* 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. [CALL TO ORDER] [00:00:07] AND QUINT . THANK YOU. OKAY, THANK YOU. UM, GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS NEXT. ACTUALLY. YEAH. OH, NO, GO AHEAD. COULD I JUST HOP IN? SWEARING IN IS NEXT. YES. I WOULD LOVE TO SWEAR IN YOUR NEWEST MEMBER. UM, IF MICHAEL COULD JOIN ME IN FRONT OF THE DAIS HERE. COME AROUND. I'LL SWEAR YOU IN. AND THEN, AND THEN YOU GUYS WILL HAVE A, A QUORUM . ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU. YOU'RE GONNA PUSH DOWN, TRY TO CAPTURE YOU. OKAY. OKAY. SO IF YOU WANNA RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND REPEAT AFTER ME. MM-HMM . OKAY. I STATE YOUR NAME. DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR. I MICHAEL ACTON. DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND, THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA, THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA, AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE, THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA, THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA, AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION FREELY, THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION FREELY WITHOUT ANY MENTAL RESERVATION, WITHOUT ANY MENTAL RESERVATION OR PURPOSE OF EVASION OR PURPOSE OF EVASION. AND THAT I WILL WELL AND FAITHFULLY, AND THAT I WILL WELL AND FAITHFULLY DISCHARGE THE DUTIES. DISCHARGE THE DUTIES UPON WHICH I'M ABOUT TO ENTER UPON WHICH I'M ABOUT TO ENTER. CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YES. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. OKAY. NOW, UM, GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTEREST THAT ARE WITHIN THE COMMITTEE'S SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, AND THAT 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, NO MORE THAN 20 MINUTES SUBJECT TO THE COUNCIL'S DISCRETION IF ANYBODY WANTS TO BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARD FORWARD. OKAY. UM, HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING? NO. THANK YOU. OKAY. THEN I AM CLOSING PUBLIC COMMENT. ALRIGHT. [1. A. Election of Officers - Chair and Vice Chair] NOW WE HAVE, UM, PRESENTATIONS. WE HAVE THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS, BOTH THE CHAIR, UH, AND THE VICE CHAIR. SO I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF ANYBODY IS INTERESTED IN FILLING THE, THE CHAIR ROLE? YES MA'AM. IT MIGHT BE GOOD FOR, UM, ESPECIALLY FOR A NEW MEMBER, IF YOU WANNA SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT AS WELL. OR TIME. YOU DON'T HAVE TO, BUT MIGHT. ABSOLUTELY. IT MIGHT, IT MIGHT PROVIDE AN INSIGHT FOR A FEW FOLKS. GOOD, GOOD, GOOD SUGGESTION. I'M JUST READING ALONG WITHOUT THOUGHT. SO, SO THANK YOU TEAM. UM, AT THE MOMENT I'M THE CHAIR, SO WHAT I'M DOING IS THE CHAIR, CHAIR ROLE. . THAT'S A GREAT DEFINITION. UM, THE MAIN THING REALLY IS TO, UH, KEEP THE, THE MEETING ROLLING ALONG WITHIN THE COMMUNICATION STANDARDS THAT ARE REQUIRED OF US. AND YOU'LL LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT WITH THE, THE TRAINING AND, UM, THAT'S IT, TO TRY TO HAVE A PRODUCTIVE MEETING. BUT I HAVE BEEN, UH, THE CHAIR FOR A WHILE NOW, AND I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT IF ANYBODY FEELS LIKE THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE THE CHAIR FOR A WHILE, THAT THAT WOULD, I WOULD NOT FEEL IN ANY WAY HURT OR SAD. UM, HOWEVER, IF PEOPLE DON'T FEEL LIKE BEING THE CHAIR, I WOULDN'T FEEL HURT OR SAD TO CONTINUE BEING THE CHAIR. , IT'S AN HONOR TO BE YOUR CHAIR. AND, BUT SO WHO WOULD LIKE TO BE THE CHAIR? AND MAYBE THE ROLE OF VICE CHAIR AND WHO IS VICE CHAIR NOW IF THEY WANNA SPEAK TO IT. YEAH. AND THEN ERIC IS CURRENTLY THE VICE CHAIR, [00:05:01] SO YES. THANK YOU. CHAIR ABRAMS. UM, REALLY IT IS, UM, IT'S BEEN A LOT OF FUN, BUT MOSTLY IT'S JUST FILLING IN WHEN OUR CHAIR IS NOT P AND SO I'VE ONLY DONE IT COUPLE TIMES, ONCE OR TWICE TIMES. YEAH. SO IT'S REALLY ABOUT JUST MAKING SURE THE MEETING FLOWS SMOOTHLY AND YOU'RE MODERATING. YEAH. OKAY. SO WE START WITH THE OFFICE OF THE CHAIR, SO, NO, BUT SERIOUSLY, WITH ALL RESPECT AND ENCOURAGEMENT, WOULD ANYBODY LIKE TO BE THE CHAIR? I NOMINATE GAIL ABRAMS. AND I SECOND THAT. . OKAY. THEN, UM, I, DO WE NEED A ROLL CALL OR DO WE JUST DO HANDS? WE SHOULD DO A ROLL. OKAY, THANK YOU. SURE. ALRIGHT. ABRAMS FINE. ACTING? YES. ALDEN? YES. COLE ROSS? YES. CHE? YES. VASQUEZ IS AGAR. YES. AND QUINT. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU. I'LL DO MY, I'LL CONTINUE TO DO THE, THE BEST THAT I CAN. ALRIGHT. NOW, UM, ERIC, DO YOU WANNA SAY ANYTHING ABOUT, UM, BEING THE VICE CHAIR THAT YOU HAVEN'T SAID ALREADY? SURE. UM, I'M IMPARTIAL TO EITHER DECISION , IF IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SOMEONE WHO HASN'T DONE IT BEFORE AND THERE IS THOSE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE PERHAPS YOU MAY NOT BE PRESENT. IT'S, IT'S NICE TO GET YOUR FEET WET IN THAT AND KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE, BUT EITHER WAY, YOU KNOW, I ACCEPT THE DECISION EITHER WAY THAT'S BROUGHT FORWARD. OKAY. SO WOULD ANYBODY LIKE TO VOLUNTEER TO BE THE VICE CHAIR? ALRIGHT, DO WE HAVE A NOMINATION? I NOMINATE ERIC VASQUEZ. . I SECOND. OKAY. CAN WE HAVE A VOTE? ABRAMS AYE. ACTON? YES. ALDEN? YES. COLE ROSS? YES. CHE? YES. VASQUEZ IS AGER? YES. OKAY. WE HAVE UNANIMOUSLY ELECTED OUR CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR . OKAY. [APPROVAL OF MINUTES] SO NOW WE ARE MOVING ON TO APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FOR JUNE, UH, 16TH. UH, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY CHANGES THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO MAKE? TO THE MINUTES? OKAY, THEN I THINK THEN WE HAVE APPROVED THE MINUTES WITHOUT CHANGES. ALRIGHT. THERE ARE NO, UM, PUBLIC HEARINGS OR MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION THIS EVENING. SO [COMMITTEE COMMENT] WE ARE MOVING ON TO COMMITTEE COMMENT. AND DURING COMMITTEE COMMENT, MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO BRIEFLY SHARE UPDATES RELEVANT TO THIS COMMITTEE, INCLUDING LIAISON REPORTS FROM OTHER CITY BODIES, UM, AND TO MAKE REQUESTS, UH, FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS AND DIALOGUES. DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS WILL BE LIMITED TO CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AND THERE IS NO PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM. SO I GUESS, UM, WE, WE'LL GO DOWN THE ROAD. UM, PATTY, MAYBE FOR MICHAEL'S BENEFIT, I'LL JUST, UH, INTRODUCE MYSELF. UM, I'M PATTY. I UM, I'VE BEEN ON THE TRANSIT COMMITTEE FOR FOUR YEARS, MAYBE. TIME FLIES. . UH, I AM A PROFESSOR AT DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY. I TEACH PUBLIC HEALTH AND, UM, I LIVE CLOSE BY, SO I WALK HERE. I HAVE NO OTHER COMMENT OR ANYTHING TO SHARE. THANK YOU. WELL, SINCE WE'RE ON INTRODUCTIONS, , UM, I'M, MY NAME IS ERIC VASQUEZ. UM, I WORK FOR AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPER AT EAH HOUSING IN MARIN COUNTY. BUT, UM, I'VE BEEN ON THIS COMMITTEE, GOD, WHAT, TWO YEARS NOW? I THINK. SOMETHING LIKE THAT. THERE'S A LOT TO LEARN AND DON'T EVER FEEL THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE COMING INTO THIS AND GO, OH MY GOD, I DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING AND I SHOULDN'T BE QUALIFIED. NO, THAT'S WHERE YOU CAN ASK QUESTIONS, YOU CAN TALK TO US, YOU KNOW, HERE, COMMUNICATE WITH PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY. SO WELCOME AND NO OTHER COMMENTS. THANK YOU. UM, I'M GAIL AND I THINK THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF MY FOURTH YEAR. THE, THE, THE SECOND OF THE SECOND YEAR OF MY SECOND TERM. AND IT'S VERY [00:10:01] EDUCATIONAL TO BE ON THIS COMMITTEE. SO, AND I DID HAVE, UM, I, SOME COMMENTS JUST TO SHARE WITH YOU SOME OF MY RECENT TR TRANSIT EXPERIENCES. AND I KNOW THAT, UM, SOME OF THIS RELATES TO THINGS THAT ARE IN THE STAFF PRESENTATION, BUT I THOUGHT I'D JUST GO FOR IT. UM, I THINK IT'S SPEAKING TO MASCOTS. UM, I'M ONE OF THE RIDER LEFT BEHIND BECAUSE I SADLY MISS MY, UH, CONNECTION, DIRECT CONNECTION ON THE 1 0 1 BUS TO SAN FRANCISCO. AND THE, THE TRAIN BUS TRAIN CONNECTION COMING BACK IN THE EVENING IS NOT LATE ENOUGH IF YOU WANNA GO TO A CONCERT AND YOU'RE NOT RIGHT DOWNTOWN WHERE YOU CAN GET ON THE BUS BECAUSE YOUR OR YOUR DINNER IS RIGHT, YOU KNOW. SO I DID, UH, HAD A CONCERT OUT IN NOE VALLEY AND I DROVE INSTEAD OF TAKING THE BUS, WHICH I, I WOULD HAVE DONE. AND I, UM, DURING THE DAY, A REGULARLY SCHEDULED TRIP THAT USED TO TAKE ME AN HOUR AND A HALF BECAUSE IT'S MIDDAY AND I GET TO COOL MY HEELS AT THE SAN RAFAEL TRANSIT CENTER FOR 13 MINUTES. AND THERE ARE THREE SUCH TR YOU KNOW, POINTS DURING THE DAY AND THERE'S A COUPLE 20 MINUTES AND THAT'S A LONG TIME TO ADD TO AN HOUR AND A HALF TRIP. SO, UH, I DID IT ONCE AND I TOOK ALTERNATE, UH, ROUTE ANOTHER TIME. I AM INTERESTED, VERY INTERESTED AND I KNOW A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO ARE IN FIGURING OUT WHERE TO PARK IN NOVATO AND I DON'T KNOW, UH, WHERE LIKE IF THERE'S EVEN A, 'CAUSE I, I DID CONTACT, UM, GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT AND THEY SAID, WELL THERE IS A PARK AND RIDE THING, BUT IT'S FOR A TRAIN STATION. AND SHE, SHE WAS EVEN LIKE, I PROBABLY WANNA WALK IN THE DAY TO FIND OUT IF YOU WANNA DO IT AT NIGHT. YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT SO I, I HAVEN'T, YOU KNOW, GONE TO SCOPE IT OUT. BUT IT WOULD BE NICE ACTUALLY IF THERE COULD BE SOMETHING MORE OFFICIAL THAT MAYBE THERE'S A SHOP, UH, THAT WOULDN'T MIND IF EVEN EVENING HOURS OR WHATEVER PEOPLE PARKED THERE. 