 like to call the December or December look at that the February 6th 2020 meeting of the Regional Transportation Commission of Santa Cruz County to order please call the roll Commissioner Bertrand Commissioner Brown Commissioner Johnson Commissioner Kaufman Gomez present Commissioner Caput Commission alternate shifrin Commissioner friend Commissioner Leopold Commissioner McPherson here Commission alternate Myers here Commissioner Gonzales here Commissioner Rotkin here and Commissioner Lowe here okay this is a little unusual but we're going to be going into closed session on an anticipated litigation do you have any idea of how my only that might take Mr. Preston we think it's going to be very short okay so we're going to recess to closed session and then we will come back probably and I would guess 10 or 15 minutes we will return to address the regular agenda item number three is oral communications if there is any item that someone would like to speak on that is not on the agenda we would be please come up or if you have to leave early and this is the only time you can address an item on the agenda please come forward morning commissioners Michael saint with a campaign for sustainable transportation I would just like to thank the RTC for inviting two of our reps to go to the transit quarter alternatives of analysis yesterday as a focus group at Simkins it was for me a very positive experience specifically I'd like to thank doc director Preston senior planner ginger die car and communication specialist Shannon mons for taking their time and making the effort to make it a really nice program also would like to think Steve Decker and his staff for their presentation they did a very nice job I think if we all keep an open mind and keep the lines of communication open we can really get a nice wonderful transportation complex here on the corridor as well as connections to other places in Santa Cruz so more of these programs would be welcome and also plan to attend next week's public meetings thank you thank you for your input thank you I have a presentation and it's a continuation of what I did last meeting regarding the the rail trail path alternative bike path alternative so the question is this is Mike on Mike is on but I will have a hard time remembering how to do this thing so this is last time there was an issue that went in response to what I brought up said there's a safety issue so I'll call this the safety edition why spend 11 million dollars for a 1.2 mile segment if we have alternatives how do we do this hello I'm sorry this is not working or is it okay now so why spend a 10.8 million dollars when a better path exists and if you remember this slide from before the green line is the rail corridor there's already an existing bike lane on West Beach and there are already existing pedestrian paths along the neighborhoods and around the slew and much and both are used relatively especially the walking ways and in the biking I use as well so I'm one who will say that people do not use will not use the rail corridor in that area anyway so next just to review this is the path of before we get there the rail corridor is rerouted on to San Andreas and Beach Drive because you cannot get through not just the slew it's not just going across the slew there's a whole bunch of wetlands right along the rail corridor that will not allow the the addition of a bike path rail path I mean a bike pedestrian path I want you to see that there I'm gonna refer to far west Beach Drive and near West Beach Drive far west is what I call you know farm country although still farm country but that's in segment 17 area that means that's the part that's in the detour part and then near West Beach area this is the part where is where I say you should put the bike path go ahead next so I just want you to see on the reroute the segment 17 far west Beach area the road itself is 26 feet paved and if you try and go any farther you have an irrigation ditch I didn't write it down because it gets confusing but you do have 62 feet to work with when you do eventually make a bike path but it's going to be more difficult than you think there's 26 feet paved today next here's in the near West Beach area Lee Road and West Beach I picked this on purpose so you could have a location but this works all the way down West Beach Drive until the curve it's 61 feet paved as it is okay you don't need to do anything other than to put up bike lanes that are wider and protected and if you need to go wider you got 92 93 feet between property boundaries in this area and pretty much all the way through until the bend and then you still have about 60 feet as well 65 feet next back to the rail trail is an orphan detour meaning you're already on West Beach Drive you'll reroute it and you'll go back on West Beach Drive next can you justify 11 million dollars next so I'm saying you should have protected bike trails paths which are safe and it would cost about 30 to 60 thousand dollars according to the federal government next this is something we should be doing I forgot to mention is we should be doing studies before we spend 11 million dollars Monterey Bay Monterey County did that and here's an example of their work next and there was also a thing of we spent money already it delivered this drawing next that's actually what you see from that location so the drawing and reality are very different next so in their better way to spend money next improve the trails you can do it for about half a million dollars I'm not an expert on that next again we're done I'm done so I just wanted to okay that's it I have a quick question if I could go ahead have you made this presentation or one like it to the Watsonville City Council no could I suggest you might want to do that because in some level we're kind of being driven by what they've asked us to do and this I didn't understand okay any other questions questions Mr. Caput I think if anyway I'd like somebody from the city to answer some of the questions that he's brought up here yeah I think it'd be appropriate to talk to the city first maybe we get something on the agenda with their council meeting then they could come to us if necessary and when you see someone I would like to have a name of a contact miss Kaufman chair we we did actually have Murray fonts and he has also responded to this in terms of what was favored by the city to go ahead and use the funds allocated and the RFP has already been committed but if there's any follow-up mr. fonts would you be able to follow-up in any way there please maybe you could just contact him and let okay I'm still seeing 11 million dollars let's okay we understand the situation okay thank you okay anybody else would like to address us in oral communications all right somebody coming we're glad to be in Watsonville well I want to welcome you to Watsonville thank you very much for coming and and I hope it was a nice smooth trip on a beautiful spring day but I hope you saw what was going on on the other side of the freeway it's not a beautiful day for everybody that has to look installed traffic at tail lights idling cars you know we are a disadvantaged community despite this beautiful building and and despite our beautiful weather every one of our metrics shows that we are disadvantaged disadvantaged educationally disadvantaged job wise disadvantaged in every metric including per capita income so we need some help we need your help you see the migrate the economic migration that goes on out of town every day on the freeway we need some help we need better land use planning we need more resources we need helpfulness and so I ask you today to give us a hand and you know after meeting today hang out in Watsonville go next door to slice pizza and have a gourmet a boutique type slice of Detroit or New York pizza go to some of our other fine establishments so there's some there's some major food providers national brands in town and lots of boutique stuff as well and so buy go to our car dealer and buy let's an electric transportation issues car dealers are transportation but they are they are they even got self-driving cars and electric cars now so I say welcome to Watsonville remember our motto on the wall opportunities through diversity unity through cooperation we ask for your cooperation and your help thank you thank you don't confuse Detroit and New York pizza would anybody else like to address us okay we'll go to the next item to look at additions or deletions to the consent and regular agendas chair McPherson I would like to move item 11 off a consent and place that under 25 25 or just past 25 we can call it 25-1 as a matter of order I also have some additional materials we have a handout for item 12 a handout for item 21 24 25 and a replacement page for item 26 okay so to be item we will move item number 11 to 25.1 okay any other additions or deletions to consent or regular items that's it mr. chair just a clarification mr. Preston item 11 that item 8 just confirming that we're moving the correct item I have item 11 as approved highway 1 41st so Cal auxiliary lanes PS&E are you oh I check good good you're correct item 8 it should clarify it's not item 11 item number 8 approve highway 1 State Park to freedom auxiliary lanes and bus and shoulder cooperative agreement with Caltrans that will be moved to 25.1 thank you commissioner friend I was reading the wrong item actually not enough okay all right we will move to any other additions or deletions we move to the consent agenda does anybody have any item that