 All right, it is five o'clock. I will call the Shabuigan Transit Commission to order. For those present, would you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, so I'll call the roll. Alder Sorensen is here. Alder Trey Mitchell. Present. Dean Decker. Here, Ryan. All right, Mike. Chief Domigowski. Chad. Right here, Charles Windsor. All right, election of officers. How should we do this? So we need new chair and new vice chair. Yeah, that's correct. With former Alder Wolf now becoming city administrator that left the vacancy for the Transit Commission chair position. You currently hold the vice chair position, correct? Okay, so I think you can just open up the nominations for election of officers. And if you get nominated for the chair position, then they would backfill, or you could backfill for the vice chair. Sure, sounds fine. I'll open up nominations. Any nominations for chair? Chad Palacek. I'll nominate Ryan Sorensen. Okay, I'll second that. All right, there's been a motion and second to nominate myself. I'll accept. Any other nominations? All right. There's been a motion to close the nominations and cast unanimous ballot. Is there a second? Second. I need a discussion. All those in favor, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Aye. Chair votes aye. Thank you, everybody. I'd like to open up nominations for vice chair. Chad Palacek. Dean, do you accept? I'll accept. All right, and then there's been a second by Mike. Any other nominations for vice chair? Any other nominations? All right, there's been a motion to cast unanimous ballot for Dean Decker for vice chair. Is there a second? Second. Second. Any further discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor of casting unanimous ballot for Dean Decker for vice chair, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. That's approved. All right, congratulations. Moving along. Minutes, June 30th. That was a while ago. All those in favor of approving, or is there a motion to approve the minutes for our previous meeting? Motion by Chad. Is there a second? Second by Mike. Any further discussion on the minutes? Seeing none. All those in favor of approving the minutes, please state aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. The minutes are approved. All right, moving along. Public hearing for fair changes for shoreline metro specialized transit services. Director Derrick. Thank you. Today we are holding a public hearing for proposed fair changes to specialized transit services provided by Metro Connection. Standard fairs being proposed, which would decrease the current ADA pair transit fare from $3.50 per trip to $3 per trip and increase the current county elderly and disabled program fare from $2.50 per trip to $3 per trip. If you wanna just go through each one of the bullets and the 3.1 through 3.5, Ryan. Yeah, sure. That works for you. So 3.1 is verification of compliance for the public hearing. Just wanna make everybody aware here that we did post notices on each of our revenue service vehicles, both fixed route and paired transit buses. These have been out for past the 30 day period. I believe both of them are encroaching on 30, 40 days, excuse me. An ad was placed in the Sheboygan Press. The ad was placed on Saturday, August 22nd, excuse me. So one month ago today. And then we did have some changes to the room. So additional notices were published on the entrances to both conference room 106 on the first floor and conference room 305 here as well. So we did meet the compliancy on the public hearing notices. 3.02, I don't know, doesn't seem like anybody's here for public input. So I'm not sure how much you'd want me to go through this. It is pretty straightforward, cut and dry on the fair increases. Basically what we wanted to do was just create one fair that was consistent across the board. As my IFC states, it's more or less just an opportunity to streamline this for our customers, make it consistent. The county is gonna plan on taking up the same issue at their October Transportation Coordinating Committee meeting. So upon approval at that meeting, this would go into effect and upon your approval here, it would go into effect on January 1st of 2021. We did receive some public comments ahead of the meeting. I'm not gonna go through those as they were supplied to you guys in advance. If you have any questions on any of the public comments or on the proposed fair changes, I guess I would take them now. Any comments or questions, Mike? Sure. The question by Mayor van der Steen was to address the letter that came in from our home Christian ministries talking about the $17 agency fair. The agency fair, first off, I'll just say that this location is on Usberg and this location is serviced through the county's transportation program, currently known as the $2.50 fair. The $17 that is being talked about is charged to social service agencies that receive funding through different state or federal programs that also do include transportation services. The reason why we have an agency fair in place is so that agencies that are already receiving transportation aids as part of the benefits that they're distributing to their clients, they aren't able to double dip and further subsidize those by taking advantage of our per trip out of pocket fair. The $2.50 and $3.50 rates are meant for customers that are paying for their trips out of pocket, not being subsidized by other agencies. This is the basis as to why we have the agency fair in place for almost 10 years now. The $17 does not represent the entire true cost of the fair. It is really recouping almost 75% of the fair cost associated with that. We've tried to keep that about 75% recoup over the years and it might increase here in the near future, but as of right now, that's what the agency fair represents. Thanks. Any other questions? Anyone else wishing to speak for the public hearing? Anyone else wishing to speak for the public hearing? Anyone else wishing to speak for the public hearing? Seeing none, is there a motion to close the public hearing? Motion to close public hearing. Motion by Dean, second by Mike. