* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:23] MR. VASQUEZ DID INFORM ME THAT HE IS NOT ABLE TO MAKE IT TONIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. [CALL TO ORDER] UH, WELL THIS, UH, GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE PETALUMA TRANSIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH. UH, CLERK, CAN YOU TAKE A ROLL CALL? UM, ABRAMS. HERE. RO HERE. KEEL? HERE. QUINT? HERE. HAR. HERE. VAZQUEZ IS A GAY POST. OKAY. VERY GOOD. THIS BRINGS, UH, TO OUR FIRST ITEM. IT BRINGS US TO OUR FIRST ITEM, THE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTERESTS THAT ARE WITHIN THE COMMITTEE'S SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, AND ARE NOT LISTED ON THE CURRENT AGENDA. PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED UP TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON. DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF PERSONS WISHING TO ADDRESS THE COMMITTEE. TIME WILL BE ALLOCATED IN EQUAL SHARES, TOTALING NO MORE THAN 20 MINUTES SUBJECT TO COUNCIL, SUBJECT TO COMMITTEE'S DISCRETION. UH, DO WE HAVE ANY SPEAKERS? ANY, UH, MR. CHAIR? WE DID NOT RECEIVE ANY COMMENT IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING. WE HAVE ONE MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE WHO DOES NOT WISH TO PROVIDE COMMENTS AT THIS TIME. OKAY. THANK YOU. UM, ALL RIGHT, SO THAT CLOSES GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT AND WE'LL CONTINUE WITH THE AGENDA. UH, FIRST [PRESENTATIONS] ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA IS A PRESENTATION. SHELLY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO, UH, TAKE IT? YES, VERY MUCH. UH, THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. JARED HALL, TRANSIT MANAGER. GREAT TO SEE YOU AGAIN AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND THE AUDIENCE. UH, SO THIS FIRST ITEM IS A PRESENTATION THAT WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO GIVE YOU ON A STUDY THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT A LITTLE BIT THAT'S KNOWN AS MASCOTS OR THE MARIN SONOMA COORDINATED TRANSIT SERVICE PLAN. AND SO WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS STUDY FOR ABOUT SEVERAL MONTHS THAT LOOK, THAT'S LOOKING AT REGIONAL TRANSIT THROUGHOUT THE 1 0 1 SMART CORRIDOR. AND SO WE HAVE KYLE WITH US, AND HE'S GONNA GIVE US A PRESENTATION ON THE STUDY. HE IS WITH THE NELSON NYGARD CONSULTING FIRM. SO, KYLE, WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD AND TAKE IT AWAY. THANKS, JARED. UM, AND APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE. I AM RECOVERING FROM A COLD AND THE DAY, AS THE DAY HAS GONE ON, UM, MY VOICE HAS GOTTEN A LITTLE BIT WORSE. UM, BUT HOPEFULLY YOU, YOU CAN STILL UNDERSTAND ME. UM, AND THANK GOODNESS FOR, UH, VIRTUAL MEETINGS. UM, BUT SO AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT WITH YOU ALL. UM, UP ON THE SCREEN IN FRONT OF YOU, YOU SEE THE NINE LOGOS OF THE NINE PARTICIPATING AGENCIES THAT ARE SUPPORTING THE MASCOT STUDY. SO WE HAVE SIX TRANSIT OPERATORS, UH, PETALUMA BEING ONE OF THEM, AND THREE FUNDING PARTNERS, UH, WHO ARE ALL COMING TOGETHER TO, UH, HELP FUND THE MASCOT STUDY. SO, AGAIN, MY NAME IS CAL HAN GUCCI. I AM A SENIOR ASSOCIATE AT NELSON NYGARD. UM, MAY HAVE SEEN A FEW, UM, SEEN ME AROUND, UH, TIM PAYNE AND I WERE PART OF THE SONOMA COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, UH, INTEGRATED TRANSIT SERVICES PLAN TEAM. UH, WE PRESENTED PROBABLY A FEW MONTHS AGO TO THE SAME BODY. SO, UH, THIS IS A REALLY A CONTINUATION OF OUR WORK, UM, IN THE GREATER MARIN AND SONOMA AREA. SO, UM, FOR THE AGENDA, UM, REALLY WE JUST WANT TO INTRODUCE OR ORIENT YOU TO THE MASCOT STUDY AND THEN DIVE INTO SOME OF THE KEY FINDINGS FROM EXISTING CONDITIONS. AND AFTER THAT, WE CAN TALK ABOUT NEXT STEPS FOR THE PROJECT, AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AT THE END IF THERE ARE ANY. SO, WHAT IS MASCOTS AND WHY ARE WE CONDUCTING THIS STUDY? SO, FIRST OFF, WE KNOW THAT SINCE SMART SERVICE BEGAN IN 2017, THERE HASN'T REALLY BEEN A COMPREHENSIVE SERVICE STUDY THAT LOOKS AT REGIONAL SERVICE ALONG THE HIGHWAY 1 0 1 CORRIDOR CONNECTING SONOMA AND MARIN COUNTIES. AND THAT IN AND OF ITSELF WOULD BE A REASON TO CONDUCT THIS STUDY. BUT AS WE KNOW, DURING THE PANDEMIC THINGS HAPPENED, PEOPLE RELOCATED CHANGED JOBS, UH, HYBRID WORK HAPPENED. AND SO [00:05:01] ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT THINGS HAVE REALLY CHANGED HOW PEOPLE MOVE BOTH WITHIN THE REGION AS WELL AS NATIONALLY BASED ON OUR EXPERIENCE. AND SO WHEN YOU COUPLE THESE TWO THINGS TOGETHER, THIS IS REALLY AN OPPORTUNE MOMENT TO EXAMINE THE CORRIDOR TRAVEL BETWEEN MARIN AND SONOMA COUNTIES AS WELL AS TO SAN FRANCISCO, AND SEE HOW WE CAN BETTER STRUCTURE OR PROVIDE SERVICE, UH, TO THE PEOPLE THAT NEED IT. SO EARLY ON IN THE PROJECT, WE DEVELOPED A PURPOSE FOR WHY WE'RE CONDUCTING THE STUDY. IT'S SHOWN ON THE SCREEN IN FRONT OF YOU. UH, KEY HERE IS SERVICE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS. WE'RE TRYING TO BE REAL GOOD STEWARDS OF THE LIMITED PUBLIC FUNDS THAT ARE AVAILABLE. AND SO WE SEE THAT THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY SHIFT RESOURCES AROUND, REDUCE SOME OF THE DUPLICATION OF SERVICE, AND THEN HOPEFULLY IT'LL BENEFIT EXISTING TRANSIT RIDERS AND ALSO ATTRACT SOME NEW RIDERS WHO HAVEN'T RIDDEN FOR THE FIRST TIME. UH, WE'RE SETTING OUT TO ANSWER FIVE KEY QUESTIONS. UH, NUMBER ONE BEING, ARE THERE KEY TRAVEL MARKETS THAT EXIST? AND IF SO, HOW CAN TRANSIT BE A COMPETITIVE OPTION FOR THOSE TRAVELERS? UH, NUMBER TWO, HOW ARE THOSE SERVICES CURRENTLY, UM, BEING MET IN TERMS OF TRANSIT DEMAND? UM, IS THE MARKET UNDERSERVED? IS IT OVERSERVED? IS IT NOT SERVED AT ALL? AND THEN AS WE START TO DEFINE AND IDENTIFY THE RECOMMENDATIONS OR THE, UH, SYSTEM CONCEPTS, HOW ARE SOME DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES SUCH AS EQUITY PRIORITY COMMUNITIES AFFECTED? UH, THIS IS A DEFINITION THAT MTC AS PUT TOGETHER AND THAT WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO CARRY FORWARD, UH, THROUGHOUT THIS PROJECT PROCESS. AND THEN THE LAST TWO QUESTIONS ARE, AS WE START TO LOOK INTO THE FUTURE, UH, WHAT DOES THE TRANSIT NETWORK LOOK LIKE? AND ONCE WE HAVE THE OVERALL STRUCTURE DOWN, WHAT IS THE RIGHT MODE AND WHO IS THE RIGHT OPERATOR TO BE PROVIDING THAT SERVICE ALONG THE CORRIDOR? SO THE APPROACH TO MASCOTS IS MORE OF A REGIONAL APPROACH. UH, WE'RE TRYING TO STAY FOCUSED ON KIND OF THE LARGER TRAVEL PATTERNS AND REALLY NOT FOCUSED ON THE LOCAL TRANSIT PLANNING AND INTEGRATION ASPECT. WE FEEL THAT THAT'S BEST LEFT TO THE LOCAL OPERATORS SUCH AS PETALUMA TRANSIT, UM, WHO REALLY UNDERSTAND THEIR COMMUNITIES AND, AND WHAT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS. UH, IT'S REALLY EXCITING THAT Y'ALL ARE STARTING THE MICRO TRANSIT PILOT PROGRAM. I THINK THAT'S A REALLY GREAT START, UH, TO SOLVING THAT FIRST AND LAST MILE CONNECTIVITY. AND SUPER EXCITED TO SEE WHAT SOME OF THE RESULTS ARE, UH, AS THE PROGRAM MATURES. UM, BUT WE ALSO ARE NOT GONNA REPEAT, UH, THE WORK THAT WE'VE ALREADY DONE. SO I TALKED ABOUT THE SCTA STUDY THAT WAS CONDUCTED FOR SONOMA COUNTY. WE'RE NOT GONNA REHASH OR RE-LOOK AT THAT. WE'RE TAKING THE FINDINGS FROM THAT EFFORT AND APPLYING IT TO THIS LARGER EFFORT TO REALLY ADVANCE THE NEEDLE AND IMPROVE REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY THROUGH TRANSIT, UM, IMPROVEMENTS AND INTEGRATION EFFORTS. UH, THE EFFORT FOR MASCOTS IS INTENDED TO BE OPERATOR NEUTRAL. AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS WE WILL DEVELOP THE SERVICE NETWORK, UM, AND THEN WOR WORRY ABOUT ASSIGNING THE OPERATOR WHO'S GONNA RUN THE SERVICE. SO WE WANNA TRY NOT BRING WITH US ANY PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS, START WITH SOMETHING THAT, UH, WE'RE HAPPY WITH, AND THEN FIGURE OUT WHO IS GOING TO DE DEPLOY AND RUN THE SERVICE. UM, AND OF COURSE, LIKE I MENTIONED, UH, THE PANDEMIC HAS CHANGED TRAVEL PATTERNS, AND SO WE'LL DEFINITELY NEED TO GROUND TRUTH, UM, SOME OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY MEETING THE TRAVEL PATTERNS THAT WE'RE SEEING ON THE GROUND TODAY. POST PANDEMIC. UH, AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE END OF OUR STUDY, WE WILL BE COMPILING A FINAL REPORT. THAT REPORT WILL INCLUDE, UM, OUR RECOMMENDATIONS AS WELL AS THINGS LIKE COST FACILITY CONSIDERATIONS AND FUNDING REQUIREMENTS THAT MAY BE NEEDED TO DEPLOY THE PLAN. SO THIS HERE IS A QUICK, UH, SCHEDULE OF THE THREE PHASES OF THE PROJECT. UH, WE HAD STARTED THE PROJECT BACK IN JUNE. UH, PHASE ONE WAS THE EXISTING CONDITIONS ASSESSMENT. AND SO THIS IS THE TOPIC FOR THIS EVENING'S PRESENTATION. WE'RE CURRENTLY IN PHASE TWO, AND THAT'S THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONCEPTS. AND SO AS WE GET CLOSER TO [00:10:01] FINALIZING THOSE, UH, WE'LL PROBABLY BE BACK WITH ANOTHER UPDATE TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL. AND THEN PHASE THREE WE'LL TALK ABOUT AT THE END, AND THAT INCLUDES DOCUMENTATION AS WELL AS SOME POTENTIAL PUBLIC OUTREACH AS WELL. SO IN TERMS OF