they would like to pull on the consent agenda yes mr. friend mr. chair I just need to recuse myself for items number nine and ten which deal at the rail corridor I have a financial conflict my principal residence is within 500 feet of the rail line okay very good move the consent agenda second as amended consent agenda been moved and seconded all those in favor I posed so ordered unanimously okay we will now move mr. chair just a point of clarification we didn't take public comment on the consent excuse me I'm sorry is there any comment on the consent agenda items if you were going to talk on item number 8 should wait till number 25 I'm not talking on number 8 hi Sally Arnold board chair for Friends of the Rail and Trail and I just want to say that we're really pleased about item number 12 that it looks like there are a number of new transit related initiatives and funding sources available I this quote really jumped out at me local rail services 1.1 billion dollars to locally sponsored project in northern and southern California that will improve local rail service and benefit high speed rail when the system is connected to those areas we hope that the RTC staff and the alternatives analysis consultant will review the governor's budget and identify specific programs and initiatives that could apply to future rail transit on our corridor seems like really good news so I just want to you know there's a lot of a lot of words in that consent agenda I just want to really pull your attention to item 12 and say I think there's some good news in there for our county thank you any other public comments on the consent agenda sorry that has been we've approved that we will now move on to the regular agenda commissioner reports any or reports from commissioners mr. Rodkin I just want to announce that this Saturday excuse me which is the 8th of February there will be the Democratic Women's Club of Santa Cruz County is doing a presentation on the rail corridor and presenting will be Ginger and Louise from our staff here along with friends of the rail trail sort of talking about that both the vision of what's possible on that rail trail but more specifically where we're at and what's going on in the planning and what opportunities the public have to weigh in on how that corridor is going to be used that's open to the public in a free event thank you chair yes mr. Leopold I also just want to say thank you to the friends of rail and trail the city of Santa Cruz and others who help put on the groundbreaking for the first portion of the rail trail in the city of Santa Cruz it was a great celebration I think there were over 200 people there former congressman Sam far was there taking a dozer victory lap about this idea of having a trail that links the entire Monterey Bay together and there were lots of people who understood the significance of us constructing the Monterey Bay Sanctuary scenic trail the rail trail and it was a great way to there was a great day to celebrate and I appreciated the remarks from our executive director Guy Preston and the other speakers let's have more of these celebrations very good yes I just want to thank the staff for working with us for the task force the workshop yesterday getting Watsonville to show up is a very difficult project alone just to get enough people we had an overwhelming response and I would say it was almost standing room only I think that we had probably the best attendance which is cool and a lot of people who are just starting to you know feel that they need to have some say in the matter from this community about what to do with this particular corridor so a lot of it was a patience with the education part of it as well as really getting a good sense of what this community is asking for and so I just want to thank the staff for helping us get that together and bringing the right team together for it thank you you know the commissioners have comments any reports okay we've go to item number 21 the director's report or report thank you chair McPherson and commissioners before I get started on my written report I have a couple of additional things that I wanted to mention I've been informing the commission of my staffing changes including our recent filling of a planner position Amanda Marino is here today and I just wanted her to welcome stand up and give you an opportunity to say hello and welcome Amanda to our team it's the last time we'll clap for you but got a lot of work to do here also I wanted to make note of the fact that the commission just approved a couple of items are actually three items regarding work on the rail line industrial rail is going to be performing some erosion control work they're also going to be doing some work on our bridges maintaining the walkways and putting up no trespassing signs and then previously you had authorized industrial rail to to bring the tracks up to class one standards between Capitola and the city of Santa Cruz that work is expected to be starting shortly as well so you will see it be seeing some activity on the rail line people are asking questions this is all work that you guys have authorized and I think everybody has been anticipating to start seeing some some preservation of the railway taking place additionally I wanted to thank the commissioners that provided us assistance with nominees for the E&D tack we have eight new members of the E&D tack that was also on our consent agenda and and I think that's because of the work that that you guys did in helping us to fill some very difficult position so thank you for that moving on the transit corridor alternatives analysis and some of the public members have spoken to this already but it is underway we had several workshops earlier this week the TCAA as we're calling it will evaluate public transit transit investment options that provide an integrated transit network for Santa Cruz County utilizing all are part of the length of the railway as a dedicated transit facility there will be two open houses for the transit corridor analysis to solicit input on milestone one which is goals screening criteria and performance measures and the initial list of alternatives locations and times of the open houses are Tuesday February 11th from 6 to 7 30 at the Live Oak range and then also on Wednesday February 12th from 6 to 7 30 at the Watsonville library community room. The state transportation improvement plan hearing was last week and I was in Sacramento to talk about the projects that you have authorized me to move forward with and program STIP funding and for this STIP cycle we are programming funding for the Highway 1 41st Avenue to Soquel Avenue auxiliary lane bus on shoulder and Chanticleer Avenue bike pedestrian bridge project. This is the type of project that the commission is really looking for. It was also very satisfying for me to be able to address the commission and let them know that I have received unanimous support from this commission with respect to the unified corridor study and which included this project. There's a lot of projects that are going to be brought forward for solutions to congested corridor funding and to be able to show support from the commission is very important in terms of ensuring that we get those grant opportunities in the future. Central Coast Coalition Day is having what it's called a legislative day and that's going to occur on February 19th and Chair McPherson and Vice Chair Gonzalez will join me in representing the RTC in Sacramento. We plan this trip on meeting with key department heads including the State Transportation Agency, Caltrans, the Air Resources Board, the California Transportation Commission and potentially the Governor's Office. I know it's the same day as the State of the State address so it may be a little bit challenging with the Governor's Office. We had an opportunity to meet with them last year but they've always been very receptive to the Central Coast Coalition which is Santa Cruz County, San Benito, Monterey, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara County RTPAs as well as AMBAG and we represent a very unique part of the State and have a lot of real common goals and power to numbers coming and speaking together carries a lot of weight with these agencies as well as our elected officials. That concludes my director's report. Any questions from the Commission? We'll move on to Item 22, the Caltrans report. Thank you. Good morning, commissioners. I'd like to give you a little bit of insight into our new director, Tokes Omishakan who came to California as the director in October. He is making his way around the state to introduce himself to folks and he has established five priorities that he has for the Department. These will sound familiar but I want to kind of emphasize some of the focus that he's providing to us. Safety. Every day, 10 people die on California's transportation system and two of these are pedestrians or bicyclists. He wants us to engage more in the engineering education enforcement factors to bring these down and work toward the goal of achieving zero deaths. Multimodalism. The director is asking us to continue to focus on many different modes, giving people options. We have people moving on managed lanes, transit, taking transit, bicycling, walking and we have a lot of freight that moves around the country. But we're going to be seeing, according to the Public Policy Institute of California, we're preparing for an increase of population in the state of 25% over the next 30 years and we're expecting to see an increase