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of closing public hearing, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Aye. Chair votes aye. The public hearing is concluded. Moving along, action on public hearing item proposed fair changes for Metro Connection. Any other additional comment, Derek, on this or? No, just that I'd be seeking approval, again, to adjust the ADA Pair Transit Fair. That's really the one that the Transit Commission has control over. Again, the county will take a separate motion on their fair here in October. And again, this would be for January 1st of 2021. All right, motion to approve the fair change. Motion by Dean, second by Chet. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. 4.2, approve the Transit and Parking second quarter operating statistic report. Derek. All right, thank you, Mr. Chair. No surprise here on the second quarter reports here for Transit and Parking, as was forecasted already back in our June meeting, we were gonna be significantly down in not only revenues, but also ridership revenues basically are down, obviously, because we haven't charged fares in April, May or June. Fairs came back online in early July and ridership had been down significantly during that period as well. Slowly coming back now as school kids are back in session and more and more people are traveling, but we still are significantly hindered by the pandemic, both in revenues and in ridership. You will see on the fixture outside, most notably, revenue trips were 6.05 trips per revenue hour. We've had a significant decrease in our productivity from last year and that continues as the pandemic lingers. Last year we did have almost a record high as far as ridership goes over the last 20 years. So it's no surprise that our numbers are gonna be very, very much down. Metro connection also substantially down. Ridership down about 39% with revenue down about 44% for the year. Again, just looking at the second quarter alone, we had significant decreases in ridership over last year, second quarter, and productivity continues to be significantly down as well. Can I ask a question? Yeah. So that everybody... I wasn't prepared. Can you address the, so the CARES Act funds will offset the revenue? So I'm guessing you've tracked the people that were on the bus during those months and will you be getting dollar for dollar reimbursement for the revenue losses? Yeah. So in the general sense of how the CARES Act funds work, we are able to not only recoup or use CARES Act money towards increased expenses due to, let's say cleaning, equipment, personnel, things like that, but we're also able to recoup our loss and revenues as well. I just worked on this calculator for 2020 and a proposed calculator for 2021 on how much CARES Act money will be infused over the next couple of years. It's a rather complicated calculator, if I might say, but it looks like for 2020, we'd be using about a million to a million two and next year about the same range, maybe a little bit less our revenues or forecast would be a little bit better. But either way, we're looking at a million dollars this year and next year to offset our losses and revenues and our increase in, but there's a lot more to it. The funding is a lot better through CARES Act as it's 100% funded over our traditional federal and state dollars. So we're trying to maximize the amount of money that we can use through CARES Act and then also how much money we can save the city as far as their portion of the tax levy in 2020 and 2021. So I'll be working with city administrator Wolf and his finance department later this week to talk about those numbers. All right. Is there a motion to accept the report? I do have the parking numbers yet. If I just might add in there, again, parking numbers, let me see here. Yeah, they're significantly down. Again, we never stopped charging parking rates simply because it was be too difficult to not enforce and also get the word out on it. But we've had significant decreases but we are seeing people come back. Parking permits are growing. We're changing over permits this quarter as a matter of fact but revenue continues to lag. Again, we're gonna be looking at some significant changes or maybe increases to what we've known as the assessment over the last couple of years. Assessment numbers for this year and next year could look very much similar to what they were in 2019. So we'll continue to monitor that but again, revenue is significantly down. Any questions on the quarter report? It says that the parking utility revenue was down slightly in the quarter over the same period in 2019 and the next sentence says overall revenue is up 21.4%. Did you highlight this and or did I? I have a highlighted copy. Okay, I have to look at that. I just realized that at this point but our revenue was significantly up in the first quarter and we did have revenue in the second quarter but I think a lot of what happened was there was a lot of revenue that was turned back or that was refunded because of people turning in their parking permits. So it is possible. Our lag is gonna be in this next quarter as far as where parking numbers are gonna be. So I can follow up and just verify that numbers, I can tell you the first sentence is absolutely correct. I can tell you, I'll look up the second number or the second sentence in that first line just to make sure that that's accurate. Are there comments or any motions to accept the report? Motion in second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please stay die. Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. 4.3 2020 Community Block Grant Agreement. Derek. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, a matter of formality here. This is the latest CDBG application agreement. I will close that into your packet for review today. Again, our amount that we applied for and were granted $42,493. The agreement is to accept those funds as part of our award for that grant. And I do have copies here today that would be signed by the chair and then also allowing me to sign as a witness. Any further discussion or motion to approve? Motion to approve. Second. Motion in second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please stay die. Aye. Anyone opposed? Aye. Chair votes aye. That's approved. 4.4 Public Transit Agency Safety Report. All right, thank you again, Mr. Chair. This is gonna take a little bit of time to go through. We're not gonna cover the entire 56 page document. But the document in front of you is our Public Transit Agency Safety Plan. As I put in the background analysis, this is required of all public transit systems, surface transportation systems here going forward. The original requirement was middle of this year but due to COVID, FTA has not been requiring this in place until the beginning of next year. So the document in front of you has been put together by staff of Baylake Regional Planning Commission and staff within my office. We do have Jeff Agio-Io online from Baylake Regional Planning Commission whose staff work significantly and tirelessly on this document. I must give them a shout out and say what a great attractive document it is. Looks really, really put together. And I wanted to say thank you guys for that. The document really is a formality. A lot of what is contained in the document that is required of Shoreline Metro and the State of Sheboygan are things that we've been doing all along. Shoreline Metro has been, at least over the last eight years since I've been here, one of the safest transit systems in the entire state of Wisconsin. I don't wanna jinx that today, but I wanna elaborate on the fact that a lot of the details that are contained in this document are things that we've already been doing. We've embedded a safety culture in our organization. We've created a safety supervisor position and I'll introduce Jack here in a second. And we've also created extensive policy and procedures for our organization. FTA has now required us to formalize that and keep that into a living breathing document that is basically part of our organization in which all team members are required to participate and be active in. So like I said, the document in front of you today contains all the mandatory parts, both moving parts and stationary parts that are required of this plan going forward. At this time, I'd like to just introduce Jeff and allow him to add any additional comments. Don't think we can hear you, Jeff. Jeff, we can't hear you if you are talking. In the meantime, maybe I will just talk about a couple of things here today. This document today is requiring approval by you, the Transit Commission. You are the oversight body for Shore Lane Metro and the operations. The second page really shows a bunch of sign-offs today that and shows you guys as the board of directors. So what you're really authorizing me to do today is to be the accountable executive and sign on the document. There's two key players in this document going forward. Myself, which is known as the accountable executive. I believe I actually have a couple other terms in here as well. And then also there's a safety manager position or a chief safety officer. And I just want to recognize Jack Sawinsky, who is our current safety education and training supervisor. Jack does all of our in-house training of our drivers. He is also the oversight for our safety and our safety programs. So he's a natural fit for this task. Jack started as my original replacement when I was promoted to director by this fine body. And he has really worked up the ranks. He's really dedicated himself to training and safety within our organization. And he embraces this opportunity to continue to lead our organization and the safety culture that we have. So I'm really proud to have Jack on my team and alongside me in going forward with this plan. So, Jeff, are you still muted? Not by choice? Yeah, I was never muted. Can people hear now or not? Yep, hey, we got you. Jeff, why don't you add some comments about? I had to bring some technical support in. I'm a product of the 80s. So I had to bring some technical support in to help out. Yeah, we work pretty