two committees in town.

789
01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:44,020
We do have the guysville and Alexander Valley Municipal Advisory Committee, and they have done a drainage study already for that area with

790
01:14:44,020 --> 01:14:46,720
with Sonoma County Department of Transportation.

791
01:14:47,260 --> 01:14:49,460
So a lot of that study and work has already been done,

792
01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:51,360
and a lot of that expense has already been spent.

793
01:14:51,980 --> 01:14:52,860
Thank you.

794
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:56,060
Anyone else?

795
01:15:03,090 --> 01:15:13,410
Thank you. I did the injuries by myself last time, Thomas Ells, and I'm a civil and environmental engineer. I've done a lot of railwork and a lot of hydrology.

796
01:15:14,030 --> 01:15:32,770
And if the water, a lot of times people have a pretty good idea of what's happening out there. But if it's reaching the rail, okay, it's a problem for the subgrade, but it's not a problem for the track or the people because your platform is 40 inches above the top of rail.

797
01:15:32,770 --> 01:15:47,570
So you've got quite a bit of clearance from any water or interference, and trains can usually navigate through significant depths of water as long as it's not flowing, but it's a river that you're going through that's a problem.

798
01:15:48,950 --> 01:15:58,770
But I was at that meeting and it was extremely supportive on extremely supportive of this, there was a person who was there who said, oh, this is a big expense and whatever.

799
01:15:58,770 --> 01:16:05,250
The problem is, as Supervisor Abbott or Board Member Abbott said, is that this was a promise.

800
01:16:06,530 --> 01:16:07,950
People would not vote.

801
01:16:08,310 --> 01:16:13,770
When we went for the election, people would not vote for this, if we didn't commit to

802
01:16:13,770 --> 01:16:21,410
going to Colbert L, wherever they were, in Moran, they were against us if we didn't commit

803
01:16:21,410 --> 01:16:21,850
to going.

804
01:16:22,770 --> 01:16:26,670
I mean, they wanted to commit every single word that was in there, including the trail and

805
01:16:26,670 --> 01:16:26,870
everything.

806
01:16:26,870 --> 01:16:31,690
And that's why I was saying the board was so effective in doing that in preparation for the

807
01:16:31,690 --> 01:16:32,010
election.

808
01:16:32,230 --> 01:16:33,450
But this is all part of that.

809
01:16:33,450 --> 01:16:34,610
This is all part of that.

810
01:16:34,610 --> 01:16:40,350
An original commitment from the Council of Study and everything going forward, it's very

811
01:16:40,350 --> 01:16:40,830
necessary.

812
01:16:41,230 --> 01:16:45,690
And I would point out that it's possible to use other equipment.

813
01:16:46,090 --> 01:16:53,970
Your equipment is very vital and it's complicated and difficult to reproduce what we have.

814
01:16:53,970 --> 01:17:02,670
You could use other equipment because that, that leg is going to take a great deal of time and not carry very many people.

815
01:17:04,050 --> 01:17:09,970
So you could use other equipment on that and then focus the equipment you have on the segments that you have.

816
01:17:10,970 --> 01:17:14,190
Thank you to that's a possibility. Thank you. Next time.

817
01:17:14,870 --> 01:17:17,870
Anyone else in the room want to comment on this item?

818
01:17:19,290 --> 01:17:23,130
Is there any final comments or questions from board members or emotion?

819
01:17:26,340 --> 01:17:32,120
Thank you, Chair Crossey, and thank you for the presentation and to the members of the

820
01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:36,240
Guyserville community who have participated in the process as well as folks from

821
01:17:36,240 --> 01:17:43,000
Kloberdale who have engaged. This is really as Christione's both the chair of the planning

822
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:47,060
committee, but also the Chief True Reading Officer of the City of Guyserville.

823
01:17:51,100 --> 01:17:51,700
Chief

824
01:17:51,700 --> 01:17:57,260
and truly to have this many, this much interest in this many eyeballs on

825
01:17:57,260 --> 01:18:01,840
guyserville makes me so proud as a nearby resident but also as just as

826
01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:07,120
someone who has a lot of hope and aspiration for that community. There's so

827
01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:11,860
much love and pride in guyserville, people who are from there who live there. I mean

828
01:18:11,860 --> 01:18:16,160
like any part of Sonoma County I would say but really it is a unique community that

829
01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:23,960
very tight knit. Here is deeply about one another and the young people who are being raised

830
01:18:23,960 --> 01:18:28,800
and growing up in the schools there. The conversations I have had with kids about their desire

831
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:34,960
to travel to other parts of the region to go to educational opportunities that SRJC,

832
01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:40,420
which there are already doing now if they can get on the Sonoma County Transit Bus. To get there,

833
01:18:40,820 --> 01:18:45,320
this has really opened up a lot of people's eyes and hearts to the idea of having a better

834
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:47,380
more connected in order to know my county.

835
01:18:47,860 --> 01:18:51,360
And what you may not know is actually the route bus,

836
01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:54,200
the snowing honey transit bus that travels from Santa Rosa up

837
01:18:54,200 --> 01:18:57,340
to Culverdale that stops and guys reveal is the most heavily

838
01:18:57,340 --> 01:19:00,640
utilized bus in snowing county transit circulation.

