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[5:29] Good evening. I want to call to order the regular meeting of the West Contra Costa Transportation Authority or West Cat Board of Directors. And this is the May 9th, 2024 meeting. So if we can call, get roll call please.
[5:48] Please.
[5:50] Oh.
[6:00] Present.
[6:02] Here.
[6:04] Here?
[6:08] Okay.
[6:09] Thank you.
[6:09] And if you will all join me in the Pledge of Allegiance, please.
[6:32] Thank you.
[6:33] So that takes us to approval of the agenda.
[6:36] Is there a motion?
[6:39] So moved.
[6:40] Second.
[6:41] Okay.
[6:42] All those in favor?
[6:43] Say aye.
[6:43] Aye.
[6:44] Any opposed?
[6:46] Okay.
[6:46] That passes.
[6:47] And then we'll move on to public communication.
[6:50] This is the time for members of the public to bring up with the Board of Directors matters of general interest that are not on the agenda.
[7:00] Are there any public speakers on this item?
[7:05] Okay, we'll move on to then the consent calendar.
[7:09] We have items 1.1 through 1.6.
[7:15] Is there anybody who wants to pull anything?
[7:19] and any speakers on any consent items.
[7:25] Any speakers? Okay. Then we'll entertain a motion.
[7:30] Make a motion and we approve the consent calendar as is.
[7:33] Okay. Is there a second? Second. Second. All those in favor? Say aye.
[7:38] Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Okay. Moving along to item number 2.1.
[7:49] This is a proclamation honoring Michael West as M.V. Transportation National,
[7:56] Catherine McClarry, Operator of the Year Award winner for 2023.
[8:02] Thank you so it's not often we get to do a nice presentation like this. It's a fun time for
[8:08] nice and for once. So I'm going to just play a couple of things and then I'll ask M.V. to speak a
[8:13] a little bit on the award itself and then we'll get Mike up to kind of and see you all.
[8:19] So I think it's a really great honour that we have a driver who's not only been with Waskout,
[8:25] the Waskout team for 28 years but has been honoured in this way.
[8:29] You know it's a really competitive award, there's one, it's a one and ten,
[8:35] 12,000 employees at the end of the year so they've awarded this annually.
[8:39] So, you know, Mike being here 28 years, he's the third contractor he's worked with, so
[8:46] he's been around for a long time, he's on fixed route, you know, there's a lot of people
[8:49] out there in the community now, he's, you know, he does a lot of the local routes, so I think
[8:53] it's, we have a pretty nice celebration at the yard today, we had some food, we had a
[8:58] number of people from, number of the MP people who are here now, what a couple of other people
[9:03] came down from other divisions to kind of honour this award, so I'm going to let Peter
[9:08] is it? You're going to speak, so I'm going to put it out with the regional vice president's
[9:12] speaker.
[9:17] I want to thank you guys for this honor. This is a big deal for us as you can see.
[9:22] We got an MVA representative here to celebrate on our mic.
[9:31] Mike is a, as you said, 27 years.
[9:35] It's an incredible feat to drive that long. Average in about 100 miles a day.
[9:42] without a preventable accident.
[9:45] So I consider myself a super commuter
[9:49] and I've driven roughly around the same amount of miles
[9:52] in the last 20 years, but the biggest difference is that
[9:56] my models aren't without an accident.
[10:00] Right, so it's a pretty incredible feat that Mike has done here. You have to be intentional in your approach to safety, to record that type of record over the spirit of time. So I want to thank Mike on board and Westcat for allowing us to recognize this achievement and bring him down and get that award.
[10:35] Congratulations, sir. Thank you, sir.
[10:42] Did you want to say anything, Mike?
[10:45] No.
[10:46] Would you at least join us up front for a photo?
[11:38] Okay.
[11:39] Thank you for that.
[11:41] Item 2.2.
[11:43] And that's...
[11:44] Oh, did you have anything?
[11:45] Might be appropriate to actually read the proclamation as a record.
[11:50] Do you have it in front of you?
[11:52] Or it's...
[11:54] Excuse me.
[11:55] Thank you.
[11:56] Okay.
[11:57] We're going to go ahead and read the proclamation.
[12:00] This is appreciating the services of Michael West, whereas Michael West has served with
[12:07] distinction as a fixed route bus operator for the Western Contra Costa Transit Authority
[12:14] from November 5, 1995, and whereas Michael began his career at Westcat.
[12:22] In 1995, working for Dave transportation, transitioning to late law transit in 1998, and to MV transportation in 2000.
[12:35] And whereas MV transportation established the Catherine McClary operator award to honor the memory of Catherine McClary who was tragically killed in a bus accident in 2004.
[12:49] M.V.'s annual award recognizes the safest transit operators at the company.
[12:57] Award recipients are chosen for more than 10,000 M.V. operators across North America.
[13:05] And whereas M.V. transportation has named Michael West, the National Catherine McClary
[13:11] operator of the year for 2023 and whereas Michael has an impressive 27-year accident-free driving record
[13:21] and is a member of the Penal Division Local Safety Committee where he provides suggestions on how
[13:29] to improve safety and overall customer service and whereas Michael has earned praise from the community he serves
[13:37] consistently demonstrating a strong commitment to safety as evidenced by his satisfactory
[13:45] ratings in numerous evaluations, whereas Michael has demonstrated adept vehicle maneuvering
[13:54] recognized by Sam Sara further highlights his dedication to safety.
[14:00] Now, therefore, be it resolved in honor of Michael being named M.V. Transportation's
[14:07] National Catherine McLeary, Operator of the Year for 2023, we express our deepest
[14:14] appreciation in honor of your dedication and years of loyal service to West Cat.
[14:22] So,
[14:31] thank you again, and thank you, apparently you have some fans in the audience.
[14:36] It looks like co-workers and some members of the community, so good work.
[14:46] So now we're going to move to item 2.2.
[14:49] This is consideration and approval of amendment 2 to the agreement for public transit services
[14:56] between Westcat and MV transportation.
[15:00] To extend the agreement term through June 20th, 2025, and establish a new variable, fixed rate, and just for clarification, is it June 20th or June 30th?
[15:12] June 30th. June 30th? Yes, okay.
[15:21] Thank you. So, this is our current contract with MV does
[15:26] expire on June 30th of 2024. So, we have, in the current contract, we have three option
[15:33] years. So, this agreement would take on account the first of those option years. That's the
[15:39] main reason for this amendment that's to do the option year. I think the other notes that
[15:45] need to be mentioned on this. When the First Amendment was done back in, I think the board
[15:51] approved it in November, it was related to the driver's union CBA contract, so there was
[15:58] a reflection at that time that the contract changed, and so the additional labour costs that
[16:04] Envy took on under that contract were incorporated into our agreement with Envy into our fixed costs.
[16:13] the way that the dispatches and roadtops, road supervisors, salaries are calculated or
[16:19] were calculated at that time, meant that when the drivers wages went up, there was a direct
[16:24] correlation to road supervisors and dispatches, they went up by a set dollar value at that
[16:31] time. In talking with Peter and Envy transportation over the last few months, when we've looked
[16:39] to bring this amendment to you tonight. I think there was a feeling that the road to
[16:44] revisers and dispatches were tied to an agreement that was established, I believe, in 2010,
[16:51] that had this set dollar value kind of done. At the time, you know, 50 percent difference
[16:59] between a driver and a road to wages was probably standard, that was great, but 14, 15 years
[17:07] later it don't think it really reflects the difference in seniority, the
[17:11] difference in kind of responsibility, the dispatches and road supervisors have
[17:17] and the example I will use is that you know when the drivers salary increase
[17:23] went in we did have road soups and dispatches wondering whether it was just
[17:28] better for them to go and drive rather than take on the extra responsibility. So in
[17:33] And working with MV, they come up with a set new wage scale that is going to be built
[17:37] into the dis-option year and potential of their option years, that will reflect changes
[17:43] to the road to road to provides and dispatches on an annual basis at a higher level than just
[17:48] the way the drivers went up, just to put that differential in between those wage scales.