diligently with Jack and with Derek on this plan. I think we had several teleconference meetings while we've been working from home. We're back in the office here for about a month or two now, but during the throes of working from home over the summer, had several teleconference meetings with Jack and with Derek to put the plan together. The main body came together fairly quickly. Pendices A through C and the last two appendices G and H came together fairly quickly. I think the most challenging part was D, E, and F in terms of getting those together, but in terms of kind of the log for recording safety incidents and things like that. But I think it came together quite nicely. Chris Garcia, who works with us, who was kind of my understudy transportation planner put this together in InDesign. So I give him a lot of credit for putting that together. I think you've kind of read the document, so I don't know if there are any questions or anything like that. Thanks, Jeff. I'll add additionally that I did provide printed copies for each of you today. Just want to make a note of that in the minutes that it was distributed physically for you guys. This isn't a very important document and our Triennial Review, which was originally scheduled for August of this year, has been pushed out to the first quarter of next year, and they've already indicated that they're gonna take up the public transit agency safety plan. So I just wanna make sure that we're crossing our T's and dot our I's on this as well. So if you have already printed, great. If you haven't, you gotta copy and please keep in your records going forward. So I'll just wrap up. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Otherwise, today the request is the staff recommends the approval of the public transportation agency safety plan for Shoei Metro place on file. I will additionally add that this document then we'll get forwarded to FTA for their review and concurrence. That review shouldn't take very long, but we should get that back. And once they have a concurrence on it, it will be on record and ready to go. And we can roll out the next steps in it. So we're ready for January one implementation. All right. Is the motion to accept? Motion second. Second. There's a motion second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please state aye. Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. That's approved. Motion point five, 2020 transit asset management plan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm gonna defer to Jeff. I'll let him do the oversight or overview, excuse me, on the TAM plan and giving updates for the 2020 version of the plan. Jeff. Okay, thanks. Is there a way to share the screen at all or do people have copy? Yeah. Yeah, Scott can share the screen. So just give one second here and he's gonna give you permission to do that. Okay, like he already did. He moved things around here. So we have our draft transit asset management plan. I think this is probably the third or fourth, one of these that we've done. Calendar year 2020. Chris Garcia, who works with me, put this together. We have, see our title page. Table content, our transit asset management plan policy is stated in the agency overview where we talk about the fixed wealth buses, paratransit vehicles, sport vehicles, pieces of equipment, then the two facilities, which are the transit garage slash office and the transfer station. We have an introduction to various transit asset management plan elements are discussed here. Various definitions, state of good repairs, standards policy. We have a table that shows Shoreline Metro's asset performance in 2020 in terms of the goal and the actual performance and then useful life benchmark. What we do here, we look at our various assets for vehicles, for example, turning to page seven, we have table two, where we break down the revenue vehicles and then the non-revenue vehicles. We have heavy duty and medium duty buses that are listed in the revenue vehicles and light duty or sport vehicles for non-revenue. So we've set the target for revenue vehicles to be about 35% of revenue vehicles would be allowed to pass beyond useful life. Non-revenue vehicles or sport vehicles would be 0%. I think that this percentage is going to improve over time. If you've looked at some of the recent awards that have been coming out, you have the congestion mitigation air quality program that awarded five buses this year. You've seen the Volkswagen award that came out within the last couple of weeks. This percentage is probably going to go down as we gradually put these plans together over the next few years. So I would expect to see that equipment-wise. Some of our equipment in table three is quite old. A bus wash, a forklift, a waste in the scrubber. It's still physically, according to everything we hear is still performing well, but age-wise it's quite a ways beyond its useful life. And we acknowledged that in the target for equipment. Facility-wise, as I stated, we have two facilities. The administration maintenance and storage facility, otherwise known as the bus garage. It's back to 1975. Useful life for facilities is typically 40 years. We're a bit behind beyond that now. It's also had some issues such as a roof-need replacement, things like that that are being addressed. The scale from one to five, it's considered two or adequate. But, and then the transportation, that was dedicated in 