'CAUSE I, I DO HAVE A NUMBER, NUMBER OF ACQUAINTANCES WHO WOULD GO DRIVE THERE AND THAT'S BETTER THAN DRIVING TO SAN FRANCISCO AS FAR AS EVERYTHING THAT WE KNOW ABOUT. UM, AND THEN ALSO GETTING, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE BUS STOPPED IN MANY MORE LOCATIONS THAN OUR TWO TWO TRAIN STOPS. AND WHEN YOU GET OFF THE TRAIN HERE IN DOWNTOWN, WHAT DO YOU GET TO DO? YOU GET TO WALK BY A VACANT LOT. I'M A LITTLE OLD LADY. I'VE BEEN A LADY MY OR A GIRL MY WHOLE LIFE. WHAT WAS I TAUGHT? DON'T WALK ALONE AT NIGHT BY VACANT LOTS UHOH. SO IT'D BE REALLY NICE TO KNOW IF EVER THAT WILL EVER CHANGE. I DON'T KNOW, I GUESS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT FOR A LONG TIME. UM, ANYW WHO, AND THEN I HAD THE MOST INTERESTING EXPERIENCE ON THE 24 WHEN THERE WAS A, UM, BECAUSE OF THE CHANGING IN THE STAFFING, UH, NOT ALL OF THE SCHEDULED BUSES WERE ACTUALLY RUNNING. AND I WAS TAKING THE 24 2 KAISER FOR A DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT THAT I HAD WAITED FOR FOR TWO MONTHS. AND IF I DIDN'T GET THERE, I WOULD BE WAITING ANOTHER TWO MONTHS. AND I CAME TO THE, BECAUSE I'M A TRANSIT RIDER, I CAME TO THE BUS THAT WAS ONE BUS BEFORE THE BUS THAT I HAD TO BE ON. AND THIS WAS ACTUALLY A NICE TWO BUS THING. THAT WAS THE ONE IN THE MORNING THAT WAS ONLY 15 MINUTES DIFFERENT. AND THIS TRANSIT APP SAID IT'S COMING IN EIGHT MINUTES, IT'S COMING, IT'S COMING OH ZERO MINUTES. THE NEXT ONE IS COMING IN 15 MINUTES. AND UH, THE SECOND ONE DIDN'T COME EITHER. NOW I, EVEN THOUGH IT'S OUT OF THE, UM, RANGE OF LUMA AGO, I WAS KINDLY GIVEN A RIDE ON LUMA AGO AND I GOT THERE JUST IN TIME. UM, BUT, SO THAT WAS JUST, BUT I NOW KNOW THIS IS MORE SO THAT WAS JUST, UH OH. BUT UH, THE ALERT ON THE TRANSIT APP CAME ABOUT THE TIME I CALLED OR I TEXTED MARIA AND SAID, WHERE THE HECK'S [00:15:01] THE BUS, UM, CORRELATION, I'M SURE AND THE TRANSIT APP, BUT IT GOT ME LOOKING AT THE TRANSIT APP MORE CLOSELY. THE TRANSIT APP IMPLIES THAT IT GIVES REAL TIME, BUT IT SEEMS THAT, SO I DON'T KNOW IF THE PETALUMA TRANSIT BUSES JUST CAN'T, WE JUST DON'T HAVE GPS STUFF TO BE ABLE TO SEND IT OR, OR IF THE TRANSIT APP ISN'T READING IT MIGHT AS WELL JUST SPEAK TO IT RIGHT NOW. YEAH, SINCE WE HAVE ANSWERS FOR ALL THESE THINGS, I DON'T NEED TO HAVE YOU GUYS WAIT A WHOLE WEEK. UM, SO THE FIRST I WANNA TALK ABOUT IS THE 10 24, BECAUSE IT'S STILL COMING UP A LITTLE BIT OF A, OF THE THING IT IS. IS THAT OKAY? YEAH, YEAH. BUT LET ME JUST GO ON. SO THE TRANSIT APP DEPARTMENT. MM-HMM. SO THE TRANSIT APP, AND ALSO I DID IMMEDIATELY, I, I THOUGHT, OH, DID I MESS UP? BECAUSE I DID LOOK AND I SAW THAT THERE WAS A SERVICE ALERT, BUT I DIDN'T READ IT BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN A SERVICE ALERT THAT THE SERVICE IS CHANGING ON AUGUST 10TH. BUT NO, THERE WAS NO SERVICE ALERT UNTIL I I, YEAH, IT JUST HAPPENED TO CO CONTACT YOU. UM, BUT THE SUBSEQUENT SERVICE ALERTS SAY GO TO THIS WEBSITE AND YOU CAN'T CLICK IT AND GO AND NOR WILL THE, THE TRANSIT APP LET YOU COPY AND PASTE IT. AND IT'S REALLY LONG URL. SO I WAS LIKE, OKAY, I'M ON MY PHONE AND I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, 10 DIGITS. SO IT WAS, IT'S, IT DOESN'T WORK. SO I DON'T, AND I KNOW THAT WE DON'T OWN, WE DON'T RUN THE TRANSIT APP, BUT JUST IF YOU, IF THEY CAN DO A BETTER, IF THEY CAN MAKE CHANGES, LET'S, LET'S TELL THEM TO TWO. AWESOME. I AND I ALWAYS, I I WANNA SAY I APPRECIATE THE WRITING BECAUSE WHEN YOU ALL RIDE, IT HELPS US WE RIDE AND WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT. BUT ONE THING I DID WANNA MENTION WAS ROUTE 10 24, BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT AND YOU MAY BE SEEING IT COME UP, UM, WITH THE, AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE CHANGE IN SCHEDULE IN AUGUST, BUT I THINK IT IS WORTH NOTING IS THAT BECAUSE A LOT OF THE DRIVERS, AS YOU KNOW, WE, WITH ATTRITION AS WELL AS THE REDUCTION MANY DRIVERS HAVE LEFT KNOWING THEY WON'T HAVE A JOB AUGUST 10TH. THAT MEANS THAT WORK IS STILL OPEN AND AVAILABLE, WHICH MEANS WE ARE HAVING TO MAKE ENDS MEET WITH LESS DRIVERS AND STAFF THAN WE NEED IN AN EFFORT TO CONTINUE ON WHAT I WE'VE PROMISED YOU, WHICH IS THAT TWO IN 11 WILL BE OUR CORE SERVICE. UM, STAFF HAS BEEN ADVISED THAT IF WE ARE GONNA HAVE A SHORTAGE, THE PAIN WILL BE FELT ON 10 24 AND ONLY WHEN OUR CHAIR IS RIDING, OBVIOUSLY , UM, . SO THAT WORKED OUT WONDERFULLY. UM, BUT UM, WHAT I WILL SAY IS ACE IS ON THE NOTICING THAT OCCURS. UM, SO YOU MAY SEE 10 24 HAVE MORE CANCELLATIONS UP UNTIL AUGUST 10TH THEY'VE BEEN CANCELED EVERY DAY. RIGHT. AND SO I GET AN ALERT EVERY DAY, AND AS YOU MAY KNOW, IT'S FROM WHAT WE'VE BEEN PRESENTING TO YOU. SO, YOU KNOW, THE RIDERSHIP ON 10 24 IS PRETTY LOW, ESPECIALLY 10. SO WE WANTED TO PUT THE PAIN THERE, UM, TO THE TRANSIT APP COMPONENT. THERE WAS AN ISSUE WITH OUR 5 1 1 FEED. SO, UM, CARLY AND I'LL, DO YOU WANNA SPEAK TO IT OR I CAN DO IT, YEAH. UM, I, I'VE BEEN NOTICING 'CAUSE I GET NOTIFICATIONS FROM TRANSIT APP THAT THE FEED WILL GO THE LIVE FEED AT LEAST. SO OUR, OUR REAL OR STATIC FEED, WHICH IS PROBABLY WHAT YOU'RE SEEING WILL ALWAYS BE THERE, BUT OUR REAL TIME FEED, I'M GETTING NOTICES, IS GOING DOWN SO YOU CAN'T TRACK WHERE THE BUS IS REAL TIME. THAT'S BEEN HAPPENING FOR A FEW WEEKS NOW AND IT WILL GO DOWN AND THEN SEEMS LIKE IT COMES BACK UP A FEW MINUTES LATER. SO I'M IN THE PROCESS OF INVESTIGATING AND WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS TO SEE IS IT LIKE AN ISSUE WITH LIKE THE SOFTWARE IN THE BUS THAT'S LIKE DISCONNECTING. THERE'S LIKE LOTS OF LITTLE PLACES IT SEEMS LIKE IT COULD GO WRONG. SO WE'RE LOOKING INTO THAT NOW. GREAT, THANK YOU. AND, AND THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING WORTH BRINGING TO YOUR POINT EARLIER ABOUT OTHER TOPICS THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING WORTH COMING BACK. 'CAUSE WHAT I, WE ARE HAVING ISSUES WITH AS AN AGING FLEET, YOU'LL HEAR ME SAY THIS OFTEN, EVEN THOUGH OUR REAL TIME SYSTEM IS ON OUR NEW BUSES, IT'S ALSO ON OUR OLD BUSES, WHICH MEANS THOSE DON'T ALWAYS TRACK WITH THE REAL TIME. AND SO WE ARE CONSIDERING DOING AN OVERHAUL OF OUR ENTIRE FLEET SO THAT IT CAN ALL HAVE CONSISTENT, UM, HARDWARE. SORRY, I'M LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT WORD. HARDWARE THAT, THAT, SO THAT WE'RE NOT, 'CAUSE RIGHT NOW WHAT'S HAPPENING IS IT GOES LIKE THIS 31 ISN'T TRACKING, WHY ISN'T IT TRACKING? PULL IT IN AND PUT OUT ANOTHER BUS FOR A LITTLE UNIT. SO I'M HAPPY TO BRING THAT BACK, BUT IS SOMETHING WE ARE, WE ARE AWARE OF AND, AND WORKING ON MITIGATING, BUT THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT UP. AND THE, THE FINAL THOUGHT ON, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE INTERESTING EXPERIENCE WITH THE 24 GOT ME THINKING ABOUT THE, THE COPELAND TRANSIT MALL IS, WOULDN'T THAT BE GREAT IF IT COULD HAVE NOTICES THERE BECAUSE LIKE NOT EVERYBODY IS AS IS TOTALLY [00:20:01] ATTUNED TO THEIR PHONE OR, YOU KNOW, THEY JUST, THEY KNOW THE SCHEDULE, THEY WALK DOWN AND THERE'S SOME SORT OF ELECTRIC, I I DON'T KNOW WHAT A MESSAGING SIGN THAT SAYS, HAHA, YOU KNOW, THESE ONLY THESE, YOU KNOW, THESE BUSES AREN'T RUNNING TODAY. WOULDN'T THAT BE GREAT? OKAY, THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, CONTINUING THE INTRODUCTIONS. MY NAME IS LESLIE CHE, I'M AN INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMPLIANCE ANALYST AND THIS IS PROBABLY MY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY ON THE TRANSIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE. SO . YEAH, SO YEAH, THAT'S ALL, THAT'S IT FOR ME. I THINK TODAY BEGINS MY 13TH OF THE LAST 15 YEARS ON THE TRANSIT COMMITTEE, WHICH I THINK IMPLIES I AT, REACHED MY LEVEL OF INCOMPETENCE , BUT, BUT ALWAYS GOOD TO BE HERE WITH REGARD TO YOUR CONCERNS ON TRAVELING SOUTH. I DO KNOW THAT SOMEONE FROM THE S-R-I-J-C TRAVEL CLUB OR TRANSIT CLUB WHO I'VE BEEN TALKING TO REGULARLY USES THE TRADER JOE'S PARKING LOT IN NOVATO AS A PLACE TO CONNECT TO GOLDEN GATE. I HAVE NEVER DONE THAT MYSELF. I DON'T KNOW HOW IT WORKS. IF YOU WISH, I CAN PUT YOU IN CONTACT WITH HER AND SHE COULD TELL YOU THE TRICKS. SO IF THAT HELPS. THANK YOU. OKAY. HI EVERYBODY, I'M, I'M MICHAEL ACTON. UM, AND I AM CURRENTLY A PART-TIME CAREGIVER, UM, AND I AM EXCITED TO MEET AND WORK WITH ALL OF YOU. UM, I DO HAVE A COMMENT ACTUALLY. UM, THIS PAST WEEK I WAS GOING TO GO DOWN AND MEET WITH A FRIEND IN THE CITY, UH, TO, UH, SEE, UM, JUST SOMETHING. AND, UM, I WAS GOING TO TAKE THE TRAIN DOWN TO, UM, TRANSFER IN, UH, SAN RAFAEL. UH, AND THEN, UH, THE SMART TRAIN TOLD ME IT WAS GOING TO BE LATE ENOUGH THAT THAT TRA THAT I WOULD MISS THE, THE ONE THAT WOULD BE LIKE REALLY SHORT. AND SO BASICALLY I, I HAD TO RESCHEDULE TO ANOTHER DAY BECAUSE, UM, I WAS LIKE, OKAY, WELL HOW ELSE AM I GOING TO DO THIS? AND SO I'VE BEEN RESEARCHING HOW TO USE THE 1 0 1 OUT OF NOVATO, UM, BACK WHEN THE ONE BACK, UM, A FEW YEARS AGO, I WOULD USE THE 1 0 1 ALL THE TIME TO GO DOWN AND SEE SHOWS IN THE CITY. UM, SO I'M DEFINITELY LIKE, I UNDERSTAND DEFICIENCY, BUT ALSO HAVING, HAVING A BACKUP OR A A ANOTHER METHOD TO GET THINGS SO PEOPLE CAN GET TO WHERE THEY NEED TO GO. UM, I WAS WONDERING ON THE THOUGHT ABOUT 10 24, EVEN THOUGH KAISER IS OUT OF RANGE, IS THERE A WAY TO AT LEAST SHORT TERM KIND OF INCREASE THE RANGE OVER THERE SO PEOPLE WHO NEED TO, UM, KIND OF, WE COULD, YOU COULD PUSH PEOPLE THERE WHEN 10 24 IS MISSING. UM, SO THOSE ARE, UM, MY COMMENTS SO FAR. UM, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU. OKAY. WE ARE MOVING [STAFF COMMENT] ALONG TO STAFF COMMENT AND DURING STAFF COMMENT, STAFF WILL PROVIDE BRIEF UPDATES RELEVANT TO THIS COMMITTEE. THAT WAS FOR ME, BRIEF 2024 PAGES. NO, I I LOVED THE THANK YOU. UM, SEE, I SHOULDN'T BE CHAIR. DIAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS AND STAFF SHOULD BE LIMITED TO CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AND THERE SHOULD BE NO DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS. THERE WILL BE NO PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM. OKAY, THANK YOU MARIA. THANK, THANK YOU. AND I FEEL LIKE THERE'S A CONSISTENCY REQUEST IN EVERY PLACE I GO TO FOR BREVITY AND A COMMENT THAT IT WAS SO QUIET PRIOR TO MY ARRIVAL. SO SPOT ON. UM, I, I WILL START WITH SOMETHING THAT'S NOT IN THE MANAGER'S REPORT, WHICH IS THAT YOU'RE STUCK WITH ME. UM, SO, UH, I, LET ME SAY IT IN THE MORE PROFESSIONAL WAY. THE CITY OF PETALUMA WENT OUT TO RECRUIT FOR THE PERMANENT, AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, I WAS ONLY IN A SIX MONTH INTERIM ROLE. THEY WENT OUT, THEY ASKED, I APPLIED. I DON'T KNOW WHO ELSE APPLIED, BUT I AM THE WINNER. YAY, YAY, YAY. I AM YOUR PERMANENT TRANSIT MANAGER. AND I'M SO EXCITED. SO I'M SUPER STOKED TO BE HERE AND I WILL KEEP THAT BRIEF. ALRIGHT. UM, SO I'M GONNA JUST GO THROUGH IT, BUT YES, I THINK TO THE POINT, I'M, I'M TRYING SOMETHING NEW WITH OUR AGENDA GIVING KIND OF FRONT LOADING YOU, OR NOT AGENDA, BUT IN TERMS OF THE MANAGER'S REPORT. SO YOU CAN ASK MORE QUESTIONS IF YOU WANT, BUT YOU HAVE MORE INFORMATION. SO WHEN WE GO THROUGH THIS, THE FIRST THING IS THE SONOMA SINK. YOU'RE GONNA SEE SONOMA SINK EVERY MONTH ON THIS AGENDA. AND SONOMA SINK HAS BEEN CALLED SO FAR MANY MASCOTS OR MASCOTS 2.0. SO, UM, TO ALSO, I WILL SAY, AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THIS WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, [00:25:01] POTENTIAL TOPICS, I'M HAPPY TO DO A PRESENTATION ON MASCOTS AS WELL AND A SUMMATION OF THAT IF THERE'S AN INTEREST, AND I'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT LATER. IN TERMS OF SONOMA SYNC, THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION HERE, BUT THIS IS A, YOU KNOW, A MULTI-YEAR PROGRAM, RIGHT? UM, SO WE'VE ALREADY STARTED THE KICKOFF. THIS, UM, WE WE'RE HAPPY TO GIVE YOU MORE INFORMATION. YOU CAN SEE IN THE PICTURE STAFF WAS THERE. RIGHT NOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS KIND OF JUST A, AN ASSESSMENT OF WHAT OUR CURRENT CONDITION IS. SO WE'VE BEEN JUST DOING A LOT OF DATA REPORTING. THE POINT OF THIS REGIONAL PLANNING EFFORT IS IN ORDER TO LOOK AT WAYS THAT WE CAN COORDINATE, DEVELOP A PLAN FOR THE COUNTY MOVING FORWARD TO HAVE MORE INTEGRATIVE WORK. SO I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE WORK INVOLVED IN THIS. THE THREE BUS OPERATORS ARE ATTENDING EACH MEETING, UM, ME, SONOMA COUNTY, AND SANTA ROSA CITY BUS. ALL RIGHT. AND MARIA, YEAH. DOES IT WORK FOR YOU? IF WE HAVE QUESTIONS AFTER EACH SECTION, THAT WOULD WORK FOR ME. OKAY. I THINK THAT WOULD BE BETTER. YEAH. WHAT IS SINK? I READ ABOUT, UM, UH, THE 40 X, IS IT, UM, IS THIS PART OF SONOMA SINK? GREAT QUESTION. SO 40 X, WHICH THEY'RE LISTING AS A NEW ROUTE, IS ACTUALLY NOT A NEW ROUTE. UM, IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR. SO 40 X IS NOT PART OF, BUT KIND OF ALONG THOSE LINES. SO MASKS OR SONOMA SYN HASN'T STARTED THE WORK YET, BUT THE AGENCIES ALREADY ARE. AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS WE'RE LOOKING AT SUSTAINABILITY OF A ROUTES ALL THREE AGENCIES. WE'VE ALREADY DONE THIS WITH OURS, RIGHT? WE'RE LOOKING AT THE FINANCIAL PICTURE RIGHT NOW. SO WITH 40 X, WHICH I'LL EXPLAIN, 40 X OR 40 WAS AN EXISTING ROUTE CONNECTING SONOMA TO PETALUMA THROUGH SONOMA COUNTY TRANSIT. DURING MY TIME THERE, I WAS AWARE OF THE RIDERSHIP WAS PRETTY LOW ON THIS ROUTE. UM, SO WHAT SONOMA COUNTY TRANSIT IS CURRENTLY DOING AS ALONG, ALONG WITH SOME OUTREACH IS THEY'VE CHANGED IT TO 40 X, MAKING IT A LITTLE MORE EXPRESS, WHICH IS WHAT THE COUNTY IS, I BELIEVE AIMING TO DO WITH MOST OF THEIR ROUTES. WE ARE PUBLISHING THIS, WE'VE SENT IT TO OUR CITY MANAGER. ARACELLI WILL BE REPOSTING THIS AS WELL BECAUSE IN TALKING TO SON COUNTY TRANSIT, WE'D LOVE TO SEE THIS CONNECTION CONTINUE. UM, BUT IT HAS BEEN LOW RIDERSHIP, SO I'M HAPPY TO PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION ON THAT AS WELL. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. MM-HMM . UM, THE OTHER THING IS, UM, I DON'T KNOW MANY MASCOTS, I'M NOT FEELING GREAT ABOUT MASCOTS GIVING GAIL'S, UM, EXPERIENCES BECAUSE THIS LATE NIGHT ISSUE HAS PLAYED OUT EXACTLY AS WE SAID, IT'S GOING TO PLAY OUT MM-HMM . BECAUSE NOW PEOPLE DRIVE INSTEAD OF TAKING TRANSIT. UM, ALSO THE, THE INABILITY T I'M GOING TO SAY PARKING AT TRADER JOE'S IS NOT IDEAL. OKAY. UH, IT'S NOT LIKE A SOLUTION. ALL RIGHT. FOR THE LONG TERM, I THINK TRADER JOE'S WOULD LIKE IT OR THE PEOPLE WHO SHOP AT TRADER JOE'S. YEAH. UM, AND UM, SO I JUST THINK THERE ARE SOME, I, I DON'T KNOW, YOU CAN CALL IT TWEAKS I SUPPOSE, BUT UM, THIS IS HAVING MORE OF AN IMPACT THAN I THINK MAYBE GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT THOUGHT IT MIGHT. AND UH, I'M HOPING THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME SORT OF, UM, ACTION AFTER ACTION REPORT OR SOMETHING WHERE PEOPLE SORT OF GO OVER HOW IS THIS WORKING, WHAT MIGHT NEED TO BE CHANGED, THAT KIND OF THING. SO YEAH. SO AT THIS POINT, SO JUST FOR YOUR AWARENESS, SO I AM PART OF THE MASCOTS TEAM NOW, UH, AS YOURS LEFT. AND SO I AM AWARE OF WHAT HAS CHANGED A HUNDRED PERCENT AND THEIR PROCESS AND I THINK IT IS WORTHWHILE, IF THERE'S INTEREST FOR ME TO BRING THAT PRESENTATION TO YOU AND WHAT THAT PRESENTATION WILL BE, WOULD BE WHERE ARE WE, WHAT HAS BEEN DECIDED AND WHAT ARE THE NE NEXT BENCHMARKS TO MASCOTS SO THAT YOU'RE FULLY AWARE OF WHEN THOSE DIS SORRY ABOUT THAT. IT'S SO FUNNY 'CAUSE I WAS GONNA REMIND YOU GUYS TO TURN OFF, UM, , BUT, UM, AND WHEN THE NEXT DECISION POINTS ARE, SO, UM, RATHER THAN TRYING TO GIVE YOU MY LITTLE VERSION OF THE BEN, BUT I WILL SAY A LOT OF POSITIVE NEWS HAS COME OUTTA MASCOT. SO ALTHOUGH WE'RE NOT SEEING IT HERE, SMART RIDERSHIP HAS INCREASED IN A RIDICULOUS WAY. WE'RE SEEING A LOT MORE RIDERSHIP ON SMART SO FAR PUBLIC HAS BEEN POSITIVE IN TERMS OF THOSE WHO ARE WRITING 1 0 1. BUT WE HERE IN PETALUMA TRANSIT NEED TO BE AWARE OF HOW IT'S IMPACTING OUR COMMUNITY. SO I WOULD SUGGEST MAYBE I BRING THAT BACK WI WITH, AND IT HAS ALL THEIR BENCHMARK DATES TOO. SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE WORTHWHILE. OKAY. AWESOME. ANY MORE ON CINEMA? SYN, ? NO, I'M [00:30:01] OKAY. THANK YOU. MM-HMM . GO AHEAD. IF YOU, MY, MY QUESTION IS, IS THERE GOING TO BE ANY INVOLVE, OH, SORRY. UH, MY QUESTION IS WILL THERE BE ANY INVOLVEMENT OH, FOR THE PUBLIC? 'CAUSE FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, I WOULD LOVE TO, SINCE I CAN'T GET TO THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY MM-HMM . I'D LOVE TO BE ABLE TO GET TO GREEN MUSIC CENTER MM-HMM . MM-HMM . ON WEEKENDS AND IN THE EVENING FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, AND, AND CINEMA BAR THEATER, YOU KNOW, USES, UH MM-HMM . A THEATER IN THE SAME COMPLEX. AND I'VE LOOKED AT THE TRANSIT AND IT'S LIKE, EH. SO THAT KIND OF INPUT. IS THERE A PLACE FOR THE PUBLIC I WOULD SUGGEST WITH, SO WITH THE SONOMA SINK, IT WILL BE SPECIFIC TO JUST SONOMA, WHERE MASCOTS WENT BEYOND A LITTLE BIT. YEAH. THAT'S WHY I'M BRINGING, BRINGING IT UP HERE. AND SO FOR BOTH THERE'S STILL PUBLIC, WELL FOR SOMA SYNC THERE'S GONNA BE ROBUST PUBLIC OUTREACH. OKAY. IN TERMS OF ASKING, UM, THE FOCUS WILL BE ON OUR CURRENT ROUTES, HOWEVER, BUT I THINK IT'S GONNA BE LOOKED AT IN THE FRAMEWORK OF MASCOTS AS WELL. BUT I ALSO THINK THERE MIGHT BE SPACE IN MASCOTS FOR WHAT YOU'RE ASKING. WHERE IS THE GREEN THEATER? SSU RONER PARK U NEVERMIND, LET ME PULL IT BACK. I THOUGHT IT WAS SAN FRANCISCO. THAT'S WHY I WAS CONFUSED. YEAH. I NEED TO THANK YOU. UM, SO YES, A HUNDRED PERCENT. THAT'S WHY I BROUGHT IT UP. THANK YOU. MAKES SENSE. SO WAY MORE RON PARK. YES. SO WHAT I WOULD SAY IS, YES, THESE ARE THE KI THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE BUILDING RIGHT NOW. SO RIGHT NOW WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, LET ME JUST KIND OF GIVE YOU A VERY BRIEF. RIGHT NOW THEY'RE JUST LOOKING AT WHAT IS OUR CURRENT CONDITION AND WHO ARE THE ELECTEDS AND THE PUBLIC THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE AT THE TABLE. THAT'S WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW. BECAUSE WHAT WE REALLY WANNA MAKE SURE WITH SONOMA SINK IS THAT EVERYONE IS AT THE TABLE AND BEING BROUGHT ALONG THE ENTIRE WAY. AND SO THERE WILL BE MULTIPLE MOMENTS FOR FOR ME TO REQUEST, I'VE ALREADY PUT IT ON THEIR AGENDA TO ENSURE THAT OUR ATTACK IS INFORMED AND PART OF THE, LIKE, WHEN THE TOUCH POINTS HAPPEN WILL HAPPEN HERE. TO THAT POINT THOUGH, THIS WORK THAT WE'RE DOING WITH SONOMA SINK WILL EVENTUALLY NEED TO BE BROUGHT TO COUNCIL. SO WE REALLY WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE INFORMATION THAT YOU'RE ALL CARRYING ALONG THE WAY GETS TRANSFERRED TO COUNCIL AT POINT. SO I'LL BE, I'LL BE MAKING A MORE MINDFUL, HEY, THIS IS A DECISION POINT COUNCIL MAY WANT TO BE AWARE OF SO THAT OUR LIAISON CAN BRING THAT. BECAUSE WE DON'T WANNA SURPRISE COUNSEL WITH, OH WE JUST FINISHED THIS THREE YEAR PLAN AND YOU GUYS WERE ALL INVOLVED. SURPRISE. RIGHT. AND IT IS A FAIRLY SHORT PLANNING PERIOD 'CAUSE IT CONTINUES THROUGH MARCH 20, 27. IT'S THREE YEAR PLAN. IT'S A THREE YEAR PLAN. OKAY. SO I'M NOT SURE WHAT THIS, BUT I THINK IT WAS WHATEVER THAT NEXT PART IS FOR GETTING THE KICKOFF PORTION. YEAH. SHOULD BE THREE YEARS. THE PLANNING WILL GO ON FOR THREE YEARS. YES. OR THE PLAN IS TO BE IMPLEMENTED WITHIN THE NEXT THREE YEARS? NO, SO AFTER THREE YEARS I BELIEVE IS WHEN THEY BRING THEIR, THEIR SUGGESTIONS. OH, OKAY. AT THREE YEAR POINT. OKAY. I THINK IT MIGHT BE FIVE. I'LL HAVE TO LOOK. I THINK ONE OF MY STAFF MIGHT BE CHECKING. WE'LL SEE. NO, OKAY. I THINK IT'S, IT'S JUST YOUR FIRST SENTENCE IS CON SAYS, YEAH, I APOLOGIZE. PLANNING CONTINUES. SO I WAS LIKE, OKAY, GOTTA JUMP IN ON THAT THREE YEARS LONG TERM. OKAY. 30. OKAY. THANK YOU. THOSE WERE MY QUESTIONS. NO QUESTIONS FOR ME. THANKS MICHAEL. NO QUESTIONS. UH, JUST ONE, THIS IS CIRCLING BACK TO THE 40 X MM-HMM . DOES THAT PLAY INTO THE 44 48 AGREEMENT AT ALL? AND, AND, AND YOU MIGHT WANNA BRING UP 44 48 FOR MICHAEL'S BENEFIT. HE'S NEW TO THE TOPIC. YES. SO IN REGARDS TO THE 40 OR THE 44, ANY SONOMA COUNTY TRANSIT ROUTE, HONESTLY IS PART OF OUR COORDINATED CLAIM. SO WE WILL BE BRINGING THAT BACK AND THAT IS ACTUALLY ONE OF OUR MOMENTS TO COME BRING BACK. 'CAUSE THAT WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT, BUT IT'LL BE MORE, YEAH. SO FOR THIS, IT WILL NOT IMPACT US THOUGH. AWESOME. ALRIGHT, I'LL MOVE ON. SO, UM, PETALUMA VISION, SO WE HAVE A LOT OF STUDIES GOING ON RIGHT NOW. SO JUST IN FYI, TOMORROW MORNING I WILL BE SPEAKING AT THE S-C-T-C-A AD HOC ABOUT ALL OF THIS. WE'RE SO THE THREE BUS AGENCIES ARE AWARE, THERE'S A LOT OF STUDIES HAPPENING AND WE'RE MAKING SURE THEY'RE ALL COORDINATED. UM, WE ARE NOT LEFT HAND NOT TALKING TO RIGHT HAND. SO FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THESE STUDIES, THE THREE AGENCIES COME TOGETHER AND DO PARK UP SAY, HEY, MY STUDY'S GONNA LOOK AT THIS, SO LET'S NOT HAVE YOUR STUDY LOOK AT THAT. BECAUSE NOW WE HAVE OUR OWN STUDY WITH THE PETALUMA VISION STUDY AND THIS IS THE ONE THAT WE HAVE THE MOST CONTROL OVER BECAUSE IT'S JUST ABOUT PETALUMA, BUT IT STILL WILL WORK IN COORDINATION WITH REGIONAL EFFORTS. SO AS A REMINDER, THE PETALUMA VISION PROGRAM IS A GRANT WE GOT FROM CALTRANS, [00:35:01] MIMI SULLIVAN GOT IT FOR US. YAY. SHE'S STILL WORKING WITH CALTRANS TO FINE TUNE. SO WE HAVEN'T LAUNCHED IT, WE WON'T LAUNCH THAT UNTIL SEPTEMBER WHEN WE BEGIN TO LOOK FOR OUR CONSULTANT THAT THIS PETAL AND A VISION PLAN, THOUGH, THE GOAL IS TO HAVE OUR SHORT AND LONG RANGE TRANSIT PLAN, WHICH IS FIVE TO 20 YEARS FOR OUR LONG RANGE TRANSIT PLAN. THIS SPECIFICALLY WRITTEN WITH THE GUIDANCE OF SUSTAINABILITY, BUDGET FOCUSED. AND THAT'S TRUE WITH SONOMA SINK AS WELL IN TERMS OF NOT LOOKING AT WHAT WE COULD OR WOULD DO, BUT WHAT WE CAN DO WITH THE MONEY WE HAVE. THE GOAL FOR BOTH PETAL VISION AND SONOMA SINK IS TO HAVE ACTIONABLE STEPS. ALL THREE BUS OPERATORS ARE VERY CLEAR. WE D WE WANT A STUDY THAT MOVES US INTO ACTION. UM, AND SO IF YOU WANT TO LOOK BACK, I'M HAPPY TO SEND OUT MORE INFORMATION ON STUDIES WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST THAT WE'LL BE INFLUENCING THESE STUDIES BECAUSE WE'RE BUILDING UPON, FOR EXAMPLE, THE TIES STUDY AND STUDIES WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST. UM, BUT THAT WILL, SO YOU'LL BE GETTING INPUT ON THAT AS WELL. NOT MUCH TO REPORT NOW ON THAT, SO I'LL MOVE ALONG. OKAY. ANY QUESTIONS OR LESLIE? MM-HMM. IS THERE ANY HOPE THAT THE PLAN COULD INCLUDE ACTIONS TO FIND, GET, BEG, BORROW, OR STEAL MORE MONEY? BECAUSE IT SEEMS THAT THAT IS OUR LIMIT. THAT IS OUR LIMITATION RIGHT NOW. IT'S MONEY, MONEY FOR TRANSIT IS GOING, HAS BEEN GOING DOWN, WHICH IS WHY WE'RE CUTTING SERVICE. I WOULD AND, AND SO YES. BUT I WOULD SAY SONOMA SINK IS MORE IN PLACE TO DO SOME OF THAT DIGGING BECAUSE WHAT SONOMA SINK IS LOOKING TO DO IS, AS A REGION, HOW CAN WE BEST MAKE USE OF THE DOLLARS AVAILABLE? RIGHT NOW, AS YOU'VE SEEN KIND OF WITH THE COORDINATED CLAIM IN THE PAST, IT'S BECOME CLEARER LATER IS IT'S ALMOST, IT IT FEELS A LITTLE LIKE A FIGHT AND IT RE IT REALLY DOES, IT'S A ZERO SUM GAME, RIGHT? THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH MONEY THAT GOES IN. SO WITH THE, WITH THE SONOMA SINK, THAT IS WHERE THEY'RE FOCUSING THAT. AND WE WILL HAVE THAT AS WELL IN PEDALING VISION. BUT THAT MY, YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT USING THE ALLOCATED MONEY MORE EFFICIENTLY, MORE EQUITABLY, MORE, YOU KNOW, IN, IN TRANSIT. THAT MAKES MORE SENSE. WHICH, BUT I'M, MY QUESTION IS, IS THERE ANY HOPE THAT THE TRANSIT AGENCIES AND OUR VISION CAN AT LEAST SPEND A LITTLE TIME LOOKING AT HOW DOES THE POT, NOT JUST HOW WE'RE GOING TO USE THE POT, BUT HOW DO WE INCREASE WHAT'S COMING INTO THE POT? AND SO THAT IS AT A, A LEVEL OF THAT, THAT SOME OF MY BEST AGENCY PARTNERS ARE LOOKING AT IN SORT OF IN TERMS OF CTA LOBBYING. SO S-C-T-C-A HAS BEEN WORKING AND HAS HAD SPEAKERS COME, AND I'M HAPPY TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO LOBBY OR ADVOCATE FOR MORE TRANSIT FUNDING ON A HIGHER LEVEL BECAUSE IT'S NOT A, TYPICALLY A LOCAL LEVEL WOULD BE JUST OUR CITY. AND WE'VE ALREADY SEEN, YOU KNOW, KIND OF WHERE THE, THAT, THAT THERE'S RESTRAINTS. SO THE QUESTION YOU HAVE IS ONE THAT IS BEING BROUGHT UP AND IT IS AT MORE OF A CTA OR S-C-T-C-A LEVEL WHERE THEY CAN LOBBY THE SONOMA COUNTY LEVEL. YEAH. OKAY. YES. OKAY. THANK YOU. YEAH. MM-HMM . UM, AND, BUT HAPPY TO BRING MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT AS WELL. ALL RIGHT. I'LL MOVE ON FROM THE VISION. MORE QUESTIONS. UH, YES. ONE. UM, SO IN TERMS OF ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT WE HAVE GOING FORWARD, THIS MIGHT BE AN OBVIOUS QUESTION, BUT AT WHAT LEVEL IS PAC BEEN INFORMED ABOUT THIS? BECAUSE IT'S, FOR ME, IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN FOLD THEM INTO LATER. IT'S INTERESTING YOU SAY THAT BECAUSE WE, I WAS HAVING THAT SAME CONVERSATION BECAUSE PBA IS INVESTIGATING, I BELIEVE BJORN'S THEIR LIAISON AND HE'S DOING A STUDY ON COPELAND, THE TRANSIT MALL, THE PETALUMA VISION IS ALSO DOING A STUDY ON THE COPELAND TRANSIT MALL. SO TO YOUR POINT, I'M WORKING WITH THE CITY LIAISON TO SEE HOW WE CAN IMPLEMENT AND WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING LIKE WHAT MAKES SENSE. UM, SO I'M GOING TO, THAT'S, THAT'S HOW FAR I'VE TAKEN THAT. GREAT. SO I WOULD HOPE THAT, DOES THIS MEAN THAT WHATEVER RESOURCES WE GET FROM THE, UM, THE GRANT THAT WAS SPECIFIED FOR THIS, COULD THAT BE KIND OF CO-MINGLED WITH WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT TOO? DOES IT FALL UNDER THEIR PURVIEW AS WELL TO BE ABLE TO BE INVOLVED? SO NOT NECESSARILY HOWEVER, I WILL BE LEANING ON THEIR KNOWLEDGE. SO WHEN YOU GIVE A, UM, LIKE A CONSULTANT COMES IN, RIGHT? AND IF YOU SAY WE KNOW NOTHING, THEY START FROM THERE. SO WE, OUR TEAM, AND THIS IS WHAT'S WONDERFUL ABOUT OUR PLAN VISION BEING LAST, AND THAT THERE'S SO MUCH BEEN WORK HAS BEEN DONE WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, PETALUMA'S VISIONS IN TERMS OF NOT ONLY GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, BUT ALSO PEDESTRIAN BIKE, RIGHT? SO WE'RE USING ALL THAT INFORMATION. SO THE FIRST THING I DID WAS GOT ON [00:40:01] A CALL WITH BJORN OR OUR PUBLIC WHERE LIKE, HOW DO WE FOLD THIS IN? SO ONE OF THE THINGS OUR PETALUMA VISION PLAN WILL BE LOOKING AT THAT WE'RE NOT DEEP DIVING IN, BUT IS, FOR EXAMPLE, OUR BIKE ROUTES. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT HASN'T BEEN LOOKED AT. AND EVEN CARLY TODAY WAS SHOWING ME A MAP SHE'S GONNA GIVE TO SRJC WHERE WE'RE SAYING LOOK AT OUR BIKE MAPS AS WELL. WE WANT THIS TRANSIT TO BE INTEGRATED, NOT JUST WITH OTHER TRANSIT, BUT IN THE WAY PETALUMA TRAVEL AND WE KNOW THEY USE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL. COULD THERE BE POTENTIAL FINANCING TO IMPROVE LYNCH CREEK? THESE ARE THE KIND OF NOT CRAZY IDEAS, BUT WE WANNA LOOK EXACTLY AT THAT, THAT SPACE. SO WE'LL WORK WITH THEM AND IT WILL BE OURS AND WE WILL WORK WITH THEM AND WE'RE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY INFORMATION YOU WOULD LIKE FOR US TO INCORPORATE INTO THAT. GREAT. THANK YOU. AWESOME. HI AGAIN. UM, SO, UM, WILL THIS VISION PLAN, UM, INCLUDE HOW, UM, UM, SINCE THE MASCOTS PLAN HAS LIMITED, IF YOU WANNA DESCRIBE IT THIS WAY, UH, PEOPLE'S ABILITY TO GET TO SAN FRANCISCO PARTICULARLY LATE AT NIGHT, IS THERE SOME THINKING ABOUT HOW TO GET PEOPLE, UH, FROM SANTA ROSA LATE AT NIGHT? BECAUSE SMART CURRENTLY ENDS AT ABOUT, AT ABOUT EIGHT 30 OR SO, GOING SOUTH, GOING NORTH. I'VE HEARD PEOPLE RAPE ACTUALLY ABOUT HOW IT RUNS LATE AT NIGHT AND THEY'VE BEEN SITTING IN THE RESTAURANTS GOING LIKE, YEAH, I TOOK SMART AND NOW I CAN GO HOME AND YEAH, HAVE THIS NIGHT'S DINNER, BUT IF I WANT TO GO TO SANTA ROSA FOR DINNER, I HAVE TO, UM, GO EARLY AND COME BACK EARLY. SO I MEAN, I THINK IN TERMS OF ALL OF THESE THINGS GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME, UM, THINKING ABOUT AND ALSO INVOLVING MAYBE SOME OF OUR SANTA ROSA CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS OR, YOU KNOW, PLACES PEOPLE MIGHT GO IN SANTA ROSA TO SAY, HOW CAN WE BETTER GET PEOPLE, UM, HOW CAN WE LOBBY SMART OR ASK SMART , UH, HOW TO BETTER GET PEOPLE BACK FROM SANTA ROSA, UM, LATER THAN EIGHT 30? UM, BECAUSE THAT REALLY IS LIMITING. UH, AND SINCE WE ARE LOOKING AT A TRANSIT PLAN OVERALL FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE IN PETALUMA, UM, MAYBE WE COULD BRING THIS UP, YOU KNOW, JUST TO SAY THERE'VE BEEN CHANGES ON MULTIPLE LEVELS AND HOW DO WE KIND OF SHIFT THINGS AROUND TO MAKE THINGS, UM, EASIER OR BETTER, YOU KNOW, FOR PEOPLE WHO, WHO ARE LIVING IN, IN PETALUMA TRANSIT WISE. NICE. UM, AND THIS IS WHERE, AGAIN, I THINK MASCOTS IS A GOOD PLACE BECAUSE MASCOTS IS, ALL THE REGIONAL PARTNERS ARE SITTING AT THE TABLE. SO I NA HAVE ASKED THEM TO BE THERE. AND STRANGELY THEY'RE LOOKING AT EXACTLY THIS AS THE NEXT STAGE OF MASCOTS, WHICH IS TOURISM, TRANSIT TOURISM. AND SO HOW ARE WE GETTING PEOPLE BETTER MOVED THROUGHOUT AND TO THE CITY AS, AS ALL THE AGENCIES WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING ON THAT. AND I'M HAPPY TO INCLUDE IT IN THE VISION OR SONOMA, THIS ADVISORY COMMITTEE IS OUTREACH. SO WHEN YOU TELL ME SOMETHING, I TAKE IT TO THESE SPACES. UM, AND SO, BUT IF THERE'S SOMETHING MORE YOU WANT TO BRING, JUST LET ME KNOW. BUT DEFINITELY THESE ARE THE EXACTLY WHAT WE WRITE DOWN AND WE REPORT BACK. SO I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. OKAY. AUGUST SERVICE IMPLEMENTATION. ALL RIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON. SO YOU'RE GONNA, AGAIN, PEDAL AND VISION PLAN IS NOT GOING AWAY. SONOMA SINK, YOU'RE GONNA HEAR IT EVERY TIME. SO WE'RE, THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING, SO I HAVEN'T GIVEN YOU A WHOLE LOT, BUT THERE WILL BE. YOU'RE GONNA GET, YOU'RE GONNA BE EXPERTS, DON'T WORRY. . OKAY. AND LOTS OF OUTREACH. UM, FOR NOW, LET'S MOVE ON THOUGH TO THE VERY IMPORTANT AUGUST, 2026 SERVICE IMPLEMENT IMPLEMENTATION FOR, UM, OUR CHANGES. SO JUST TO RECAP SOME OF OUR CHANGES FOR AUGUST 10TH, BECAUSE THIS IS A PUBLIC MEETING, WE ARE REDUCING OUR SERVICE. WE ARE STOPPING OUR SERVICE AT 6:00 PM UM, FOR MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THAT'S BOTH FIXED ROUTE AND PARATRANSIT SERVICE. WEEKEND SERVICE IS ALSO BEING REMOVED FOR FIXED ROUTE AND PARATRANSIT IN ITS PLACE. LUMA GO WILL NOW BE ACCESS BY LUMA GO. AND I'LL EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT BRANDING. IF, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE, UM, ACCESS WILL NOW BE CITYWIDE. SO IT'S CITYWIDE COVERAGE. THE HOURS ARE STAYING THE SAME AS WHAT THEY CURRENTLY [00:45:01] ARE AS LUMA GO. AND SO ACCESS RIGHT NOW WILL BE BASICALLY YOUR PARATRANSIT, YOUR FIXED ROUTE LIFELINE AND SUPPORT FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T RIDE FIXED ROUTE BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE IT. SO, BUT IT'LL STILL BE AVAILABLE DURING THE DAY. ANOTHER CHANGE ABOUT ACCESS IS THAT IT WILL NOW BE CO-MINGLED WITH PARATRANSIT SERVICES. SO IN AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY, AS I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU SINCE APRIL, I'M LOOKING UNDER EVERY ROCK. WE'VE CONTINUED LOOKING UNDER EVERY ROCK FOR MONEY. I WOULD, I'D LOVE TO REPORT ALL THE MONEY WE'VE SAVED, BUT INSTEAD, EVENTUALLY WE'LL HAVE A REPORT OUT ON THAT. BUT ONE OF THOSE THINGS IS SEEING IS IF WE CAN GAIN EFFICIENCY THROUGH THAT COMMINGLING, SINCE WE HAVE THAT, THE MEASURE M FUNDING, WE HAVE THE MONEY, WE MIGHT AS WELL USE IT THROUGH THE END OF JUNE, 2027. AND I ALWAYS LOOK AT MIMI IN CASE I'M GETTING THE DATES WRONG, BUT IF SHE DOESN'T LOOK BAD, WE'RE GOOD. YAY. OKAY, . UM, SO ACE, YOU KNOW, I I I WANNA DO A BRIEF RECAP AS THEY GO INTO THEIRS, YOU CAN ASK MORE ABOUT THE OUTREACH. WE'RE MORE THAN HAPPY TO IDENTIFY IT. UM, EVERYTHING'S ON TRACK. THAT'S WHAT I'D SAY. IF I HAD A 20 MORE STAFF, YOU'D SEE IT 20 TIMES MORE PLACES. BUT THE PEOPLE WHO NEED TO KNOW, KNOW, WE POSTED AT BUS STOPS. IT'S IF YOU RIDE THE BUS, YOU SHOULD HEAR AN OVERHEAD ANNOUNCEMENT. IF YOU DON'T HEAR THAT ANNOUNCEMENT, THAT'S ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, LET US KNOW. UM, WE'RE GONNA BE DOING A PUSH NOTIFICATION OUT TO ALL OF OUR LUMA GO RIDERS, LETTING THEM KNOW ABOUT THE CHANGE. THIS WEEK WE'LL BE SENDING A LETTER TO OUR PARATRANSIT RIDER. WHEN YOU CALL INTO OUR TRANSIT SERVICE, IT TELLS YOU AUGUST 10TH IS A NEW SCHEDULE. SO, ALTHOUGH ALL OF US HAVE SEEN HOW THE SAUSAGE IS MADE, AND THIS FELT LIKE A BIG ORDEAL, REALITY IS I HOPE TO GET US ON A PATH WHERE WE'RE ALWAYS CHANGING THE SCHEDULE IN AUGUST AND JANUARY THAT IS TRADITIONAL IN A TRANSIT SYSTEM. NOT NECESSARILY TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE ROUTES THEMSELVES, BUT POTENTIALLY TIMETABLES OR MORE EFFICIENCY ON THE DRIVER SIDE. WHEN WE GET INTO THAT CADENCE, WHICH IS THE REGIONAL CADENCE, THIS WON'T FEEL SO SHOCKING, IS MY HOPE, WHERE IT WILL FEEL A LITTLE BIT MORE LIKE, 'CAUSE THIS IS, THESE ARE THE REGIONAL DATES THAT WE'VE DECIDED WE CHANGE. THAT BEING SAID, SO MY TRANSIT PARTNERS ARE GONNA BE WAITING TILL SEPTEMBER TO MAKE THEIR CHANGE BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T MAKE THE AUGUST DATE. BUT WE TRY FOR AUGUST AND JANUARY, IF WE SHUT IT OFF RIGHT NOW AND WE SWITCHED OVER, EVERYTHING WOULD BE IN PLACE TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. PARATRANSIT PEOPLE WILL CALL THE SAME NUMBER. THEY DON'T EVEN, WON'T EVEN NECESSARILY KNOW, THEY'LL JUST HAVE ADDED BENEFITS. FOR EXAMPLE, THE ABILITY TO USE LUMA GO TO BOOK THEIR RIDE IF THEY WANTED TO. RIGHT? AND FOR OUR, OUR TRADITIONAL MICROT TRANSIT PASSENGERS WHO'VE BEEN RIDING, THEY'LL NOW BE PLEASANTLY SURPRISED. WE COVER THE WHOLE CITY. HOWEVER, WE ARE NOT ADVERTISING THAT BECAUSE WE DO NOT WANNA FIND OURSELVES BACK INTO A POSITION WE WERE IN BEFORE, WHICH IS HERE'S THE SERVICE PEOPLE LOVE THAT WE'RE NOW GONNA TAKE AWAY. WE WANNA CONTINUE TO REALLY SAY THIS AS A SAFETY NET SERVICE BECAUSE IF WE CONTINUE TO PUT MONEY INTO IT, YOU KIND OF SEE WHERE YOU, YOU GUYS HAVE ALL BEEN, RIGHT? WE DON'T WANNA PROMOTE SOMETHING WE CAN'T MAINTAIN. IT'S NOT FAIR TO THE PUBLIC. UM, I'M GONNA PAUSE BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE YOU ALL KNOW A LOT ABOUT OUR UPCOMING, UH, SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS. I WILL JUST PAUSE THERE. I GOT ONE. UM, DO YOU, WHAT SORT OF CONTINGENCY PLANS DO YOU HAVE IF THINGS GO, GO POORLY ON THE TRANSITION AUGUST 10TH OR BEYOND? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. YOU'RE THINKING LIKE A TRANSIT MANAGER. SO YES, , SO WHAT'S WONDERFUL IS WE HAVE THE RIDERSHIP FOR OUR FIXED ROUTE, OUR PARATRANSIT AND OUR MICRO TRANSITS COMBINED. SO WE KNOW THE RIDERSHIP AND THE NICE THING ABOUT LUMA GO OR THIS PLATFORM AND THESE VERY SMALL VEHICLES WE JUST GOT, WHICH I HIGHLIGHTED IN YOUR PACKET, IS WE HAVE THE VEHICLES YOU CAN CALL IN. WE CAN STILL OPERATE. SO IT, EVERYTHING WILL WORK BECAUSE WE HAVE IT ALL IN PLACE. UM, RIGHT NOW OUR DRIVERS ARE, CARLY HAS BEEN PROJECT MANAGING VIA, WHICH IS ACCESS, EXCUSE ME, ACCESS. AND THEY'RE DOING DRY RUNS, UM, STARTING NEXT WEEK. SO, UM, DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THAT? OKAY. YEAH. UM, DRY RUNS, WE'RE PRACTICING, SO THERE'S A LOT OF PRACTICE THAT'S HAPPENING BEHIND THE SCENES RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THIS IS A TRANSITION FOR OUR DRIVERS AS WELL, BECAUSE NOW OUR MICRO TRANSIT DRIVERS WILL ALSO BE PARATRANSIT DRIVERS AND REVERSE. SO AS MUCH AS WE CAN BE PREPARED. YEAH. OTHER THE QUESTIONS? SO YOU WERE MENTIONING ABOUT HOW, UM, WE ARE, UM, REDUCED IN THE NUMBER OF DRIVERS THAT WE HAVE. AND SO, UM, ADDING, UH, INCREASING THE SERVICE AREA TO CITYWIDE IS, IS THIS GOING TO IMPACT, UM, WAIT TIME AND THAT KIND OF, THAT KIND OF THING FOR PEOPLE? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. SO WE ARE FACING A SHORTAGE ONLY BECAUSE THE WORK WE HAVE IS 30% MORE NOW, RIGHT? TODAY WE'RE OPERATING, LET'S SAY WE'RE OPERATING A HUNDRED PERCENT TODAY, [00:50:01] AUGUST 10TH, WE'LL BE REDUCING TO ABOUT 25% LESS. THOSE 25% OF OUR DRIVERS HAVE ALREADY LEFT THE BUILDING. THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A SHORTAGE. NOW, ONCE WE SWITCH TO AUGUST 10TH, WE HAVE THE CORRECT STAFFING. WE, EVERYBODY'S ALREADY SET INTO STAFFING. DOES THAT ANSWER THE QUESTION THOUGH? I WANNA MAKE SURE. I THINK THE QUESTION WAS WAIT TIMES ON LUGO, ON ACCESS BY LUGO OR ACCESS, RIGHT? BUT IT, IT, IT KIND OF ANSWERS THE QUESTION BECAUSE, UM, AND IT ALSO, WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY'RE DRY RUNNING, UH, EVERYTHING, UM, I'M JUST WONDERING, YOU KNOW, CITYWIDE, UM, I, I DON'T KNOW, I GUESS IT FIGURES INTO MANAGING EXPECTATIONS FOR THIS SERVICE. ABSOLUTELY. SO WE KNOW RIDE TIMES FOR OUR TRADITIONAL RIDERS WILL BE MUCH LONGER. THAT'S WHY WE'RE NOT PUBLISHING IT. SO IT WILL BE PART OF THE PUSH NOTIFICATION THAT GOES OUT TO THEM. UM, WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT PEOPLE WILL BE EXCITED. LUMA AGO DIDN'T GO AWAY, WHICH WAS THE ORIGINAL ANTICIPATION. AND IN ALL OF OUR MESSAGING IT DOES SAY THAT ACCESS PRIORITIZES NOW, UM, THE MOST VULNERABLE POPULATION. THAT BEING SAID, NO ONE'S GONNA BE PREPARED FROM GOING FROM 15 MINUTES TO 45. AND THAT'S THE REALITY OF THE SERVICE. THIS IS NO LONGER WHAT LUMA GO WAS IT IS NOW ACCESS. IT'S MEANT TO BE A LIFELINE SERVICE FOR THOSE IN NEED. SO WHERE BEFORE WE WERE PUBLISHING, FOR EXAMPLE, LUMA GO AS A DUI OR THIS OR THAT, IT NO LONGER WILL SERVE ALL THOSE NEEDS. IT COULD, BUT IT WON'T BE AVAILABLE AS READILY. WERE PEOPLE IN PARA TRANSIT ALSO? LIKE WERE THEY PREPARED FOR LIKE A 45 MINUTE RIDE OR, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? SO PARATRANSIT PASSENGERS WON'T HAVE THAT SAME EXPERIENCE. PARATRANSIT PASSENGERS, BECAUSE THAT'S A DA AND IT'S A FORMALIZED REGULATION, THEIR EXPERIENCE WILL REMAIN EXACTLY THE SAME, SLIGHTLY IMPROVED. DOES THAT ANSWER, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE. WELL YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT COMMINGLING THE, THE POPULATION. SO, UM, DOES THAT MEAN YOU WOULD HAVE A PARATRANSIT RIDER AND A REGULAR, YOU KNOW, RANDOM RIDER ON A PARA AND SO THEN THE PARATRANSIT CUSTOMER WOULD BE DELIVERED TO WHERE THEY NEED TO GO FIRST AND THE RANDOM RIDER WOULD JUST BE WRITING AROUND CALL RANDOM ALL THE CITY. YEP. SO BASICALLY THE WAY IT WILL WORK IS RIGHT NOW WHAT HA LET ME EXPLAIN HOW IT HAPPENS RIGHT NOW. SO A PAIR OF TRANSIT DRIVERS MIGHT HAVE 17 PEOPLE. LET ME NOT TAKE A RANDOM NUMBER. ON SUNDAY. ALL DAY LONG, ONLY 17 PASSENGERS WE'RE CURRENTLY OPERATING AT ABOUT ONE AND A HALF AVERAGE, RIGHT? YOU SAW THAT IN CARLY'S STUFF WHERE MICROT TRANSITS WERE SIX AN HOUR. I GET TO WATCH THOSE PARATRANSIT DRIVERS JUST SIT AND WAIT FOR THEIR NEXT RIDE. NOW INSTEAD OF SITTING AND WAITING, IF THERE IS TIME, THE SYSTEM WILL ALLOW THEM TO DO MICRO TRANSIT RIDES, BUT IT WILL HOLD THAT PARATRANSIT RIDER'S RIDE AS PRIORITY. IT WILL MAKE SURE TO MAINTAIN ITS WINDOW BECAUSE WE'RE REQUIRED TO BY LAW. SO IT'S REALLY THAT IT'S IN BETWEEN THESE TIMES. MICRO TRANSIT WILL EXIST VERSUS GETTING RID OF IT COMPLETELY. AND IS THAT BECAUSE THE PARATRANSIT REGISTERED RIDERS CAN RESERVE THEIR RIDE WHEREAS THE RANDOM USERS CAN'T JUST ASK? EXACTLY. OKAY. SO WE ARE EXPECTING THAT OUR, OUR TRADITIONAL LUMA GO NON-AIR TRANSIT WRITERS CAN HAVE A VERY LONG WAIT. I WOULD NOT SUGGEST THEY USE THIS FOR ANYTHING. WE ARE NOT PUBLISHING IT WHEN WE GO TO SCHOOL REGISTRATION BECAUSE OUR STUDENTS HAVE BEEN WRITING IT THE MOST. HOWEVER, WHEN WE GET INTO OUTREACH, WHICH I'LL JUST SPEAK TO NOW IN 'CAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TIME, WE ARE GOING TO WEAR, THE PEOPLE NEED THIS IE REBUILDING. SO REBUILDING, FOR EXAMPLE, PETALUMA HAS, UM, A A WORKER PROGRAM WHERE THEY DEVELOP PEOPLE TO BE, YOU KNOW, TO WORK. THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO NEED THIS. WE'RE GONNA GO TELL THEM ABOUT ACCESS, BUT WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY GONNA GO TO SOME OF THE PLACES WE WENT TO WITH LUMA GO WHERE THERE WERE MORE CHOICE RIDERS, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. , ARE THE BUSES GONNA LOOK DIFFERENT? IT'S A GREAT QUESTION. UM, SO THE VEHICLES, I BELIEVE WE PUT A PICTURE IN HERE. YES. SO THE VEHICLES ARE WHITE VANS AND THEY WILL LOOK DIFFERENT AGAIN, UM, TO SET THE EXPECTATION THAT IT IS NOT THE SAME SERVICE. THAT BEING SAID, OF COURSE I'M GONNA SEND OUT A LUMA GO IF I NEED TO, IF, YOU KNOW, IT'S A SITUATION WHERE I NEED THAT VEHICLE SOMEWHERE ELSE. SO YOU MAY STILL SEE LUMA GO, BUT AEROSOL IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON BRANDING. SO IT WILL BE A WHITE VEHICLE WITH JUST ACCESS BY LUMA GO. AND SO IT, AND THE APP WILL TELL YOU A WHITE VEHICLE'S COMING, A GREEN VEHICLES COMING, ET CETERA. AGAIN, HOPING TO DOWNPLAY THE SERVICE. OTHER QUESTIONS? I HAD A BRIEF ONE JUST TO ADD ON THAT. SO WE'RE BASICALLY, I MEAN THIS IS SUPPLEMENTAL, SO WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE WITH PARATRANSIT, CORRECT. SO RIGHT IS NO, NO. SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE GONNA FULLY CO-MINGLE. [00:55:01] FULLY CO-MINGLE. OKAY. FULLY CO-MINGLE. AND WHAT MY REAL HOPE IS THAT I SHOW YOU ALL, I MEAN, WE'LL SEE, THIS IS A TEST. THERE IS NO, THE ONLY NEAREST CO-MINGLED SERVICE IS IN NAPA AND THEY DO IT, BUT THEY ONLY, THEY NEVER HAD MICRO TRANSIT. SO THEY JUST DID PARA LIKE WHAT I, THEY DID IT REVERSE. THEY STARTED THE WAY I AM SO REGULAR RIDER KIND OF JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT IT. THEY DIDN'T EVEN ADVERTISE TO THEM. THEY STRICTLY ADVERTISED THEIR PARATRANSIT, WHICH WOULD'VE BEEN IDEAL, BUT WE WERE DOING A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY. SO THEY'RE FULLY COMMINGLED. YOU WILL BE ON A VEHICLE WITH, WHICH I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT. I'LL BE HONEST, I REALLY DON'T LOVE THAT WE ISOLATE OUR, YOU KNOW, OUR ELDERLY OR DISABLED. I BELIEVE THEY SHOULD BE ON THE SAME ROUTES. I THINK IT'S HELPFUL, YOU KNOW, AND SO I'M, I'M ACTUALLY EXCITED TO SEE NUMBER ONE, HOPEFULLY SOME BETTER EFFICIENCY, WHICH WE ANTICIPATE SEEING. WE ARE MODELING HOW LONG THESE TRIPS WILL TAKE TO YOUR QUESTION. UM, AND I'M HOPING TO SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE GROWTH OF THE COMMUNITY AND COM, YOU KNOW, IN, IN THIS SPACE. GOT IT. TO CONTINUE. NO, THAT'S IT. THANK YOU. MM-HMM. UH, I'VE GOT ONE MORE QUESTION. UM, SO OVER THE NEXT YEAR, UM, WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE? I FEEL LIKE ASKING THAT QUESTION, , WELL THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WILL ALL DECIDE. I MEAN, SO OUR, OUR, OUR INSTRUCTION IS FROM COUNCIL AND THE CITY MANAGER IN TERMS OF WHAT WE DO. YOU ALL HELP US GET THERE. WE DON'T DECIDE WHAT SUCCESSES. IT'S THE COMMUNITY THAT DECIDES, AND ESPECIALLY WITH THINGS LIKE BUSES, RIGHT? BECAUSE FOR ME THE GOAL IS RIDERSHIP, RIDERSHIP, RIDERSHIP, RIDERSHIP, RIDERSHIP. ALWAYS. I WANNA SEE PEOPLE UTILIZING THE BUS. SO FOR ME AS A TRANSIT MANAGER, SUCCESS IS SEEING MORE PEOPLE ON OUR ROUTES. IT'S ALSO HAVING A VERY SUSTAINABLE BUDGET. BUT THESE ARE THINGS THAT WILL TAKE QUITE A WHILE. SO I WOULD SAY WITH THE WAY OUR PLAN HAS WORKED, AUGUST IS A STOP GAP. WE STOP THE BLEED JANUARY, WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT A LITTLE BETTER. PETALUMA VISION IS WHERE WE'RE REALLY GONNA SEE A SERVICE BUILT FOR WHAT PETALUMA HAS FINANCIALLY, WHAT WE CAN ACTUALLY SUPPORT, BECAUSE I HAVE ISSUES WITH THE YARD ISN'T BIG ENOUGH. THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER THINGS BEYOND OUR BUDGET THAT I WANNA BRING TO YOU SO THAT WE ALL CAN DECIDE, OKAY, WHAT MOVES FORWARD. I HAVE A QUESTION. UM, DOES THE USER INTERFACE CHANGE? IT'S, THAT'S A YES. IT WILL SLIGHTLY CHANGE. UM, WHAT, SO PEOPLE HAVE TO DELETE THE LUMA GO APP? NO. SO I'LL TAKE IT. UM, SO YEAH, NOT ENOUGH THAT YOU'LL NOTICE. NOT ENOUGH THAT IT'LL MATTER. OKAY. ONLY THING THAT PARATRANSIT PERSON'S GONNA SEE, THEY'RE GONNA SEE AN ABILITY TO PRE-BOOK AND YOU ALL WON'T SEE THAT. OKAY. UM, WE WILL HAVE ACCESS IN THE NAME, BUT WE DIDN'T WANNA CHANGE ANYTHING IN THE APP STORE FOR EXACTLY THAT POINT. WE HAVE, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY REGISTERED USERS, BUT A LOT. UM, AND, AND WE DON'T WANNA LOSE THEM. OKAY. I, I JUST WASN'T CLEAR ON THAT. THANK YOU. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THE AUGUST SERVICE CHANGES? OKAY, THANK YOU. FLEET MODERNIZATION AND ELECTRIFICATION. AWESOME. SO ACTUALLY THIS IS SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE TO BRING BACK TO US AT A, AT A LATER DATE, BUT I WANTED TO SPEAK ABOUT THE ELECTRIFICATION OF OUR FLEET BECAUSE WE DID JUST TAKE OWNERSHIP OF FIVE THANK YOU. ELECTRIC VANS. UM, UNFORTUNATELY THEY DO NOT HAVE SEATS IN THEM, WHICH I WOULD LOVE TO NOT SAY OUT LOUD. WOW, THAT MAKES ME A LITTLE UPSET. OKAY, SO THEY DON'T HAVE SEATS IN THEM, BUT IT'S GONNA BE OKAY. WE'RE WORKING ON IT. I'D RATHER HAVE, YOU KNOW NOW THOUGH, SO IT WASN'T A BIG DEAL. BUT THE, WHEN THEY IT'S A BIG DEAL. WE HAVE NO SEATS. IT'S A BIG DEAL. BUT HERE'S THE THING. THEY'RE WORKING ON IT. WE'RE WORKING ON IT. WE HAVE OTHER VEHICLES. WE WILL USE PARATRANSIT IF WE NEED TO. WE'RE CURRENTLY BRANDING THE VEHICLES RIGHT NOW. UM, BUT THE ELECTRIC VEHICLES THAT WE GOT, WE ARE THE FIRST ONES TO BE RUNNING ACTUALLY PARATRANSIT ELECTRIC VEHICLES. SO THIS WILL BE REALLY INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH THAT. WHEN WE COME BACK, I'D LIKE TO DO A MORE, NOT FORMAL, BUT KIND OF LET YOU KNOW WHERE WE ARE ON OUR FLEET ELECTRIFICATION SO THAT WE HAVE A SENSE OF WHERE WE ARE IN THE PHASING. AND IF ANY OF YOUR, THE BUDGETARY DECISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE, MAKE A CHANGE TO THAT. SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I HAVE AS, UH, A TOPIC I WANTED TO BRING UP LATER, BUT I WANTED TO MAKE SURE TO HAVE THOSE AVAILABLE TO YOU. QUESTIONS. OKAY. THE VANS ARE VERY COOL. . WHAT? WHY ARE THERE NO SEATS? . WHY DID I BRING UP THERE? NO SEATS. BECAUSE THEY DID SOME, THEY PUT THE WRONG SEATS IN, SO THEY PUT IN FABRIC SEATS. AND ALTHOUGH FABRIC SEATS WOULD DEFINITELY WORK, I'M ALWAYS RIGHT. WE'RE NO COST TOO MUCH TO CLEAN, COST TOO MUCH TO FIX. SO WE, WE DECIDED TO, INSTEAD OF TRYING TO RUN WITH WHAT THEY PROVIDED, BECAUSE THEY, THEY PROVIDED