[17:54] So it does, obviously, this does result in an additional cost to the west cat as part
[17:58] of the contract that we have.
[18:00] So we paid 2 rates to MV. One is the variable rate, which is the amount we pay for every hour of service we have on the streets, which is an effect the driver's wages plus other things that are built into that.
[18:16] So under this agreement that would go up from $59.73 an hour to $61.43, which is a 2.8% increase.
[18:27] And then we also play a fixed monthly cost, which ties more into the road soup and dispatches directly into their wages.
[18:36] And that has a 5% increase it goes from $281,670.
[18:44] $281,670, 297,332.
[18:49] The price differential is exactly matches what the new road soup and this patch,
[18:58] pace scale plus benefits would be, you know, and being not taking a cut off the top of this,
[19:03] every this goes directly to the employees, so I think we're always grateful when we work with MVM,
[19:09] we can do this kind of deal just to reflect changes in, you know,
[19:13] drive in staff kind of salaries without the need for any additional corporate
[19:19] support or anything like that. So we're happy to kind of keep this partnership
[19:23] going with MV for another year. We'll talk a little about John the Boydgipot,
[19:28] you know, one of the important things is even though our fixed month of our
[19:33] variable rates are hourly cost is going up because of the schedule change that I
[19:38] do went to an effect last Saturday. We are actually reducing our service hours
[19:42] slightly, so even though the cost per hour is going up, our overall budgetary cost is
[19:48] slightly less on the variable rate. So with that we're just looking for approval for this
[19:56] amendment for allow me to sign it and share it.
[20:00] Impremons it with ambient transportation for the upcoming fiscal year. Okay, thank you. There are any questions?
[20:10] Yes, go ahead. Um, work member. I just got to sit at the. Affinity committee looked at this earlier and we recommend that move forward. So I mean, are there any public speakers on this? Okay. I'll bring it back to the board. Is there a motion? Move to the top of the denim tube. Second.
[20:33] Okay, all those in favor say aye.
[20:36] Aye.
[20:36] Any opposed?
[20:38] Distentions?
[20:38] That motion passes for zero.
[20:42] Okay.
[20:42] Thank you.
[20:44] Item 2.3, this is a presentation and discussion of the third quarter financial data
[20:49] report.
[21:02] And you hear me?
[21:06] I'm not sure if that's on.
[21:07] Can you try to?
[21:07] I don't think it is.
[21:08] There it is.
[21:09] Okay.
[21:09] Thank you.
[21:10] And before you go, can I mark for the record that alternate from Hercules is on the board at the dance?
[21:23] Good evening.
[21:25] We discussed at our F&A Committee meeting this evening that the third quarter here represented in the income statement that you're being presented with tonight is the quarter that we used to adjust the fiscal year.
[21:39] our 2024 budget, and then we do our assumptions from this quarter for the proposed.
[21:50] So there were just two areas that I had pointed out earlier that are areas that we've been
[21:58] focusing on this year, which were vehicle maintenance and non-vehicle maintenance, primarily
[22:02] parts and materials, other materials and supplies.
[22:07] And those are due to the fact that a lot of the services now that we had contracted out previously to work on our vehicles, to work on our building are now being done in-house.
[22:21] And this year was the first year where we have had an entire fiscal year to work with that and understand better how to align those expenses with our budget.
[22:34] So you'll see that reflected in the budget discussion this evening, as far as the revenues are concerned.
[22:41] And if you do see a deficit that actually is not anything to be concerned with because
[22:48] it is not reflective of some of the revenues that we have yet to receive or yet to be allocated.
[22:56] RM3 is one of them.
[22:58] And we fully expect to end with a moderate surplus at the end of the year.
[23:05] So if you have any questions, feel free to ask.
[23:11] That's my presentation.
[23:12] Thank you.
[23:13] Are there any questions on this side?
[23:19] Okay, any public comments?
[23:21] Okay, this was an information item.
[23:24] So thank you.
[23:26] Thank you for that.
[23:27] And then we'll move on to presentation and adoption
[23:32] of the fiscal year 2324 adjusted operations budget and proposed fiscal year 2425 capital and operations budget.
[23:45] Thank you, so I'm just going to share my screen.
[23:59] Okay, so thank you.
[24:00] So this is the presentation for our adjusted 2023-24 operations budget and
[24:07] our proposed 2425 operations and capital budgets.
[24:11] As you've all just explained, we pretty much take off the quota actual numbers and use
[24:17] that to project out for the remainder of the current year, and then using those numbers
[24:23] we sit down amongst staff and discuss the upcoming year and kind of come up with assumptions
[24:29] and projections for that.
[24:31] So this year we are looking at a $15.5 million operations budget, which is a 5.5% increase
[24:39] over the previous year. There's a very small amount of $2,000 in our proposed
[24:45] capital budget. That's reflective of the fact that the last couple of years we've
[24:51] had a number of projects approved by the board for capital expenditures. We feel
[24:55] that the funding has been allocated to them. We've just not fully...
[25:00] Completed those projects or drawn all of those funds down. So we're not looking to draw new funding down for some of the ongoing capital needs and that a lot of it is just the maintenance, the facility, the facility repair facility maintenance. So I think we have a good surplus of capital fund already approved for those items going forward. So we're going to go through just individually. There's the four categories that we split our operational budget into.
[25:30] The first one is operations. This is directly what we've just been talking about with our
[25:37] contract with MV transportation. This is where these costs can come into this.
[25:42] So even though we have a slight reduction in our variable cost, our fixed cost will go
[25:49] up over the next year, so that plays into this increase. And I think the big increase in this
[25:55] line item is insurance, you know, insurances go and go up, but, you know, we are a member
[26:01] of insurance pool with a number of other transit agencies and when the budget for that
[26:10] pool was presented two or three weeks ago, you know, we are looking at across the board
[26:14] around the 10-15% increase in insurance costs across the pool of agencies. So the way that
[26:22] comes down to us, we're definitely seeing an increase in our rates for next year.
[26:27] As we discussed at the F&A committee, the reality is vehicles are getting more expensive,
[26:34] which means insure as wanting a little bit more premium to make sure that we've got
[26:41] some skin in the game and they know what they're backing into.
[26:44] So, you know, right now a lot of our vehicles, if anything happens, you know, we had to be
[26:52] fully re-embeared for the cost of the vehicle.
[26:55] Our insurance is covered that because the vehicles are only costing $800,000,
[26:59] but when we look at how did your electric vehicles,
[27:02] because at 1.2, 1.5 million, I believe there's an electric 60
[27:11] -foot vehicle
[27:12] that is $2.2 million.
[27:16] So right now the way our insurance works is any vehicle over the most of vehicle means
[27:21] your voice won't point two million dollars, so as we move into that, it's just a preparation
[27:26] that these insurance rates are going to keep increasing as we kind of move forward.
[27:32] Vehicle maintenance, we are showing a 6.3% increase, I think as Evelyn kind of alluded to, a lot
[27:39] part of this is we're trying to just balance out the cost of doing things in house with
[27:45] our MV labour, so we're only kind of resulting in paying for parts basically instead of sending
[27:52] items out for repair which results in parts plus labour costs. So we're still, I think
[27:58] overall between the vehicle maintenance in the operations budget and the vehicle maintenance
[28:03] in the capital budget, you know, we're all, it all tied back together, it's just we're
[28:07] try to make sure we put in things in the right category to reflect where those costs
[28:11] actually come in. The other part of this is, we're buying parts, we're not just dealing
[28:18] with supply chain issues, we're dealing with increased costs that go along with all of
[28:23] these new parts.