1992. So it's still below the 40 years. On a scale from one to five, it's considered a four in good condition. So we're allowing 50% of facilities past beyond useful life. Do bear in mind that some capital improvements like a roof replacement that's underway right now for the administration maintenance and storage facility is are going to hopefully improve the condition of that particular facility. And there may be other items that are programmed that will improve things as well. And we discussed decision support tools and management approach. In a table here, investment prioritization, plan review. These targets get reported in the National Transit Database that gets reported to the Federal Transit Administration. And we have our conclusion. And the contacts are Derek and myself. The Shuegan Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Technical and Policy Advisory Committees recommended this for approval on September 3rd. The MPO or Metropolitan Planning Organization approval occurred on September 11th. So this is the last approval before this gets sent off to Federal Transit Administration. So that's what I have in terms of the TAM plan. Like I said, this is probably about the third or fourth one we've done. And I would expect particularly for the vehicles to see considerable improvement as buses get replacement buses get programmed over time. Awesome, thanks, Jeff. Derek, do you have anything to add on that one? I do not, Jeff did a great job summarizing that. Is there a motion to accept the plan? Motion and second, any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. All right, 4.6. Yeah, thanks, Jeff. Revised 2021 parking utility budget. Derek? Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to go back to number 4.2 and just clarify the 21.4%. Revenue is actually down 18.3% from 2019. I did not change that number from the first quarter report. So thank you for catching that. Okay, 4.6. Bringing back the 2021 proposed parking utility budget, had an opportunity to meet with city administrator Wolf and his staff last week on preparations of the 2021 budget. What we decided was to go a little bit more conservative on the revenues that were forecasted for 2021 and then also try to more accurately depict the or forecast the assessments for that. So what you are going to see in the attached budget are the highlighted sections, which are the adjustments that were made. Now you're gonna see some for 2020 that were in there. Those are the forecast models for this year, but then also there were changes made to the 2021 requested revenues. And then you're gonna see also a significant jump in some areas for the parking assessment districts of note. And like you just to compare where 2021's assessments are forecasted and compare that with the actuals from 2019. So you can see in pad one, it's going to be in the $80,000 range for that assessment as you continue to move forward into the other assessment areas, riverfront is substantially lower than 2019. You look at riverfront, or sorry, pad four, which is didn't change. And then also south pier, which did not change. And those numbers are gonna be in line. Those didn't change because we don't have collected revenue in those districts. Only pad one and the parking admin have collected fees such as meters and or parking permits. The last note that I wanna make is that parking admin is going to be relying on nearly $42,000 from its fund equity to balance the parking admin part of the budget. The original proposal was about $10,000. So you can see the COVID pandemic has hit the pad admin area in the tune of about 30,000 extra dollars to make that area balance out. So I have presented this. I've worked with again, city administrator Wolf and his staff, and they are in agreement with this revised budget. So I ask staff is today recommending the acceptance of the revised parking budget and allowing that to be used by city administrator Wolf in his executive budget. All right. Any questions for Derek regarding the budget? Sure. Yep. Sure. For those listening, Ted Peleshek had asked if I would touch base on the upcoming parking study that we are going to be doing that's gonna be primarily focused on the assessments, the assessment districts and how parking utility expenses get paid. So Chad's correct. We did hire consultant. It's WGI, they are actually the former walker group and John who we worked with in the past is no longer with the group. So we have a new consultant and she seems very knowledgeable but we decided to go this route and fund an additional parking study to analyze the parking districts and how the parking districts are basically funded both from a revenue standpoint and an assessment standpoint. We've acknowledged over the last couple of years that the parking fund and the way that the assessments are administered may not be in the 21st century and we might need to look at better ways to fund the parking in Sheboygan. I would be the first to tell you that the rates and the fees associated with parking have not increased with inflation over the years. It wasn't about two years ago, we raised the meters from 30 cents to 50 cents. So if that puts any perspective on this, we definitely need to research on how we can maybe run a more sustainable, cost effective parking utility with perhaps not as much reliance on the assessments or expanding assessment boundaries and looking at ways that revenues can work more for businesses and things like that. So it is our goal to work together with the consultant, provide the information, do some comparables and bring back a parking study that we can present to you guys that mostly will be used as an internal document but something that you guys can review and allow us to further research ways that we can be more effective in administering parking services. Any other discussion? Is there a motion to approve the budget? So moved. Motion in second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. That's approved. 