EXISTING CONDITIONS, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT WE LOOKED AT WAS, UH, TRAVEL, UH, PATTERN OR TRAVEL DEMAND DATA FROM REPLICA. REPLICA IS A DATA SOURCE THAT COLLECTS DATA FROM GPS DEVICES AS WELL AS ANONYMIZED TRAVEL, UH, CELL PHONE DATA, UH, THAT CAN THEN BE AGGREGATED AND ANALYZED USING PREDEFINED ZONES LIKE YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN IN FRONT OF YOU. UM, THIS HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND REALLY WHERE PEOPLE ARE COMING FROM AND GOING TO AS WELL AS THE MAGNITUDE OF THOSE TRIPS. AND THESE ARE ALL, ALL TRIPS, AND SO IT'S NOT SPECIFIC TO TRANSIT, BUT IT DOES PROVIDE A GOOD INDICATOR FOR US ON WHERE SOME OF THE LARGER TRAVEL PATTERNS, UH, ARE OCCURRING WITHIN THE REGION. SO THE FIRST INTERESTING FINDING THAT WE DISCOVERED THROUGH KIND OF POURING THROUGH THIS DATA WAS THAT TWO THIRDS OF ALL TRIPS FROM MARIN AND SONOMA COUNTIES TO SAN FRANCISCO ORIGINATE IN SAN RAFAEL ENDPOINT FURTHER SOUTH. AND THIS INDICATES THAT THIS IS A STRONG MARKET THAT WE REALLY NEED TO BE LEANING INTO AS WE DEVELOP THE RECOMMENDATIONS MOVING FORWARD. POINT NUMBER TWO, MORE THAN THREE QUARTERS OF TRIPS BETWEEN SONOMA AND MARIN COUNTY HAVE ORIGINS AND DESTINATIONS WITHIN THE SMART TRAVEL SHED. AND WHAT WE MEAN BY SMART TRAVEL SHED IS IF THERE IS A ZONE THAT HAS A SMART STATION, UH, THEORETICALLY, UH, THAT TRIP COULD BE SERVED ON SMART. AND SO AGAIN, THIS IS A REALLY GOOD INDICATOR OF LIKE, THIS IS THE MAGNITUDE OF TRIPS THAT SMART COULD, COULD POTENTIALLY CAPTURE, UH, FIRST AND LAST MILE ISSUES ASIDE. SO THIS IS VERY PROMISING THAT A LOT OF THE DEVELOPMENT, A LOT OF THE, UH, RESIDENTIAL AND EMPLOYMENT IS CONCENTRATED ALONG THAT SPINE OF, OF RAIL RAIL CORRIDOR. AND THEN THE LAST POINT, ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF TRIPS FROM SONOMA AND MARIN COUNTIES, UH, TO SAN FRANCISCO AND IN ONE OF THREE DISTRICTS. SO DOWNTOWN FISHERMEN'S WHARF AND THE CIVIC CENTER. THIS IS REALLY NOTABLE BECAUSE THESE ARE CURRENTLY SERVED TODAY, AND SO THAT'S A PAT ON THE BACK FOR TRANSIT BECAUSE WE ARE KIND OF LEANING IN AND SERVING THAT, THAT LARGE MARKET. UM, TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SMART FOR A SECOND, UM, SMART WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2017, AND SINCE THAT TIME, IT'S REALLY TRANSFORMED HOW PEOPLE TRAVEL UP AND DOWN THE CORRIDOR. UM, WE KNOW THAT SMART IS FASTER, IT'S MORE RELIABLE, UH, WITH AN ON-TIME PERFORMANCE EXCEEDING 99%. MOST OF THE TIME IT'S MORE FREQUENT THAN PARALLEL BUS SERVICE. AND SO THAT'S REALLY ATTRACTED A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO MAYBE HAD DRIVEN PREVIOUSLY, UM, OR WERE TAKING THE BUS AND CHOSE, UH, TO TAKE SMART INSTEAD. AND SO SMART HAS REALLY EVOLVED, UH, FROM ITS ORIGINAL CONCEPTION FROM A COMMUTER MARKET INTO SOMETHING THAT SERVES TRAVEL PATTERNS FROM, UH, LEISURE, UH, RECREATIONAL SCHOOL IN ADDITION TO EMPLOYMENT. AND IT'S KIND OF MORPHED INTO THIS SPINE, UH, PROVIDING UP AND DOWN MOBILITY ALONG THE HIGHWAY 1 0 1 CORRIDOR. UM, WE TOOK A LOOK AT VARIOUS ORIGIN AND DESTINATION PAIRS WITHIN THE SMART SYSTEM TO PROVIDE KIND OF A BASIS OF COMPARISON OF HOW MANY TRIPS IS SMART PROVIDING COM COMPARED TO OTHER, UH, COMPARABLE BUS SERVICE. AND AS AN EXAMPLE, BETWEEN SAN RAFAEL AND SANTA ROSA, UH, SMART IS CAPTURING ROUGHLY FIVE TIMES, UH, THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC THAT'S ON, UH, THE GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT SERVICE. UH, IF WE LOOK AT SANTA ROSA TO PETALUMA, IT'S ROUGHLY 10 TIMES. AND THEN BETWEEN PETALUMA AND NOVATO, IT'S ROUGHLY THREE TIMES. SO IN A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT MARKETS, SMART IS CONTINUING TO CAPTURE A LARGE PORTION OF THE TRANSIT TRIPS, UM, TAKING PLACE. WE ALSO DISSECTED, UH, GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT BUS DATA, SO LOOKING AT WHERE PEOPLE ARE COMING, BOARDING AND LIGHTING, UH, THE BUSES, AS WELL AS HOW FULL THEY ARE WITH THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS AT ANY GIVEN TIME ALONG THE ROUTE. UM, THE TABLE ON THE SCREEN SHOWS THE DIFFERENT ROUTES, [00:15:01] UM, THAT GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT OPERATES. I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION, BUT I'LL TRY TO WALK YOU THROUGH IT. UH, ROUTE 1 0 1, 1 30 AND ONE 50 ARE THE ALL DAY ROUTE. UH, 1 0 1 SERVES SONOMA COUNTY, AS YOU KNOW, AND TERMINATES IN SAN FRANCISCO. AND WHAT'S INTERESTING WHEN YOU LOOK AT THESE ROOTS IS THAT THE AMOUNT OF, UH, INTRA LOCAL WITHIN SONOMA, WITHIN MARIN OR WITHIN SAN FRANCISCO, PERCENTAGES ARE PRETTY HIGH, UM, COMPARED TO WHAT THEY WERE PRE PANDEMIC. AND SO REALLY A KEY FINDING FOR US IS THAT, UH, SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE RIDERSHIP GENERATED BY GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT TODAY IS DEVIATING SOMEWHAT FROM GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT'S ORIGINAL MISSION, WHICH WAS LIKE CARRYING PEOPLE TO AND FROM SAN FRANCISCO. UM, AND SO IT'S REALLY UN IT REALLY UNDERSCORES HOW IMPORTANT GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT IS, NOT ONLY FOR CONNECTING PEOPLE TO SAN FRANCISCO, BUT PROVIDING THAT CONNECTIVITY UP AND DOWN. THE 1 0 1 CORRIDOR, LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT, UH, THE EXPRESS ROUTE CONSIST OF THE REMAINDER OF THE ROOTS IN THE TABLE. UM, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THE PERCENTAGE OF TRIPS HEADED TO SAN FRANCISCO IS RATHER LARGE, AND THAT'S TO BE EXPECTED BECAUSE THAT'S THE PRIMARY MARKET FOR THESE EXPRESS LIMITED STOP SERVICES. UM, HOWEVER, THERE'S STILL A PRETTY SMALL PORTION OF THE ROUTE RIDERSHIP THAT IS EITHER WITHIN SAN FRANCISCO OR LOCAL TO, UM, MARIN, MARIN COUNTY. AND SO, AGAIN, THIS JUST HELPS TO UNDERSCORE HOW GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT HAS EVOLVED INTO SOMETHING MORE THAN JUST TAKING PEOPLE TO AND FROM SAN FRANCISCO IN TERMS OF THE LOAD ONBOARD THE BUSES OR THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, UH, THAT ARE ON AT ANY GIVEN TIME. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO LOOK AT WAS HOW FULL ARE BUSES CROSSING OVER THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE INTO SAN FRANCISCO. UM, THAT CAN PROVIDE A GOOD INDICATION OF, UM, WHETHER THERE'S EXCESS CAPACITY ALONG THE, UH, THE ROUTE. AND WHAT WE DISCOVERED IS FOR GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT ROUTES ONE 30 AND ONE 50, UH, THE BUS IS LESS THAN A THIRD FULL ON AVERAGE. AND WHAT WE MEAN BY, EXCUSE ME, ON AVERAGE IS THAT DURING THE TIMES OF DAY, THERE ARE GONNA BE TIMES WHERE THE BUS IS FULLER, UM, SAY DURING PEAK COMMUTE HOURS. UH, BUT THERE ARE GONNA BE TIMES WHERE, UH, IT'S LESS THAN A THIRD, UH, BUT THIS PROVIDES A GOOD METRIC FOR UNDERSTANDING IS THERE TOO MUCH SUPPLY, UM, COMPARED TO THE DEMAND THAT WE'RE SEEING. AND SO THIS IS, AGAIN, JUST ANOTHER DATA POINT AS WE START TO DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS TO CONSIDER. SO FERRIES ARE ALSO AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE EQUATION. AND SO EARLY IN THE PROCESS, WE TOOK A LOOK AT THE RIDERSHIP OF THE DIFFERENT FERRY LINES, UM, BROKEN OUT BY THE DIFFERENT BULLETS YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN, UH, AGGREGATED TOGETHER. IT IS, UM, APPROXIMATELY 60% MORE RIDERS ARE TAKING FERRIES, UH, THAN COMPARABLE, UH, REGIONAL GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT BUS SERVICE. NOW, UH, WE ALL ACKNOWLEDGE THERE ARE, UH, DIFFERENT FACTORS AT PLAY WITH HOW PEOPLE CHOOSE TO COMMUTE. SOME PEOPLE DON'T CHOOSE TO TAKE THE FERRY. UM, FER IS GONNA BE A FACTOR FREQUENCY, UH, SCHEDULE OF THE FERRY TRIP. AND SO THESE ARE ALL THINGS THAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER AS WE REIMAGINE OR RE-ENVISION WHAT THE FUTURE TRANSIT NETWORK COULD LOOK LIKE. UM, WE'VE BEEN IN DISCUSSIONS WITH GOLDEN GATE FERRY, AND ALSO WE ARE AWARE THAT THERE ARE CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS, UH, PARTICULARLY AT LARKS SQUARE FERRY PRE PANDEMIC. AND WHILE THAT HASN'T COME BACK TO THE LEVELS THAT THEY HAVE OBSERVED PRE PANDEMIC, THAT IS ALSO SOMETHING WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF IF WE ARE GONNA BE FUNNELING MORE PEOPLE ONTO THE FERRY SERVICE, UH, IN THE FUTURE NETWORK. SO SPECIFIC TO SONOMA COUNTY AND TRAVEL BETWEEN SONOMA AND MARIN, UH, THESE WERE A FEW OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR ANALYSIS. BULLET POINT NUMBER ONE IS PROBABLY NOT A SURPRISE TO SOME OF YOU, BUT SMART GOLDEN [00:20:01] GATE TRANSIT AND SONOMA COUNTY TRANSIT ROUTE DUPLICATE EACH OTHER ALONG THE HIGHWAY 1 0 1 CORRIDOR SCHEDULES ARE NOT COORDINATED. SO THERE CAN BE TIMES WHERE THERE ARE VEHICLES FOLLOWING EACH OTHER ALONG THE CORRIDOR. AND TRAVEL TIMES AND FARES, UH, CAN VARY SUBSTANTIALLY BETWEEN THE OPERATOR DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF STOPS THAT ARE MADE. UM, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY AS WE START TO THINK ABOUT, UM, WHAT THE FUTURE TRANSIT NETWORK COULD LOOK LIKE, HOW WE CAN IMPROVE TRAVEL TIMES, AND ALSO, UH, NAVIGATE THE