[28:26] We also have a number of aging vehicles in our fleet. We are due to receive
[28:34] six new 35-foot-gillig vehicles over the next month or so to put them into service but right now
[28:40] if a vehicle goes down we need to get that vehicle back out on the street so you know
[28:45] unfortunately we are probably putting a little bit of morning into parts and parts of these vehicles
[28:50] just to kind of keep them going for the next few months and then the huge part of this budget is
[28:56] you know fuel fuel lubricants that those kind of items which historically the board have been
[29:01] really, really conservative, and we've budgeted for them. We've always come in very, very much
[29:07] under budget, like, you know, 34% under budget. I think we're looking in the upcoming year to
[29:14] scale back that conservatism slightly. Not eliminated, I think we still understand that
[29:20] fuel costs fluctuate, fuel costs are going up, but consistently over the last five, six years,
[29:27] We've been coming in six seven hundred thousand dollars under budget in this line item
[29:32] So I think we've got a good job of reflecting what the true cost are so still being conservative still partner a question in there
[29:40] But maybe not quite as much as we have in previous years
[29:45] Non-vehicle maintenance has a it's a small dollar amount
[29:48] But is it it is a 10% increased year-on-year on the budget and I think that's mainly reflective in
[29:55] All of their technology we have, all of the on-going licenses,
[29:59] my Instagram is sweet.
[30:30] It's a new system, it's a better system, it's an increased cost. It's just an unfortunate byproduct of what we kind of need to keep doing business. Administration costs have gone up. Again, it's a significant dollar value, it's a 15% increase. We are anticipating bringing one new employee on board in the upcoming year and that would be an accounting technician.
[30:58] Iバ'n ador, yna fwy hynny fel sydd testor yn cyfrifraethau yma yn fwy hynny fwy hynny.
[31:04] W'n siop y gallu cyfrifraethau Rhywyd gwaith.
[31:09] Bot yn fwy hynny, yn sgwond i gyferi cael cefru yn cyfrifraethau.
[31:12] Yma' yn frysig yma lliag, a dydilwfyn yn y warthol, ac yn cyfrifraethau wedi gwneudau trwy fwy hynny.
[31:18] Fwy hynny fwy hynny dydilf yma yn fwy hynny, a yma yna cymdu am fwy hynny.
[31:21] Fwy hynny a fwy hynny, i defny hynny.
[31:26] Fwy hynny gyda fwy hynny.
[31:28] Byddol oedd yn ydych yw ar gypers i ddyn nhw yn yslymru yn amig.
[31:35] Mae'r ein iy rhaid, mae ymddysuo mor yn sut oeddwn i dyn nhw o cynnod yr ysgfaiddio meddwleg ymr
[31:40] o poprithol i ar ei lyrddol yng Nghymru weda'r undryd, oeddwn i'r dwy'n ysgfaiddio.
[31:42] Yw'n dd comefelly ac, ac, yn eisiau mwy atryn ni a ddyn nhw enw Cyfnill oedyn
[31:48] yn clwe巴 oeddwn am gyda mai, oeddwn am mewetau o'n rhaid Canes Gwngyd yn cyfogor
[31:57] enn nhw'r dubull oedd nes i ddim yn awr.
[31:58] Mae'r cutsbyd eu ffordd o'r adryd y pwystgio'r adryd awr wrth fabiedlawn i fynd yn y rhan f America Rdyn.
[32:08] Mae'r chyfnod yna yn ysgirio i'r adryd o'r adryd o ystyfnod yna,
[32:11] yn amlwch I Crossyn, amg dewn cefnod yn ei l amazingeg i'w yma o fod,
[32:14] so wedi'r adryd bod i'r yn arwooddu.
[32:16] Mae'r adryd bod i'r adryd, oes yna, yma ddechrau cyfan
[32:23] Hydgan, werad
[32:25] yn pari iawn nath y gallan amyon
[32:28] yr a tossendna ddech beth ddi bywch애
[32:30] Pluto yn arw werad ac
[32:41] yma rwynod遠 fe
[32:42] fe fwnod f eagle oedauedd
[32:46] viadol es
[32:49] terribleweg Yna
[32:57] rydw bago gwnt yn roedd
[32:57] angよう gwnddysydd
[33:01] gwnt yn roedd
[33:01] hyd yn bwysill yn fawr hyd fawr yna diolio, tiol oodd.
[33:06] Mae'r fawr hyd i fawr yma a gydol am meddwladau
[33:07] am yr hynny, mae'n rhoi rhywbau'r fawr a hynny,
[33:10] maen nhw gan yma gydol oedd chi,
[33:14] oedd chi'n rhywbau nhw dar雯ain berthu'r fawr.
[33:18] Yng Nghymru, ac yna'r cyfer o'n roedd i folytaw
[33:22] am gyfer ni arau bod yn yw,
[33:23] gylwfyd yma gwrsau'r yma onr yna.
[33:57] gweith dar mwfg, oeddwn gael'r 0.3 barwch.
[34:05] Yna goru'r 1 barwch ynfer oad yn fydd yn fydd ymwfg, yw'r 0.3 barwch ynfer oeddwn yn fydd yn fydd.
[34:08] Ry'r 0.3 barwch yn ôl yn fydd yna argymr, wedi'n mith, yna am قint wir a mae'n fydd yn y fydd yn fydd yn fydd yn ymwf Cle stainless.
[34:15] Doedd yna? Pa jithaethol yna ei yna lle unrhymwch i gweld ac mae'n dolf yn yw cyfod.
[34:21] Mae'n gweithu o'n gweithe itais yna arwch i cael ei chyn Dav僚au i dewn i singbull o 6.
[34:31] Ireneaedd sydd wedi'ch bwysig oedd cymroedd i cyfod yn cael ddylwni gallu mor bwysig oedd o fel oedd yma.
[34:39] Mae'n gweithu oedd cyfodau wedi'i gweithe itis gweld yn ôlfyd yma.
[34:45] Rwy'n gwrs i'n rywbryd i'r R&M yn cymaint a sy'n ymdyn.
[34:52] Felly, bwyd yn ran pethau a trannu u a ffwnnwyn yn ryd yn cynnwyd yn R&M yn rym.
[35:00] 3 money, SB 125 money from the Government's budget last year to make their money last a little bit longer, move money round to make sure operators are kind of held whole. So we put a projection in there for next year. I'm confident that we will receive at least that amount but until we get a definite, we could well see some SB 125 funding allocated to us in the upcoming year. To not include in this budget because I don't have a no matter what the confidence of giving it,
[35:29] That $25 are anologists say we can anticipate that amount.
[35:56] ieben.
[35:58] дорchysgol yn diad ac ar y cyflwyau cymp ironu ac mae'n dwi'r fwybdiad fwybdiad cyflwyau â wygynlagd.
[36:10] Ym yn clyfoddo sefyllwyr nhw y byddiad i'r ysgiliau ymddir eu yw o'r cyfysgol yma fel fwybdiad cyflwyau a'r
[36:14] ffordd somi apuau y'ch nhw'r cyflwyau oedig i'r yn byddiad cyflwyau o'r cyflwyau oedig yma ffawr oedig
[36:17] oedig byddiad cyflwyau a yn ffordd somi ag rydynu yma yma yma yma fel yma yma yma yma.
[36:19] Nieu o pithu fydd yn fydd yn ymrnyfod yn datiol hynny diolch.
[36:22] Mae'n rhaid eisiau pethau i'n fydd swef, hon yn pethau,
[36:28] fydd cyf yn y fyddau rwy'n iawn i'n cymryd.
[36:33] Mae wedi fy ymwyr i'n iawn i'r fyddau,
[36:34] mae'n ei yw eisiau pethau headi
[36:37] a fyddau fel y cyfrwydd sydd yn amser,
[36:41] yn amser y gwyfl,
[36:42] o fyddau'n amser,
[36:46] o fyddau'nCRill yn fyddau o fyddau
[36:49] Mae'r gefniseen arall am unig, Leistyn ym de PhoneG Lift hynnyhell.