4.7 director's report. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I won't go through most all of this. I wanted to provide you guys with a pretty good insight as to what we've been doing since the last opportunity to update you back in June. The COVID-19 pandemic, again, I've talked about the revenue and the ridership part of it but what I really wanna say is it's given us a great opportunity to review a lot of what we've been doing, policies, procedures, how we administer fairs, how we collect revenues, things like that from Jack and Ann that are here today with us to everybody else in my organization including my bus drivers who've been very, very flexible. We've really rolled out some pretty incredible things to say that we're going tokenless on our Pair Transit services. And then after today to say that we've lowered our Pair Transit ADA fair and some of the other things. I mean, these are truly incredible things that not every transit system is doing right now. So, and also to roll out same day services and things in our Pair Transit, we've been doing a lot of good things that we've been merely talking about for years and finally put into action. So, I think I speak on behalf of my staff and I can say that we are truly excited on the opportunity the pandemic has given us. We're not as thrilled as far as what the pandemic has done but this is a great opportunity for us to kind of change course, do things a little differently and still be as productive if not more productive in the process. Few other items just to touch base on today. Again, I put some ridership stuff in here for you guys to show what we're doing and how we're now tracking it differently using some new technology that we've had. I've touched base on the parking assessments forecast for 2020, Jeff stole my thunder on the Volkswagen but again, I'm really excited about this opportunity. As I've stated in my email that we've, we rewarded more buses than we actually have local funding for. I've provided some additional information to city administrator Wolf and our finance director Marty Helverson. We'll continue to have conversations on whether or not it's appropriate to take advantage of more of those vehicles but we have an awesome opportunity that by 2022, early 2023, we could have 100% of our fixed route fleet within useful life, which is an incredible feat. We have a roof project underway right now. Jeff mentioned that a little bit before. We have two projects. So the first project is the roof itself. The second project is now to replace the decking which was approved last night at the city council meeting to say that we're declaring an emergency on it is an understatement. We actually have the roofers wearing harnesses on top of our roof. That's how dangerous it is. So we definitely appreciate the opportunities and the support locally and federally to make this project happen. But the project too, we're able to use CARES Act funding for. So this will really bring our facility up to way, way, way past par, if you will on this. So we're excited for that project. And then lastly, just wanna say thank you on behalf of everyone at Shorley Metro. You know, we wanna thank you guys for sticking with us, supporting us, sometimes virtually, sometimes via email over the last several months. Also a big shout out to our former chair and current city administrator Todd Wolf for his ongoing support and direction. We never had an opportunity to properly recognize Mr. Wolf before he abruptly departed for a better opportunity apparently. But we really appreciate your support, Mr. Wolf, over the last five years or so on the Transit Commission and leading our organization in a better direction. So really wanna appreciate the work that you've done. So thank you, sir. And then lastly, before we end today, city staff has also been tremendously supportive of the department. And again, I'd like to, for the record, thank my staff, everybody on the Transit Commission, everybody in the city of Sheboygan that has helped us out during the pandemic and a shout out to our customers who I'd like to think are the best in the industry. So again, thank you to everybody for your ongoing support and support of myself and entrusting me to run Shorley Metro. Thank you. Awesome. Thanks, Derek. Is there most to accept the veteran director's report? Motion to accept. Is there a second? There's been a motion second. Any further discussion or comments or questions for Derek? Seeing none, all those in favor of accepting the report, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Aye. Chair votes aye. Next meeting, November 17th, seeing that we've exhausted the agenda, is there a motion to adjourn? Motion to adjourn. All those in favor of adjourning, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Aye. Chair votes aye. We are adjourned at five, 44. Thank you, everybody. Thank you.