839
01:19:01,460 --> 01:19:03,980
There are a lot of people who rely on public transit

840
01:19:03,980 --> 01:19:07,260
to get around this region and the people that are waiting

841
01:19:07,260 --> 01:19:09,880
for that bus and how often they have to wait

842
01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:12,420
in between buses are really delighted and excited

843
01:19:12,420 --> 01:19:14,700
about this opportunity to have a train

844
01:19:14,700 --> 01:19:18,820
that sort of is a community not just for the folks who are living in other parts of the county,

845
01:19:19,100 --> 01:19:21,920
commuting to guys are built for work, which is about a thousand people a day,

846
01:19:22,180 --> 01:19:25,580
but also the folks living in guys are built who would like to commute elsewhere

847
01:19:25,580 --> 01:19:33,800
in and around the region and the doors and the visibility of what this will open up for those opportunities for people in the community,

848
01:19:33,900 --> 01:19:40,800
as well as the number of seniors in guys are built who are very much excited about having the train to get to places

849
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:44,540
because the only way to get around right now is pretty limited.

850
01:19:46,100 --> 01:19:51,000
In addition, I know comments were made about the River Raccocino partnering with

851
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:57,820
Caesars and International Entertainment Group. They're the expansion at the River Raccocino.

852
01:19:57,980 --> 01:19:59,800
We'll certainly have an impact in the community.

853
01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:16,440
There's a lot of people who have feelings about it. But what I will say is that it's happening, they broke around over a year ago or about a year ago, and they're adding a 100 room luxury host hell and spa resort as part of the casino that they're also expanding.

854
01:20:16,660 --> 01:20:28,220
And so the number of people who will be visiting there and the impact that we'll have in the community, I think, positively economically, but this train will help to mitigate some of the negative impacts in the community.

855
01:20:28,220 --> 01:20:38,820
you may talk to farmers in Alexander Valley who say that the buses every single day, you know, driving up and down their small highway to get to the casino really does have an impact.

856
01:20:39,400 --> 01:20:50,000
And so the idea that this would lessen some of that impact and provide economic benefit to the community without some of the environmental impacts certainly is is interesting and and worth consideration.

857
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:54,140
So I want to pull hard at least support this expansion.

858
01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:59,300
I think that it really will be such a net positive for the entire Northern

859
01:20:59,300 --> 01:21:02,620
Stromo County community as well as for the entire system.

860
01:21:03,040 --> 01:21:03,700
So thank you.

861
01:21:05,740 --> 01:21:06,460
President questions.

862
01:21:07,180 --> 01:21:07,780
Comment.

863
01:21:10,930 --> 01:21:17,490
Just carrying this is one motion encompassing all three parts of the action.

864
01:21:17,630 --> 01:21:18,670
It is one motion.

865
01:21:18,850 --> 01:21:20,050
I've put that in your chair notes.

866
01:21:20,390 --> 01:21:21,950
Chair, of course, I'd be happy to make motion.

867
01:21:21,950 --> 01:21:26,470
Well, second. I move that the Board of Directors of the snowman county,

868
01:21:26,950 --> 01:21:31,210
some of a ring area rail transit district adopt a guiseville station into

869
01:21:31,210 --> 01:21:34,330
smarts program and improving up the project.

870
01:21:35,030 --> 01:21:41,970
Yeah, motion in a second. I think this is a good one to individually vote on.

871
01:21:42,010 --> 01:21:44,730
Irene, can you call the roll? Of course.

872
01:21:50,080 --> 01:21:51,920
Do I work for Catertonson? Yes.

873
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:56,440
Director Colin, hi, Director Fleming.

874
01:21:57,300 --> 01:22:01,320
Yes, Director Garboreno, Director Jacob's absent.

875
01:22:01,820 --> 01:22:02,660
Director Kelly.

876
01:22:03,740 --> 01:22:04,700
Director Lukeins.

877
01:22:05,140 --> 01:22:05,400
Yes.

878
01:22:05,780 --> 01:22:06,700
Director Par.

879
01:22:07,200 --> 01:22:07,520
Yes.

880
01:22:08,040 --> 01:22:09,160
Director Paulson.

881
01:22:09,240 --> 01:22:09,500
Yes.

882
01:22:09,940 --> 01:22:10,840
Director Rabbit.

883
01:22:11,020 --> 01:22:11,380
Hi.

884
01:22:11,860 --> 01:22:12,940
Vice Chair Sackett.

885
01:22:14,100 --> 01:22:15,000
And Chair Corsi.

886
01:22:15,660 --> 01:22:15,960
Yes.

887
01:22:16,480 --> 01:22:17,080
Thank you.

888
01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:21,580
if it's called positive votes from those present.

889
01:22:28,660 --> 01:22:30,760
And we're not done yet.

890
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:33,760
Mr. Gamlin, I have a number eight.

891
01:22:35,810 --> 01:22:37,150
Yes, I have number eight.

892
01:22:37,870 --> 01:22:41,270
This item is a recommendation for a construction contract

893
01:22:41,270 --> 01:22:43,950
to do some repair work on the existing railroad.