FAIR ISSUE, WHICH WE KNOW IS GONNA BE A BARRIER, UM, IMPLEMENTING CHANGES MOVING FORWARD. UH, BULLET POINT NUMBER TWO, WE TALKED ABOUT SMART A LOT AND HOW IT'S BECOME A PREDOMINANT TRAVEL, UH, PROVIDER ALONG THE CORRIDOR, BUT WHEN YOU COMPARE SMART TO GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT 1 0 1 RIDERSHIP, UM, IT CERTAINLY IS AGAIN, UM, THE MODE OF CHOICE, IF YOU WILL, FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE CHOOSING TO MOVE WITHIN SONOMA COUNTY AS WELL AS TO MOVE BETWEEN SONOMA AND MARIN. THE CHALLENGE IS, OF COURSE, THAT SMART HAS A LIMITED SCHEDULE, AND ON WEEKENDS THEY DON'T OPERATE VERY FREQUENTLY. AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE TRYING TO NAVIGATE. UM, WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONCEPTS MOVING FORWARD. UH, LOCAL SERVICES ARE NOT DESIGNED TO DIRECTLY CONNECT TO SMART. UM, AGAIN, THIS IS A CHALLENGE, PARTICULARLY WITH SONOMA COUNTY TRANSIT AND IT'S SOMEWHAT INFREQUENT ROUTE. YOU HAVE BIDIRECTIONAL TRAVEL ON THE SMART LINE PEOPLE HEADING NORTHBOUND AND SOUTHBOUND, UH, DURING RUSH HOUR PERIODS. AND SO IT'S GONNA BE PRETTY CHALLENGING TO TO NAVIGATE THAT, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE LOCAL JURISDICTIONS WILL NEED TO, TO NAVIGATE ONCE WE GET THE NETWORK IN PLACE. UH, WE ALSO TOOK A LOOK AT COMMUTER SERVICES, PARTICULARLY THE ROOTS THAT ARE ORIGINATING IN SONOMA COUNTY. AND OVERALL, WE THINK THAT THOSE ARE DOING PRETTY GOOD. UM, BUT THERE ARE SOME TWEAKS THAT WE CAN RECOMMEND TO IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY AS WELL AS ENHANCE THE RIDER EXPERIENCE. SO WE CAN EXAMINE PERHAPS EARLIER OR LATER SERVICE, UM, OR CONSOLIDATION OF ROUTE TO BUMP UP THE FREQUENCIES A LITTLE BIT DOWN IN MARIN COUNTY SITUATION IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT. UM, ON THE MAP TO THE RIGHT, YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S A SEC SECTION FROM SAN RAFAEL SOUTH WHERE THERE ARE FIVE DIFFERENT TRANSIT ROUTES OPERATING ALONG THE CORRIDOR. AND THIS IS CHALLENGING BOTH FROM A RIDER PERSPECTIVE AS WELL AS FROM AN AGENCY, UH, COORDINATION PERSPECTIVE. IF YOU'RE A RIDER, YOU NEED TO CONSULT FIVE DIFFERENT TIMETABLES IF YOU WANT TO SEE LIKE WHICH BUS IS COMING FIRST. UH, THE STOP PATTERNS ARE NOT CONSISTENT FOR ALL OF THE ROUTES EITHER. AND SO, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THERE'S A HUGE BARRIER TO PEOPLE REALLY USING THE SERVICE, UM, OR TRYING TO LEARN THE SERVICE IF YOU'RE A NEW RIDER, BUT ALSO EXISTING RIDERS. LIKE, IMAGINE HAVING TO LOOK AT FIVE SCHEDULES AND TRY AND FIGURE OUT WHICH BUS YOU SHOULD TAKE FIRST, UM, IS REALLY CHALLENGING. AND THIS IS ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE THINK THAT WE CAN REALLY LEAN INTO AND SIMPLIFY AND TRY AND MAKE THINGS BETTER, UH, IN THE FUTURE NETWORK TO NOT ONLY REALLOCATE SOME OF THESE RESOURCES, BUT ALSO TO REMOVE SOME OF THE BARRIERS TO USING TRANSIT IN THE FIRST PLACE. UH, WE DO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SOME SCHEDULE COORDINATION IS TAKING PLACE, UM, BUT IT'S NOT AT A VERY OPTIMAL LEVEL TODAY. AND AGAIN, WHEN WE GET TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS, WE CAN START TO MORE FINE TUNE WHAT THE SCHEDULING WILL LOOK LIKE, UH, FOR OPERATION OF BUSES ALONG THE CORRIDOR. UM, POINT NUMBER THREE, WE TALKED ABOUT, UM, HOW THE RIDERSHIP TO, UM, OR RATHER THE TRAVEL DEMAND TO SAN FRANCISCO, UM, IS PRETTY STRONG FROM SAN RAFAEL AND POINT SOUTH, AND THAT'S BACKED UP BY THE GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT 1 0 1 RIDERSHIP. AND SO WITH THIS DATA POINT IN MIND AND KNOWING WHAT THE, THE TRAVEL MARKET IS TO SAN FRANCISCO, WE SEE THAT THIS COULD POTENTIALLY, UH, SUPPORT MORE FREQUENT SERVICE IN THE FUTURE. AND THEN LAST BUT NOT LEAST, WE DID TAKE A LOOK AT COMMUTE ROUTES AND FERRIES, UH, FOR MARIN COUNTY AS WELL. UM, OVERALL, WE THINK THAT THAT, THAT THE SERVICE MEETS THE PEAK DIRECTIONAL DEMAND INTO SAN FRANCISCO, UM, AS WELL AS THE REVERSE COMMUTE DEMAND THAT IS TRAVELING FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO MARIN COUNTY. SO IN TERMS OF NEXT STEPS, UM, [00:25:01] LIKE I SAID, WE'RE IN PHASE TWO RIGHT NOW, AND WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVES, REFINING THE CONCEPTS, WORKING WITH OUR WORKING GROUP, AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE SOMETHING, UH, NAILED DOWN, UM, IN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO. UM, BUT WHEN WE GET TO PHASE THREE, WHICH WE'RE ANTICIPATING TO START HOPEFULLY IN EARLY 2025, UH, WE WILL BE ENGAGING WITH BOARDS AS WELL AS THE PUBLIC TO GET FEEDBACK ON OUR PROPOSALS, UH, OR PROPOSED CHANGES. UM, THERE ARE TRADE-OFFS, UM, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE WITH DOING CERTAIN THINGS. AND WE REALLY WANNA HEAR FROM THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GONNA BE AFFECTED BY THE CHANGES. AND SO, UM, BASED ON THE FEEDBACK THAT WE GET, WE'LL NEED TO MAKE SOME REFINEMENTS AND THEN WE COULD BEGIN TO DEVELOP, UH, OR START THE DOCUMENTATION PROCESS TO, TO CLOSE OUT OUR WORK. SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR YOU THIS EVENING. UM, I'M HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS IF THERE ARE ANY. THANK YOU, KYLE. UH, APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION. VERY, UH, UH, INFORMATIVE AND, UH, AND INTERESTING. WE'LL JUST, UH, WE'LL GO DOWN THE, UH, UM, THE DIOCESE. SEE, UH, DENNIS, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR, OR COMMENTS. UH, YEAH, I WAS WONDERING, UH, YOU SORT OF, UM, UH, IMPLIED THAT, UH, YOU WOULD, UH, BE RID THE AREA OF THE DUPLICATION ALONG THE 1 0 1 ROUTE FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO SAN RAFAEL OR EVEN SANTA ROSA. I'M WONDERING IF, IF YOU HAVE ANY, UH, THOUGHTS OR, OR ALREADY IDEAS ABOUT WHETHER YOU, YOU SAID YOU WOULD, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE DOING IT IN A, IN A AGENCY NEUTRAL FASHION, AND THAT YOU'LL DECIDE LATER WHICH AGENCY, YOU KNOW, GUESS WHAT? BUT I WONDER IF YOU THINK, IS IT MORE LIKELY THAT ONE AGENCY WOULD, LET'S SAY YOU, YOU WERE TRYING TO GET A TRIP EVERY TWO HOURS, UH, ON A TWO HOUR FREQUENCY, UM, TO SAN RAFAEL, WOULD, WOULD IT BE MORE LIKELY, DO YOU THINK THAT ONE AGENCY WOULD DO ALL THOSE TRIPS OR THAT YOU'D STAGGER SMART TRAIN WITH, UH, WITH, UH, 1 0 1 BUS? GREAT QUESTION. UM, SO WE DID START LOOKING AT THIS VERY ISSUE, UM, AS PART OF OUR ANALYSIS. AND ONE OF THE CHALLENGES WITH, UM, A BUS AND RAIL COMBO IS JUST THE TRAVEL TIME DIFFERENCES. UM, LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT, SMART IS REALLY FAST. AND SO FROM END TO END, UM, I THINK SMART TAKES, UH, ROUGHLY HALF THE TIME THAT A COMPARABLE BUS ROUTE WOULD TAKE. AND SO THE CHALLENGE IS IF YOU STAGGER THE TRAIN TO BE LIKE ONE HOUR, AND THEN THE NEXT HOUR, UM, THE BUS WILL COME BY THE TIME YOU GET TO THE END OF THE LINE, UH, THE SCHEDULE IS ALL OFF. AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO AVOID THE BUS RAIL COMBO JUST BECAUSE, UH, A FROM A RIDER PERSPECTIVE, IT'S CONFUSING. IT'S LIKE, OH, AT 12 O'CLOCK AND TWO O'CLOCK AT FOUR O'CLOCK, I COULD TAKE THE TRAIN, BUT AT 1 3 5, I NEED TO TAKE THE BUS. UH, BUT ALSO FROM LIKE, JUST AN OPERATIONAL STANDPOINT, WE DON'T THINK THAT WE CAN GET AS FAST BUS SERVICE TO REALLY PROVIDE THE EVEN, UH, HEADWAYS THAT WE NEED FOR, FOR THE SERVICE. SO, OKAY. UM, I THINK IT'S TOO EARLY TO SAY, BUT OBVIOUSLY THE, UH, RAIL SERVICE, UM, WILL HAVE TO BE SMART OPERATED. UH, ALL OF THE OTHER BUS SERVICE IS OPEN FOR DISCUSSION AT THIS POINT. THANKS. THANK YOU. AND ALSO, UH, IF, IF I MAY CLERK, IF YOU CAN LET THE, THE MINUTES SHOW THAT MR. PO POLKE DID JOIN US AT ABOUT EIGHT MINUTES AFTER FIVE. UM, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER HILL, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER COLE ROSS, DO YOU HAVE ANY? UH, I DO HAVE, UM, SOME QUESTIONS. UH, THANK YOU FOR THIS PRESENTATION. I REALLY APPRECIATE THE DATA. AND, UM, I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT, UM, YOU ASSESSED WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHT WHEN SMART IS NOT RUNNING, AND WHETHER THAT FIGURES INTO RIDERSHIP, UM, NUMBERS OR, OR WHAT SOME OF THE RIDERSHIP NUMBERS YOU GAVE ARE AVERAGES. AND SO, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF, IF, WHAT IF IT CAN INCLUDES NIGHTTIME RIDERSHIP? MM-HMM . GOOD QUESTION. SO [00:30:01] YES, THE, THE AVERAGE DAILY RIDERSHIP NUMBERS DO INCLUDE, UH, ALL HOURS OF THE DAY. SO FROM THE START OF SERVICE TO THE END OF SERVICE, WHICH WE KNOW GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT HAS SOME PRETTY EARLY AND PRETTY LATE SERVICE. UH, BUT TO YOUR POINT, UM, AS WE'RE DEVELOPING THE RECOMMENDATIONS, WE ARE LOOKING AT TRIP LEVEL DATA. SO SPECIFICALLY THE TIMES BEFORE SMART OPERATES, AS WELL AS THE TIMES AFTER SMART OPERATES TO REALLY SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE USING THAT SERVICE AND WOULD BE AFFECTED BY ANY POTENTIAL CHANGES THAT WE HAVE. AND TO BE QUITE HONEST, THERE IS A PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF PEOPLE THAT ARE TAKING TRANSIT WHEN SMART IS NOT OPERATING. AND