THE WRONG ONE. YOU KNOW, UM, WE ARE GONNA HOLD OFF 'CAUSE WE HAVE THE FLEET TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THAT. SO I JUST WANNA LET YOU KNOW IN CASE YOU DON'T SEE THOSE SUPER COOL VANS OUT RIGHT AWAY. WE PAID FOR, WE PAID FOR THEM. YEAH, WE'RE GOOD. SHE'S LIKE, MAKE SURE YES. PAID FOR, WE PAID FOR THE LEATHER OR SEATS, NOT FABRIC SEATS. , YES. WE'RE GONNA GET [01:00:01] WHAT WE PAID FOR. NO DUCT TAPE. . . OKAY. ALRIGHT. OOPS. SORRY ABOUT THAT. ALRIGHT. UM, SO BUDGET GRANTS IS NEXT AND, UM, MIMI'S ALWAYS HAPPY TO SPEAK TO YOU, BUT I DO WANNA SAY WE, WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF UPDATED NUMBERS. WE HAVE THE NUMBERS YOU'VE SEEN BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T MADE A CHANGE. RIGHT. AND SO UNTIL, SO OUR INTENTION IS, AND MIMI WILL CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, IS TO BEGIN TO DO QUARTERLY REPORTS. BUT AT NOVEMBER, I BELIEVE IS WHAT WE WERE THINKING FOR OUR PROJECTION FOR THAT WE'RE, BECAUSE WE'RE, WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IS WE'RE WATCHING THE COST CHANGE AS WE'RE MAKING CHANGES, BUT WE DON'T, WE CAN'T FORECAST THAT YET. SO WE DON'T WANNA BRING YOU BAD NUMBERS. WE'D RATHER BRING YOU THE NUMBERS IN NOVEMBER THAT REALLY REFLECT THE CHANGES WE'VE MADE. UM, AND IF YOU WANT MORE DETAIL ON THAT, MIMI'S HAPPY TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS OR QUESTIONS ON ANYTHING UNDER GRANT? I, I WOULD SAY, LET'S PUT IT LIKE THIS. IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS ON ANYTHING THAT WHAT WAS WRITTEN IN HERE YES. OR IF THERE ARE THINGS YOU WOULD LOVE TO SEE IN THAT NOVEMBER REPORT, THAT WOULD BE, THIS WOULD BE A GOOD TIME IF, ESPECIALLY GONE THROUGH WHAT YOU'VE ALL BEEN THROUGH, UM, IS THAT THIS IS A CHANCE, BUT AGAIN, WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO IMPROVE UPON IT. BUT I DO THINK THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY SO THAT SHE'S NOT PREPARING SOMETHING THAT YOU DON'T WANNA SEE BECAUSE SHE'S BUILDING THAT NOW. BUT WHY DON'T YOU SPEAK TO IT IF THERE'S ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR YOU WOULD LIKE, UH, IF YOU WANT COMMENTS OR FEEDBACK ON YEAH, IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING THAT YOU WANT ME TO SPECIFICALLY HIGHLIGHT OR ANY, YOU KNOW, FORMATTING OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, I'M SPECIFICALLY GONNA DO AN END OF YEAR, YOU KNOW, SUMMARY REPORT. UM, BUT THEN ALSO AS WE CLOSE OUT A QUARTER AND SEE WHAT THE CHANGES ARE, ANTICIPATE WHAT OUR SAVINGS ARE, AND SO GIVE A, A QUARTERLY UPDATE AS WELL. UM, I JUST HAVE TO WAIT FOR ALL OF THE INVOICES TO BE POSTED, UM, AND THEN FINANCE TO PAY THEM FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. SO THAT'S THE REASON WHY THAT OCTOBER, NOVEMBER TIMELINE IS THERE. BUT IF YOU ALL HAVE ANYTHING SPECIFIC, UH, THE FORMAT THAT I'M GOING TO USE IS GONNA BE VERY SIMILAR TO OUR REGIONAL PARTNERS. UM, SO IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT LIKE S-E-T-C-A AND SEE HOW THEY DO THEIR BUDGET REPORTS, THAT'S HOW YOU CAN ANTICIPATE THAT I WILL DO IT. UM, JUST TO MATCH WHAT OUR REGIONAL PARTNERS ARE DOING AND WHAT THE CITY DOES AS WELL. IT'S ALL ALL VERY SIMILAR, BUT IF THERE'S ANY SPECIFIC THINGS THAT YOU WANT ME TO FOCUS ON OR HIGHLIGHT IN THERE, I'M HAPPY TO INCLUDE THAT IN THERE. AND LET ME CHIME IN NOW, IS THAT I'VE BEEN INSTRUCTING STAFF WITH THE IDEA OF THESE REGIONAL EFFORTS, RIGHT? WITH MASCOTS, WE FELT THIS, WHERE OUR NUMBERS DIDN'T LOOK LIKE OTHER PEOPLE'S NUMBERS. THE TOTALS SHOULDN'T, RIGHT? THEY SHOULD BE DIFFERENT, BUT HOW, AND WHAT WE'RE REPORTING ON HAD SOME INCONSISTENCIES THAT I WASN'T COMFORTABLE WITH. SO I'VE ADVISED STAFF TO USE OUR REGIONAL PARTNERS AS A GREAT EXAMPLE SO THAT WE CAN HAVE SOME CONSISTENCY WHEN WE'RE DOING REPORTING. JUST SO YOU'RE AWARE. SO IF SOMEONE DID AN INTERNET SEARCH FOR S-C-T-C-A BUDGET ONE WOULD SEE THEIR FORMAT. I THINK WHAT I, WE, WE CAN, WHAT I'LL DO IS I WILL SEND AN EMAIL TO ALL TAC MEMBERS WITH THAT AS WELL AS INFORMATION, FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT SONOMA SYNC TCA'S PRESENTATION ON, AND THEN YOU GUYS CAN, YOU ALL CAN DEEP DIVE AS MUCH AS YOU WANT. SO IT'LL INCLUDE THAT AND THEN YOU CAN GIVE FEEDBACK THAT WAY AS WELL. THANK YOU. MM-HMM . UM, I HAD A QUESTION. UNDER GRANTS AND FUNDS, WE'VE SUBMITTED A GRANT APPLICATION AND THE PROJECT REQUESTS $4,830,000 IN FUNDING FOR THREE FIXED ROUTE ELECTRIC BUSES. IS THIS A LAST MONTH WE DID THE HANDSHAKE CLOSING OUT PHASE ONE OF ELECTRIFICATION. IS THIS THAT MONEY OR IS THIS PHASE TWO OF ELECTRIFICATION? AND THIS IS A, A REQUEST THAT WE HAVEN'T SEEN YET THAT YOU SAID 380,000, IS THAT WHAT I'M UNDERSTANDING? THE FIRST PARAGRAPH UNDER GRANTS AND FUNDS SAYS STAFF RECENTLY SUBMITTED A GRANT APPLICATION TO ONE BAY AREA GRANT. YEAH. AND THE PROJECT REQUESTS $4,830,000 IN FUNDING FOR THREE FIXED ROUTE ELECTRIC BUSES. YEAH. SO THIS ONE IS, IT'S, IT'S A LONG STORY TO THIS ONE AND I APOLOGIZE. UM, THIS WOULD BE FOR PART OF OUR ELECTRIFICATION. IT'S NOT PART OF OUR SCHEDULED PHASE AT THIS TIME. UM, BECAUSE WE HAD THE TSIP GRANT AND SO WE HAD PHASE ONE, WHICH IS THOSE FOUR BRAND NEW BUSES THAT YOU'VE SEEN. PHASE TWO IS THE PARATRANSIT. THIS SPECIFICALLY, IF YOU REMEMBER FROM LAST YEAR S-C-T-C-A CYCLE TWO WHERE WE HAD, WE CAN SUBMIT FIVE PROJECTS. UM, WE WENT TO COUNCIL STREETS AND, UM, BIKE PET ALSO WENT TO COUNCIL. [01:05:01] THEY HAD FIVE PROJECTS. S-C-T-C-A THEN PLAYS MATCHMAKER TO THOSE PROJECTS AND IS LIKE, THIS ONE MIGHT BE BEST FIT FOR THIS GRANT. THIS ONE MIGHT BE BEST FIT FOR THIS GRANT IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE THE REGIONAL SPENDING. SO THAT WAY WE'RE NOT ALL COMPETING AGAINST EACH OTHER FOR THE SAME THINGS OR SEEING WHERE WE CAN PARTNER AND WORK TOGETHER. S-C-T-C-A DETERMINED THAT ONE OF OUR PROJECTS, WHICH IS THIS, THE PURCHASE OF THREE FIXED ROUTE ELECTRIC BUSES FOR $4.8 MILLION, UH, WAS BEST FIT FOR THE OAG FOR GRANT APPLICATION. SO UPON SC C'S RECOMMENDATION, WE HAVE APPLIED THROUGH S-C-T-C-A OBA FOUR. AND SO WE'RE WAITING TO HEAR BACK BACK IF THAT WILL BE OFFICIALLY AWARDED OR NOT. BUT BASED UPON THAT, S-C-T-C-A ONLY PICKS A FEW OUT OF THE REGION TO RECOMMEND TO OBA. AND SO THAT'S KIND OF THE LONG COMPLICATED PROCESS OF HOW WE ENDED UP APPLYING FOR OBA. YEAH. THANK YOU. THAT, THAT MADE SENSE. OKAY. , MY QUESTION IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THOUGH. SORRY. AS OPPOSED TO WHY DID WE APPLY, HOW DID WE END UP APPLYING? BUT THIS IS AN APPLICATION FOR FUNDING FOR THREE BUSES THAT WE HAD NOT PREVIOUSLY PLANNED ON. CORRECT. OKAY. THIS IS NEW. YES. THIS IS NEW. SO THIS IS NOT PART OF PREVIOUS FUNDING. THIS HAS NOT BEEN PREVIOUSLY PRESENTED TO TAC UM, YOU KNOW, AFTER OUR PHASE THREE, WHICH IS THE NEXT PHASE OF ELECTRIC BUSES THAT WE'RE PURCHASING, WE DON'T REALLY HAVE FUNDS. SO THIS IS US GOING OUT THERE AND SECURING FUNDS CONTINUING FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS OF BUSES CONTINUING. THANK YOU. YEAH. OKAY, GREAT. I, ONE OTHER QUESTION. UM, I'M CONFUSED BY, UM, THE LCO THIS YEAR, PETALUMA TRANSIT HAS BEEN ALLOCATED A TOTAL OF $9,000 AND WE ANTICIPATE GETTING $137,000 NEXT YEAR. WOW. THAT, THOSE ARE TWO DIFFERENT ONES. IT'S THE SAME PARAGRAPH FOR TWO SEPARATE APPLICATIONS. SO THE STATE OF GOOD REPAIR IS AN ANNUAL ONE. THAT'S THE NINE K ON AVERAGE, THAT'S EIGHT KA YEAR, NINE K, SOMETIMES 10 KA YEAR. UM, THAT IS AN ANNUAL AND IT'S ESSENTIALLY FOR MAINTENANCE EFFORTS, UM, STATE OF GOOD REPAIR. UM, WE ARE ALSO WORKING ON OUR CYCLE TWO OR CYCLE B OF THE LC, OP, WHICH IS THAT TOTAL OF 1 36 THAT YOU SEE THERE. OKAY. SO TWO SEPARATE GRANT APPLICATIONS. THEY'RE ANNUAL LC OP IS WEIRD THIS YEAR BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY WENT TO COUNCIL FOR CYCLE A. UM, BUT BECAUSE OF THE FUNDING COMING IN LOWER AND LOWER EVERY YEAR, THEY'RE HAVING US DO IT IN TWO CYCLES. SO THAT WAY THEY CAN BE SURE ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY'RE PRE ALLOCATING TOWARDS US. SO RIGHT NOW THAT 1 36 IS WHAT THEIR ESTIMATE IS. IT COULD GO HIGHER, IT COULD GO LOWER. THEY'LL HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR US IN THE FALL ABOUT HOW MUCH CHANGE THAT WILL BE FOR THE CYCLE B. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND, UM, THE TDA APPLICATION, WE SUBMIT AN ANNUAL MM-HMM . ALLOCATION REQUEST MM-HMM . AND THEN WE SUBMIT MONTHLY REQUEST. NO, WE SUBMIT ONE ANNUAL REQUEST FOR OUR TDA ALLOCATION. OKAY. THE SENT THE SECOND, THE SENTENCE DIRECTLY AFTER THAT SAYS ALLOCATION REQUESTS CAN BE SUBMITTED ON A RULING BASIS BY THE 15TH OF EACH MONTH FOR ALLOCATION APPROVAL BY MTC TWO MONTHS LATER. SO THAT JUST SAYS WHEN ONE MAY SUBMIT, ITS YOUR ANNUAL REQUEST. YEAH. OKAY. IT'S A, IT'S A, A, IT'S NOT A FIXED DEADLINE. GOT IT. IT JUST NEEDS TO BE SUBMITTED BY MARCH. GOT IT. YEAH. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YEAH, ERIC, THANK YOU. JUST TWO SUPER QUICK QUESTIONS ON THE OBBA GRANT. MM-HMM . SO IT WE'RE SAYING THAT THIS IS FOR THREE NEW BUSES MM-HMM . THREE NEW BUSES TO EXPAND THE FLEET OR NEW BUSES TO REPLACE THE REPLACEMENT. OKAY. THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. OKAY. AND THEN YOU SAID THAT WE'RE STILL WAITING BACK TO HEAR. CAN YOU, DO WE HAVE A ROUGH ESTIMATE AS TO MAYBE WHEN, UH, THEY NEED TO BRING IT TO THEIR BOARD FOR APPROVAL? UM, WE, I DON'T KNOW WHEN THE NEXT BOARD APPROVAL WOULD BE, UM, BUT WE CAN SEND OUT NOTICE. AND SO USUALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS THEY BRING IT TO VARIOUS COMMITTEES FOR APPROVAL AND THEN IF THERE'S NO PROBLEMS WITH IT, THEN IT OFFICIALLY GETS AWARDED AFTER THAT. SO I THINK WE'RE ON TRACK FROM WHERE WE'RE AT. I DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW WHERE IN THE PROCESS, BUT WE ARE CLOSER. BUT THE FUNDS WOULDN'T BE AVAILABLE UNTIL LIKE FY 27 OR FY 28. MM-HMM . UM, IF OFFICIALLY AWARDED. GOT IT. MARIA, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN BE AWARE OF WHEN THESE MEETINGS ARE COMING UP? BECAUSE [01:10:01] THEN, I MEAN, ARE THESE PUBLIC MEETINGS THAT WE CAN ALSO THEN GIVE PUBLIC COMMENT AS, UM, NOT NECESSARILY LIKE A LOT OF THESE, AND YOU CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, MIMI, BUT IN TERMS OF THESE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE KIND OF EARMARKED, THEY'RE COMPETITIVE, THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY, AND I'M LOOKING AT YOU 'CAUSE I WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE RESPONDING ON THE RIGHT THING. IS THAT THERE ISN'T NECESSARILY COMMENT FOR US TO SAY TO IN ORDER TO GET THEM SELECTED IF THAT WOULD BE THE GOAL. UM, THAT, THAT, YEAH, THAT IS CORRECT. YEAH. THEY ARE PUBLIC MEETINGS, BUT THEY'RE JUST APPROVAL MEETINGS. YEAH. IT, IT REALLY IS. BY THE TIME IT GETS TO THESE MEETINGS, IT'S JUST OKAY. TYPICALLY, AND A LOT OF THESE GRANTS, AND WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THIS LATER, WHERE A LOT OF THINGS JUMP YOU AND GO STRAIGHT TO COUNCIL AND THAT'S BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT. IT JUST, WE NEED SOMEBODY FROM COUNCIL TO SIGN IT. RIGHT. AND SO I FEEL LIKE IN THE SAME VEIN, THIS IS KIND OF WHAT HAPPENS WITH THESE MEETINGS WE DON'T EVEN USUALLY ATTEND. IT'S