894
01:22:46,420 --> 01:22:47,700
So to orient you a little bit,

895
01:22:48,300 --> 01:22:50,740
this is down with the area we call St. Vincent

896
01:22:50,740 --> 01:22:57,140
It's behind St. Vincent's church, this area between San Rafael and Nevada, so left side of

897
01:22:57,140 --> 01:23:03,840
your screen is Highway 101, north is to the top. The marine wood area is to the left of 101.

898
01:23:05,160 --> 01:23:10,100
St. Vincent's church there is towards the right and the reddish line with the blue

899
01:23:10,100 --> 01:23:16,680
polka dots is our railroad, the blue dots being mile post markers. So I've identified two locations

900
01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:23,360
there where we have some box culverts in the right away that are settling and I'll drill

901
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:28,380
into that a little bit. We've had settlement in the railroad in this area. We have these box

902
01:23:28,380 --> 01:23:33,820
culverts that are pairs. So two locations, each with two box culverts, there are a series of

903
01:23:33,820 --> 01:23:39,440
concrete structures put together to convey drainage. They're failing the seams are opening on them a

904
01:23:39,440 --> 01:23:44,640
little bit and see it in this photo here where we've got some ballast and gravel falling through

905
01:23:44,640 --> 01:23:57,640
So seems this project will put rebar in here, fillies with concrete, we will be putting a pipe through each one, so we maintain some drainage capacity and just solidifying them essentially.

906
01:24:00,220 --> 01:24:04,240
We did a competitive procurement for this contract. We received three bids.

907
01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:11,620
Joladi Brothers Incorporated was deemed the lowest responsive responsible bidder if you adopt

908
01:24:11,620 --> 01:24:18,020
resolution 2026-27 that would authorize the general manager to execute a contract which

909
01:24:18,020 --> 01:24:27,510
Joladi Brothers contract CVBB26-004 in amount of 272,869 dollars.

910
01:24:28,200 --> 01:24:29,980
I'm happy to answer any questions.

911
01:24:31,380 --> 01:24:32,180
Thank you, Mr. Yamlin.

912
01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:33,380
Questions?

913
01:24:36,200 --> 01:24:37,240
Thank you.

914
01:24:37,460 --> 01:24:40,240
Supervisor Sack and I might have the same questions or similar questions.

915
01:24:40,500 --> 01:24:44,240
So I'm curious if you have had outreach to the other property owners in that area

916
01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:48,940
because whenever there's flooding or we're moving around dirt there can be both intended

917
01:24:48,940 --> 01:24:54,220
and intended consequences one and two just letting them know the work that we're going to be doing this

918
01:24:54,220 --> 01:24:54,800
process.

919
01:24:54,900 --> 01:24:55,720
Yes, we have.

920
01:24:55,740 --> 01:24:57,520
We primarily outreach with the church.

921
01:24:57,740 --> 01:24:58,860
We have contacts there.

922
01:24:59,220 --> 01:24:59,960
We frequently act.

923
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:11,000
Access the railroad crossing there, through their property. We did find that these culverts were drastically oversized, and the drainage that goes through, or it's not that significant at all.

924
01:25:11,600 --> 01:25:13,000
Okay, great. Thank you.

925
01:25:14,100 --> 01:25:26,980
I have two questions. The first one, we talked about earlier today, a $4.5 million Tam application for O-Bake funding for the pathway in this area.

926
01:25:26,980 --> 01:25:30,980
And so how are you thinking about these culverts with that construction?

927
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:35,100
Does this need to happen right now before that?

928
01:25:35,860 --> 01:25:38,240
This has been something we've been monitoring for a while.

929
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:40,380
So we really should address the settlement piece.

930
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:42,820
The two are really separated in this area.

931
01:25:43,020 --> 01:25:47,720
The pathway will be on an engagement easement that we secured some time ago.

932
01:25:48,100 --> 01:25:50,800
That's parallel to the right away in the field.

933
01:25:51,220 --> 01:25:54,400
I guess that's south east of the railroad.

934
01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:57,680
It won't be on the same prism in this area.

935
01:25:58,260 --> 01:25:59,480
Yeah, they're not really related.

936
01:26:00,760 --> 01:26:07,760
And then the other question is, you're talking about decreasing drastically the size of the

937
01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:10,400
covert, feeling that it was over size.

938
01:26:11,700 --> 01:26:16,600
Yeah, we'll be maintaining drainage through there with 24-inch pipes, 24-inch diameter pipes,

939
01:26:16,780 --> 01:26:19,980
so still sizeable amount, but smaller than what's there today.

940
01:26:19,980 --> 01:26:26,200
And would that change at all if there was development on the church side of this property?

941
01:26:26,900 --> 01:26:35,820
It seems like it's probably far enough away, but just wanted to see if you're taking that into consideration of how much size you need.

942
01:26:36,020 --> 01:26:36,300
Sure.

943
01:26:36,820 --> 01:26:46,340
We're not taking in any development consideration, but we are certainly taking in the consideration for all the runoff and the hillside and everything in that area that we pick up.

944
01:26:46,340 --> 01:26:59,700
So if there's any concentrated runoff from a development, they have the responsibility to handle their own water, but we would certainly coordinate with them if they had a need to channel some water or something in the future.

945
01:27:01,000 --> 01:27:01,320
Thank you.