SO WE ARE TRYING TO WORK THROUGH HOW WE, UH, STRUCTURE THE SERVICE TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE PEOPLE ARE NOT LEFT HIGH AND DRY. UM, ONE OF THE CONCEPTS THAT WE'RE THROWING OUT IS IF WE WERE TO INCREASE SMART SERVICE AND GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT 1 0 1 SERVICE WERE TO GO AWAY, HOW WOULD WE FILL THE GAPS, UH, IN THE EARLY MORNING AS WELL AS AT THE LATE NIGHT? AND ONE OF THE COM UH, IDEAS THAT WE'RE THROWING OUT, AND THIS IS OF COURSE NOT SET IN STONE BY ANY MEANS, IS HAVING A SMART BUS OR WHAT WE CALL A LATE OWL SHUTTLE BUS, ESSENTIALLY. AND THAT WOULD BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT SERVICE, UH, WHEN THE TRAIN IS NOT OPERATING. BUT IN THAT CASE, THE BUS WOULD BE OPERATED BY SMART, IS CALLED THE SMART BUS, OR, UM, TO BE DETERMINED, WE'RE BRANDING IT SMART BUS, BUT UN UNCLEAR WHO WOULD OPERATE IT JUST YET. IT'S JUST A CONCEPT AT THIS POINT. UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER COLE ROSS. ONE THOUGHT ON THAT. I THINK WHAT WE'RE DOING FIRST IN THE EXERCISE IS KIND OF LOOKING AT THE SERVICE HOLISTICALLY, WHAT IS IT? AND THEN KIND OF THE NEXT PIECE, THE NEXT PHASE IS MAYBE DETERMINING A BIT MORE WHO WOULD BE THE OPERATORS. A FEW OTHER STEPS IN THERE AS KYLE TALKS ABOUT, WE'D LIKE THE FINANCIAL PIECE, THE OUTREACH PIECE, BUT THAT'LL BE ONE OF THE FUTURE KIND OF ANALYSIS DISCUSSION PIECES IS ONCE YOU KNOW THE SERVICE WHO POTENTIALLY OPERATES IT, COMMITTEE MEMBER HILL, YOU HAVE A QUESTION? UH, I'M JUST CURIOUS ABOUT, UM, FUNDING WHEN YOU MAKE SHIFTS FROM ONE SERVICE TO, TO A DIFFERENT SERVICE. UM, AND, UH, I, I DON'T EXPECT TO HAVE ANY EASY ANSWERS RIGHT NOW, BUT JUST OVERALL IS, IS IS THIS A WILL? I MEAN, IS THERE AN UNDERSTANDING ABOUT WHEN SOMETHING SHIFTS, WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS TO FUND THAT? IS THERE, IS THERE A SEPARATE POT MAYBE FROM MTC, SAY, FOR THE REGIONAL PLANNING AND WORK? DO YOU WANNA TAKE A CRACK AT THAT GAL? YEAH, I'LL DO MY BEST, BUT JARED, YOU MIGHT, UH, KNOW MORE THAN ME, BUT I THINK AT THIS STAGE IT'S A LITTLE PREMATURE TO TALK ABOUT FUNDING. I KNOW WE'RE TRYING TO DO THE OPERATOR NEUTRAL THING FIRST, BUT OF COURSE IF THERE ARE IMBALANCES WE NEED TO KIND OF WORK THROUGH THAT. UM, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UM, AS WE GET FURTHER DOWN IS IF WE SEE A HUGE IMB IMBALANCE, IT'S LIKE, UH, WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS AND PATHS MOVING FORWARD? UM, THIS IS A LITTLE BIT ABOVE MY, MY PAY GRADE. THERE MIGHT NEED TO BE SOME INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENTS, UM, SOME SHARING OF RESOURCES. UM, IT'S A LITTLE UNCLEAR AT THIS POINT, UM, HOW MUCH OF AN IMBALANCE THERE IS, UM, UNTIL WE FINALIZE THE NETWORK. UM, AND TO BE HONEST, LIKE UNTIL WE CONDUCT, UH, SOME OF THE PUBLIC FEEDBACK, IT MAY EVEN BE PREMATURE TO LOOK AT THAT. MM-HMM. UM, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A REALLY GOOD SENSE OF WHAT DIRECTION WE'RE TAKING THE NETWORK IN. YEAH. YEAH. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD. YEAH, I WOULD SAY THAT THE EXERCISE WAS GENERALLY KIND OF A REVENUE EQUAL EXERCISE. SO NOT LOOKING AT A HUGE AMOUNT OF ADDITIONAL FUNDING COMING IN TO RUN IT. LOOKING AT WITH THE DOLLARS THAT ALL AGENCIES ARE PUTTING INTO THE POT REGIONALLY, WHAT COULD WE DO WITH IT? NOW THERE MAY ULTIMATELY BE SOME SHIFTING BETWEEN AGENCIES THAT RESULTS FROM IT, BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE DON'T KNOW THAT PIECE. WE JUST KNOW THE POT IS GENERALLY THE SAME. AND AS WE MOVE FORWARD THROUGH THE PROCESS A BIT MORE, ONE OF THE NEXT PIECES IS A MORE IN DEPTH FINANCIAL ANALYSIS WE'RE GONNA DO, WHERE WE LOOK AT THAT A BIT MORE TO SEE HOW IT WOULD POTENTIALLY IMPACT THE SPECIFIC AGENCIES. RIGHT. AND THEN HAVE MORE OF A HANDLE ON THAT BEFORE WE BRING IT OUT TO THE PUBLIC TO DO A BIGGER ROUND OF PUBLIC, UH, KIND OF OUTREACH OF INPUT. YEAH. THANK YOU. [00:35:01] AND I, I, I APPRECIATE THAT, THAT THE PROCESS IS, UM, NEEDS DRIVEN, UM, RATHER THAN FUNDING DRIVEN. UM, AND THAT, UH, UM, SO, UM, I APPRECIATE, BUT ANYWAY, THANK, THANK YOU FOR . SURE. UH, AS MUCH INFORMATION IS AS IS AVAILABLE. I APPRECIATE THAT. C UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER ABRAMS, DO YOU HAVE, UH, MR. TAR, DO YOU HAVE ANY ? YES, I, I DO HAVE, THEY'RE PRETTY QUICK. UH, QUESTION ANSWERED, I'M SURE. ONE, MY FIRST QUESTION IS, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HOW MANY MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN ON THIS VARIOUS AGENCY TOWARD THIS PLAN ACTUALLY COMMUTE? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA? I MEAN, UH, JUST TO GET AN IDEA FOR THE FEEL OF THE RIDERSHIP ITSELF, THAT'S NOT A BAD WAY TO APPROACH IT. UH, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ON YOUR, UH, AGENCY HAVE BEEN COMMUTERS OR BUS RIDERS OR TRAIN RIDERS. I ASSUME SOME OF THEM HAVE. UH, SO IS YOUR QUESTION ABOUT THE WORKING GROUP? THAT'S, UM, WELL, THE AGENT, THE, THE, UM, ANY ONE OF THE AGENCIES HERE ON THE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN SEE IT ON THE MASCOTS, SMART CITY BUS, ET CETERA, ET CETERA. I MEAN, IT, IT PROBABLY IS NOT SOMETHING YOU WOULD HAVE AVAILABLE, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT TO ME IS PRETTY IMPORTANT TO, TO DO ANYTHING OF THIS NATURE. I KNOW YOU'RE RELYING ON A LOT OF DATA AND THAT'S GREAT, BUT ALSO THE OTHER THING IS TO HAVE SOME IDEA, YOU KNOW, WHERE THESE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO COMING FROM. THAT WAS ONE, AND I DON'T REALLY EXPECT THAT TO BE AN ANSWER. THE OTHER ONE, UM, ANOTHER ONE WAS JUST WHAT, UM, WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER DOWNTOWN IN SAN FRANCISCO? WOULD THAT BE THE, UH, FERRY BUILDING AREA? WOULD THAT BE, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA? BECAUSE THE FERRY BUILDING CERTAINLY IS THE PLACE WHERE I WOULD GO TO START ANY, ANYTHING IN SAN FRANCISCO, YOU CAN GET ANY, ANY TYPE OF COMMUTER ACCESS THERE, INCLUDING THE, UH, BART OR YOU COULD GET ON MUNI OR ANYTHING ELSE. SO I DON'T KNOW ON YOUR STUDY OF YOUR, IF YOU YEAH, I AM NOT SURE. I'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND CHECK WHAT THE DEFINED BOUNDARIES WERE. UM, AS PART OF THE TRAVEL DEMAND ANALYSIS, I DON'T REALLY WANNA VENTURE, I GUESS. OKAY. UM, BUT FINE, I'M JUST, I'M THROWING THESE OUT. 'CAUSE YOU, YOU, IT SOUNDS AS IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOME OTHER INFORMATION OR SOME OTHER PLACE TO, YOU KNOW, WHERE MAYBE A COMMUTER AND I'M, I'M NOT CURRENTLY A COMPU COMMUTER, BUT I HAVE DEFINITELY USED ALL THE MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION IN THIS AREA. UM, WHAT, WHAT IS CONSIDERED AN EQUITY PRIORITY COMMUNITY? GREAT QUESTION. SO THE, UM, METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, MTC HAS, UM, DEFINED WHAT AN EQUITY PRIORITY COMMUNITY IS. IT'S A PRETTY THOROUGH ANALYSIS. UM, IT LOOKS AT A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT SOCIOECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS. I DON'T HAVE THE LIST, UM, OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, BUT IT INCLUDES THINGS LIKE, UH, RENT BURDENED HOUSEHOLDS, UM, LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS, UM, PEOPLE OF COLOR I BELIEVE IS ON THERE AS WELL. UM, I THINK THERE'S A LIST OF 12 PLUS DIFFERENT FACTORS, BUT THOSE ARE THE FACTORS, UM, THAT MTC HAS IDENTIFIED AS BEING LIKE INDICATORS OF DISADVANTAGED POPULATIONS. AND THE INTENT WITH, UM, MTC DEFINING THAT IS THAT THE ENTIRE REGION IS USING THE SAME DEFINITION OF WHAT AN EQUITY PARTY COMMUNITY IS. AND SO THERE ISN'T DIFFERENCES IN INTERPRETATION OF LIKE, OH, IT'S DIFFERENT HERE VERSUS THERE. UM, SO I BELIEVE THERE'S A, A WEBPAGE, UM, ON THE MTC WEBSITE THAT PROVIDES MORE INFORMATION ON EQUITY PRIORITY COMMUNITIES, UH, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LOOK THAT UP. OKAY. THANK YOU. UM, ONE OTHER QUESTION AND THEN I'LL STOP. UM, IS, IS THE EAST BAY INCLUDED IN ANY OF THIS STUDY? UM, I KNOW IT'S SF SONOMA AND, AND MARIN COUNTIES, BUT I, I WOULD THINK THERE'D BE PEOPLE WHO NEED TO KNOW AND HOW TO IMPROVE COMMUTING TO RICHMOND EL CERRITA BERKELEY. UM, IS THAT MTC MORE IN THERE BAILIWICK OR, UH, PERIPHERALLY, YES. THE EAST BAY IS BEING INCLUDED IN THIS STUDY. UM, PARTIALLY BECAUSE THERE IS A, UH, GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT ROUTE FIVE 80, UH, THAT CROSSES OVER INTO EAST BAY. OKAY, FINE. UM, BUT IT ISN'T, UH, THE PREDOMINANT FOCUS OF THE STUDY BECAUSE THERE ISN'T A LOT OF DUPLICATION OF SERVICE TO WORK THROUGH. [00:40:01] BUT WE DID LOOK AT SOME OF THE TRAVEL DEMAND DATA, UM, TO KIND OF INFORM LIKE WHAT IS THE MAGNITUDE OF TRIPS THAT ARE GOING TO THE EAST BAY. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. PERFECT. YEAH. ONE, UH, QUICK THOUGHT ON THAT COMMITTEE MEMBER TARA, THE STUDY AND THE SCOPE AND HOW IT WAS FUNDED LARGELY THROUGH MTC IS PREDOMINANTLY FOCUSED ON THE 1 0 1 SMART CORRIDOR. THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF KIND OF PERIPHERAL CONSIDERATION OF FIVE 80, BUT GENERALLY NOT INCLUDED MUCH IN THIS STUDY. YOU WOULD PROBABLY WANNA LOOK TO OTHER STUDIES THEY'VE DONE OR THE 2050 MTC PLAN THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW. THIS INCLUDES A 1 0 1 CORRIDOR, NOT EVEN ALL PARTS OF THE NORTH BAY, LIKE NAPA AND SOLANO ARE KIND OF SIMILARLY ON THE PERIPHERY, BUT NOT LARGELY CONSIDERED IN THE STUDY. OKAY. THANK YOU. SO, AM I CORRECT, UM, IN THINKING THIS, UH, THIS STUDY MAY IMPACT PALOMA RESIDENTS WHO TRAVEL ON THE 1 0 1 CORRIDOR USING, UH, PUBLIC TRANSIT, UM, BUT IT, IT LIKELY WOULDN'T HAVE ANY MATERIAL IMPACT ON, UH, PETALUMA TRANSIT? IS THAT A FAIR GENERALLY THIS WAS MOSTLY LOOKING AT THE INNER CITY AND REGIONAL TRIPS, ALTHOUGH THERE IS A COMPONENT TO THE LOCAL SERVICE, IT'S NOT GOING IN DEPTH WITHIN EACH CITY, BUT THERE'LL BE A KIND OF LARGER SCALE CALL OUT TO THINGS LIKE ADDITIONAL CONNECTIONS WITHIN EACH CITY AND IT'LL IDENTIFY A FEW RECOMMENDATIONS WITHIN EACH. IT'LL SAY THINGS LIKE IMPROVED CONNECTIONS TO 1 0 1 TO SMARTS, BUT GENERALLY NOT LOOK AT THE DETAILED ROUTE ANALYSIS WITHIN EACH CITY. UH, KYLE, IS THAT YOUR UNDERSTANDING? YEAH, THAT'S CORRECT. UM, EACH MUNICIPALITY, UM, WOULD NEED TO UNDERTAKE ANY, UH, FURTHER PLANNING OR ANALYSIS TO REALLY BRIDGE THE GAP OF LIKE FIRST AND LAST MILE CONNECTIVITY. AND AS YOU MAY RECALL, MR. CHAIR, WE ADD AN ITEM THAT WAS JUST APPROVED BY COUNCIL YESTERDAY THAT ACTUALLY EXPANDS PETALUMA TRANSIT AND LETS US DO 15 MINUTE SERVICE HEADWAYS ON ROUTES TO AND 11 AND HELPS TO FUND, UH, PAR THE GO MICRO SERVICE FOR THE FIRST ZONE AND POSSIBLY SECOND ONE. SO THAT'S ONE OF THE PIECES THAT PETALUMA IS DOING TO HELP IMPROVE THAT FIRST AND VITAL MILE CONNECTION TO THE REGIONAL SERVICE ON OUR END THROUGHOUT THE CITY. PERFECT. THANK YOU. UH, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME, UH, A STUDY LIKE THIS HAS BEEN DONE? IS THIS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE'VE ANYONE'S DONE A 1 0 1 CORRIDOR STUDY? OR HAS IT BEEN DONE BEFORE? AS FAR AS I KNOW, IT'S THE FIRST STUDY OF, ITS KIND SPECIFIC TO LOOKING AT THIS. THERE WAS A STUDY BEFORE SMART CAME ONLINE. UM, OTHER FOLKS MAY KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT THAN ME. I THINK FIVE TO 10 YEARS BEFORE THEY CAME ONLINE, THERE WAS A PRELIMINARY SMART SERVICE ANALYSIS, BUT THAT'S BEFORE THEY WERE RUNNING. OF COURSE, SMART'S BEEN RUNNING FOR A LITTLE LESS THAN 10 YEARS. SO THIS IS THE FIRST KIND OF CORRIDOR WIDE POST SMART REGIONAL STUDY THAT WE'VE REALLY DONE. OTHERS LOOK AT LIKE THE ENTIRE REGION, BUT DON'T HONE IN SPECIFICALLY ON THE 1 0 1 SMART CORRIDOR TO THE EXTENT THE STUDY IS. GOT IT. AND MY LAST QUESTION IS, HOW BINDING IS IT? UM, YOU KNOW, I COULD SEE WHERE YOU MAY RECOMMEND THAT A SERVICE CHANGES AND A AGENCY DOESN'T WANT TO CHANGE. UH, ARE THERE INCENTIVES, PENALTIES, UH, THAT SORT OF THING. I'M JUST CURIOUS HOW BINDING IT YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS WILL BE AT THE END OF THE STUDY. WELL, THERE'S NO SORT OF FORMAL AGREEMENT THAT COMMITS EVERY AGENCY TO AGREEING TO THE OUTCOMES. SO I THINK LARGELY IT'LL BE A DISCUSSION WITHIN EACH COMMUNITY AND AGENCY WHETHER THEY WANNA MOVE FORWARD WITH IT. EVERY AGENCY HAS PUT FORTH A GOOD FAITH EFFORT TO BE PART OF THE STUDY, TO BRING IT IN COMMON LANGUAGE TO ALL THEIR RESPECTIVE BOARDS. WE'LL BE BRINGING THE DRAFT REPORT BEFORE COUNCIL EARLY NEXT YEAR WHEN THAT'S READY. AND SIMILARLY, ALL THE OTHER AGENCIES LIKE SANTA ROSA GOLDEN GATE ARE WHAT ULTIMATELY THEY WANNA DO TO SHOW SUPPORT OR NOT OF THOSE ITEMS THEY WANNA TAKE WHATEVER ACTION THAT'S REALLY GONNA BE ULTIMATELY UP TO EACH RESPECTIVE AGENCY AND BODY. THERE'S NOTHING TYING EACH COMPONENT TO ADOPTING THE, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS, FOR EXAMPLE. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU. UH, I, IS THAT ANY FURTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? OKAY. I THINK THAT BRINGS US TO THE END. OH YES, SORRY. UM, SO OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, THE COUNTY, SONOMA COUNTY DOESN'T END AT SANTA ROSA, SO I WAS WONDERING IF THERE'S ANY CONSIDERATION OF, UM, NORTH COUNTY AND SERVICES, WILL ANY OF THIS REPORT IMPACT SERVICE NORTH OF SANTA ROSA? YEAH, SO THERE ARE TALKS OF THE SMART EXTENSION OPENING VERY SOON, UH, AS YOU ALL KNOW. AND [00:45:01] SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE, UM, PLANNING FOR IS IF THERE ARE SUPPLEMENTAL BUS SERVICES, HOW FAR DO WE TAKE IT? UM, AND SO THE IDEA IS THAT, UM, WHATEVER SERVICE IS, UM, BEING IMPACTED BY SMART, UH, WE WOULD TRY TO MIRROR AND PROVIDE COMPLIMENTARY BUS SERVICE TO THAT. SO THE SHORT ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS WE ARE CONSIDERING STUFF THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY, UM, UP PART, UP THROUGH, UH, SMART EXTENSION WINDSOR, UM, EVEN THOUGH IT'S A FEW YEARS OUT. THANK YOU. AND WITH THAT, UH, WE, ARE THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM? SEEING THAT WE, THE, THE GENTLEMAN IN THE, UH, IN THE AUDIENCE, UH, WANTS TO MAKE COMMENT IF YOU NEED A CAR, I COULD DO THAT AFTERWARDS. UH, YEAH, JUST ONE QUESTION. UH, GROOM TRANSPORTATION, WHICH IS A PRIVATE COMPANY, BUT REALLY FUNCTIONS AS PUBLIC TRANSIT REGARDLESS, VERY EXPENSIVE PUBLIC TRANSIT 'CAUSE THERE'S NO SUBSIDIES INVOLVED, BUT THAT DOES CARRY A FAIR NUMBER OF PEOPLE TO THE SOUTH ON ONTO SFO, HAS THERE ANY CONVERSATION ABOUT OPPORTUNITIES TO COORDINATE BETWEEN THE TRUE PUBLIC TRANSIT AND GROOM TO GIVE MORE WAYS TO GET TO THE AIRPORT, UM, INTEGRATED WITH THE OTHER OTHER CRAN OPTIONS? THANK YOU. UH, GO AHEAD KYLE, DO YOU WANNA UH, I'M NOT REALLY FAMILIAR WITH IT, JARED, SO IF YOU WANNA GO FIRST. . SO GROOM OPERATES THE PETALUMA AND SONOMA COUNTY AIRPORT OR SERVICE THAT PREDOMINANTLY GOES TO SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT AND SOMEWHAT TO OAKLAND. I WOULD SAY THEY'RE A CONSIDERATION IN THIS STUDY, BUT THERE WASN'T A LARGE SCALE LOOK AT WHAT COULD BE DONE TO CONNECT TO THEM. I THINK A LOT OF IT FALLS UNDER THE PIECE I WAS SPEAKING TO BEFORE THE LOCAL AG AGENCY CONNECTIVITY TO THOSE SERVICES. OF COURSE, THEY'RE ON ROUTE 11, ONE OF OUR MAJOR CORRIDORS ON WASHINGTON NOW, THEIR PRIMARY STOP, THEY'RE THEN THE ILLUMINA GO ZONE. AND THEN AS WE'RE ADDING MORE SERVICE, I THINK IT IMPROVES THAT CONNECTIVITY. BUT THERE WASN'T ANYTHING, UM, CONSIDERED SPECIFICALLY TO PARTNER WITH 'EM. I THINK IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN BRING UP. THAT'S A GOOD POINT AS WE LOOK AT IT A BIT MORE WITH KIND OF THE, THE POTENTIAL OPERATORS OF THE SERVICE. I THINK, OF COURSE ITS EXISTING PUBLIC AGENCIES, GOLDEN GATE SMART, BUT MAYBE EVEN OTHER PRIVATE ONES SUCH AS GROOM WOULD BE A CONSIDERATION OF THAT ANALYSIS TOO, THAT WE CAN FOLD INTO IT. THANK YOU. SEEING NO OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS, IT'LL TAKE US TO OUR NEXT AGENDA [APPROVAL OF MINUTES] ITEM, WHICH IS THE APPROVAL OF MINUTES. WE ACTUALLY HAVE A, UM, UH, AN OUTSTANDING ITEM TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM OUR JULY 11TH, 2024 MEETING. UH, ARE THERE ANY CHANGES TO THE MINUTES FOR JULY 11TH, 2024, SEEING NO PROPOSED CHANGES? UH, WE APPROVE THE MINUTES, UH, WITHOUT, UH, CHANGES AS PRESENTED. UH, WE ALSO NEED TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM THE OCTOBER 15TH, 2024 MEETING. ARE THERE ANY PROPOSED CHANGES FOR THOSE MINUTES? SEEING NO PROPOSED CHANGES, UH, THOSE ARE APPROVED AS PRESENTED. THIS BRINGS US [PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION] ONTO OUR NEXT ITEM, UH, PUBLIC HEARINGS. IT MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION. WE HAVE ITEM NUMBER THREE, RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF A HOT SEAT PRESSURE WASHER RIG FROM NORTH BAY EQUIPMENT. UH, JARED, CAN YOU, UH, TAKE US THROUGH THIS ITEM? YES, THANK YOU AGAIN, MR. CHAIR. SO THIS ITEM IS PART OF OUR ONGOING EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE PASSENGER WAITING EXPERIENCE AT OUR BUS STOPS. SO AS YOU MAY RECALL, OVER THE PAST YEAR, WE'VE DONE A NUMBER OF IMPROVEMENTS. WE'VE ADDED A DEDICATED UTILITY WORKER TO OUR MV CONTRACTOR WHOSE SOLE JOB IS TO FUNCTION CLEANING OUR BUS STOPS. AND HOPEFULLY PEOPLE HAVE SEEN IMPROVEMENT THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY WITH THINGS LIKE TRASH REMOVAL, GRAFFITI REMOVAL. WE'VE REALLY SEEN THE DIFFERENCE IN THAT. WE'VE BEEN PURCHASING A NUMBER OF FIXTURES SUCH AS SHELTERS, TRASH CANS THAT WILL BE INSTALLING LARGELY BEGINNING IN FEBRUARY OF NEXT YEAR ONCE THEY ARRIVE. AND OF COURSE, WE RENEWED OUR AGREEMENT WITH OLD ADOBE DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OES, WHO ALSO HELPS TO SUPPLEMENT AND PROVIDE BUS STOP CLEANING SERVICE. AND SO THE NEXT PIECE IS THIS ITEM BEFORE YOU TODAY, IT WOULD BE PURCHASING A HOT SEAT PRESSURE WASH, UM, RIG, WHICH IS BASICALLY A 4.5 GALLON PER MINUTE PRESSURE WASHER WITH HEATED WATER MOUNTED TO A TANDEM AXLE TRAILER. AND IT INCLUDES A WATER TANK ON IT, HOSE REELS, AND A WATER ACCLAIM SYSTEM. SO ANY WATER THAT WE SPRAY WE'RE LARGELY ABLE TO RECLAIM AND PULL THAT BACK IN. UM, IT WOULD REALLY LET US [00:50:01] TAKE OUR BUS STOP CLEANING TO THE NEXT