in freight movement by 75%. So it's a tall order efficiencies. Of course he wants to see the Department run in an efficient way and he's asking us to continue to look for ways that we can economize and be good stewards of the public's dollars. Innovation and creativity. Understanding that Caltrans is nearly a 100 year old department. We can't just rely on doing things the way we've always done things. However, knowing that people rely on a sturdy and reliable transportation system, he wants us to continue looking at how we can help not only keep people moving but to work with our partners, our local agency partners on addressing societal issues such as the homelessness crisis and helping folks find transformative ways to address these problems. The fifth priority is community and stakeholder engagement. The director would like to see Caltrans be more out in the community, talking with neighborhoods, community groups and local governments directly as opposed to having people come to us. So he'd like to see us, he'd like to see us out in the community more. I want to touch on one of the references to the housing crisis and the homelessness crisis. The governor also signed executive, I probably mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, the new executive order by the governor and Caltrans is looking at different properties that we own that are considered to be part of the right-of-way but may not be needed in the very near term for transportation facilities, but finding ways to make arrangements with local governments to lease those properties to help on temporary basis. And also coming up with a lease template that local agencies can use in other areas as well for low cost transitional housing type situations. So you'll hear more on that in the coming weeks and months. Your project information is up to date, although the one favorite project I know Commissioner Caput is interested in and others is the pedestrian crossing safety project. It says it begins construction in February but I think we're still on, we've moved that out to April, it just didn't get captured here. But it's coming. Any questions? Yes. Yes, thank you. I was pleased to hear that the new director is concerned about, more concerned about pedestrian dangers and pedestrian safety. And I hope that those words get translated into action by Caltrans in terms of the project in Davenport that would the county is working on and the commission is involved in that's going to increase traffic safety across Highway 1. I mean, that's, you know, the key decision, the money has been allocated, the plans are being drawn and the project could be carried out in a fairly expeditious way if Caltrans staff will translate those words into action. So I really hope that there will be that follow through. Thank you. I did have one follow up I neglected. There was the question about the zero emission vehicles used for the paratransit and that was brought forward by one of your constituents here and he was able to locate a prototype vehicle or a vehicle that is available for the, this was the 5310 program that Community Bridges is applying for. And it's not certain yet whether those, so the type of vehicles that are zero emission and the smaller scale the cutaways, we don't know yet if they're available under the federal programming requirements for Buy America and different things have to be certified for participation in the federal program. So there's progress, there's progress, but not sure how it will influence this particular application. But I appreciate you bringing that forward. I just want to say thank you for your attention to, you know, all of these different places in the district that you have to watch out for. And your office has been very responsive. And I just want to thank you publicly. You know, I would like to say the same thing on Highway nine where we had that that fatality a while back. And there are still some adjustment we've made an alternate route allowed for that. But there might be further adjustments on that Highway nine entrance coming into Fulton from the north. That'll be coming I think to us in the near future. So possible recommendations for how we might make that safer for bicyclists and pedestrians. Any other questions? Yes, Mr. With the under underpass for wildlife, is there going to be a presentation to the public to explain what that works about? You know, normally you're dealing with public safety, but this is a different kind of issue. Commission Bertrand, we did hold public meetings when we were in the environmental document phase. That's right. If there's opportunity to bring more information again forward at the next milestone or something, we certainly can do that. I don't know if whether public meeting is necessary, but maybe we can get more information out there or just information of public so they understand the intent other than preview to the start of the project. Yes. Yeah, I'm sure the land trust also has lots of information about it. Any other comments from? Okay, we will move to item number 23 presentation from the city of Watsonville as you recall in oral communications. Or I think it was the consent agenda. There was some discussion and we moved this just to get a specific presentation from Watsonville. This is going to be a Watsonville decision in general, but not the RTC, but we'd like to hear what you have to say about this issue. The commission, my name is Murray Fonts. I'm a principal engineer with the public works department of the city of Watsonville. I appreciate the opportunity to present to the commission transportation projects going on in the city of Watsonville. Commission staff did contact me prior to today and asked if I could discuss further the issue that came up during oral communications. And so I'll include that in my presentation. This image shows some murals that are on the front of the city building across the street. City of Watsonville was the first city in Santa Cruz County to adopt vision zero and these murals are traffic safety related. They're done by local muralists Peter Bartzak, Aubrey Osorio, Priscilla Martinez and Angelino Osorio. We hope you'll take a look at them on your way out today after you get your designer pizza. The city of Watsonville has numerous trails already existing and takes great pride in the development of that trail system. And it's been done in partnership with Watsonville wetlands watch earlier this week on Saturday, February 2nd. The city and wetlands watch hosted World Wetlands Day on the upper strew slew where 400 people gathered and planted over 1000 plants as well as 16 trees in celebration of wetlands day and in an effort to continue to restore this precious resource that the city has. Watsonville has three highways that pass through it. Highway one skirts the southwest boundary. Highway 152 goes through the heart of Watsonville and is named Main Street in portions of it and then Highway 129 goes along the southeastern boundary. The city has three projects that they're coordinating with Caltrans to develop at this time. Two of them are planning grants, one which was adopted by city council last late last year as a planning grant for a downtown complete streets plan. With this document the city will be able to identify and implement and obtain funding for safety projects and projects that will enhance the opportunities for all segments of the population, pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and transit riders. A second planning grant which will go to council for approval later this month is a complete streets to school grant. The city has partnered with Pajaro Valley Unified School District to look at 15 different campuses within the city and identify ways that pedestrian and bicycle improvements can be implemented to encourage students to walk and ride and to live a healthier lifestyle. And then as I mentioned the city of Watsonville is a Vision Zero city and later this month an action plan will be presented to council for adoption. Watsonville has some principal arterial roads that it's been investing funding in replacing and reconstructing airport boulevard, freedom boulevard, and Green Valley Road. And there are a number of projects that have either been completed or are underway with the assistance of funding secured through the Regional Transportation Commission. Completed in 2019 was a project on airport boulevard. It cost approximately $2.2 million. It's in the upper left corner. It extends from the highway to Hanger Way. It included road reconstruction, installing sidewalks where none existed, and enhancing pedestrian and bicycle facilities including flashing beacon installation. A second project that was completed late last year was on Green Valley Road. This project reconstructed the roadway and provided sidewalks where none existed. The total cost was $1.4 million. The city received just under $800,000 in STBG funds as well as over $300,000 in RSTPX funds. Upcoming projects include a small one on airport boulevard. If you look at the picture in the lower left hand corner you'll appreciate why we're paying attention to this. It's one of our best alligator roads, if I can use that term. We anticipate it would cost $700,000 to reconstruct and we'll be using SB1 and gas tax funds. Another project on Green Valley Road uses Measure D funds and will be built in the coming year. It will go from Green Valley Road to city limits and involve pedestrian, bike, and roadway improvements. And then additional work is scheduled for Green Valley