[36:59] Mae hynnyddfa cantoddol carestec yn arlyg dd于c i crel o9 eisebwch,
[37:01] modna sydd â'n oputeil o'r druhr is yn aut facecafio...
[37:02] Mae fynd arfael ar gyfer ei ddiyw yn tw facult sham wneud anghyfylld,
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[37:14] mae'n oputeil o roedd y gyfer ni rhai yw'ن크�nych ar gygyta fus Breakfast Level.
[37:19] yn ffer hwnnwm yn gwerthod a dwi'r ym diw, ar ar ôl ymg i defnyddawn a nerwch chi'n mynd i sydd ei dweud hynny,
[37:24] rwy'n ei ff yn gweimd eu ar ei cymryd o brydgiau ar ei fod,
[37:27] ac yw'n gweith yna dwi'r eitan dヤf i bod, a ei fi'n ymg rydyn sydd ar y gallwydd yn cef yna i'r reig.
[37:37] yma'r drwn wneud i'r gwylet, sydd wedi eu mewn rwy'r fel pw03 ar wneud yn y gwylet afrwyth ni'r gweithioedd...
[37:47] a ymwchyd ni'r gweithioedd gwylet afrwythioedd diwedais yn yna llanc o ddwl gwneud enfad.
[37:56] Datau a fel wedi cael dod o'r dochu ago'r boddach y gweithioedd amgylwyd darm cefydw i'r yんau
[38:01] ni'n cael amgyl, ar yr hyn yn Ynau gallu hynno cysf器.
[38:03] Ym gydw'r achesyn y gallwn ni'n llanc o'r gwylet a gwyletema.
[38:36] Y mae'n agrio gerithio sy'n wneud i' nhw ymdyniad oedd hynny.
[38:42] ac mae gyd wedi ddigun edraedd yn werfŵr yn ddwynau yn ddwl i ddwl am yma yn adaflwch ar arfaithau y ffrahŵr yn amdyraddau.
[38:55] Wysig llwn.
[38:57] Iadau wedi benn ymwch arfaithau rhywbeth oedau yna.
[39:02] Felly, mae Gydyn ni'n rhaid y cyrefiad fewn i gyfer yna o'r einąd neu hyff newydd eistafo,
[39:12] Gynt jel yn meddwl gwybod i ddynoriad o gwybod mwy'n gofnwysig yr
[39:14] iawn yw yna, ac yna gwybod i ddynoriad yma.
[39:20] Mae yna os yna ac yna i gweithrad y cael y seu
[39:23] cyfle sydd yma.
[39:26] Mae ddeit roi'r yng Nghyllunio ac i wedi boddi amdwch
[39:26] a i'r ni'n cyfle fibraifio a gydynorau
[39:27] Mae lath ymwyny cyfle sydd yn cael y gallwch
[39:30] cyfod i cyfle sydd yma cyflelly yna eu
[39:30] ddoedd rhau ar ohad yn cael eu
[39:35] yma o gwybod yna i llawer ei
[39:38] o lle fel foregweithio, yna gweithioed yn y gwaithydd yn fwyfnnau yma yn gweithio'r gallwch fel.
[39:49] Dyn nhw eich bod, gwneud cynniadau, yna mewn pethafiolau yn aptellus, yn gwneud dyn nhw,
[39:53] fo yr gynniadau waith fffb.
[39:57] I am the last page.
[40:00] It's more of just the highlights of the actual of our reserves. So, I think the line item
[40:06] is proposed FY 2025. On July 1st, I do anticipate our reserve balance will be $9.7 million, give
[40:16] or take. Then, if you go down that the TDA 4-point allocation is the amount of funding we expect
[40:24] to receive this year, then a nose of how much we anticipate to use of our TDA funding
[40:30] for operations, which would leave a ending TDA balance of a little over $8 million, but
[40:40] included in that are the vehicle purchases that the board have previously approved, which
[40:45] is the $3.1 million of local funds, and then the $730,000 is what I mentioned earlier
[40:54] the previous capital budgets that the Board of Approved have been allocated. We just have
[41:00] not gone all those funds down, so I think in terms of how the Board should look at our reserves,
[41:05] those are incumbent money. They're kind of accounted for. They can be changed. Any of these
[41:11] money can be changed, but right now that $3.8 million is in Board approved set aside for out-of-our reserves.
[41:20] So, you know, if you just look at the outgoing years, you see that 2027, that's when all
[41:28] of those reserves would be kind of reduced.
[41:31] So, kind of that's where we are with our operating budget.
[41:35] I'm happy to order any additional details, but we are looking for approval for the adjusted budget,
[41:42] the upcoming year budget.
[41:44] Again, I'm happy to add with the caveat that we can certainly ensure within that motion
[41:50] that we will come back for a boardwork shop to discuss all of these items in more detail.
[41:56] Thank you for that report, and I'll note again that the F&A committee met earlier before
[42:02] this meeting and recommended approval of the budget.
[42:06] But with that, are there any questions?
[42:10] Yes.
[42:11] Board member.
[42:12] Thank you.
[42:13] So first, I want to apologize to everyone for my tardiness to this meeting this evening.
[42:18] Secondly, I know the priorities of West Cat include the best possible service to its customer
[42:25] base and the quality of work environment and work conditions for its employees.
[42:36] So can you speak to any current or future practical impact because of the fluctuation?
[42:45] Sure, I think it's a good point.
[42:49] Something I was going to tell you about in my general manager's report.
[42:51] We did just implement the service change.
[42:55] Well, maybe the step back as you were not here for some of the early discussion.
[42:58] the board just did just approve an extension to our agreement with every
[43:04] transportation which does reflect an increase in salary for road suits and
[43:10] dispatches so I mean I think that's a it's a it's a it's been a long-own need
[43:16] for us to make that kind of change and so I think that's been that that has been
[43:20] noted but that that comes out of our bottom line so that you know it does have a
[43:24] potential impact on service as we move forward. We did just implement the service change, which
[43:30] reduced in a reduction in hours that we pay MV for. And when I say that, I'm being careful
[43:37] because there's two things, there's service hours, there's amounts of service we have on the streets,
[43:41] and then there's the build hours that we get from MV, which is when a bus leaves the yard,
[43:48] to when the bus gets back, so that includes layover time, that includes getting to them from,
[43:54] so there's a lot of that. So the reduction of the schedule that we just made was the where some
[44:02] minor changes to the current schedule out there on the street. Most of their impact was to drive
[44:09] as layover, so when a driver gets to the end of their run, their previous schedule had a lot of
[44:15] of unproductive time in it, you know, it could be, they would do one of the loops in
[44:21] heckleys, which is a 20-minute loop, and then they have a 15-minute break at the end of
[44:25] that, and they could do that over and over again throughout the day. So, you know, there
[44:29] were routes where we were paying for as much, as much layerless answers we were for actual
[44:35] service. So, I say that because the, the, the result was we went from billed hours, 96,000
[44:44] hours, as of last annually, last week, the service change that went into effect on Saturdays
[44:49] 89,000, which did result in having to downsize some of the drivers.
[44:57] the reality is that I believe
[45:00] O'r one driver did move to another location. So one driver, they were all offered the chance to move to other NB locations. Sanyander Fairfield, bailing game, there was another one where someone went. So I'm going to judge here that went to Sanyander, but one driver chose not to. So that is a reality of, you know, these kind of decisions that it does have an impact on our operations staff. It does have an impact on all of those things.
[45:29] A teulu ar y dderoddiu yn gael o'r gael ei fathnol.
[45:33] Mae'r fawr fi fod yn gallu'r gael yna siesta'u.
[45:37] Yna gyfle sydd yna gael.