LEVEL. THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH YOU CAN DO WHEN YOU CLEAN THE STOPS BY HAND. AT SOME POINT YOU HAVE TO PRESSURE WASH 'EM AND THE COST COULD BE QUITE HIGH. WE WERE JUST CLEANING SOME THIS WEEK AND THAT WAS $250 PER LOCATION. SO YOU COULD EASILY SPEND A THOUSAND DOLLARS IN A DAY JUST CLEANING A SMALL HANDFUL OF STOPS. BY COMPARISON, THIS IS AN ITEM THAT WOULD LAST US FOR MANY YEARS, AND THE COST OF IT IS A LITTLE OVER $47,000 OF WHICH WE RECEIVE THREE BIDS. AND SO WE'RE REQUESTING, UM, A RECOMMENDATION TO BRING THIS TO COUNCIL DO APPROVED PURCHASE OF THIS RIG. WE ANTICIPATE IT WOULD TAKE EIGHT WEEKS BEFORE WE WOULD RECEIVE IT. SO APPROXIMATELY FEBRUARY, 2025 IS WHEN WE THINK IT WOULD GO INTO SERVICE. AND OUR NEW ELECTRIC WORK TRUCK IS ON THE WAY. OUR FORD LIGHTNING. IT WOULD BE TOWING THIS RIG AND OPERATED BY OUR UTILITY WORKER. WE ESTIMATE ABOUT THREE DAYS A WEEK. AND IT WOULD ACTUALLY BENEFIT OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY TOO. AND OTHER CLEANING, NOT JUST TRANSIT, BUT OTHER THINGS LIKE STREET CREWS. PARKS OF COURSE, WOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE USE OF THIS TOOL AS WELL. WE THINK IT WOULD REALLY GET A LOT OF HEAVY USE THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND REALLY BE A LOT OF GREAT BENEFIT. UM, SO WITH THAT MR. CHAIR, I'M HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE. THANK YOU. WE'LL START THE QUESTIONS ON THE OTHER END ON THE OPPOSITE END. UM, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER TAR, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? UM, MIKE, THE ONLY THING I HAVE IS COULD, UH, PUBLIC RE RENT THIS FOR A DAY? I HAVE, I HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO ON MY HARD WHEEL. . , NO OTHER QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN LOOK INTO. I'M NOT QUITE SURE. I DON'T HAVE THE CITY ASKED PRECEDENT FOR RENTING OUT IT'S CITY OWNED EQUIPMENT, BUT IT'S A QUESTION I'LL ASK . YOU NEED YOUR OWN WORKERS COMP . YEAH, YOU'LL HAVE TO HAVE INSURANCE AND, UH, ALL THAT. AND , UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER ABRAMS. ANY QUESTIONS? JUST A FINANCIAL QUESTION. IF YOU'RE THINKING THAT OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS WOULD USE THE EQUIPMENT, IS THERE A, ARE THE OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS GONNA KICK IN, YOU KNOW, TO HELP DEFRAY THE COST? WELL, POTENTIALLY IT'S NOTHING WE'VE NAILED DOWN EXACTLY AT THIS POINT, BUT THERE IS PRECEDENT IN THE CITY FOR CHARGING FOR THOSE TYPE OF USES WHEN OTHER DEPARTMENTS ARE MAKING BENEFIT OF A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT THAT OTHERS HAVE. SO THAT IS SOMETHING WE COULD POTENTIALLY DO IS CHARGE OTHER DEPARTMENTS A REASONABLE BUT FAIR FEE. NOTHING TOO HIGH, OF COURSE, IF THEY DO USE A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. SO IT'S NOT PURELY ON THE TRANSIT SIDE TO ABSORB THE COST OF BUYING AND MAINTAINING ITEM . COMMITTEE MEMBER COLE ROSS? NO QUESTIONS. COMMITTEE MEMBER HILL? I DO HAVE A QUESTION. IT'S ABOUT THE WATER. UM, IT'S UH, UH, UH, I APPRECIATE THAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE USING RECYCLED FUEL. I'M ON WONDERING ALSO IF YOU'LL BE USING RECYCLED WATER. THAT IS THE INTENT. YEAH. AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. I DON'T THINK 100% EXCLUSIVE. YEAH. BUT GENERALLY THE INTENT IS TO USE AS MUCH RECYCLED WATER AS WE CAN. WELL, IT'S, I MEAN, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THAT'S ONLY AVAILABLE ON THE EAST SIDE TO THE PURPLE PIPES, BUT YEAH. YEAH. SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A LOGISTICAL CHALLENGE, BUT IT'S A LOT OF WATER. I MEAN, IT'S A LOT OF WATER . YEAH, THAT'S TRUE. ALTHOUGH IN THIS CASE, WE'RE ABLE TO RECLAIM MOST OF IT WITH THIS PARTICULAR UNIT SO WE CAN REPROCESS IT. AGAIN, YOU'RE NOT LOSING IT AS YOU END SOME I I NOTICED THAT IN THE DESCRIPTION. I WAS HOPING THAT'S WHAT THAT MEANT. BUT YEAH, JUST, JUST, UM, JUST WONDERING. NO, THAT'S A GREAT THOUGHT COUNCIL MEMBER. POLKE. THANKS. UM, JARED, DO YOU HAVE ANY ESTIMATE OF HOW OFTEN YOU FEEL, I MEAN, I KNOW IT CAN VARY FROM WEEK TO WEEK AND SUCH, BUT DO YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, ANY NUMBER YOU'VE WORKED WITH AS TO HOW OFTEN YOU FEEL EACH, EACH PLACE NEEDS, NEEDS TO BE CLEANED WITH THIS EQUIPMENT? IT REALLY KIND OF DEPENDS ON EACH STOP. WHEN WE HAVE HEAVY USE STOPS, LIKE COPELAND, TRANSIT MALL, EAST SIDE TRANSIT CENTER, YOU REALLY WANNA CLEAN AT LEAST THREE TIMES A WEEK. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW BETWEEN OUR OWN UTILITY WORKER AND OS IS OS HELPS TO SUPPLEMENT AND PROVIDE ADDITIONAL CLEANINGS. EVEN IF THAT'S EMPTYING TRASH, IT FILLS UP A LOT FASTER. SO I WOULD SAY SOME STOPS NEED CLEANING THREE TIMES A WEEK, AND THEN SOME MAY NEED CLEANING ONE TIME A WEEK OF THEIR LIGHTER USE AND IF THEY ONLY HAVE A BENCH OR THINGS LIKE THAT. UM, IN THIS CASE, OUR UTILITY WORKER, WHEN HE HAS A WORK TRUCK, HE'LL OFTEN BE TOWING THIS BEHIND IT AND USING IT. UH, LIKE I SAID, I ESTIMATE ABOUT THREE DAYS A WEEK. HE WON'T BE HITTING EVERY STOP OVER THAT TIMEFRAME. NOT EVERY STOP WOULD NEED TO BE PRESSURE WASHED EVERY WEEK. RIGHT. BUT GENERALLY WE'RE TRYING TO HIT EVERY STOP AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK WITH SOME LEVEL OF CLEANING. OKAY. THANK YOU. I HAVE NO [00:55:01] QUESTIONS. AND SO THAT BRINGS US TO, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS. THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM. PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON. IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO ALREADY, PLEASE FILL OUT A CARD, A SPEAKER CARD AND BRING IT TO THE CLERK. CLERK. HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY SPEAKER CARDS? UM, NO PRIOR PUBLIC OR NO PRIOR PUBLIC COMMENT. THANK YOU. SCENE, NO INTEREST, UH, FROM THE PUBLIC TO MAKE COMMENTS. UM, THAT AND, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS. UM, SO, UM, SO EVERYBODY, ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? I KNOW WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, ASK QUESTIONS, BUT ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS? THANK YOU. UH, SO NO ADDITIONAL COMMENTS FROM THE COMMITTEE. UH, AND, UH, LET'S SEE. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO, UH, MOVE FORWARD TO RECOMMEND TO COUNSEL? I'M HAPPY TO MAKE THAT MOTION A SECOND. THANK YOU. WE HAVE A SECOND FROM, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER ABRAMS. UH, CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A VOTE? UH, ABRAMS. RO YES. HE YES. QUINT? YES. TAR? YES. VASQUEZ. IS IT, IS IT ? IS THAT ME? ITEM PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. MR. CHAIR. THANK YOU. AND THAT BRINGS US TO OUR, UH, NEXT [COMMITTEE COMMENT] ITEM, WHICH IS COMMITTEE COMMENT. DURING COMMITTEE COMMENT, MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO BRIEFLY SHARE UPDATES RELEVANT TO THIS COMMITTEE, INCLUDING LIAISON REPORTS AND OTHER CITY BODIES, AND MAKE REQUESTS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS SHOULD BE LIMITED TO CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. THERE WILL BE NO PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM. AND WE'LL START WITH COUNCIL MEMBER . I REALLY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING. FRANK, I LAST NIGHT'S MEETING YOU. STILL A LITTLE WORE OFF FROM THAT. I'M SORRY. UH, I SHOULDN'T, I DON'T, I DON'T FEEL, UH, SAY MUCH ABOUT IT, THAT I CAN SAY IN LESS THAN 20 MINUTES. THANK YOU. UH, COUNCIL OR COMMITTEE MEMBER HILL? NO, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING. COMMITTEE MEMBER KORO? UH, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING. THANKS. UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER ABRAMS? YES. UH, THANK YOU. UM, REGARDING, UM, UPCOMING AGENDAS, WE, THERE'S ACTUALLY THREE THINGS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, AND YET I DON'T SEE THEM ON ANY UPCOMING AGENDA ITEM LISTS. UM, ONE IS IN THE, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, UM, A ASSESSING THE BUS STOPS IN PARTICULAR FOR SAFETY. AND YOU HAD SHARED THAT THERE WAS A SUMMER INTERN WHO WAS ASSESSING ALL THE BUS STOPS AND IT WOULD BE GREAT TO GET A REPORT ON THE RESULTS OF THAT AND INCLUDING ANY ACTION ITEMS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED. UM, THE SECOND THING WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT'S GOING, IF IT'S GOING AT ALL, WAS THE IDEA OF AN AD HOC COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT THE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR OUR CONTRACTOR. UH, THE NEW, YOU KNOW, THE NEW CON. I GUESS WE WON'T JUST BE RENEWING, WE'LL BE PUTTING IT REQUESTS OUT. AND I WASN'T ABLE TO ATTEND LAST, UH, MONTH'S MEETING, BUT I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING IN THE MINUTES EITHER. SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE ARE ON THAT. AND THEN, UM, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS A COUPLE TIMES TOO. UM, WHAT IS THE PROCESS FOR ASSESSING, UH, ROOT CHANGES, ROOT FREQUENCY CHANGES, EXPANSION, CONTRACTION? SO HOW DO WE