Road extending from Alta Vista, excuse me, for Freedom Boulevard extending from Alta Vista to Green Valley Road. The city secured $1.55 million in STIP funds through the RTC and construction is anticipated in 2022. The city is also using STBG funds secured through the RTC to do a plan line study for the balance of Freedom Boulevard from Green Valley to the city limits in order to set up future projects for construction. The city has a number of pedestrian and bicycle projects that are taking place. We recently completed a Green Lanes project where for the first time in the city of Watsonville Green Lanes have been added to our bicycle facilities. These were done throughout the city in numerous corridors. The city is also moving ahead with the construction of a segment of the rail trail, segment 18. It will be constructed in two phases. The initial phase, a contract, has been awarded for construction. It is a segment 1600 feet long between Ohlone Parkway and Watsonville Slough trail trailhead. The balance of the project, phase two, would be done in two years after the city secures CPUC support on some rail crossings. The bike project received $325,000 in stiff funding. The rail trail project secured $600,000 in ATP cycle two funding with the assistance of Rachel Morcone of the RTC staff. I went to the CTC meeting late last year to request and receive that funding. The CTC supported the project as proposed as well as some additional projects which I'll report on shortly. The city is also using $600,000 in measure D funds and $600,000 in SDPX funds and a $200,000 land trust donation to assist with construction of that segment of the trail. The city has an ATP cycle three grant to do safety improvements on Lincoln Street near the high school. A $660,000 grant was secured and then the city is working with Caltrans to construct a bicycle pedestrian bridge across the highway on Harkinslew Road including $900,000 in SDPX funds. The upper left hand corner shows an image of the green lanes with Commissioner Gonzalez riding his bike on it as well as Gina Cole, the Santa Cruz County bike group leader. The lower left hand corner shows the portion of Lincoln Street that's proposed for safety improvements in front of Watsonville High School. The idea is to make it a bit safer for youth who are crossing and not have conflicts with cars and then the slew trail network map is shown on the right. As you can see Watsonville has an extensive network of trails that crisscross throughout the city along the slews. This slide shows a network of trails that are all part of the overall vision that the city has for South County trails. Oops, the red line is the rail trail segment. It begins at Walker Street and ends at Lee Road. The blue line picking up on the left side of the rail trail is Lee Road and it heads up to Harkinslew Road. The city currently has a California... Forgive me. The city has a grant through the state to do the design and environmental documentation work on this. We anticipate it being done at the end of this year and then moving toward construction and securing funding. That would link up with the land trust property owned in that area. The Watsonville slew farms were partnering with the land trust in a sense to create a way for people to get out there from Watsonville. And then the pedestrian bike bridge project that I mentioned earlier that would cross the highway one on Harkinslew Road is a third leg of these three projects that would create a loop. It would allow alternative access for high school students to Pajaro Valley High School. It would provide pedestrian and bicycles access to some of the more beautiful slew areas that have limited access at this time. We're excited for the work we're doing and these are some of the projects that we're partnering locally with the land trust with Watsonville Wetlands Watch and others. Addressing the questions about why we're moving ahead with rail trail segment 18. This was the slide that I received from the January RTC meeting. It shows and the yellow shows an existing trail that circulates through the neighborhoods along Watsonville along Watsonville slew. It also shows in green the proposed rail trail from the trailhead to Lee Road and then it shows Beach Street where there are existing bike lanes that parallel the two other trail segments. I recreated that drawing on a larger map so there you see the existing trail network with the yellow dashes and the proposed rail trail segment that was shown in the previous slide in green. The rail trail project for segment 18 goes to Walker Street so I've extended the green line farther to the right where it would link up with Walker Street. That is the end of segment 18. It also connects with existing bicycle and pedestrian facilities that access the heart of downtown Watsonville and by heart I'm referring to the metro center in the city plaza. We are anxious to see a pedestrian bike trail that gets closer to the downtown area. I extended the broken line on the right to take in what is existing sidewalk. If we were to connect to the trail network on Watsonville slew we would need to follow that circuitous route because it's the one with continuous existing sidewalk. And then on the left at the lower end there's some solid yellow line. Those areas don't have existing facilities that the city owns. There's either no sidewalk in that area or we don't have control over the existing pathways there. So a parallel route to the proposed segment 18 would follow what is shown in yellow using existing facilities and still requiring some acquisition. In a recent cost estimate to do this work would be 9.1 million dollars. The city's estimate coincides with what the RTC had projected. We used the recent bid information that we received on our phase one construction contract as well as work we're doing with consultants. So to parallel the rail trail it would be necessary to install more sidewalk because it doesn't exist now in certain areas. I didn't generate a cost of what it would take to build a sidewalk going down Beach Street to link up with the existing trail but it would be necessary to go from Walker Street at least to Elone Parkway or to construct sidewalk along Walker Street to connect the intersection of Walker and Beach to the existing sidewalk. The city saw the opportunity to develop a trail in a corridor that doesn't have existing driveways that doesn't have conflicts with existing uses in neighbors and pursued that in constructing the rail trail. This slide shows the city's 2012 Watsonville trails master plan. The city adopted this in 2012. Currently the city has approximately 10 miles excuse me 12 miles of trail but as you can see it's an ambitious plan with over 33 miles proposed. A lot of those trails as you can see in this image that shows a closer view of the area under consideration by the rail trail there are a lot of looped systems as we go up and down the sloughs as we go between neighborhoods. When the city adopted this in 2012 it was two years prior to the adoption of the of the rail trail master plan understanding that the rail trail would be proposed eventually the city incorporated into its plan. It was supported by the council members in 2012. We recognize that it's duplicative in some ways but as you see in our trail network that's okay with us. Loops are good things for trail walkers not everyone goes from point A to point B. Some people come out and they want to walk a mile loop they want to walk a three mile loop and so they want to come back. So we're comfortable with paralleling the existing system. This is a page out of the 2014 trails rail trail master plan and I show it to indicate that not only does it propose the rail trail in the rail corridor but it also recognizes using Beach Street as a bicycle and pedestrian facility as well that would extend out to Pajaro dunes in the beach. The master plan itself proposes parallel systems. So the city has chosen to implement these two plans by starting with the rail trail. In time we hope to have the resources to circle back and improve Beach Street to provide those facilities as well. We hope that in time those would link up with improvements on Beach Street on the county segment so that there would be improved bike and pet access in that area. Watsonville also has used funding secured through the RTC for bicycle and pedestrian safety programs and outreach. We've contracted with ecology action to provide bike and walk smart training in local elementary schools. We've contracted with bike Santa Cruz County to do the urna bike program at Pajaro Valley High School. It's unique if you ever get a chance to see it not only do they provide youth with a chance to urna bike middle school students but they also have high school students acting as mentors teaching them safety health and how to work on their bikes and if you look on the lower left and right photos you'll see a bike that bike Santa Cruz County has created that if you pedal it it powers it can either be a blender and you can make smoothies or you can do spin art. Watsonville has also secured funding for some traffic safety projects including an adaptive traffic control system on Green Valley Road that's in the process of being installed using funding from the Air Pollution Control District as well as HCIP funding to build a signal at airport and home road. This slide shows projects that the city has that would be linked with Santa Cruz County. I presented this slide last year I'm pleased to say that we begun to partner with the