[45:38] A sy'n befiedraffor'i ei fod yn gael diethau oedd yn gael yma.
[45:44] Allaethio gyda gael eu chi wedi?
[45:48] Allu, ac yna gael ysgrag, sydd ydyd i magreidelitethau'i ddefnyd efallai.
[45:56] Rwy'n hynny oedio wedi farf yser yna gael yma.
[45:58] Cydig a ffordd o lefnol am yma oedio bwyriau.
[45:59] faithfyd flaid a ffyd ar yfer gyrdd bfyd, a ffyd ar yfynur hwnnil ar yrfodos, ffyd ar ffyd fel yw hynny, eisiau feithfydfydaldi cael arfyd Wedi'r ffydfa ar yfydfa dollt oes.
[46:11] Chaawos, gydro, gydro, oedd yn oedd yn mynd edryg.
[46:16] Mae'n aft i ffydfa a gynyboeth ac defnyddornau fofydóf ffydfa a gydro, a ond eisiau ffydfa a gydro ag adas,
[46:31] o tickant o hwywas hwywas hwywas hwywas gynnas a pharigol.
[46:37] 4.
[46:37] rygdyn oedd cysylltion oedd cael târ, oedd cael anid i'r ysgwis
[46:39] ac perrasa, oedd cael a'r cwns a peb ysgwis.
[46:43] 5, eng dau cael llawn ddain ni leid, yma ddain komadefion
[46:51] a resillwm ac y cwmw'n launching o'nниi wedi cael çol 2.
[46:57] 4-0-2, authorising the filing of an application with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission for an allocation of Transportation Development Act,
[47:09] slash state transit assistance, slash netbridge toll revenues, slash feeder bus funds slash regional measure 2 operating funds and regional 3 operating funds for fiscal year,
[47:29] Mae'n iau wedi beth yn ei ôl dod o proeddol i sicrhau.
[47:33] Mae'n iau beth yn pethnod rhywb yn ei sefyllwnau.
[47:36] Mae'r pethnod rhywb yn ei oedat syddio cynnodor cyngylwyr myrsrwylil,
[47:40] mae wedi iau beth yn ei 806 i hynny.
[47:42] Mae'n iau beth yn cael ei nhw ffordon prb' i ddyn nhw.
[47:45] Mae'n iau beth yn ei amser a dyna ymdean eu cylwyr a ddefnyddeg,
[47:48] mae'n iau beth yn iau beth yn i dyn nhw i ddyn nhw union Ysgolanginguaethan.
[47:51] Angeles cwp hyar ai par갤oedd o Chymdeles o'r p Masyw who o Shelo a d Russaor any wneud
[47:56] Neau, trelu
[47:58] un sillaf.
[48:01] Mae yne enten siolaid yr honno per Gilag.
[48:02] with the newydd y bylwn ar eich hurag ar y cadrydd drwymau calluri wedi dod
[48:05] watysio stor pwyd yn fo.
[48:06] I am.
[48:07] I am.
[48:08] Is there a second?
[48:08] I will second.
[48:09] OK.
[48:10] We have a motion and a second.
[48:12] All those in favor say aye.
[48:14] Aye.
[48:14] Any opposed?
[48:16] Abstentions?
[48:17] That passes 5-0.
[48:19] Moving right along.
[48:21] Item 2.6.
[48:24] This is consideration and adoption of resolution 2024-03.
[48:30] And this is the West Contra Costa Transportation Authority.
[48:35] cyntaf a'u niegu y defnyddiadau yn gallu testau i fewn.
[48:40] A ac yn cyntaf a'u ffydlau syach o beth o ffydlau cre mae yna o'r fel niwn
[48:47] yn cur yna, mae o'r yna newydd a argoedd yn hynny seoul os.
[48:50] A pwysbnau sydd yna, yma yna central partlau i yna, e pencilshau eu cyntaf a'r
[48:55] sefyng i yna, ar yna gan cyntaf a ffydlau o ffydlau sydd o ffydlau yna yna
[48:59] yna cyntaf a ffydlau am fod yn fewnlau ddiadau yn derbyn.
[49:36] a diwchel, wedi'r trynddragoor, ac yn amlwch, neseg bethau, ac mae'r fywr iaid rhan iaid oedau ferrach,
[49:42] ac mae'r dewedragoor i Cyneth dzirrych chi oden fathofasiddol ar gyda i llwyr a'n dewedragoor.
[49:49] Mae ddysgol, ddy барdysgol, eitau, fel ar gyda'r p freshmanyd.
[49:52] O sy'n dadem oi, fywr y p wiru golinio'r gwasanaethau, o dydau ei wedi cyflat yw i chi wneud okhau dar ei ddarmeid.
[50:00] Closing remarks or motion?
[50:07] I make a motion. We have motion. Yeah, the motion that we adopt the resolution to 0224-103. Okay. I can. And a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any any abstentions? That motion passes 5-0. Thank you. So 2.7. State legislative advocate.
[50:33] see update. Thank you so I'm sure I had no surprise that this is going to concentrate on
[50:39] Senate Bill 1031 which is Scott Weeners kind of proposal to help put a regional measure on
[50:49] the ballot for the Bay Area. It contains a lot of other elements. We talked quite a lot about this
[50:53] at the last meeting. It's still a very very fluid bill and I'll kind of go through where it is now
[51:00] some of the concerns that we still have, but I think I'm going to start by kind of putting
[51:05] this out there as a question to think about as we discuss this. A number of trans agencies have
[51:11] taken a direct position on this bill. VTA, Sam Trant, CalTrain, Tried Elter and Lavter have all
[51:19] taken a pose on less a bend, positions on this bill. As far as I'm aware, certainly in any of the
[51:26] record I've looked at back to around 2000, Westcat has never taken an official position
[51:31] on a bill. So I think it's entirely up to the board if they wish to do that. It's not
[51:36] something I'm recommending, but it's saying that's something I'm opposing if the board wishes
[51:40] to do that. So I think the question is, do the board wish to take an official position
[51:45] or do you wish to direct staff to continue as we are doing working with our lobbyists to
[51:52] that kind of advocates for our needs
[51:54] and what we see as part of our coalition
[51:56] with Dry Delta County Connection.
[51:58] And one of the reasons is that our lobbyist
[52:02] is putting together a letter that we will be submitting
[52:04] that does have some potential amendments in there
[52:07] that Dry Delta and Lavta have crafted
[52:10] because they're born to take in that official position
[52:13] and they've given their staff direction to do certain parameters.
[52:17] County Connection are only taking a watch position
[52:20] on the bill.
[52:21] So it's how we craft that letter that we're all kind of in agreement with the content for who's taken a natural position versus who's just working on a staff level to kind of make sure that, you know, we're kind of at the table.
[52:35] I think it's also where I mentioned the AC Transit have only taken a watch position on this bill at the moment.
[52:40] I believe Bart have supported it and most of the other counties have either taken a watch
[52:48] position or I think it's Sonoma County of taking an oppose and lessment position at this
[52:54] point. So you may recall there's a lot that there are a lot of, there's been a lot kind
[53:01] of half of the last month with this bill. It did go through the Senate Transportation
[53:06] committee, which is chaired by Senator Cortese, and he put on a number of, what came
[53:15] out of that meeting was what they called a term sheet, which was potentially, potential
[53:19] amendments that he wanted to see being incorporated into the bill, given that he would support
[53:25] at the Transportation Committee. He was like, the only way I'll support is if this is done
[53:29] to it, but we haven't seen those amendments in writing yet, so it's a little hard to know
[53:34] how they'll be crafted after the fact. A very similar thing happened at the Revenue
[53:39] and Taxation Committee the following day, which is chair by Senator Galesa. He kind of was
[53:45] pretty adamant that the only way he was supporting this bill is if it changed significantly,
[53:49] but he wasn't prepared to stop the bill there and then it was you know allowing it to go through
[53:54] the process. So the next step for the bill is it goes to the Senate appropriations committee
[54:00] and then it has to pass the vote on the Senate floor by May 24th. So we're
[54:07] expecting to see potential amendments, written amendments to the bill in the
[54:12] next week or so. I mean it's you know it's really not a lot of time to react to
[54:16] some of these things but just the intel we get from our lobbyist and the team
[54:22] that we're working for, you know we fully anticipate this will pass the Senate
[54:27] vote and we'll move on to the Assembly and that's where we all believe that there's a lot more
[54:32] opportunity for significant changes to be made to that end. We do have a meeting already set up
[54:40] with Assemblymember Lawy Wilson because she's the chair of the Transportation Committee. She is
[54:50] very much aligned. She's spoken a lot with Rashidi Barnes, the general manager of Trian Elter,
[54:56] because that's the main service area, so there's been a lot of discussions already.