946
01:27:03,390 --> 01:27:05,370
Other questions for Bill?

947
01:27:06,530 --> 01:27:13,110
Not seeing any public comment in the room in the online.

948
01:27:14,890 --> 01:27:17,450
All right, we'll look for a motion on number eight.

949
01:27:17,450 --> 01:27:19,570
So moved

950
01:27:22,800 --> 01:27:26,160
by Director Colin and seconded by Director Fleming.

951
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:27,940
Thank you.

952
01:27:28,140 --> 01:27:30,280
Well, and all in favor, we'll say aye.

953
01:27:30,280 --> 01:27:30,540
Aye.

954
01:27:31,480 --> 01:27:32,200
Any opposed?

955
01:27:33,040 --> 01:27:33,160
Seeing?

956
01:27:33,920 --> 01:27:34,080
Right.

957
01:27:34,420 --> 01:27:35,200
That's the unanimously.

958
01:27:38,240 --> 01:27:39,840
Bill's going to steer right there.

959
01:27:39,980 --> 01:27:42,480
And we're going to go through items nine.

960
01:27:43,240 --> 01:27:45,980
Ten and eleven with a power point.

961
01:27:45,980 --> 01:27:52,460
And then we'll have individual votes on those after the PowerPoint presentation.

962
01:27:59,610 --> 01:28:00,570
Here we go.

963
01:28:05,700 --> 01:28:06,320
There we go.

964
01:28:06,860 --> 01:28:10,660
Okay, as Director, of course he said, this will be items 9 through 11.

965
01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:19,060
And this pertains to incorporating some work from our municipal partners into our Healdsburg extension project.

966
01:28:19,060 --> 01:28:26,500
As you may recall, you authorized a contractor award in September last year for a progressive

967
01:28:26,500 --> 01:28:29,360
design-build contract for the Healdsburg extension.

968
01:28:29,700 --> 01:28:36,700
Quick refresher on progressive design build in this effort, smart hires a contractor with

969
01:28:36,700 --> 01:28:38,340
a very little project definition.

970
01:28:38,900 --> 01:28:43,840
We work with the contractor and his engineering team to develop the engineering documents.

971
01:28:43,840 --> 01:28:50,100
we then get into open book cost negotiations and if all goes well and we agree on a price,

972
01:28:50,280 --> 01:28:55,320
we move into a phase two contract which would complete design and construct the work.

973
01:28:55,680 --> 01:29:00,940
Sometimes we'll do a couple phase two contracts depending on how the project's

974
01:29:00,940 --> 01:29:06,080
flowing and how it's being implemented. We're currently developing design. We've conducted field

975
01:29:06,080 --> 01:29:11,640
work, field surveys, we're incorporating that information. As part of that, our municipal partners,

976
01:29:11,640 --> 01:29:17,520
the city of Healdsburg and Sonoma County, have both asked us to incorporate some work into

977
01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:18,800
the project.

978
01:29:22,100 --> 01:29:26,780
In terms of Healdsburg, they requested us to add three items, so it would be a

979
01:29:26,780 --> 01:29:34,000
sewer line design across the smart property near the depot. It would be to include a sleeve,

980
01:29:34,340 --> 01:29:39,520
for a future utility crossing at Front Street, essentially a pipe that you could slip a water line

981
01:29:39,520 --> 01:29:45,420
a sewer line through and then designing some brackets on the Russian River Bridge for a

982
01:29:45,420 --> 01:29:51,320
possible future water line. This would take this work, this contract would take this work

983
01:29:51,320 --> 01:29:56,960
to a 65% design level that's consistent with the milestones that we're designing the project

984
01:29:56,960 --> 01:29:59,960
for our work, the cost of this is a hundred and...

985
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:11,500
4141,285 dollars and 61 cents, and would be funded by Cloverd, sorry, city of Hieldsburg, which is item nine in the packet.

986
01:30:11,780 --> 01:30:13,380
That's the funding agreement itself.

987
01:30:16,110 --> 01:30:26,370
Worked for the county of Sonoma, we will be replacing the bridge over old redwood highway and adding a pedestrian bridge, adjacent to it for the bicycle and pedestrian pathway.

988
01:30:27,050 --> 01:30:32,470
Sonoma County has asked us to start doing some design work to widen this section of roadway.

989
01:30:32,730 --> 01:30:39,070
As you can see in the photo there, it necks down at the railroad bridge, so this is a great opportunity to complete this work.

990
01:30:39,370 --> 01:30:44,850
It would add shoulders, bike lanes to the roadway, increase the line of sight on the curve there.

991
01:30:45,330 --> 01:30:55,290
And again, this work would be designed to a 65% design level consistent with our work, the cost of 640,000, 375 dollars and 27 cents.

992
01:30:55,290 --> 01:31:00,950
And this item is covered in the county funding agreement, which is item 10 in your packet.

993
01:31:04,300 --> 01:31:09,560
So all this would feed into a contract amendment with our progressive design built contract.

994
01:31:09,820 --> 01:31:13,980
Contract CVDB-25-001.

995
01:31:13,980 --> 01:31:20,260
The total amendment amount on this first phase would be $751,771.