county on two projects. We've reached out to the Public Works Department and have been working on the Harkinsu Road bridge as well as the Lee Road Trail. And finally I'd like to invite you to Watsonville 17th annual egg drop competition hosted by the Watsonville Engineering Department. It'll be on February 19th. We'll be throwing eggs off the parking structure here next door into the alleyway. We invite not only the public but we've reached out to the library and the Environmental Science Workshop. We usually have 50 to 60 kids who have built devices some of them artistic in nature others more practical. We drop them off the building we see if they survive and we celebrate. So come on out it's an exceptional activity. Scrambled eggs for lunch. I've never told that yoke before. And as I like to do the final slide is a view of one of Watsonville's slew's many trails. We invite you to come and check them out. That concludes my presentation. Thank you very much for that comprehensive report. It's truly impressive the aggressive plan that Watsonville has undertaken and I congratulate the city of Watsonville for taking this aggressive stance and this is much more than we discussed last month as I said coming in but I also wanted to say before I get some comments from the commissioners or the public that I want to I want to thank the Land Trust for its cooperative efforts and involvement in this and then for the voters again who approved Measure D in November of 2016. Many of these projects wouldn't be happening without either of those participants so but congratulations to Watsonville and any comments from as Mr Bertrand not yet you'll have more okay off the bonus yes thank you so much for this presentation I'm very proud about the 2012 adoption of the 33 miles the 33 miles also is complementary to 850 acres of slew that has been reclaimed in our community we've had more slews in the reclamation than we've had in the 60s so this is very complementary for the loop adaptive loop system as well as the birding festivals and a lot of other eco-friendly tourism projects associated with this and adoption to getting to and from not only recreational use the parks and a lot of the different subdivisions going in to have access to this so thank you very much for that unfortunately the gentleman that was commenting about this has left so I'm hoping that we let him know that there's a link on the taping of this that he can come back to for some of the answers that he has there or some of the answers to the questions that he has so I again I'm very complementary to all of the work and efforts that the city has put forward to make sure that this is a very wholesome and healthy community thank you Mr. Gonzalez well thank you Mary thank you Mary for that a comprehensive information I mean hopefully give us one like that the city council so creating it would engender discussion with property owners about how their access may be limited that was one reason the city looked at the rail trail corridor as an opportunity to continue to allow businesses to function as they are and address the need for pedestrian facilities yeah in the other point the gentleman points out that it's only going to be a bike only trail but I don't think we're going to have a police officer monitoring the trail saying that you can't walk on this trail or bicyclists you know pushing pedestrians off the trail at the same time and I think it's going to be a more safe route overall for bicyclists and pedestrians to be on you're correct it's not a bike only trail it's a trail for bicyclists and pedestrians while there are existing trails that parallel it for bicycles and pedestrians it's being built 12 feet wide it will accommodate bikes and heads who work together traveling in both directions any other comments from commissioners uh comments from the public I'd like to address us on this oh come on if you hi sally Arnold friends of the rail and trail I just wanted to say that we're really excited about seeing the segment 18 section uh going to construction really soon and mr. fonts and I speaking earlier were really excited about some you know helping with some kind of groundbreaking party and celebration here in Watsonville because the community really needs to see that this is moving forward and it's going to be a positive thing for the community and it's going to link eventually it's going to link our whole county together which is going to be really important so thank you very much for your support of this project thank you just a quick question I was just noticing all the slides and stuff with the water and all the slews there I was wondering if there was any maybe this gentleman can answer any study for future sea level rise issues with these types of projects so close to the beach and it had any mitigation type things gone on with the planning portion of this thank you city is working with consultants on sea level rise for the public improvements that are proposed some specific to the projects including this trail thank you any other comments from the public okay we will move on to item number 24 amendment to measure d expenditure plan mr. Preston thank you chair mcphearsen and commissioners um today I bring forward an item to for your consideration regarding a potential amendment to the measure d expenditure plan on november 8th 2016 the voter of santa cruz county approved the measure d ordinance enacting a retail transaction and use tax dedicated to making transportation improvements this was a significant achievement for the county of santa cruz as it brought a local dedicated funding source to the county which enables us to leverage additional funding when the ordinance was drafted and passed state and federal funding sources available to improve maintain and operate the the uh state highway system had dramatically decreased and become increasingly increasingly unreliable I think you all remember the debates that the gas tax hadn't been raised in years and that our funds were drawing up staff reliefs a the staff uh released a draft measure d strategic implementation plan for public review on december 20th 2019 as the authority for implementing the the measure d sales tax measure we held a public hearing at our last RTC meeting and at that meeting there were several public comments related to the strategic implementation plan and the inclusion of two auxiliary lane projects as part of the plan the measure d expenditure plan provided for 25 of revenues to be allocated to highway one and highway 17 corridor projects to increase the safety and efficiency of these corridors in santa cruz county the highway corridor investment category of the expenditure plan states that the highway investments included in the expenditure plan improve traffic flow and safety on highway one especially for south county and mid county commuters small businesses bus riders and first responders by adding auxiliary lanes between three interchanges and they listed 41st avenue to soquel drive bay porter avenue to porter state park avenue and state park um drive to park avenue auxiliary lanes are identified as lower cost highway projects that can improve flow by separating entering or exiting traffic from the through lanes and can help improve the safety on this high traffic volume corridor the highway corridor investment category of the expenditure plan also states that programs that reduce fatal injury collisions on highways and reduced congestion are also funded by measure revenues the expenditure plan provides example programs that improve safety and reduce congestion including the safe on 17 task force and the freeway service patrol programs section 25 of the ordinance states that this ordinance may be amended to provide for the use of additional federal state and local revenues to account for unexpected revenues or to take into consideration unforeseen circumstances the ordinance and expenditure plan may only be amended if required by the following process set forth in section 180207 of the public utilities code one initiation of amendments by the authority reciting findings of necessity two provisions of notice and a copy of amendments provided to the board of supervisors and the city councils and Santa Cruz county and three the proposed amendments shall become effective 45 days after notice is given initiation and approval of amendments required a two-thirds vote of the total membership of the authority there is also a significant section nine regarding leveraging funds this was apparently very important to the drafters of this ordinance and encouraged the rtc and its local jurisdictions to leverage funds whenever possible when the ordinance was written and adopted by the voters there was limited and unreliable state and federal funding sources but in 2017 after measure d passed the california state legislature passed and the governor signed senate bill one also known as the road repair and accountability act of 2017 increasing transportation funding by an estimated 52.4 billion over the next 10 years and that will continue in perpetuity senate bill one includes an estimated 250 million per year for projects that will improve traffic flow and mobility along the state's most congested routes through their solutions to congested corridor program SB one also includes an estimated 200 million dollars per year as matching funds to local agencies with voter approved transportation tax measures through the local partnership program consistent with the public utilities code section 180207 these two SB one