JUST THE PROCESSES THAT IS ARE REQUIRED FOR THOSE SIGNATURES FOR THESE PARTICULAR GRANTS OR FUNDINGS TO BE ALLOCATED TO US. IE PAPERWORK. AND I'M NOT TRYING TO DIMINISH IT, BUT I WANT YOUR, I WANT YOUR ATTENTION WHERE, MAKE SOME ATTENTION. SO I WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH TO PUT HOW, AND THIS IS SOMETHING I'M GONNA CONTINUE TO DO, IS WHERE CAN YOU BE, WHERE THERE IS EFFECT SO THAT YOU CAN SPEAK UP ON BEHALF OF PETALUMA? IF I'M NOT GONNA MINCE WORDS THAT, THAT IS THE HOPE . GOT IT. THANK YOU. NO, THAT'S, THAT'S UH, GOOD TO CLARIFY. OKAY. OKAY. PLANNING AND RIDERSHIP. UM, GO AHEAD. YOU WANNA DO, YOU'LL DO A QUICK ONE. I KNOW, YEAH, I'LL BE BRIEF 'CAUSE MARIA ALREADY EXPLAINED, SO NO, YOU, YOU, YOU'VE SET ME UP VERY WELL TO, UM, EXPLAINING ABOUT OUR NEW COMMINGLING SYSTEM. UM, I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT OUR PRODUCTIVITY OR PASSENGERS PER HOUR ON EACH, UM, ON EACH OF OUR SERVICES BECAUSE THAT'S ONE OF THE MAIN KPIS I'LL BE LOOKING AT WITH OUR NEW COMMINGLING PARATRANSIT, UM, MICRO TRANSIT SERVICE. UM, RIGHT NOW OUR MICRO TRANSIT PASSENGERS PER HOUR OR PRODUCTIVITY IS, OH NO, SORRY, PARATRANSIT IS ABOUT ONE TO TWO PASSENGERS PER HOUR, WHICH ISN'T GREAT AND THERE'S A LOT OF ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT THERE. SO WE'RE HOPING WITH THIS NEW SYSTEM WHERE THERE'S LIKE THIS FANCY ALGORITHM, UM, BOOKING ALL THE TRIPS FOR US, , THAT THAT WILL INCREASE, UM, BY QUITE A BIT. UM, SIMILAR TO OUR MICRO TRANSIT PASSENGERS PER HOUR, WHICH IS CURRENTLY SIX, ABOUT SIX PASSENGERS PER HOUR, WHICH IS VERY SUCCESSFUL FOR A MICRO TRANSIT SERVICE. UM, SO JUST SOMETHING I KIND OF WANNA HIGHLIGHT IT, HIGHLIGHT FOR YOU GUYS. UM, AND WE'LL BE REVISITING THAT WITH THE NEW SERVICE. AND JUST TO ADD ON IN ADDITION, UM, I'VE ASKED CARLY TO CONTINUE TO GIVE YOU RIDERSHIP FOR OUR ROUTES BECAUSE WE, WE, YOU ALL HAD THAT DECISION YOU HAD TO MAKE ABOUT REDUCING OR CUTTING ROUTES. I'M HOPEFUL THAT AS WE GO INTO JANUARY, THAT'S A VERY, THAT DISCUSSION LOOKS VERY DIFFERENT. SO ARACELLI WILL BE SPEAKING ABOUT SOME OF THE OUTREACH, UM, THAT WE'RE GONNA BE DOING, SPECIFICALLY THE COMMUNITY EVENTS IN TERMS OF GETTING INPUT NOT ONLY FOR WHAT WE'RE CHANGING NOW, BUT WHAT WE'RE CHANGING IN THE FUTURE IN JANUARY BECAUSE WE KNOW IN JANUARY WE MAY NEED TO CUT A ROUTE. SO I'M GONNA JUST SAY THAT NOW BECAUSE THE, THE CHANGES THAT WE BE, I'M NOT SAYING WE NEED TO CUT IT IN TERMS OF WELL WE NEED MORE MONEY, BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT THE EFFICIENCY AND YOU ALL NOTED THAT THERE ISN'T A LOT OF, UM, RIDERSHIP ON 10 THAT HASN'T GONE AWAY. WE STILL NEED TO ADDRESS IT, BUT WE DIDN'T WANNA CUT IT WITHOUT ACTUALLY MAKING A MORE STRUCTURED PLAN OF HOW WE SUPPORT 10 AND 24. WE JUST DIDN'T WANNA LOBB IT OFF. SO THAT'S WHY THAT RIDERSHIP IS IN THERE. SO YOU CAN CONTINUE TO BE AWARE OF HOW IT MIGHT CHANGE. UM, BUT HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS FOR ABOUT PLANNING BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO MARKETING AND OUTREACH. I'VE GOT A QUICK QUESTION. UM, SO WITH THE CHANGE IN COMMINGLING, ARE WE LOOKING AT THE AVERAGE, UM, GOING DOWN A LITTLE BIT AS THE PARATRANSIT MIGHT BE SLIGHTLY MORE COMPLICATED TRIPS? OR ARE WE LOOKING AT IT TO BE GOING UP TO SEVEN OR EIGHT FOR EXAMPLE? I WOULDN'T EXPECT IT TO GO THAT HIGH. WHAT I'M HOPING TO SEE IS THAT OUR PARATRANSIT RIDERSHIP OR NOT, SORRY, NOT RIDERSHIP NECESSARILY, OUR PASSENGERS PER HOUR WILL GO UP. UM, BECAUSE THERE, THERE WILL BE MORE EFFICIENCIES IN BOOKING THOSE TRIPS. OKAY. WE, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THE, THE RIDERSHIP? I, I HAVE A QUESTION. SO THE PASSENGER PER HOUR IS FIXED ROUTE AND PARATRANSIT AND LUMA GO IS JUST FIXED ROUTE PASSENGER, UH, THE FIRST ONE. OH, THE FIRST ONE IS, OH, I APOLOGIZE, IT'S JUST FIXED ROUTE AND I DIDN'T LABEL IT BELOW. YOU'LL SEE IT'S PARATRANSIT BELOW THAT AND THEN MICRO TRANSIT BELOW THAT. OKAY. THAT'S [01:15:01] ALL, ALL ADDED TITLE TO THAT. I APOLOGIZE. OKAY. SO, UM, I SEE THAT THERE IS A DECREASE IN PASSENGERS PER HOUR FROM UH, 25, 26 AND, UM, I'M WONDERING IF THAT IS A, AN EFFECT OF LUGO. UM, AND IF SO, WOULD WE EXPECT PASSENGERS PER HOUR TO GO BACK UP? UH, SO FIRST IS, IS THE DECREASE FROM 25 26 LUMA GO EFFECT? YEAH, SO I, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO UM, KIND OF PROVIDE MORE DETAILS ON THE, OH, SORRY, ON THE, ON PASSENGERS PER HOUR AND LIKE REALLY DO A DEEP DIVE ON IT. UM, JUST OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD THOUGH, I WOULD SAY THERE HAVE BEEN MORE SERVICE HOURS IN 2026 BECAUSE WE INCREASED THE TWO IN THE 11. SO THAT COULD BE A REASON THAT, UM, PASSENGERS PER HOUR HAS DECREASED JUST 'CAUSE THERE'S MORE SERVICE HOURS AND THERE WASN'T AS SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN RIDERSHIP WITH THAT. UM, BUT THERE'S ALSO THE FACT THAT WE HAVE MICROT TRANSIT RUNNING AND UM, SOME OF OUR PASSENGERS MIGHT BE USING THAT INSTEAD. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. AND NOW A WILL GIVE US A BRIEF OVERVIEW. THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION IN THIS PACKET. SO WE TALKED ABOUT WE, THERE'S A LOT OF COVERAGE, PRESS COVERAGE, SOCIAL MEDIA COVERAGE, BUT CAN YOU SPEAK BRIEFLY ABOUT THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH EVENTS? 'CAUSE WE WILL WANT YOUR HELP. YES. SO I'LL TRY TO BE AS BRIEF AS POSSIBLE. 'CAUSE I KNOW WE, EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO HOME AND I DON'T WANNA TAKE UP TOO MUCH OF YOUR TIME. UM, SO AS MARIA HAS MENTIONED, WE'VE BEEN DOING LOTS OF OUTREACH. UM, ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS THAT WE'RE FOCUSING ON ARE THE COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS THAT SHE'S REFERENCED BEFORE. UM, SO THE IDEA WITH THESE WORKSHOPS IS THAT WE ALLOW THE COMMUNITY TO COME AND SPEAK TO US DIRECTLY. SO AS WE CAN SEE, NOBODY HAS, UH, COME TO TONIGHT'S MEETING EVEN THOUGH THESE ARE PUBLIC MEETINGS. SO WE WANNA BASICALLY MEET THE COMMUNITY WHERE THEY'RE AT. SO WE WANNA MAKE OURSELVES AVAILABLE, UM, SO THAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE CHANGES THAT ARE HAPPENING IN AUGUST. UM, ALLOW FOLKS TO LEARN ABOUT ACCESS BY LUMA GO AND THE WORKINGS OF THE APP. SO IT'S LIKE A LITTLE TUTORIAL IF YOU WILL AS WELL. AND THEN ALSO ALLOWING THE COMMUNITY TO GIVE US FEEDBACK COMMENTS FOR, UM, JANUARY CHANGES. SO, UM, WE, I APOLOGIZE I DIDN'T, WASN'T ABLE TO FINISH THE FLYER FOR THEM TODAY. UM, BUT I'M HOPING THAT I, I WILL BE ABLE TO FINISH THOSE BY THE END OF THE WEEK OR FINISH THAT BY THE END OF THE WEEK. SO I'LL, I'LL ASK MARIETTA, SEND OUT AN EMAIL TO THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS SO THAT YOU GUYS CAN ALSO PARTAKE IN THESE MEETINGS. I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE YOU IN THESE, UH, WORKSHOPS. UM, ONE OF WHICH WE ACTUALLY JUST CONFIRMED WITH URBAN CHAT, SO THANK YOU. DAVE , . UM, SO, AND, AND THE OTHER ONES ARE WITH, UM, FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER, KAE AND PEP HOUSING SO FAR. AND THE IDEA IS THAT WE HAVE HAVE THEM AT DIFFERENT TIMES, DIFFERENT DAYS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK. SO WE'RE PLANNING FOR ONE IN DURING THE DAY, ONE DURING THE EVENING, ONE DURING THE WEEKEND, UM, POSSIBLY ALSO ONE VIRTUAL. WITH THE VIRTUAL ONE I WOULD HOPE TO BE ABLE BE ABLE TO RECORD IT AND THEN I CAN ALSO, OR BROADCAST IT LIVE TO, UM, FACEBOOK FOR EXAMPLE, SO THAT WE ARE ABLE TO REACH EVEN MORE PEOPLE AND IT GETS RECORDED ON THERE AND IT'S AVAILABLE AS A RESOURCE FOR THE COMMUNITY TO COME BACK TO. UM, SO THAT WE'RE REALLY HOPING THAT THAT ALLOWS THE COMMUNITY TO FEEL PART OF, UM, YOU KNOW, BEING INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS AND FOR THEIR VOICE TO REALLY BE HEARD. YOU KNOW, WE, WE UNDERSTAND IT'S HARD FOR PEOPLE TO MAKE IT TO EVENTS LIKE THESE, SO WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE OURSELVES AS AVAILABLE AS A POSSIBLE. THESE, UH, WORKSHOPS WILL HAPPEN BETWEEN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER. WE'RE TRYING TO GATHER AS MUCH INFORMATION AS WE POSSIBLY CAN BY OCTOBER SO THAT WE ARE INFORMED FOR WHAT CHANGES NEEDED TO BE HAPPENING FOR JANUARY. QUESTIONS PATTY, ERIC? JUST A SMALL ONE. SO YOU MENTIONED SOME OF THE PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE WANNA HAVE THESE WORKSHOPS WITH. DO WE, ARE WE ABLE TO SEE WHAT LIST YOU GUYS ARE LOOKING INTO COMMUNICATING WITH? BECAUSE I, I HEARD SOME NAMES, BUT I'M NOT GONNA, I'M JUST GONNA ASSUME THAT IT WAS JUST WHAT CAME OFF , LIKE OFF THE CUFF, THOSE ARE THE ONES WE'VE UH, LIKE THE MAJOR PARTNERS, WE'VE IDENTIFIED THAT MM-HMM . UM, HAVE EXPRESSED ALSO INTEREST IN WORKING WITH US. BUT IF YOU FEEL LIKE WE'RE MISSING SOMEBODY THAT REALLY SHOULD BE A PART OF THE TABLE, I AM CERTAINLY OPEN TO THAT. [01:20:01] UM, WE'VE IDENTIFIED THE FOUR WORKSHOPS RIGHT, FOR RIGHT NOW, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THESE CAN'T HAPPEN BEYOND SEPTEMBER OR THAT WE CAN'T INCLUDE OTHERS. UM, WE WERE ALSO EVEN TALKING ABOUT HAVING MAYBE ADDITIONAL JUST VIRTUAL ONES SO THAT 'CAUSE THAT WE CAN DO ANYWHERE, ANYTIME FROM, YOU KNOW, RIGHT. THE OFFICE, MY HOME, WHEREVER. AND I WILL SAY THOUGH, ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE LEARNED FROM LUMA GO'S OUTREACH IS THAT IT, WE GET BETTER WHEN THEY'RE ALREADY THERE, WHEN THEY'RE NOT COMING TO SOMETHING AS YOU ALREADY SAID. SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE, WE'RE RELYING ON URBAN CHAT AND CAFE PUENTE BECAUSE THEY ALREADY HAVE THAT REGULAR MEETING. THAT BEING SAID, IF THERE IS A REGULAR MEETING OR SOMEWHERE YOU WANT US TO GO AND YOU'LL HEAR THE IMPACT OF THIS, PLEASE LET US KNOW BECAUSE THIS IS ALSO SETTING THE GROUND. SEE THIS IS REALLY COOL. WE'RE SCAFFOLDING FOR VISION. SO OUR VISION PLAN IS OUR 20 YEAR PLAN AND WE'RE SCAFFOLDING THAT NOW. SO ALL THE WORK SHE'S DOING, SHE'S GONNA HAND TO THE CONSULTANTS AND THEY CAN BUILD OFF OF IT ALMOST USING HER PLATFORM AND THE WAY SHE'S DONE IT, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. SO ALL THE WORK, THE MORE INFORMATION BASICALLY. IN SHORT, IF WE DON'T GET TO IT FOR AUGUST, WE'LL GET TO IT FOR VISION. SO LOAD US UP. GOT IT. IT WOULD JUST ME TELL YOU, OOH, WE NEED TO GIVE THAT TO OUR VISION CONSULTANTS 'CAUSE WE'RE AT TASK, BUT WE WANT IT ALL. GOT IT. SO YEAH, NO, I MEAN THE ONLY ONE THAT CAME TO MIND RIGHT NOW WAS COTS BECAUSE WE DID HAVE A SPEAKER THANK YOU A COUPLE MONTHS AGO. I THINK WE DID REACH OUT TO 'EM. SO WITH COTS WE'RE WORKING WITH REBUILDING, UM, BECAUSE I THINK THEY WORK WITH COTS IS WHAT WE WERE UNDERSTANDING, BUT WE HAVE A MEETING WITH THEM AND THAT THEY THOUGHT THAT THEY'RE, THEY HAVE A WEDNESDAY MEETING THAT I BELIEVE BRINGS MULTIPLE GROUPS TO IT. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HOPING TO DO THAT MAY NOT BE OPEN FOR PUBLIC IS THE ONLY THING BECAUSE OF THE, UM, NATURE OF THE GROUP. YEAH. SO YES, PLEASE LET US KNOW. AND GO AHEAD. YOU MENTIONED THAT YOU, I THINK YOU MENTIONED THAT YOU THOUGHT THAT MEMBERS OF TECH COULD ASSIST YOU. HOW CAN WE ASSIST YOU? THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING THAT MANY WAYS . SO FIRST OFF, I'M GONNA, WE ARE GONNA SEND, WHAT WE HAVE IS OUR ORIGINAL, HEY, HERE ARE THE PLACES WHERE YOU CAN GO FOR THIS ONE WILL BE URBAN CHAT, PEP, ET CETERA. IF YOU CAN SHARE THAT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO COME AND ASK YOU TRANSIT QUESTIONS, SHARE THAT FLYER IF THERE'S ONE YOU'RE SPECIFICALLY INTERESTED IN, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE BILINGUAL AND YOU WANT TO COME TO ANY OF THEM, THAT HELPS. IT JUST HELPS 'EM TO SEE YOUR FACES AND IT WILL HELP YOU TO HEAR SOME OF THE RESPONSES. MM-HMM . NOT AT ALL REQUIRED, BUT IT DOES ADD A BIT OF, UM, MAKES IT MORE IMPORTANT, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD, WHEN Y'ALL SHOW UP. UM, AND SO WE APPRECIATE THAT IN ADDITIONAL THOUGH IT'S NOT IN THE PACKET AND THIS IS GONNA FEEL SEPARATE, BUT IT ISN'T. ASCHE HAS BEEN WORKING FOR WITH US ABOUT TRANSIT MONTH FOR EXAMPLE. MM-HMM . AS, AS HAS GAIL, UM, THESE KIND OF EVENTS ALSO, WE'RE GOING TO USE THEM. ANY EVENT THAT HAPPENS BETWEEN NOW AND JANUARY IS ONE OF OUR EVENTS. IT WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT RIGHT AN OUTREACH EVENT. SO IF YOU HAVE AN EVENT YOU'RE DOING, UM, OR SOMETHING THAT YOU THINK ADDING US IN WOULD BE HELPFUL AND WITH TRANSIT MONTH, WHICH WE'LL TALK ABOUT, THERE'LL BE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THAT. I'LL SEND YOU OUT AS WELL. SO, UM, IT'S PARTICIPATING AND THEN ANSWERING THE QUESTION. HERE'S WHERE YOU GO FOR MORE INFORMATION. HERE'S WHERE IT'S, THAT IS VERY HELPFUL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR ASKING. THEN I ALSO JUST WANTED TO QUICKLY HIGHLIGHT THAT WE ARE STARTING TO WORK WITH THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE CITY TO START PLANNING, PREPARING FOR ORIENTATION WHERE WE OF COURSE WILL GIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUGUST UM, CHANGES. ALSO USE IT AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO OUTREACH FOR THE WORKSHOPS. UM, AND AS WE GET CLOSER TO AUGUST 10TH, WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT LIKE, HOW CAN WE CAN SCHEDULE OURSELVES AND MAKE OURSELVES AVAILABLE THAT WEEK OF AUGUST 10TH, THIS PARTICULARLY AFTER 6:00 PM OR ON THE WEEKENDS. BECAUSE WE ARE AWARE THAT WE'RE, THERE'S FOLKS OUT IN THE COMMUNITY THAT WILL NOT SEE THE ALERTS. THEY, THEY'RE NOT ON SOCIAL MEDIA. THEY DON'T HAVE THE PHO A PHONE. THEY MAY HAVE NOT SEEN A POST ON THE BUS STOP OR YOU, FOR WHATEVER REASON THEY'RE OUT THERE WAITING AT THE BUS STOP. WE DON'T WANT ANYBODY IN THAT SITUATION. SO WE ARE PLANNING TO LITERALLY BE BOOTS ON THE GROUND, UM, TO BE ABLE TO ASSIST THOSE FOLKS AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE NOT FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS IN THAT SENSE. SO, PARDON ME. DO DO YOU MEAN LIKE DRIVING AROUND? YES. THE BUS DRIVING THE BUS ROUTES. SO WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE DOING IS WE, BECAUSE MV STAFF TO WHAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT RIGHT, IS, IS SHORT TASK. THEY ALREADY HAVE THEIR PLAN OF ATTACK OF HOW THEY'RE, THEY HAVE A SAFETY MANAGER WHEN AUGUST 10TH COMES AROUND, WHAT NO ONE WANTS TO SEE IS A SAD PERSON SITTING AT A BUS STOP ON A SATURDAY OR AT 7:00 PM RIGHT? 'CAUSE WE ALL KNOW THERE IS NO BUS COMING. SO THERE'LL BE INSTRUCTIONS AT THOSE BUS STOPS ON HOW TO USE LUMA GO AND ACCESS. AND ALSO I'M GOING TO HAVE THE CITY TEAM OUT AT DIFFERENT HOURS TO DO WHAT WE WOULD CALL SWEEPS. YOU TYPICALLY, YOUR, YOUR CON CONTRACT WOULD DO A SWEEP WHERE THEY WOULD CHECK TO SEE AND POTENTIALLY GET A RIDE FOR THAT PERSON. UM, SO WE ARE SHORT STAFFED SO THE STAFF IS GOING TO BE DOING THAT. [01:25:01] UM, AND WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU GUYS HELP WITH THAT AS WELL. IF YOU WANT. I MEAN, WE WILL GIVE YOU WHAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE BECAUSE YOU MAY DRIVE BY A BUS STOP AND YOU KNOW, THERE ISN'T A BUS COMING. JUST MAKE SURE IT'S NOT A GOLDEN GATE BUS PLEASE, BECAUSE WE'RE DON'T GO TO COUNTY. THEY HAVE STOPPED EVERYTHING. UM, BUT I DO AND I WANT, SO, SO TO THAT END MM-HMM . 'CAUSE IT IS LIKE THE, THE, THE PLANNING IS STILL ONGOING MAYBE. SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE RIGHT FREQUENCY IS FOR PEOPLE GETTING EMAILS, BUT LET'S NOT WAIT TILL THE AUGUST TACK FOR YOU TO GIVE US THE SCHEDULE. OH NO. UH, YES AND SPEAKING OF THAT, WE'LL GET TO THAT PART, BUT WE WILL NEED TO CANCEL AUGUST BECAUSE OF THIS EXACT THING. WE DO NOT HAVE THE STAFF AVAILABLE TO DO BOTH SCHOOL REGISTRATION AND TO RELEASE THIS SCHEDULE AND PREPARE ATTACK PRESENTATION, WHICH WE'RE GONNA TELL YOU EVERYTHING WE JUST TOLD YOU BECAUSE WE WON'T HAVE ANY NUMBERS FOR YOU. OKAY. UM, WE'RE HAPPY TO LISTEN. IF THERE'S SOMETHING I CAN PREPARE, I AM MORE THAN HAPPY TO. I WILL BE HERE IF YOU NEED ME TO, BUT FOR MY STAFF, THEY NEED TO, THERE'S JUST TOO MUCH WORK FOR THEM TO BE DOING. AND I'M ALSO BEING VERY MINDFUL OF OVERTIME HOURS BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW, THIS IS AFTER WORK HOURS. SO THEN I HAVE TO REALLOCATE THEIR TIME RIGHT NOW. SO I, I SAY THAT AUGUST WILL HAVE TO BE CANCELED WITH APOLOGIES, JEEP APOLOGIES, BUT ALSO WANNA MAKE SURE THEY STAND, THEY'RE ABLE TO STAND UP AFTER AUGUST 10TH . SO, UM, WE CAN SPEAK TO THAT AS WELL. BUT, BUT TO THE EXTENT THAT WE'LL GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION. SO WE WILL EMAIL YOU IF WE HAVE MEETINGS THAT WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO ATTEND, BUT YOU SHOULD EMAIL YES IF THERE ARE MEETINGS SCHEDULED THAT IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO HAVE MEMBERS OF TAC AND IF YOU HAVE A SCHEDULE FOR SWEEPING THE CITY THAT YOU WOULD LIKE SOMEONE TO TRY TO HELP OUT WITH, PLEASE LET US KNOW MY VISION AND I'D LOVE THE IMPACT BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE TO SEND MULTIPLE EMAILS, ESPECIALLY THE YOU ALL BECAUSE, UM, FOR A LOT OF REASONS YOU GUYS. SO I, MY HOPE IS BY THE END OF THIS WEEK PROBABLY THEY'LL BE GETTING 'EM NEXT IS TO LOAD THE ENTIRE EMAIL IN ONE. SO THAT EMAIL WOULD BE WHAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT TODAY, BUT IT WAS ALREADY PLANNING, WHICH WOULD BE THE FLYER, OUR SCHEDULE AND YOUR ABILITY TO RESPOND TO US IN TERMS OF THOSE OTHER OFFSET MEETINGS. JUST REACH OUT TO ME AND SHE, BUT WE'RE HOPING THAT BY NEXT WEEK WE'RE GIVING YOU A PACKET OF HERE IT IS. THANK YOU. OKAY. YEAH. AND WE, IT, IT IS IN PROGRESS. UH, OR YOU KNOW, WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON IT BECAUSE THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE'RE PLANNING FOR OUR PARATRANSIT WRITERS AND UM, COMMUNITY PARTNERS AS WELL. SO WE WORK WITH A LOT OF, UM, SOCIAL WORKERS, UH, DIALYSIS CENTERS, POSTACUTE CENTERS. SO WE'VE IDENTIFIED THOSE PLACES AND I'M GOING TO BE SENDING OUT COMMUNICATION TO THEM AS WELL. UM, BECAUSE THEY OFTEN ASSIST CLIENTS IN BEING A, BEING ABLE TO APPLY FOR PARATRANSIT OR BOOK A RIDE WITH PARATRANSIT. SO IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US TO RECOGNIZE THAT AND ALSO ADDRESS THEM DIRECTLY SO THEY CAN THEREFORE HELP US, UM, FURTHER INFORM OUR WRITERS. UM, SO THAT PA PACKET WILL INCLUDE A GUIDE ON HOW TO USE LUGO APP. UM, I JUST GOT THE, THOSE ASSETS YESTERDAY, SO I AM CREATING THE GUIDE THIS WEEK. I'M HOPING TO FINALIZE IT THIS WEEK. THAT WAS GREAT. THANK YOU. I'VE GOT A QUICK QUESTION ABOUT THE FLYERS AT THE VARIOUS STOPS. ARE THEY GOING TO HAVE A PHONE NUMBER FOR PEOPLE TO CALL WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE YES. GO APPS. OKAY. YEAH. THANK YOU. UM, I JUST WANTED TO CONFIRM, WILL SOME OF THESE COMMUNITY OUTREACH EVENTS HAPPEN AT TIMES THAT WORK FOR PEOPLE WHO WORK LIKE A NINE TO FIVE? YEAH, SO AGAIN, WE ARE PLANNING FOR ONE IN THE EVENING, ONE DURING THE DAY ON THE WEEKEND. AND THEN THE VIRTUAL, WE HAVEN'T REALLY CONFIRMED THAT TIME, BUT THAT ONE'S FLEXIBLE. SO I'M NOT AS CONCERNED WITH THAT ONE. 'CAUSE WE CAN HAVE MULTIPLE OF THOSE, BUT WE ARE MINDFUL OF THAT. YOU KNOW, FOLKS, SOME OFTENTIMES ARE AVAILABLE DURING THE DAY, LIKE OUR PARATRANSIT WRITERS, OTHERS ARE NOT. SO WE, WE ARE AWARE OF THAT. THANK YOU. MM-HMM . OKAY, DAVE. ALRIGHT. ALRIGHT. UM, THE LAST THING ON, UM, THE MANAGER'S REPORT OR UPCOMING TECH AGENDA ITEMS. UM, SO I DON'T, I THINK YOU CAN EMAIL AS WELL, RIGHT? EMAIL AND LET ME KNOW THAT IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THAT YOU'RE SUGGESTING TOPICS HERE. UM, WHAT WE WILL DO, WHAT I TYPICALLY WILL DO IS WORK WITH GAIL TO DETERMINE KIND OF OR AND STAFF TO DETERMINE WHAT MAKES SENSE TO TALK ABOUT. I'VE LISTED SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I ALREADY WANNA TALK ABOUT, ELECTRIFICATION SIGNAL PRIORITIZATION, WHICH IS SOMETHING WE'VE TALKED ABOUT. BUT I RATHER THAN GIVE YOU A QUICK ANSWER, I'D RATHER DO A MORE ELABORATE ANSWER. DEFERRED CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ARE SOME THINGS WE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT. I WILL BE HONEST, WE'RE MAPPING OUT THE REST OF THE YEAR MY STAFF. SO WE, WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW FOR THE NEXT SEVEN TO 12 MONTH, LIKE WHAT YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT THAT ALLOWS US TO CANCEL AUGUST WITHOUT WORRYING. SO WE'RE GETTING ON [01:30:01] A, A PATH WHERE WE HAVE A VERY PLANNED OUT AGENDA IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'RE DOING. SO IF YOU CAN SEND IT TO US, WE ANTICIPATE RIGHT NOW JUST TO REALLY BRIEFLY TO SAY THAT IN SEPTEMBER WHEN WE COME BACK, WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU SOME ANECDOTAL INFORMATION, OBVIOUSLY ABOUT HOW, HOW THE LAUNCH WENT. BUT WE WON'T HAVE REAL DATA YET FOR YOU AT THAT POINT. BUT WE'RE GONNA DO AS MUCH AS WE CAN. WE, WE'VE ALREADY TALKED AS A TEAM, HOW MUCH REAL DATA CAN WE GIVE YOU IN SEPTEMBER FROM AUGUST. IN OCTOBER, WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING A LOT ABOUT, OR THE RESULTS OF TRANSIT MONTH, WE'RE GONNA BRING BRINGING THE COORDINATED CLAIM AT THAT TIME BECAUSE THEN IT WOULD MAKE SENSE IN TERMS OF WHAT WE HAVE TO DO SOME ACTION OR MOVING IT ON TO COUNCIL. UM, IN NOVEMBER, WE HAVE A WEEK WITHOUT DRIVING. WE'LL BE PREPARING AGAIN FOR JUST FOR JANUARY. SO IT ALL JUST KEEPS CIRCLING BACK. THAT BEING SAID, UM, WE ARE ALSO INCLUDING COUNCIL ITEMS. I SPOKE BRIEFLY ABOUT THEM, BUT SOMETHING NEW IS CITY COUNCIL ITEMS THAT ARE GOING TO COUNCIL THAT MAYBE YOU'RE NOT AWARE OF OR IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO TALK ABOUT. SO YOU'LL SEE WHAT WE'RE GONNA BRING TO COUNCIL AS WELL. HOWEVER, JUST BE ADVISED THIS IS A RECOMMENDATION BODY, SO THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE, YOU KNOW, DON'T, BUT WE WILL BECAUSE YOU RECOMMEND WHAT MOVES ON IN SOME CASES TO COUNCIL. SO WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO HAVE THAT DIALOGUE SO WE KNOW WHAT'S BEST TO BRING FORWARD. I'M DONE. I'M DONE. I THINK I'M DONE. AM I DONE? ? ALL RIGHT. DID ANYONE HAVE QUESTIONS ON THE REMAINDER OF THE STAFF REPORT? UM, DAVE, MICHAEL, I'M GOOD. LESLIE? I'M GOOD. I'M GOOD. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR GREAT REPORT. OKAY. OKAY. I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING I'M SUPPOSED TO SAY, UM, AH, WITH THAT. MM-HMM . WE ARE ADJOURNED AT 6 30, 6 32. * 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.