996
01:31:20,260 --> 01:31:31,460
and 28 cents were a total not to exceed contract of $22,566,169.82 cents. It would incorporate

997
01:31:31,460 --> 01:31:37,700
the cities and the counties utility and roadway design work all funded by the city and the

998
01:31:37,700 --> 01:31:43,580
county. Quite frankly, these are great opportunities to combine work like this. It usually

999
01:31:43,580 --> 01:31:48,760
everybody benefits from economies of scale and it minimizes impacts to the public. So we've done

1000
01:31:48,760 --> 01:31:55,100
lot of it up and down the right of ways we've rebuilt the railroad. So in summary, three resolutions,

1001
01:31:55,440 --> 01:32:00,680
the first one item nine is the City of Hillsburg funding agreement, then item 10 is the county

1002
01:32:00,680 --> 01:32:06,560
of Sonoma funding agreement, and then finally item 11 is the actual amendment to the contract itself.

1003
01:32:07,160 --> 01:32:15,780
I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Bill. Questions on 910 and 11 of the board,

1004
01:32:16,820 --> 01:32:18,120
You're one, George Kelly.

1005
01:32:18,920 --> 01:32:26,040
For the snowman county work that's happening outside of the city to widen, to evaluate, essentially, why, and that bridge.

1006
01:32:26,260 --> 01:32:31,400
Do we already know that it's feasible to be able to do that work or we're still evaluating?

1007
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:35,540
No, we've identified that it's feasible to do.

1008
01:32:35,600 --> 01:32:40,160
We've looked at a longer bridge length there for the railroad that opens up the roadway.

1009
01:32:40,280 --> 01:32:44,400
We've looked at the retaining walls that would be needed there, so yeah, we've determined it's feasible.

1010
01:32:44,400 --> 01:33:07,520
Okay, great. Yeah, I think that in both of these instances, I mean, for just some local context on the Hillsburg Bridge utility work and extending utilities, there's about a 275 to 200 acres of the city of Hillsburg that is south of the bridge south of the river that has no utilities whatsoever that is a part of an area planning effort that's underway.

1011
01:33:07,520 --> 01:33:36,920
So those in town within the city limit acres, if the city has the ability to leverage smart infrastructure to do this utility work, bringing utilities to that 200 acres of land, it will greatly increase the potential of both residential commercial and industrial development in that area right now that's served by limited septic and wells and so it's really a great opportunity and something the city has been talking about for at least a hundred years.

1012
01:33:36,920 --> 01:33:42,660
So it's exciting to see smart coming to town being one of those things that's helping make it happen.

1013
01:33:43,160 --> 01:33:51,070
And this area of roadway in the county where the bridge widening is taking place is a very dangerous area at a intersection in

1014
01:33:51,070 --> 01:33:58,090
It shouldn't kind of J-Winery where Rodney Strongwinery is at the intersection of East Side Road and the old Red.

1015
01:33:58,630 --> 01:34:06,210
And it is very narrow bicyclists and pedestrians are risking their lives just getting through that under that bridge.

1016
01:34:06,470 --> 01:34:09,230
And it comes right up on a really fast moving intersection.

1017
01:34:09,930 --> 01:34:14,330
So this will be a really much needed benefit to that area.

1018
01:34:14,450 --> 01:34:16,050
That has a lot of traffic.

1019
01:34:17,870 --> 01:34:19,370
Other questions for Bill?

1020
01:34:21,830 --> 01:34:28,690
All right, we're going to do public comment on all three of these down, or do we have to take that set?

1021
01:34:28,930 --> 01:34:31,830
We should take public comment on each individual one.

1022
01:34:31,910 --> 01:34:33,310
All right, team, sure.

1023
01:34:33,650 --> 01:34:36,990
Start with public comment on number nine.

1024
01:34:37,350 --> 01:34:38,830
Name of anyone in the room.

1025
01:34:40,070 --> 01:34:40,790
Anyone online?

1026
01:34:44,340 --> 01:34:45,540
I have one more question on this bill.

1027
01:34:45,700 --> 01:34:48,820
Was that first slide, was that a turn table in that picture?

1028
01:34:49,480 --> 01:34:50,220
Yes, excellent.

1029
01:34:50,220 --> 01:34:51,620
and I direct a course.

1030
01:34:52,020 --> 01:34:54,120
That is the old turn table up in Healt's firm.

1031
01:34:54,680 --> 01:34:56,060
It's still up there.

1032
01:34:56,160 --> 01:34:57,200
It's still there.

1033
01:34:57,600 --> 01:34:59,980
We would love to toy with the idea of rehabilitate.

1034
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:02,480
I'm not saying anything, but like anything, takes funding.

1035
01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:06,260
For people who don't know, would you explain what a turn table does?

1036
01:35:07,960 --> 01:35:12,200
Well, anyone with kids probably has Thomas the tank, so they've had like the rail road video.

1037
01:35:12,940 --> 01:35:21,020
So yeah, the turn table spins the locomotive around, so it can get in and out of the maintenance base for work.

1038
01:35:22,920 --> 01:35:25,340
So you don't have to back it up.

1039
01:35:25,780 --> 01:35:27,860
All right, sorry for that aside.