grant programs represent additional funds and are also an unforeseen circumstance that significantly expanded the leveraging capacity of measure d revenues especially for the type of improvements contemplated by the highway corridor investment category of the expenditure plan in 2018 the Monterey Salinas transit and Santa Cruz metro transit districts completed a project report and feasibility study bus on shoulders operations on state route one and the Monterey branch line identifying a hybrid auxiliary lane bus on shoulder project on state route one between moracy boulevard and freedom boulevard interchanges as a sustainable and cost-effective way to provide meaningful benefits to transit riders in the corridor there were also included in that feasibility other alternatives for bus on shoulder operations the alternative that is often referenced in public comment is an alternative to use only the shoulder and not the hybrid model the that that was looked at in the feasibility as an interim solution only it was not for the full length of the corridor because of several pinch points on the corridor and in discussions with the chp and caltrans they only liked and seemed willing to approve a hybrid model auxiliary lane bus on shoulder project when i first looked at the types of investments that this agency was considering and i saw bus on shoulders having worked for caltrans for many years i understood how challenging it would be to get their approval for anything that is not typical caltrans at first i wasn't sure that this program would be able to succeed when i came on board and i saw the work that was being done and the cooperation between the chp and caltrans for the hybrid bus on shoulder project i knew that this was something that could work on may 23rd 2019 the rtc completed a report for the state highway one auxiliary lane bus on shoulder concept of operations which represents a hybrid auxiliary lane bus on shoulder facility extending from morsey boulevard to freedom boulevard caltrans and the chp have both supported this project and were participated in the concept of operations report the guidelines for senate bill one solutions to congested corridor program and local partnership program competitive grants are extremely favorable towards projects that are multimodal and innovative the hybrid auxiliary lane bus on shoulder corridor project fits well within these guidelines and is likely to receive grant funding in the next two rounds of cycles i am very schedule driven and i'm very much looking at ways to help deliver the measure d program i've looked at the guidelines very closely and based on the guidelines that are provided it is very important to get started on these projects as early as possible they've only indicated that they will award funding for the construction phase the project so if we don't get started on environmental clearance there is no way that these projects will ever get funded by these competitive programs i anticipate that the first three sets of auxiliary lanes could potentially be funded in the most current round and those guidelines were released just last were actually were approved last week by the ctc meeting in sacramento and there was considerable interest in the bus on shoulders project as a multimodal project when i also when i first took this job i received a lot of a lot of encouragement to listen to a presentation that was made by jared walker jared walker is a leader in transportation and an advocate for transit jared pointed out a very key location in santa cruz county that we needed to consider if we were ever to solve our transportation problems he referred to that location as the aptos strangler it's really just a choke point or a bottleneck as someone might call it but it's the most significant problem for transportation in this corridor it is where our three parallel routes that you studied as part of the unified corridor study all come together it's where highway one the rail and soquel drive all meet it is a two-lane facility soquel drive a four-lane freeway highway one and a rail line that we're still studying as to what to do if we don't solve the problem at this location we will not solve the congestion problems one of the other things about this project from freedom drive to state park is that we have no shoulders and a significant portion of this area this is the location why where the buses would not be able to ride on the shoulders unless we did significant improvements it's also a significant opportunity especially considering that our multimodal investment plan and measure d wanted us to consider not only highway corridor improvements but improvements on the rail line improvements on our our bike facilities all of these problems can be addressed by extent by modifying the expenditure plan to include two additional additional sets of auxiliary lanes as we would have to replace the railroad bridges over the highway in order to accomplish this goal this is a significant opportunity to increase transit and bicycle access at the same time as improving highway traffic we couldn't be set up better to compete for these programs than we are but it requires us to work a little bit harder and move the ball forward staff recommends that the regional transportation commission adopt by resolution findings of necessity and initiate and propose the first amendment to the measure d expenditure plan to be effective 45 days after notice of the first amendment is provided as required by public utilities code section 8180207 and I am I I have to bring to your attention a couple of administrative mistakes with all the work we've done on this you would think that this wouldn't slip by but it did in exhibit a amendment one to the Santa Cruz county 2016 measure d transportation improvement expenditure plan there was a slight error in the listing of the highway one corridor auxiliary lanes to be added where it states rio del mar to state park and freedom to state park it should say freedom to rio del mar that mistake was carried forward into the resolution so on page 24-7 under item 2 resolution should be corrected to state freedom boulevard to rio del mar on page 24-8 it should be amended under item 4 but at the top of 24-8 also to freedom boulevard to rio del mar boulevard and then also on page 24-11 under highway one corridor at the bottom of the page again it should state rio del mar boulevard to state park drive and freedom boulevard to rio del mar boulevard it's also on page 24-9 I stated that earlier again rio del mar to state park freedom to rio del mar with that I hand it over to you to consider staff's recommendation we have any comments from commissioners uh mr johnson thank you chair so for our for people who aren't um exactly sure of our terminology uh you use the term hybrid bus on shoulder could you define that so the hybrid model um is since we are building auxiliary lanes between interchange is an auxiliary lanes or lanes that go from the exit uh from from the entrance point of one interchange to the exit point of the other there'd be an auxiliary lane or a lane that um would increase the merging distance um the hybrid model for bus on shoulders there would actually be a shoulder next to the auxiliary lane but the buses would ride in the auxiliary lanes in that location so having an additional shoulder would still provide a location for chp to pull people over without blocking that auxiliary lane without blocking the location where the buses are traveling so it provides a safer facility and that's why caltrans and chp supported the hybrid model it still is a bus on shoulder project because um at the intersection section locations that auxiliary lane drops which is why it's not a capacity increasing project and it would actually ride on the shoulders under the interchanges so that's the hybrid model and so and the um thoroughfare at the exit and uh entrance onto the freeway would go through um for the buses is that only for only for the buses and that's why you're increasing the capacity for transit but you're really not increasing the capacity for the the private vehicle thank you director so i have i just want to confirm something i think you said in your presentation that the funding for this extension of the auxiliary lanes past what was advertised when we were doing measure d um is not going to take money from the other we we like to go back with a comment we allotted categories certain percentages for each of five different buckets of things we were going to do um and your if i understand i want to make sure that your statement is that we're not taking money from any of the other buckets in order to add this additional auxiliary hybrid project with the bus on shoulder yes that's a hundred percent accurate the 25 percent highway corridor project um is four projects um only on the highway system it was limited to highway one and highway 17 um it did have the additional language in there for safety projects um for um you know increasing congestion and that's why um you know it could be um argue that you don't need to amend the plan but it's certainly clear since uh three were listed to add add the additional two the bus on shoulders is uh is a way to increase the transit times but if we explicitly stated it just makes it clearer and more transparent and that's i think what what the the public asks us to do at the last meeting and then secondly to confirm in your professional judgment you think there's more money available for this hybrid project than where we are trying you know