THESE THINGS ON THE AGENDA? JARED, THANK YOU. UM, SO IN THE LAST MONTH'S PACKET, WE ACTUALLY HAD AN ITEM OF THE MANAGER TO REPORT THAT SPEAKS TO THE LATTER PIECE. PARDON? ABOUT HOW WE CONSIDER RECOMMENDATIONS AND CHANGES TO SERVICE. MM-HMM . UM, SO WE COULD ALWAYS, UH, REVISIT THAT ITEM. AND PEOPLE HAD ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? WE DIDN'T REALLY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS LAST MEETING WHEN THAT CAME UP, BUT WE COULD ALWAYS HAVE MORE DISCUSSION ON THAT. WE ARE STILL INTENDING TO DO THE OPERATIONAL AD HOC. WE HAVE NOT HAD A CHANCE TO SEND OUT AN INVITE, BUT I ANTICIPATE DECEMBER. AND SO STAY TUNED BECAUSE I WILL BE SENDING OUT AN EMAIL. THE INTENT IS TO FORM THAT GROUP AS PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED. AND I'M HAPPY TO ADD AN ITEM TO A FUTURE [01:00:01] AGENDA. I THINK WE'LL BE ABLE TO DO THAT THE NEXT MEETING. WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE A DECEMBER MEETING, BUT THE JANUARY MEETING, I THINK WE CAN WORK ON A PRESENTATION AND TALK ABOUT THE BUS STOPS A BIT MORE. CARLY AND, UM, OUR INTERN, JACK HAS DONE SOME GREAT WORK ON THAT. CARLY ESPECIALLY HAS DONE LIKE A FULL INVENTORY OF ALL THE PETALUMA BUS STOPS, SO WE CAN PRESENT THAT AND WHAT THE DATA SHOWS AND THE CONDITION OF THEM. UH, AS MENTIONED BEFORE, WE HAVE EVERY BUS STOP IN A GIS DATABASE INVENTORY. SO I THINK IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT THAT PROCESS A BIT MORE AND WHAT DATA WE GLEAN FROM IT. THAT'D BE GREAT. SO WE'LL ADD THAT TO THE AGENDA. YEAH, THAT'D BE GREAT. THANK YOU. WELCOME. AND THEN, UM, UNRELATED, I JUST WANTED, I SAW, UM, THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRANSIT DRIVER'S TRAINING ON BICYCLISTS SAFETY. YEAH. AND IT, I JUST WANTED TO CALL OUT THAT THERE'S ALSO PEDESTRIAN SAFETY. UM, I HAD A, ON NOVEMBER 6TH, I, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS THE SAME PARATRANSIT DRIVER BOTH TIMES, BUT IT WAS QUITE A DAY FOR ME. UM, CROSSING HOWARD STREET, UH, AT A PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALK THAT DOESN'T HAVE A FLASHING LIGHT OR ANYTHING, BUT IT'S CLEARLY MARKED. UM, LONG-TERM PEDESTRIAN, YOU GET THE SENSE OF IF THE ONCOMING TRAFFIC IS GOING TO STOP. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY CLEAR THAT THE PARATRANSIT BUS HAD NO INTENTION OF STOPPING. SO I JUST NOTICED THAT WHERE I WAS CLEARLY STEPPING INTO THE CROSSWALK, WELL IN ADVANCE OF, OF THE PARATRANSIT VAN, TRUCK, WHATEVER. AND THEN A COUPLE HOURS LATER I WAS COMING BACK AND I WAS CROSSING, UM, GOING WEST ON WESTERN, UH, CROSSING KELLER AND GOING SOUTH ON KELLER. WERE TWO VEHICLES, VEHICLE ONE'S A CAR, AND BEHIND THAT WAS THE PARATRANSIT VAN. SO IN A FOUR-WAY STOP SITUATION, THE VEHICLE WENT AND THEN I WAS NEXT IN LINE TO COME ACROSS AND CROSSING THE PARATRANSIT VAN, JUST ZOOMED RIGHT ACROSS. AND I DID NO FINGERS, JUST JUST WHAT, AND THE PARATRANSIT VAN DRIVER TO THAT SAME WHAT BACK TO ME. SO I WAS LIKE, WE NEED PEDESTRIAN SAFETY FOR THE PARATRANSIT VAN. WELL THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT TO OUR ATTENTION. LET ME APOLOGIZE, UH, THOSE SITUATIONS. I DO BELIEVE IT WITH FAN NUMBER 11 IF THERE IS SUCH A THING. SO WHAT I'LL DO IS, UM, AFTER THE MEETING, LET'S GET TOGETHER AND I'LL GET ALL THOSE DETAILS AND WE CAN LOOK INTO IT FURTHER, SEE IF WE CAN DETERMINE WHO THE DRIVER WAS. AND OF COURSE OUR VEHICLES ALL HAVE VIDEO ON THEM, SO IF PEOPLE EVER SEE ANY TYPE OF INCIDENTS LIKE YOU'RE DESCRIBING, THEY CAN LET US KNOW THE DETAILS AND THE MORE, THE BETTER, LIKE DATE, TIME VEHICLE, WE COULD USUALLY GO BACK WITH PRETTY GOOD ACCURACY AND PULL THE VIDEO AND SEE WHAT THE VIDEO SHOWS FOR WHAT THE DRIVER WAS DOING NOT DOING. AND THEN IF THE DRIVER WAS NOT FOLLOWING POLICY, WE CAN ALWAYS FOLLOW UP AND RETRAIN THAT, ET CETERA. I DID WONDER THOUGH, IF HE WAS JUST TRYING TO DRUM UP BUSINESS . HOPEFULLY THAT'S NOT THE CASE, BUT WE'LL LOOK INTO IT. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THE HUMOR AND ALL GOOD CALL OUTS AND THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM, MR. TAR, DO YOU HAVE ANY, I JUST HAD, UM, COUPLE COMMENTS. ONE WAS, UM, I DID APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT THE DRIVERS HAVE THESE TRAINING COURSES AND OF COURSE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT AND HOPEFULLY IT'S ONGOING. UM, I MEAN, I NEED SOMETHING LIKE THAT JUST AS A DRIVER. , CAN I ATTEND? THAT'S THE FIRST THING. THE SECOND THING IS SOMEBODY BROUGHT UP, UM, THE GROOM, THE BUS SERVICE AND IS THERE ANY COORDINATION THAT CAN BE DONE? I AM ONE WHO HAS ON MY OWN AND MY WIFE TAKEN TRIPS TO SFO STARTING, IT WAS SMART, THE FERRY BART, AND OUT TO THE UM, SFO ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES THERE IS THAT WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A WAY TO GET HOME AND YOU'RE COMING IN IN THE EVENING AND SMART'S NOT RUNNING OR THE FERRY EITHER, YOU CAN'T GET HOME. SO IF THERE'S ANY COORDINATION THAT COULD BE DONE WHERE A GROOM WOULD REDUCE MAYBE THEIR PRICE A BIT FOR SOMEBODY WHO IS TAKING PUBLIC TRANSIT TO THE AIRPORT BUT CAN'T GET HOME. I MEAN, I'M NOT GONNA STAY IN THE AIRPORT OVERNIGHT, BUT I IMAGINE IT COULD BE DONE. UM, SO THAT'S NOTHING TERRIBLY IMPORTANT. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY, I I, AND IT'S, I HAVE ONLY BEEN ON THIS [01:05:01] COMMITTEE FOR THREE OR FOUR MONTHS NOW, BUT EVEN WHEN I WAS IN BEFORE, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'VE EVER HAD AN UPDATE ON IMPROVED CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC FOR BUSES ON WASHINGTON. IS THERE ANY WAY WE COULD GET SOMEBODY IN TRANSPORTATION OR IN THE ENGINEERING OR JUST TO EXPLAIN WHAT CAN BE DONE OR WHAT CAN'T BE DONE? I MEAN, I HAVE ONE PUSHED AND I, AND I KNOW, UM, JARED, IT, IT HAPPENS IS WHEN THERE'S NEW CONSTRUCTION AND THERE'S A BUS STOP ON THAT ROUTE THAT YOU PUSH SOMEHOW YOU ACQUIRE PART OF THE LAND OR YOU REQUIRE IT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING THE IMPROVEMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOUR BUS STOP NOW IS OFF THE TRAVEL LANES. UM, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT CAN BE DONE. AND I KNOW WASHINGTON IS, IT'S TOUGH TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING, BUT I IMAGINE THERE'S SOME BRILLIANT TRANSPORTATION PLANNER OUT THERE. COULD WORK ON THIS. DAVID . ANYWAY, THAT'S ALL I HAVE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UH, JUST A COUPLE OF ITEMS FOR ME I WANTED TO MENTION. UM, SO I'M ALSO ON THE PAC, UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS I I RECOGNIZE ON THE, UH, BEING ON THE, UH, PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE IS THAT, UM, WE, UH, YOU KNOW, I, I REMIND MYSELF CONSTANTLY THAT THE PEDESTRIAN SIDE OF IT IS JUST AS IMPORTANT, UH, MORE IMPORTANT. UH, AND IT'S REALLY A HOLISTIC LOOK AT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE MAKE, UH, TRAVEL THROUGH OUR CITY, UM, EASIER WITHOUT AUTOMOBILES AND SUCH. SO, UH, I DEFINITELY APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS. UM, UH, WHAT IT'S LIKE TO WALK THROUGH THE CITY. UM, IN OUR LAST PBA C MEETING, WE HAD A, UH, A REALLY GOOD SESSION WHERE THE ENTIRE COMMITTEE GOT TO DO A, UH, COMPREHENSIVE DEEP DIVE ON THE MAP THAT THE CITY STAFF HAS PUT TOGETHER FOR THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK, UH, THAT WILL, UH, E EVENTUALLY MAKE ITS WAY AND BECOME PART OF THE GENERAL PLAN. UH, BUT THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, UH, THAT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN NOW IS ON ITS WAY. UH, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S VERY MUCH LIKE THE OTHER, UM, SORT OF GENERAL PLAN COMPONENTS THAT HAVE BEEN BEING WORKED ON OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. AND, UM, AND IT'S EXCITING AND IT WILL, UM, I, I, I THINK IT'S ON, UH, A PATH TO COME BEFORE CITY COUNCIL TO BE VOTED ON IN THE MARCH APRIL TIMEFRAME. UH, SO THAT'LL BE, UH, I THINK A REAL BIG WIN FOR, UH, PETALUMA MOBILITY, WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, TRANSIT RELATED, BUT ALSO ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION RELATED. UH, AND THEN I'D LIKE TO BRING UP, UH, THIS, UH, WILL PROBABLY BE, UH, IT IS MOST CERTAINLY MY LAST MEETING. UM, AND, UH, AT LEAST AS A MEMBER OF THE, UH, COMMITTEE, UM, I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH, UM, AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, TO BE, UH, ELECTED TO CITY COUNCIL. I, I KIND OF FEEL LIKE I'M REPLACING DENNIS WHO'S GOING TO BE, UH, OUTGOING. UH, DENNIS AND I DON'T LIVE IN THE SAME DISTRICT, UH, BUT, UH, HE'S GOT, UM, SUPER BIG, UH, SHOES TO FILL. AND SO, UH, UH, IT'S, IT'S, YOU KNOW, WITH MIXED FEELINGS. I'M EXCITED ABOUT TAKING ON THAT ADVENTURE. I'M ALSO, UM, A LITTLE SAD TO, TO SEE, UH, MY FAVORITE COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, GO ON AND DO BETTER THINGS. UM, BUT WITH THAT, UH, AT THE, SO THE DECEMBER MEETING WILL, I THINK IT'S, UH, ALREADY IT'S GOING TO BE CANCELED, CORRECT? YEAH. WE ARE INTENDING TO CANCEL THE DECEMBER MEETING. SO THE NEXT MEETING WOULD BE THE THIRD, UM, TUESDAY OF JANUARY, WHICH IS THE, I DON'T HAVE THAT DATE IN FRONT OF ME, 21ST OF JANUARY, 21ST. AND SO, UH, AT THAT MEETING, UH, YOU WILL BE WITHOUT A CHAIR. AND, UM, SO, UH, JARED AND THE COMMITTEE WILL NEED TO APPOINT A NEW CHAIR. AND SO IF YOU HAVE ASPIRATIONS OR, YOU KNOW, JUST THE WILLINGNESS, UH, TO BE CONSIDERED, OR IF THERE'S SOMEONE THAT YOU, UH, WELL, LET ME ASK YOU, JARED, IF THERE'S, UH, IF, IF ANYONE WANTS TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THAT OR HAS AN IDEA ON WHO TO NOMINATE, SHOULD THEY, UM, JUST BRING THAT TO THE MEETING? OR IS THERE A BENEFIT TO, UH, REACHING OUT TO YOU AHEAD OF TIME? UM, IT'LL BE SIMILAR TO THE PROCESS THAT WE DID BACK IN THE, I BELIEVE, JULY MEETING TO WHERE WE ELECT THE CHAIR AND THE VICE CHAIR POSITION. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT ANY MEMBERS HAVE, IF THEY WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THOSE POSITIONS, WHAT THEY ENTAIL, WHAT THE ROLE IS. BUT OTHERWISE, I WOULD SAY AT THAT JANUARY MEETING, [01:10:01] WE'LL BE REPEATING THAT PROCESS TO WHERE PEOPLE CAN EITHER BE NOMINATED BY ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE OR EVEN SELF NOMINATE FOR CHAIR OR VICE CHAIR. AND THEN WE'LL BE REFILLING THOSE, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE AT LEAST ONE VACANT POSITION ON THE COMMITTEE. SINCE YOU, UH, SINCE THE MEMBER OF COUNCIL WILL BE TAKING OVER AS THE COUNCIL LIAISON FOR COUNCIL MEMBER ADE DECEIT THAT YOU'RE CURRENTLY ON, UM, CHAIR QUINT WOULD BE VACATED. AND SO FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND THAT THE CLERK WILL DO A SMALL RECRUITMENT OF ANY VACANT POSITIONS ON THE CITY COMMITTEE'S, BOARDS THAT RESULTED FROM THE ELECTION LIKELY IN JANUARY. SO THERE'S A CHANCE THAT WE MAY HAVE A NEW MEMBER JOINING US EITHER IN JANUARY OR FEBRUARY. THE EXACT TIMING IS BEING DETERMINED, BUT WE'RE INTENDING TO APPOINT THE NEW CHAIR, VICE CHAIR AT THAT JANUARY ATTACK MEETING. PERFECT. THANK YOU. AND I SUPPOSE THERE'S A, AN OPPORTUNITY, UH, UH, TO, TO MAYBE COME BACK TO THE, UH, COMMITTEE, UH, AS A LIAISON, AND THAT WOULD BE A WELCOME, UH, EXPERIENCE FOR ME. UM, MOSTLY I JUST WANTED TO PUT IT OUT THERE, UH, SO THAT, UH, FOLKS ARE THINKING ABOUT THAT. UH, AND THEN, UM, ALSO, AGAIN, IT'S A, NOT IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S MORE, UH, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION RELATED. UH, IN DECEMBER IT WAS ANNOUNCED THE, UH, PETALUMA LIGHTED BIKE PARADE IS GOING TO, UH, BE COMING BACK TO PETALUMA. SO THERE IS, UM, I DON'T HAVE, I THINK IT'S DECEMBER 20TH IS GOING TO BE THE DATE. UM, WOULD NEED TO CONFIRM THAT. IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED, I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU. IT IS FAMILY FRIENDLY, UH, AND, UH, IT IS JUST, UH, UH, SO MUCH FUN. UH, WE'VE DONE IT FOR TWO YEARS IN A ROW. IT'S GOTTEN BIGGER. IT'S, UH, LAST YEAR IT WAS PROBABLY 200, 250 PEOPLE THAT PARTICIPATED. UM, IT'S, UH, I KNOW LAST YEAR THE PETALUMA POLICE DEPARTMENT, UM, DID THE ESCORT AND THE TRAFFIC SAFETY FOR IT. IT WAS, IT REACHED THAT SIZE THAT IT NEEDED THAT. AND SO, UH, THAT, UH, WILL HOPEFULLY THAT'LL, UH, CONTINUE TO GROW AND BE A, UH, A GREAT COMMUNITY THING. UM, WITH THAT, I HAVE NO FURTHER COMMENTS. SORRY, NO ONE'S MENTIONED THIS, BUT GAIL'S VICE CHAIR, RIGHT? SO THAT SHE WOULD BE THE LOGICAL ONE TO RUN THAT FIRST MEETING NO. IN JANUARY? YES, I WOULD SAY SO. SO I REACHED OUT TO THE CITY CLERK TO CLARIFY THE PROCESS. I WOULD SAY FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE MEETING, SINCE YOU AT THAT POINT WOULD BE ACTING CHAIR, YOU, UM, COMMITTEE MEMBER ABRAMS WOULD PRESIDE OVER IT IN THAT CAPACITY UNTIL WE GET TO THAT POINT ON THE AGENDA WHERE WE APPOINT THE CHAIR AND THE VICE CHAIR. IF YOU'RE ELECTED CHAIR, THEN YOU WOULD CONTINUE TO PRESIDE OVER IT. UM, AND IF SOMEONE ELSE IS THAT WE COULD POSSIBLY DO THE HANDOFF AT THAT TIME, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. AND THEY WILL, UM, UH, PROVIDE AN ANNOTATED, UH, AGENDA. SO IT'S SUPER EASY TO FOLLOW AND SHE, SHE CAN, UH, YOU'RE GONNA DO GREAT. AND AS YOU, AS I'VE LEARNED, UH, THE COMMITTEE IS VERY KIND TO, UH, NEW CHAIR PEOPLE. SO, UH, UM, WE'RE IN GOOD HANDS. UH, WITH [STAFF COMMENT] THAT, I DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER COMMENT. SO THAT BRINGS US TO STAFF COMMENT. JARED, WOULD YOU LIKE TO PROVIDE YOUR STAFF COMMENT? YEAH. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. ACTUALLY, I'D LIKE TO HAND IT OFF TO CARLY FOR A MOMENT IF SHE'D LIKE TO GIVE US AN UPDATE ON ANY RIDERSHIP STATS. YEAH, SO I JUST WANTED TO GIVE A QUICK UPDATE ON SOME OF OUR MOST RECENT KEY METRICS FROM LUMA GO. UM, SO OUR HIGHEST RIDERSHIP DAY SO FAR WAS OCTOBER 25TH, AND WE HAD A TOTAL OF 88 COMPLETED RIDES. UM, OVERALL SINCE THE SERVICE LAUNCHED, WE HAD A TOTAL OF 1,985 RIDES WITH AN AVERAGE OF 3.2 RIDERS PER HOUR. UM, ON AVERAGE, 91% OF REQUESTED RIDES WERE MET WITH A RIDE PROPOSAL, UM, WHICH WE'RE HAPPY WITH THIS NUMBER. OUR GOAL IS TO STAY ABOVE 90, SO WE'RE REALLY HAPPY WITH 91. AND THEN WE'VE HAD 1,849 ACCOUNTS CREATED ON THE LUMA GO APP. AND OF THOSE PEOPLE 370 ARE ACTIVE RIDERS, WHICH MEANS THEY'VE TAKEN MULTIPLE RIDES ON LUMA GO. AND THEN LASTLY, OUR AVERAGE RATING FOR LUMA GO RIGHT NOW IS 4.9 OUT OF FIVE. SO WE'RE KEEPING AN EYE ON THINGS, COMMENTS WE'RE GETTING FROM THE PUBLIC SO WE CAN IMPROVE THE SERVICE. THANK YOU, CARLY. SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED. LUMA, GO, UH, CONTINUES TO REALLY KIND OF EXCEED ALL EXPECTATIONS. SO GREAT FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE HAD FROM THE PUBLIC, GREAT RIDERSHIP SO FAR. SO WE'VE BEEN REALLY [01:15:01] EXCITED ABOUT THE SUCCESS OF THAT PROGRAM, ATTRIBUTABLE TO A LOT OF THE PEOPLE ON THIS COMMITTEE, OF COURSE, AND TO A LOT OF THE PUBLIC SUPPORT THAT WE'VE RECEIVED. UM, WE CONTINUE TO DO OUTREACH FOR LUMA GO. WE RECENTLY HAD AN EVENT, A LUNCH WITH, UH, URBAN CHAT ON OCTOBER 24TH WHERE STAFF ATTENDED AND DISCUSSED IT WITH THE MEMBERS OF THAT GROUP. STAFF ALSO ATTENDED THE REDWOOD BIKE SHARE RIBBON CUTTING, SO I WANTED TO MENTION THAT. I'M SURE THEY'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT AT THE PBA COMMITTEE AS WELL. BUT THAT SERVICE IS NOW RUNNING IN PETALUMA AND THE MAJORITY OF THE 1 0 1 CORRIDOR. SO PEOPLE HAVEN'T RODE THAT YET. I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO GET OUT THERE. IT'S A REALLY GREAT SYSTEM. IT'S REALLY FRIENDLY, EASY TO USE. EVERY BIKE IS AN ESIS BIKE, REALLY COMFORTABLE, SMOOTH, GOOD POWER. AND PETALUMA WILL ULTIMATELY HAVE 12 STATIONS. IT HAS EIGHT TO 10 INSTALLED RIGHT NOW. THERE'S STILL A FEW THAT ARE GETTING FINALIZED, AND A COUPLE OF THE COMMUNITIES ON THE CORRIDOR ARE STILL FINALIZING THEIR PERMITS, BUT PETALUMA IS LARGELY UP AND RUNNING AT THIS POINT. SO GET OUT THERE AND USE THAT SYSTEM. A COUPLE OF UPCOMING EVENTS THAT WE HAVE, WE HAVE A TOY DRIVE SLASH FOOD DRIVE ON DECEMBER 7TH, AND SO OUR STAFF WILL BE DOWN AT THE SMART STATION NEAR DOWNTOWN, UM, RIGHT NEAR THE, UH, SMART PLATFORM. WE'LL BE THERE ON DECEMBER 7TH FROM 9:00 AM TO 2:00 PM SO PLEASE BRING ANY FOOD THAT YOU HAVE TO DONATE NON-PERISHABLE, AND THAT GOES TO COTS OR ANY TOYS THAT YOU HAVE. AND WE'LL BE DONATING THOSE TO TOYS FOR TOTS. SO PLEASE SHOW UP TO THAT EVENT. AND THEN DECEMBER 7TH IS ALSO THE LIGHT OF BOAT PARADE, A BIG, UH, PETALUMA EVENT EVERY YEAR. SO OF COURSE YOU CAN REACH THAT BY TRANSIT. AND WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO RIDE TRANSIT, ANY OF OUR SERVICES TO REACH THAT, BECAUSE THAT'S A GREAT EVENT THAT USUALLY HAS A LOT OF GREAT TURNOUT AT IT. SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED FOR THAT. UH, WE'RE GETTING AN INCLEMENT WEATHER THIS WEEK'S, UH, WE'RE STARTING TO SEE THAT WINTER WEATHER. SO AS A REMINDER, EVERYONE, PLEASE BE SAFE OUT THERE. YOU MAY EXPERIENCE SOME MINOR DELAYS ON PETALUMA TRANSIT. WE ALWAYS ASK OUR DRIVERS TO BE ESPECIALLY SAFE AND CAUTIOUS DURING THAT TIME AS WE DO ALL DRIVERS, BUT BE CAUTIOUS GIVEN THAT WET WEATHER. AND THEN ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT WE'RE HOPING TO BRING TO THE NEXT MEETING BEYOND SOME OF THE ONES THAT WE DISCUSSED EARLIER, IS A PRESENTATION ON THE PETALUMA CLIMATE ACTION BLUEPRINT, WHICH WAS RECENTLY APPROVED BY COUNCIL ON NOVEMBER 4TH. THAT, OF COURSE, IS A VERY EXCITING, AMBITIOUS PLAN THAT INCLUDES VARIOUS THINGS INCLUDING TRANSIT, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, AND REALLY ALL THINGS SUSTAINABILITY FOR THE CITY. AND SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE DEB FOX JOIN US, THE CITY, UM, SUSTAINABILITY MANAGER, AND SHE'LL GIVE US A PRESENTATION ON THAT PLAN, SPECIFICALLY HOW IT INTERACTS WITH TRANSIT AND ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION. AND SO THAT IS EVERYTHING FOR THE MANAGER'S REPORT. MR. CHAIR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, JARED. UH, AND WITH THAT, UH, WE'LL ADJOURN THE MEETING AT, UH, SIX 18. THANK YOU. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. 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