1040
01:35:27,860 --> 01:35:33,920
on number 10 public comments on number 10 can we have a motion and a vote count on

1041
01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:37,840
ah okay we're doing that one

1042
01:35:44,840 --> 01:35:48,340
why don't why don't why don't you go I had to tell us

1043
01:35:52,980 --> 01:36:00,820
we'll so do you do forgive me again Thomas else civil engineering the one first of all

1044
01:36:00,820 --> 01:36:07,000
this this is really great it's all part of the part in parcel can't get to two guys to go without

1045
01:36:07,000 --> 01:36:15,560
into Hillsburg, right. So but there have been conversations about the Hillsburg Bridge. I think

1046
01:36:15,560 --> 01:36:21,180
this is what is incorporated within this because again, you can't get the Hillsburg without

1047
01:36:21,180 --> 01:36:29,120
the bridge, right? So this is a question of it being, it's an existing steel bridge. It probably

1048
01:36:29,120 --> 01:36:39,660
can be used still. It's not that difficult to to upgrade or maintain. You can just add pieces to it.

1049
01:36:40,420 --> 01:36:50,340
It's like a Lego land or something like that. It's historic. It's valuable as that resource.

1050
01:36:51,640 --> 01:36:58,540
It may have to be, it may have to go. I talked with a contractor that I believe is the contractor.

1051
01:36:59,860 --> 01:37:06,280
That's two years ago or more, and there was a question about what would happen underneath

1052
01:37:07,180 --> 01:37:17,320
where the abutments of the bridge at the abutments and at the columns of the bridge and where they meet in the water.

1053
01:37:18,600 --> 01:37:25,280
It was understood that maybe there was some undercutting or something, but I was able to see that when it was dry and it looks like they're into virgin rock,

1054
01:37:25,280 --> 01:37:33,360
at least on the south side and it all looks competent and so a really good evaluation

1055
01:37:33,360 --> 01:37:42,160
average I think could really save a lot of money like if they wouldn't have done

1056
01:37:42,160 --> 01:37:47,210
what they did on the on the day bridge you know and rebuilt it they could have

1057
01:37:47,780 --> 01:37:53,820
rebuilt it with a new bridge that was eight billion dollars you know they could

1058
01:37:53,820 --> 01:37:58,120
South, the other bridge, but they all had their different arguments.

1059
01:37:59,440 --> 01:38:00,660
They didn't even say that. Thank you.

1060
01:38:04,970 --> 01:38:08,010
All right. I'm sorry. Now I've lost my place.

1061
01:38:08,090 --> 01:38:11,990
I'm happy to move adoption of the Dan to item nine. Excellent. Thank you.

1062
01:38:12,210 --> 01:38:12,650
Seconds that.

1063
01:38:14,090 --> 01:38:17,750
Move five, five, share a second. Seconds byator Thompson.

1064
01:38:17,750 --> 01:38:33,680
All in favor of any opposed abstain, all right, all for any questions or comments on number 10 or bill.

1065
01:38:33,700 --> 01:38:38,540
From the board, no public comment on number 10.

1066
01:38:41,020 --> 01:38:43,460
Go right. Motion, please.

1067
01:38:45,570 --> 01:38:47,310
I didn't plan.

1068
01:38:49,790 --> 01:38:51,050
Move by Vice Chair.

1069
01:38:51,710 --> 01:38:54,890
Second and seconded by Director Kelly.

1070
01:38:55,530 --> 01:38:56,810
All in favor say aye.

1071
01:38:56,830 --> 01:38:57,310
Aye.

1072
01:38:57,910 --> 01:38:58,610
Any opposed?

1073
01:38:59,150 --> 01:39:00,030
I've staged.

1074
01:39:00,330 --> 01:39:01,290
Cases unanimously.

1075
01:39:03,210 --> 01:39:04,670
And number 11.

1076
01:39:05,250 --> 01:39:06,790
Equations from the board.

1077
01:39:07,970 --> 01:39:09,230
Comments from the public.

1078
01:39:12,920 --> 01:39:13,860
Motion please.

1079
01:39:15,890 --> 01:39:16,810
Some moved.

1080
01:39:17,250 --> 01:39:17,550
Second.

1081
01:39:17,550 --> 01:39:25,630
approved by Director Paulson, second-end by Director Park, Owen Paver, I, and he opposed.

1082
01:39:27,430 --> 01:39:28,530
There we go.

1083
01:39:29,530 --> 01:39:35,550
And move on to number 11, the appointment of our new Chief Financial Office.

1084
01:39:36,930 --> 01:39:38,230
Sorry, number 12.

1085
01:39:39,790 --> 01:39:41,670
I think we need to get from this one.

1086
01:39:43,990 --> 01:39:46,250
Thank you again, Chair and Board of Directors.

1087
01:39:46,250 --> 01:39:53,590
I cannot tell you how excited I am to present this particular item.

1088
01:39:53,890 --> 01:39:55,490
I'll start with the recruitment process.

1089
01:39:55,830 --> 01:39:58,050
We hire CropAmer and Associates LLC.

1090
01:39:58,650 --> 01:39:59,970
They manage a nation.

1091
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:08,480
One wide search, they worked directly with me to develop a leadership profile and really identify those skills that were necessary for the position.