[55:00] On that level, and I think she certainly understands a lot of our concerns. We are trying to. We have calendar invites out to Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, Tim Grayson. There's another one that laughed their areas, kind of, that we're trying to schedule for the same time, just to make sure that we're kind of touching all those bases. But, you know, what's coming out of the Senate is certainly more palatable than it was a month ago.
[55:31] I mean, there have been some changes that still, I don't think any of the Trans-Ansies
[55:36] you're talking about last month have prepared to change that position right now based
[55:40] on what they know, but it has come quite a long way.
[55:45] We had a meeting yesterday with all of the small operators, general managers and MTC staff
[55:50] with their kind of, I'm honest, the MTC commission has a lot of concerns, there's a discussion
[55:58] at the MTC Ledge Committee tomorrow. There was an MTC workshop a couple of weeks ago where
[56:05] they did, I think they talked in public about potentially withdrawing their sponsorship of
[56:11] the bill because they don't, some of the commissioners don't really like where it's going. They talked
[56:15] about maybe completely re-gaining the scope of the bill and not really show what that means but
[56:21] potentially making it a five-county bar's only bill. You know what I mean? So there's just a lot
[56:26] of unknowns out there as to how we're doing this, you know, MC staff basically, you know,
[56:32] were honest yesterday and said, you know, they are having conversation with the operators.
[56:36] They're also having direct conversations with Senator Wiener, Senator Woharb, Senator
[56:41] Kautaisy and Mayor Pro Tem, because they are the Senate Pro Tem, because they're the ones
[56:46] that are kind of really crafting the bill.
[56:49] You know, there's a lot of discussion within senators, and there's also a lot of discussion
[56:53] between Senator Wiener and the advocate out there so we don't know how a lot of
[56:59] those conversations are happening. There are a lot behind closed doors. Some of the
[57:04] initial proposals on amendments that MCC offered, some of them got included,
[57:09] some of them didn't, some of them got you know watered down so it's still a lot
[57:13] of unknowns kind of out there and what's going to actually come out of that. But I
[57:19] I think there's four key issues that are still there.
[57:23] Oh, first of all, there's a couple of issues that have gone away.
[57:26] One of the issues that's gone away was the maintenance of efforts,
[57:29] which basically wouldn't meant that if Magicia was not renewed,
[57:35] we, the individual, trying to aim to, for some reason,
[57:38] be held responsible financially for those funding that's gone away.
[57:42] So that's been removed, that's definitely a good thing.
[57:45] Another really big concession that MTC have made, they have taken out their, they were
[57:52] requesting authority over all of the TDA, the Transportation Development Act funds
[57:57] that we received, so that would then, instead of it being a local return to source by
[58:01] trying to operate it, they wanted it to be a regional funding source so they could have
[58:05] direct control over all of those revenues which would basically, you know, I think all
[58:12] of the small operators, that's the majority of our finances. That's a huge part of our budget,
[58:18] so they have backed away from that. They do still want to maintain control over our SCA funds,
[58:26] which they do to some extent now. I think there's some deliberation on how much of that,
[58:31] because right now, while they control the population-based elements of state transit assistance funds,
[58:39] SDA funds, they don't call the control the revenue portion of that, and this bill would
[58:44] potentially give them control over that. It's not a huge amount of funding towards, but it's still
[58:49] enough for us to be certainly aware of that kind of request from MTC. There's still a language
[58:59] that all of this requirements on MTC authority would go into effect as soon as the bill passes,
[59:05] regardless of if the measure passes, that's still a concern.
[59:09] To some of the other issues where the bailiff still talks about creating a brand new structure
[59:16] within MTC to oversee transit agencies and we feel that's already been in place with
[59:22] the regional network management system, that we've all worked for the last four years and agreed
[59:27] on across the region to point in place. So we're trying to, that's one of the key issues
[59:32] just keep that in place and give it a chance to work through the system.
[59:38] Return the sources to a huge concern, certainly a huge concern for all of the counties,
[59:43] the way that the proposed funding formula is written, and this is not written in the bill,
[59:51] this is just kind of MTCs how they think that they would do their expenditure plan.
[59:57] There is 10 source to count these an issue, but
[1:01:02] We have a lot of work done with a lot of work done, particularly with Caltrain and Sam Trums working with Senator Wahab and her staff and maybe using the word enhanced coordination rather than consolidation. And I think there's some concessions, I don't think it's concessions, I think there's a general agree with that.
[1:01:25] Felly, yn yr ysgwyddio, dan yn yr ysgwyddio fwyithio wneud digarod cymryn sofr yn ysgwyddio digarod cyfn sy'n amreniddiad at yw yn rei i cynniol barbydiad yr cymryn sy'n'w i'r i'r gweithio cystall.
[1:01:39] Cwa ddechrau, mae'n gweithio'n ysgwyllio yn rhan yn ar anfer.
[1:01:41] Felly, mae'n gweithio aser cypalulio yn gweithio, iawn y gallu gan gyfer yn gwyna ei wneud archau a ffeithio
[1:01:50] a ffaithod yr dda, a因 yma a werid ystyra wneud ammarияwch, mae ei bwy'REol.
[1:01:55] a le i llawer enn'n gwybod gwybod.
[1:01:59] Y Stael'r Aelill ddiddihol a Llywodol a Llywodol a Llywodol a Llywodol.
[1:02:06] Mae'n llawrig lllawol a'r dymaol yn llwybwyrwch drif o dal.
[1:02:13] Ddoeddwnol a'r chwilio, pan, mae'n gwybod fel aill штриol a ddigitad fel a reissau llwyddol.
[1:02:17] Iw'n gwledig amod yn ddiadwch yn gallw ar indo deall o'n gael gwlad.
[1:02:22] Mae'n gweld iawn ein cael bod yn gael gwledig genoedd.
[1:02:31] Tood sy'n gael dysgu fel meddwl ddod yn edraeth gyd beth ddeg gyfer ei fforddwrs cymdol.
[1:02:32] Mae'n gael gweld ar gyfer o'n gael gweld ymgur.
[1:02:34] Mae'n gael gweld ei roedd edraeth gydwyd i gael gwlad,
[1:02:35] a'r o'r Autsrau i Fael gwledig genoedd hefyd yn gael gwlo.
[1:02:38] Mae'n gael gweld yn gael gweld i'r ddeg fffa rhai a'r ei roedd yng Nghymru dda eitau
[1:02:43] y gallwch i'r fan i'r oes ac sylfiadaub a'r gwyffel i'r Ysgol.
[1:02:45] Mae'r fockai yn ffordd o'r amfyd yn amfrangoddau buat yn mynd i ni,
[1:02:47] yna ffordd, mae'r hon ddigau ffordd o'r amfydau.
[1:02:54] Mae'r cyfleib neu buchoff i eraill ac mae'n neddu mewn gwneud.
[1:02:56] E'n gwyf dimen di pobl i'r yw, apwchus,
[1:03:00] Yn'n rwyb nhw cyphodaethu yn ffordd a Chyfru ar y cyflyl a'r hynny.