simply make the extension south of park state park drive um for a bus on shoulder but without the auxiliary capacity for some for the automobiles well they're going to look real closely at our performance measures and they're going to look at our projects both individually and as a corridor and if you leave a section that has your choke point on there unimproved you're really just providing a very small facility with minor amounts of improvement you're really not going to see the level of improvement for a bus on shoulder project until you get past the choke point third point so make sure i understand the comments you're making if this project would have to fund the railroad bridge is being replaced that also offers an opportunity for improvement on the rail and trail that would pass over those railroad bridges as well as what it does on the highway one i actually think this is one of the biggest opportunities of this um of this project um yes because those two bridges represent choke points they need to be replaced in order to widen the highway the caltrans dir for the section of the roadway did say when when we do replace the bridges that they would be done in a way to accommodate bicycle and pedestrian traffic so we are considering doing that and and it makes this project more competitive because the programs and you know as as director low mentioned earlier there's been a new emphasis on multimodal projects being able to show that we could increase bicycle access is very important and will make this project more competitive it also makes it more permittable when we met with the coastal commission yesterday and we talked about this project they're very concerned with making sure that additional development in the area provides additional coastal access by providing that coastal asset access as part of this project i think we make the coastal commission happy and make it more likely that we'll be able to get a coastal development permit for this project it also takes a lot of funding pressure off of the rail trail project because if we go forward with this project as part of the highway project and we've applied for this competitive grant we could potentially get those projects funded and i wouldn't have to use the other funding from the act of transportation program to replace or provide access over the freeway so it it's really a win-win-win for for the commission when you take a full look at it in terms of the multimodal components and the ability to bring additional funding and actually deliver projects to the county and my final question for the dreamers among us and i'm one of them who imagined someday we'd actually reduce the use of the private automobile rather than you know accommodate growing demands to what extent is this project feasible for at some point and wouldn't be in the near future but at some point banning automobiles on this auxiliary lane and turning it into a true bus on lane you know bus throughway in effect that that's not competing with cars for moving ahead quickly down the highway is that any something that prohibits that from a possibility if in fact we find ourselves with less demand for the right now the people that want to have the highway widen would kill us if we did it but i'm talking about sometime in the future when there's a clear sense that there's a real alternative for people in public transit and they don't need to take their car i am not aware of anything that would prevent you from turning it into a transit only lane i think um it's a caltrans facility they would have ultimate say on it but i don't think there's anything in the streets and highway code that would prevent you from doing that in the future um i i do think that for now um we want to reduce the the cut through traffic through neighborhoods so providing a certain amount of congestion relief to vehicles but not providing through lanes would allow us to do that we cannot turn these lanes into through lanes that that part of it is has been made very clear to us so it can't go the other way but i i don't know definitively the answer to your question but i could look into it more i'd be interested in knowing more okay as you if you could research that and give us a better sense about it thank you i'm sorry i took so much that's fine that's uh we're gonna have a few more comments i think might be able to clarify compliment go miss oh let's oh i i might just be able to clarify i would look into it to to validate this but my sense is that the cost benefit would change drastically if you made it only for high occupancy if you had auxiliary lanes were only available to high occupancy you may not get the benefit out of it and so the cost um may not justify the improvement um so again i think it's something that you have to kind of test over time but i i would think that that could be a risk thank you scoffman go miss yes thank you this is a bit more procedural on the report that we have here and it says that um copy of the amendments provided to the board of supervisors in the city councils in santa Cruz county does this mean a presentation or does this mean that we're just showing them that this has been approved by this body one way or voted on by this body will this information be shared or presented to each of these councils my intent was to just send a letter um and attach the amendment that's how i've seen it done for other jurisdictions um if the city of uh watsonville is interested in a presentation please reach out to me and then in the the queue of things this is at the bottom of the queue so as funding comes available working these are the projects all the way down the queue so we're always going to be looking at adding to that as we need these projects going forward would that be about right or is this going to this isn't going to change or or alter what queue we've got in place for this adoption that this takes precedent over what we've already had the plans to do um and have been approved on already that's correct thank you sir leopold just a quick question something that you said just uh was very interesting to me about the auxiliary lanes and the question about transit whether they could be turned one way but not the other um and you said that these auxiliary lanes couldn't become throughput lanes could you just explain a little bit more about why that's the case when funding is used for a certain purpose on a project and director lo may be able to help me on that there's there's restrictions on being able to then change the use on it so um that's one reason why the other reason why is pure geometry um you'd have to reconstruct a significant portion of interchanges just to make it work um really anything that is done in the future for increasing capacity would require a separate environmental impact report or a sequel clearance of some sort um and so we simply cannot just change these lanes into to three lanes okay thank you to Bertrand ever things have been addressed by other commissioners last comment from uh Kaufman Gomez um i think capitol would be very interested in a presentation on these improvements anticipated and i look at this as an overall efficiency you know tying the whole system together in a better sense all the way down to freedom is an efficiency effort in my mind would you comment on that i mean to me a mix whole system work better it does and and i think when you when you look at more than one problem in the same solution you're able to accomplish so much more and i remember some of the questions that you've asked me in the past about some of the things we did up in sonoma and how we got them done i think our biggest successes is when we saw um points of common interest i mean where the spaces of one project impact spaces of another project and um the additional set of auxiliary lanes that are being contemplated um identifies such a point and so when we're able to address those all at once we avoid throwaway cost we can build everything all at one time and we can address multiple needs it's the most efficient way of delivering projects thank you comments from the public good morning commissioners my name is rick longinati and i have a couple slides i want to show um i just want to say that uh i think there's another win win uh option for you today um you're about to amend measure d expenditure plan and that gives you a wide open field to consider and i would recommend that thank you uh well first let me uh say once again uh for those of you who may not be remembering what was in the eir the the the proposal before you today has a resolution which is actually inaccurate because it suggests that congestive relief could be obtained by auxiliary lanes that's not true according to the eir so there's no factual basis on which to say that auxiliary lanes will reduce congestion there's no factual basis on on which to say that it will increase safety because the eir says you know the accident rates overall and by each segment uh would be the same as the accident rates in the in uh the no-build alternative so there's no basis to vote for this um other than let's see trying for here can you advance the side for me okay oh so so this slide shows that there's a 25 percent increase projected by caltrans if you build the auxiliary lanes and the ramp metering from Santa Cruz to Watsonville so what do we get for the for our 25 percent increase we get no improvement in congestion and or very slight is is their terminology and no improvement in safety next slide please so the only argument for it is to help the bus