1092
01:40:09,080 --> 01:40:18,740
They advertised this position nationally. They also reached out to what I like to refer to as the real edicts across the nation and recruiting folks who might be good fit.

1093
01:40:18,740 --> 01:40:24,520
They were able to forward meet 12 semifinalists, semifinalists.

1094
01:40:24,600 --> 01:40:26,880
We looked through all of those resumes.

1095
01:40:27,600 --> 01:40:31,320
We decided to interview five internally.

1096
01:40:32,680 --> 01:40:37,300
That was a smart staff and that panel of internal folks included myself.

1097
01:40:37,920 --> 01:40:41,020
The general council of the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Engineer,

1098
01:40:41,840 --> 01:40:44,100
and the grants and legislative affairs manager.

1099
01:40:44,100 --> 01:40:50,120
And from there we noted down to two candidates that we really thought would be a good fit

1100
01:40:50,120 --> 01:40:57,340
at Smart to service the next chief financial officer and we boarded those two to a board

1101
01:40:57,340 --> 01:41:04,960
ad hoc committee, the board ad hoc committee interviewed both candidates on 8, 11, 20, 26 and

1102
01:41:04,960 --> 01:41:10,840
that particular committee consisted of chair core seed, vice chair, socket, and director par.

1103
01:41:12,340 --> 01:41:18,360
The ad hoc committee's recommendation is to appoint Troy Bingham as chief financial officer

1104
01:41:18,360 --> 01:41:24,300
pending a successful completion of the background investigation. Troy Bingham has

1105
01:41:24,300 --> 01:41:29,400
20 years of financial municipal government experience. He has eight years of transit experience.

1106
01:41:29,600 --> 01:41:33,480
He spent six years at Utah Transit Authority as the Comptroller.

1107
01:41:33,900 --> 01:41:39,460
And two years at a smaller agency in New Mexico called the North Central Transit District.

1108
01:41:39,460 --> 01:41:47,700
He served as the financial finance director in that role and he's currently the finance director at the city of Stafford, Arizona

1109
01:41:47,700 --> 01:41:54,600
and Troy has a bachelor's of science degree in accounting and information system from Arizona State University.

1110
01:41:57,270 --> 01:42:01,210
We were able to come to terms on an agreement.

1111
01:42:01,770 --> 01:42:06,170
The term of his employment would be five years annual salary between $99,250

1112
01:42:06,170 --> 01:42:11,790
$250, he would receive a cell phone and car allowance of $300 per pay period.

1113
01:42:12,070 --> 01:42:16,470
He would receive upon appointment 15 days of vacation and five days of sick.

1114
01:42:17,490 --> 01:42:20,970
He would have the ability to participate in smart benefit programs.

1115
01:42:21,630 --> 01:42:26,410
And he would get a reimbursement of $30,000 for relocation and temporary housing allowance.

1116
01:42:27,010 --> 01:42:32,470
And then would also receive severance of terminated without cause of 90 days salary and benefits.

1117
01:42:32,470 --> 01:42:54,010
So the recommended board actions here today is to point to our Bingham to the position of chief financial officer and improve the appointment and agreement subject to the completion of the successful background investigation and authorized to chair to execute agreement contingent upon the successful completion of that background investigation.

1118
01:42:54,690 --> 01:43:01,630
And with that, I would be happy to answer any questions or turn it over to the ad hoc committee for additional information.

1119
01:43:02,470 --> 01:43:07,930
Yeah, just a couple of additions from our ad hoc committee.

1120
01:43:10,350 --> 01:43:16,670
We had conversations with the final two finalists just a couple of weeks ago.

1121
01:43:17,070 --> 01:43:24,650
Both were very qualified people enthusiastic about coming to work for smart.

1122
01:43:24,650 --> 01:43:35,350
And both probably capable of doing it, Troy, stood out to me for his transit industry experience.

1123
01:43:36,930 --> 01:43:46,110
His understanding of the many types of funds that smart users to both operate and build the system.

1124
01:43:47,070 --> 01:43:52,830
And again, his enthusiasm for wanting to work for this transit agency.

1125
01:43:56,990 --> 01:44:06,590
I think you covered most of it and, again, great candidates, great that was really a pleasure to see the enthusiasm and levels of expertise.

1126
01:44:06,710 --> 01:44:14,730
I think the other thing that stood out is he does have a diverse experience and a lot of different jurisdictions, including some pretty small jurisdictions.

1127
01:44:14,730 --> 01:44:22,850
and so is dealt with kind of soup to nuts, public engagement issues, you know, isn't somebody

1128
01:44:22,850 --> 01:44:30,110
who's been buried within this C-suite but hasn't interacted with a public or actual projects.

1129
01:44:30,350 --> 01:44:34,830
And I think there's a lot that we're building at Smart, but it felt as though he would be a good

1130
01:44:34,830 --> 01:44:40,610
contributing partner for the team. I'm happy to move that. I want you ready.

1131
01:44:40,610 --> 01:44:42,750
You know,

1132
01:44:46,170 --> 01:44:59,890
some of us have been around smart for a long time, and smart has a certain culture, and when I interviewed him, and when I said on the panel, they're absolutely right. He's very, very qualified, but people come to us with coffee.