[1:03:03] Mae'r i'r gweith, ac o'r mae'r amfydmwch,
[1:03:12] oam yn fαι y gyddiad, am sut yn gand arkadaşan unrhyw.
[1:03:15] Dwi wedyn niegdiadau yng Nghywyd yn gyda'r sydd ei dyna sy'n maximoeg.
[1:03:19] Mae'r ddungu fflladau wnes cydynol wrth sydd yn ôl agor gynun oesッraeth yn dod,
[1:03:27] yna fflladau fel ei mynd od iig.
[1:03:36] Mae cymrobuwobiawyn fynd arall yn yngyan y beth am yng Nghywyd syddau derbyd o'r fflladau fel yw
[1:03:40] ddungu, a fewtaethau fel oagol yn cynnag oesbwag fflladau fel yw
[1:03:45] Plycydgeg i'r pŵw i ac mae'r pŵw i'r ei pŵw i pe i'r pŵw i beth yn amn nhw'n amserod dweud o awry ei wneud.
[1:03:51] Mae'r pŵw i udyn ni yw pan ei wneud iawn gwneud a dyna ei gweithu gwneud o fnegadeg.
[1:03:58] Mae'r patopu a'r pŵw i'r pŵw i hoi phwydd oedd yn arall o fawr perillit wneud a dyn nhw'n caelau
[1:04:04] o fydd yn gwneud arfnau, mae'r rwyngol yn carboeddат yn mor yw eid â hwyd yn uwi possible.
[1:04:08] ligor wasna yn gwwyr ar ddoddiadau i ni wedi tiadau.
[1:04:12] Mae'r asbyd o ddaadatau hynny, am yn diadau hynny,
[1:04:14] ac yn gwasanaeth bryddolio a'r cael gweld oedig cymdiadau â fel hefyd.
[1:04:20] Roedd yn myn achos Barth wich o roedd nhw y f art rydr iawn iu.
[1:04:44] iggio garfan ynnw sefy亜fod yn ei myndo ychwan yma.
[1:04:49] Rydych.
[1:04:51] 1 a a a Zysraethbraeth Rydych wed dioltaf
[1:04:56] Ym ga refes zabd בnebwch tro
[1:04:58] Wa auf update as say能 hyn hyn nhw moddi
[1:04:59] Mae hyn esaol mai mis o fo
[1:04:59] atb coer.
[1:04:59] Rydych chi gwneudhdnu
[1:05:00] Any policy that they brought adopted and one of their legislative policies for the year was that they would oppose any consolidation efforts. So they were, by default, have to take an opposed position to this bill.
[1:05:14] Well thank you, for my concern is that we don't have any alternative, because if we take
[1:05:21] one and they get mad at us and do something different, we still have the same place,
[1:05:24] which is we don't have funding to operate.
[1:05:27] So I think that it's a time to stand up with, I mean we have a consultant that's helping
[1:05:32] us.
[1:05:33] So of course we want to consult with them.
[1:05:34] We don't want to do the opposite of us.
[1:05:35] We're paying someone to ask us.
[1:05:36] It's meant to inform us to do, but I think that waiting for CCT or something like that,
[1:05:41] They'll still be a business if this happens, right?
[1:05:46] We're the ones that'll be affected.
[1:05:47] It's just my thoughts.
[1:05:49] So I'm just not to go back, but direct pause.
[1:05:52] You could actually direct me to taking a pose.
[1:05:55] If you, if you, so wish, you could direct me
[1:05:59] to inform the sensors, inform whether the West Guard board
[1:06:04] or I'm opposed unless I'm in position on this bill.
[1:06:07] That is not directly in this, but that
[1:06:10] That could be your direction, it's not.
[1:06:11] Okay, thank you.
[1:06:14] Is there any more questions?
[1:06:16] Yes.
[1:06:17] I'll just have a thought.
[1:06:18] I don't think there's any danger of going opposed.
[1:06:22] Not if there is.
[1:06:23] It's nobody that really directly affects us, it's carrying the bill.
[1:06:26] But it could be an indication to the people are going to meet with assembly members that
[1:06:31] your board is directed you to oppose, where you can say that the board is opposed to it where
[1:06:36] instead of, we're still watching.
[1:06:38] And you could actually have a stronger position when you meet with our elected states,
[1:06:44] elected about your position and the position of the board and the support that we would like them to give us when they go back.
[1:06:51] If I can note the recommendation that we get in the Cal Cities Policy Committee is to do something that's like opposed and less amended.
[1:07:02] Because that indicates that you're willing to discuss, and if we just straight out oppose, then, you know, we're done.
[1:07:10] They don't even need to talk to us.
[1:07:12] So, I mean, again, so all of the time, that's the exact position they take and oppose, unless amend.
[1:07:18] That's the official position that they use.
[1:07:20] Okay, yes, Director.
[1:07:22] For the transit agencies that have taken a oppose and less amended position, can you speak to the amendments that they're proposing?
[1:07:29] and this is similar to what MPC is sort of.
[1:07:32] Well, I think it's basically those key issues
[1:07:34] that I went through.
[1:07:35] So I don't have the language,
[1:07:36] but it's around removing the consolidation language.
[1:07:40] It's around codifying the current
[1:07:42] regional network management structure.
[1:07:45] It's a clarification on or maximising
[1:07:48] the return to source funding.
[1:07:50] I think that one's a little bit more county based.
[1:07:53] I think that the specific amendment from
[1:07:55] that I know tried out at a crafting
[1:07:57] is a specific amount for small, individual agencies, not a collective county amount, and then
[1:08:07] I think there are three main ones that are under the amendments. I know Sam Trans and VTA,
[1:08:15] I'm sorry, Sam Trans and CalTrain have been working, I mentioned directly with Senator Wahab on
[1:08:22] amendments, and I've seen a draft of what they've done. I couldn't share exactly what they've
[1:08:27] you know, all of the language because it's still much aware and progress, but it's very
[1:08:31] much around that enhanced, enhanced, enhanced coordination language rather than consolidation.
[1:08:37] In terms of timeline, when is your next scheduled board meeting, and what is this sort
[1:08:42] of timeline for this to get out of assembly?
[1:08:45] So to get out of the senate, it's May 24th.
[1:08:54] What date does this switch to?
[1:08:57] It would be May 24th,
[1:09:03] and so is their room for us to, so let me give you the exact, so August, it was actually quite a lot of times, so August 16th is when it would have to pass the Assembly Appropriations Committee, and August 31st, it would have to pass the Assembly floor.
[1:09:20] So there is time for us to schedule this in our next board meeting for the discussion.
[1:09:24] Is there any way that you can provide the list of support opposition for the bill and
[1:09:29] background or if that's available as well?
[1:09:30] I can also, I mean, all lobbyists is also involved.
[1:09:36] That would be great.
[1:09:37] We can definitely arrange that.
[1:09:38] Thank you.
[1:09:40] Okay.
[1:09:40] Any other questions?
[1:09:43] And any public comments on this?
[1:09:46] Yeah.
[1:09:46] Okay.
[1:09:47] Seeing none, I'll bring it back.
[1:09:49] We have heard two possibilities and that's one to agendize it and bring the lobbyist in to you know give us some additional.
[1:10:00] details that would be our June meeting. Would this be the only item on the agenda since we're doing the budget already? I think the only other item would potentially be an authorization of vehicle purchase. I would probably be the only other item. But I think it's set in importance of item that it would be something that we'd still want to have. Even if it was the only item on the agenda, I think we would still want to have a meeting.
[1:10:28] It's a very good discussion, for sure.
[1:10:30] Okay.
[1:10:31] Is there any direction you'd like to give?
[1:10:35] Yes.
[1:10:36] Yeah, I would like to just go.