1133
01:45:00,820 --> 01:45:27,440
But I look at the overall who they are and how they relate to people. And that's one of the things that I've appreciated over the years about the smart staff, is that they're collaborative, they're positive. I know that it's not all pretty out there, but you're always good to us and don't make us get in the weeds very much on that. So what I wrote down was, of course, this transit experience, which I think is important.

1134
01:45:27,440 --> 01:45:31,380
He seemed as though he was a realistic problem solver.

1135
01:45:31,620 --> 01:45:34,220
He didn't jump right to the answer for problems.

1136
01:45:34,720 --> 01:45:36,120
He knew that there were processes.

1137
01:45:37,400 --> 01:45:41,480
Like I said, we appreciate our staff and the team approach.

1138
01:45:41,760 --> 01:45:45,560
And he showed us through some of the questions and some of the answers

1139
01:45:45,560 --> 01:45:49,960
and some heat mild a lot and joked a little bit.

1140
01:45:50,520 --> 01:45:52,760
And we can see that in our staff.

1141
01:45:52,880 --> 01:45:56,260
And that was the part that I appreciated that he would fit in.

1142
01:45:56,260 --> 01:45:59,760
He wouldn't be a CFO that would say, oh, look at that.

1143
01:46:00,560 --> 01:46:04,640
But he was very bright and the transit orientation was good.

1144
01:46:05,120 --> 01:46:11,880
He was easy to talk to, collaborative, and he just looked like he'd be a really good fit

1145
01:46:11,880 --> 01:46:12,980
for the team.

1146
01:46:15,910 --> 01:46:21,130
Any questions from the board or Mr. Cummins or any of us?

1147
01:46:23,800 --> 01:46:24,080
Right.

1148
01:46:24,540 --> 01:46:26,920
Mr. Beckett, do you want to make a motion?

1149
01:46:28,100 --> 01:46:28,620
Public comment?

1150
01:46:29,180 --> 01:46:30,020
Oh, yeah, we have that.

1151
01:46:30,020 --> 01:46:32,060
Thank you.

1152
01:46:32,080 --> 01:46:35,300
Anyone in the room want to make public comment on this item?

1153
01:46:36,960 --> 01:46:38,260
And we'll go online.

1154
01:46:39,660 --> 01:46:42,340
First personal public comment is S-curks.

1155
01:46:42,580 --> 01:46:44,920
Please go ahead and mute yourself to make your comment.

1156
01:46:46,140 --> 01:46:46,700
Thank you.

1157
01:46:46,700 --> 01:46:48,280
Susan Curks, Pvelina.

1158
01:46:49,480 --> 01:46:58,260
And reading the particulars for the agenda item and the benefits available for this individual,

1159
01:46:59,280 --> 01:47:12,760
knowing the cost of living in our area is so high, it seemed to me that $30,000 for relocation and temporary housing seemed a little low.

1160
01:47:13,300 --> 01:47:23,580
And although I'm simply a member of the public, I'm very well aware of the cost of living and thinking about monthly temporary housing expenses,

1161
01:47:23,580 --> 01:47:31,700
is the cost of relocation and the stressors involved with that for anyone, relocating from

1162
01:47:31,700 --> 01:47:38,120
one state to another, I hope your board will consider increasing that to $40,000.

1163
01:47:38,740 --> 01:47:45,000
I think that might make a very positive difference and be one less stressor that your

1164
01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:51,900
You see F.A.A.A. would have to address potentially after five or six months of temporary

1165
01:47:51,900 --> 01:47:56,000
housing and still potentially looking for permanent housing.

1166
01:47:56,420 --> 01:47:57,620
Thank you.

1167
01:47:59,640 --> 01:48:00,380
Thank you.

1168
01:48:03,160 --> 01:48:03,340
Thank you.

1169
01:48:03,340 --> 01:48:05,020
There are no more hands raised to public comment.

1170
01:48:05,540 --> 01:48:13,180
I'm happy to remove the appointment of Troy Bingham to the CFO position contingent upon the

1171
01:48:13,180 --> 01:48:15,740
successful completion of a background investigation.

1172
01:48:17,820 --> 01:48:22,600
We have a motion from Vice-Chair Circuit and a second from Director Par.

1173
01:48:23,240 --> 01:48:24,220
All in favor?

1174
01:48:24,720 --> 01:48:25,840
All right.

1175
01:48:25,880 --> 01:48:26,880
Any opposed?

1176
01:48:28,020 --> 01:48:28,720
I'm staying.

1177
01:48:29,940 --> 01:48:31,580
That is unanimous.

1178
01:48:31,640 --> 01:48:32,020
Welcome.

1179
01:48:33,160 --> 01:48:33,920
Mr. Binghammer.

1180
01:48:36,390 --> 01:48:36,490
Oh.

1181
01:48:37,210 --> 01:48:37,410
Okay.

1182
01:48:40,780 --> 01:48:40,980
All right.

1183
01:48:41,020 --> 01:48:42,720
That brings us to our adjournment.

1184
01:48:42,720 --> 01:48:46,740
Our next meeting is September 16th.

1185
01:48:46,740 --> 01:48:50,200
on 30 p.m. Right here, we'll see you that.

1186
01:48:51,320 --> 01:48:53,580
We are journeying at 315.