[1:10:37] I mean, I think we believe our central manager,
[1:10:40] what the consulting cylinder general manager is,
[1:10:42] what he's telling us.
[1:10:43] So, I'd like to board to at least vote,
[1:10:46] or at least say why we don't want to vote on for tonight,
[1:10:49] to oppose unless amended language.
[1:10:53] Because I think it's in mind what the other guys are doing.
[1:10:55] And this is, we're kind of, this is not as important to us, I think.
[1:10:59] And that's a motion?
[1:11:00] That be my motion, yes.
[1:11:01] Okay, is there a second?
[1:11:03] Second.
[1:11:04] Okay, so this would be to give direction to the general manager to communicate that we are opposed and less amended on this bill.
[1:11:11] Okay, all those in favor say aye.
[1:11:14] Aye.
[1:11:16] Any opposed?
[1:11:19] Still thinking?
[1:11:21] Abstain, and I can explain.
[1:11:23] Okay, true.
[1:11:24] Okay, and that's 4-0-1.
[1:11:28] Okay, yeah, I'm going to.
[1:11:30] Yeah, I'm pushing the motion and did the thoughts on timeliness as well.
[1:11:37] I just felt like I need more time to read about the post amendments that folks are asking for.
[1:11:46] And all good. Thank you.
[1:11:48] Thank you. All right, with that you've got direction.
[1:11:51] And then I'd like to move to the next item, which is 2.8, and that's discussion regarding
[1:12:00] start time of the board meeting.
[1:12:03] We currently start at 6.30, and I think there have in the past been discussions going
[1:12:08] earlier, going later.
[1:12:10] So I'm interested in hearing what you're talking about.
[1:12:12] I think we did bring this to the last board meeting, but I think the consensus was we didn't
[1:12:16] have enough board members here to have a full discussion.
[1:12:19] So, you know, I think it's a, it's just a question of the board of, you know, what's what's the preference?
[1:12:25] I mean, it came up as a question by director Parsons who's not here tonight is to, you know, to move it, but, you know, I don't think staff have an opinion either way.
[1:12:34] You know, it's this, this time works and earlier time would work, so it's, it's completely up to the board.
[1:12:40] And I know that some folks do have trouble getting here because they commute.
[1:12:45] I'm flexible. I think whatever we decide we do need to check it with the TV crew so we do so we did so I mean I think I think I say stuff I think all stuff the city of
[1:13:14] to and from Berkeley on a Thursday is,
[1:13:17] it's Thursday's probably the highest traffic rate
[1:13:20] of any day of the week.
[1:13:22] So it's very difficult for me to get here
[1:13:24] as you saw tonight even by 6.30.
[1:13:27] So, but if it were the position of the majority
[1:13:31] of board members, then I do have the flexibility
[1:13:33] to change my in office days
[1:13:35] and I would be willing to make an effort
[1:13:38] to change my in office day
[1:13:40] so that I'm not working on the Thursdays
[1:13:42] that we have board meetings.
[1:13:44] But just want to note that with my current schedule,
[1:13:47] it is virtually impossible to get here by six.
[1:13:49] OK, 6.30.
[1:13:51] You mean, 6.30, sorry?
[1:13:52] Yeah.
[1:13:53] Any other thoughts?
[1:13:54] Yeah, if I may.
[1:13:56] Remember the request of your departions?
[1:13:59] Was it for earlier start or a later start?
[1:14:02] Or was it for the six o'clock start?
[1:14:04] For the six o'clock start?
[1:14:05] OK.
[1:14:06] I mean, just historically, we used to meet at six o'clock
[1:14:08] until I don't know, 2014, 2015.
[1:14:12] 15 and we changed if the exact reasons that the grim pleases that we had two or three
[1:14:16] ball mums at that time who really was struggling to get here for six o'clock.
[1:14:22] Thursdays are tough for me most Thursdays I don't end work until exactly 6 p.m. so I would
[1:14:29] be in favor of moving to the 7th if I'm honest with you but 6.30 right now can work for me
[1:14:34] currently.
[1:14:37] I support the 6.30 time I think it also works well for those when the F and A committee
[1:14:41] He does meet, it allows some time between,
[1:14:44] otherwise the meeting at five o'clock or 4.30.
[1:14:46] I know we rotate who's on that,
[1:14:48] but that would be a problem for me if we did that.
[1:14:50] So that's my opinion.
[1:14:54] 6.30, 6.30, 6.30.
[1:14:57] We will keep the meeting at 6.30.
[1:15:00] 630 in. Thank you. Maybe you can think about changing your at-home day.
[1:15:10] But 630 works for you, um, director society. Yes, thank you. All right. Thank you. So there's direction. And then, um, thank you for that. We'll move on to committee reports, general managers report. I don't think I have anything additional. I think we talked a little bit about the schedule change. That was the main topic. And I think that was it.
[1:15:32] So, okay.
[1:15:33] I have nothing else.
[1:15:34] WicTech.
[1:15:36] So, keeping with this has been a long meeting.
[1:15:38] I'll just briefly mention that we had a transportation expenditure plan discussion and that's
[1:15:42] kind of ongoing still about how that's going to fish out all the way, and West Contra Costa
[1:15:46] High Capacity has transitioned to discuss some workshops that they've done.
[1:15:51] Great.
[1:15:52] Next is correspondence, and we have none.
[1:15:56] Board communication and items for future meeting.
[1:16:00] I actually have something, Board communication.
[1:16:02] And through my day job, I witnessed three West Cat employees doing outstanding work,
[1:16:13] and I wanted to share that with the board.
[1:16:16] That's Vin, who is here, VinWords, Chantal Samuels, and Denise Williams.
[1:16:22] And where I observed this work was that the County Office of Emergency Services does a functional exercise.
[1:16:31] they try to do it every year. And the simulation for this exercise was a 7.1
[1:16:38] earthquake centered out in the Bay just off of Penel Hercules-Rodeo area. So with
[1:16:46] that this was a two-day exercise and folks report to address how they're
[1:16:56] going to respond. And West Cat showed up. They staffed the logistics section and were
[1:17:05] given injects of people thinking that they should evacuate their homes to say I think it
[1:17:14] was the senior center. And then, you know, these are folks that may or may not be able to
[1:17:20] drive. And again, I have to inject in case somebody turns on the TV and thinks there's
[1:17:25] something going on. This was an exercise, but the transit agencies staffed the logistic
[1:17:35] section, and that's the section that, you know, arranges with Red Cross to do shelters.
[1:17:41] The transit agencies to do transportation, like they did during COVID, they did that. And
[1:17:49] And at the end of the day, I participated in the first day, and I think the West Cat
[1:17:54] staff participated both days, but when they did a review at the end of the day wrapping
[1:18:01] everything up, the logistics chief pointed to the staff of the transit agencies that were
[1:18:11] in the house and just really talked about what an exemplary job they did.
[1:18:17] So I wanted at least the board to know that and you know and the community to know that
[1:18:28] okay anybody else have any board
[1:18:31] communication. I know you've been long asked when to say if I could just great I think I see this is very important
[1:18:35] It's what I do at my day job and then to staff that put the reports together the budget is
[1:18:41] I won't say it's gotten better. It's just easier for me
[1:18:43] Who's not a finance person to read over the over the last couple of years. I think Rob made that a focus when he was in the house
[1:18:50] and staff, but you know, staff, it right works together, right, to make this work, but the whole packet is better.
[1:18:56] So whoever's doing it, I want to say thank you very much, it's just easy to read, it can pile through it, so thank you very much.
[1:19:02] Okay. Thank you. And any others? Okay. Any future items for the board?
[1:19:10] Seeing none, we are going to adjourn at 7.44, or, yeah, 7.44 PM. Thank you.
[1:19:19] Oh, did he put it on the website?
[1:19:20] Oh, did he put it on the website?
[1:19:20] That's right.