uh the upper photo you see is from the twin cities area where they have 300 miles of bus on shoulder lanes we don't they don't they didn't need to be build auxiliary lanes before they built their bus on shoulder it's a bus only lane on the shoulder of the road and as our metro report uh gave us the it said we could do the same here before the auxiliary lanes are built we could build an auxiliary lane or a bus only lane on the shoulder of the road now the win-win that i think that you ought to go for is fixing the choke point and aptus fixing the aptus strangler yes replace those bridges down there but put a bus only lane next to the through lanes of traffic if you put an auxiliary lane which is in combination with a bus only lane not only will you get a bus stuck in auxiliary lanes such as what i've showed in this bottom uh photo but you'll get 25 percent more greenhouse gases if we do it that way so this seems to me a simple question for you you know what kind of legacy do you want to leave do you want to increase greenhouse gases by 25 percent or can we get people in buses that really work look at that photo from the twin cities you know there are two buses using that auxiliary lane we can really get people i'll give you another minute okay go ahead um that's it it's it's really it's really simple but i i don't suppose that you're prepared right now to uh to to say oh well yeah let's do this amendment for measure d but do a bus only lane through that aptus strangler i don't suppose you're ready for that because you haven't even seen the bus on shoulder feasibility studies so i would take that as a first step is to invite staff to present that study to you thank you okay any other public comments uh michael saint once again campaign for sustainable transportation um i agree with of course with all rick has to say here um and i also agree with director preston on the aptus strangler and how it needs to be addressed i think i've talked about that several times in the past couple years i think we just disagree on what should be done basically we're really very close on our ideas and our goals of trying to relieve congestion and make things safer we also try to follow the e irs that all of you have gone over and cal trans has presented and they're just not the e irs like rick said is not agreeing with some of the things that director preston says and we're always talking about mode shift that seems to be one of the things we emphasize a lot but the ox lane project induces our citizens to continue using highway one and basically single occupancy vehicles so why would anybody shift their mode of transportation if you start to relieve congestion for a few years um and just like rick says it's just quite simple we want the same thing the only additional thing we think that would save you a lot of money and do the job of much better is have a dedicated bus on shoulder thank you any other comments mr herst or wait go ahead sir i want to craig chatterton district two so this is a pretty if i understand it correctly this is a pretty significant change from what we were talking about last year when the preferred scenario basically said we can't afford to widen those those bridges so i i think it's really impressive that we're coming to a maybe a different conclusion but at the same time from a public standpoint it seems like this is a very significant change in how people maybe react receive and and there's lots of controversy in whether we should do it or not and whether it'll it'll provide the benefits we need but it seems like we're talking about you know i didn't see the actual numbers here but many hundreds of thousands of dollars expended i don't irrespective of where the money's coming from billions to do that what hundreds of thousands yeah yeah right exactly and and yet the public is not really engaged in the same way they were in terms of passing measure d and measure d promised us reduced congestion and that's not really being realized even with these changes per se it just seems to me that although i believe that this may be part of the right answer it needs to be more supported and endorsed through some public process as opposed to just doing an amendment in a meeting and then off going proceeding and the public decides or or here is that oh we added a you know we widened the bridges we added a lane but you don't get to use it maybe that's the right answer maybe the public would support it but i think a lot of people we surprised based on everything that's happened since 2016 so this seems like the right direction but maybe the wrong process that makes any sense thank you good morning again lowell hearse from the west side the west side of watson though i'm in support of uh staff's recommendations and the great idea that uh auxiliary lanes can help they've already been proved uh in the north part of the county and so i have a dream as well i have a dream about transportation justice for the workforce of watsonville and allowing them to get to work and come home to work and be with their families as well and so no my support for the good actions that are taking place here thank you anyone else like to address us from the public we'll close the public segment of the uh mr shifrin yes thank you um and thanks for the staff report and for public testimony let me first say it may clear that what the commission is considering here is not approving this auxiliary lane project it's simply amending the um measure d to allow for the project to go forward through the process and while i don't particularly i sort of don't think amendment is needed i certainly will support the amendment but i think it's important to remember that the commission is also i think already approved doing an environmental impact report on this segment which will have to be done before it could ever receive funding which is a public process and so there will be opportunities to um for the public to weigh in on the desirability and feasibility of the project moreover one of the requirements of an eir is that alternatives be considered and i'm sure that one of the alternatives that will be considered to the auxiliary relaying plus bus on shoulder will be a bus on shoulder only option so i think the commission before it does make a final decision on um whether to move forward with this project or not will have information about the potential environmental effects of this project um as well as alternatives so i'm in support of the staff recommendation and will be prepared to make a motion to approve it if this is the appropriate time to do that back to you i think there's more a couple more comments mr burr trend did you have um i'm interested in the study also because the issue here of safety is something that seems to be very important to our department of transportation is you know helping helping this funding going so this will be answered by that you know something like that mr friend i appreciate commissioner shifrin's comments i just want to say that i think that should this move forward this has the potential to be one of the single largest benefits for mid and south county residents that has occurred from this commission in the last 30 to 40 years the commission in in large part has helped create the problem i think the commission has a unique responsibility and opportunity to help alleviate this problem through transportation improvements such as eliminating the choke point and aptos but also investing in the south county solution isn't only on the transportation side there's a housing jobs and balance that those of us that work as elected officials have a different responsibility to address but from a transportation solution uh it's clear that the voters when they approved in 2016 measure d wanted a multimodal option to alleviate traffic throughout the county not just one portion the county throughout the county they voted on a very specific percentage allocation that included highway widening at the time this commission discussed whether or not it would extend beyond state park and the discussion at that time wasn't a lack of interest for it it was a concern whether we had the funding to be able to do it and whether we could then say to the community that we could actually deliver on the projects because the most important thing was deliverance as time has gone on with the new executive director as shared also by the way today by cal trans it's been shown that these are projects that could theoretically be delivered i mean the commission had it had known that information at the time clearly would have just have added this in to the plan at the time because it was something that we discussed when we were negotiating this initial deal so it harmonizes not just with voter intent but commission intent um i don't think that this but moving forward i think that this should the commission be presented with this opportunity to actually extend this beyond i'm confident that uh you'll have near universal mid and south county support for saying bring back my quality of life bring back safety and bring back options so it's not an hour long commute for those 18 miles each way johnson thank you chair so um echoing what commissioner friend just said i i i think it's so important to kind of keep the fidelity that we had with the voters who voted on measure d you know the expectation was that there was going to be some improvements to the highway and you know one of the reasons why i think um our executive director got hired in in our in our the process was his experience to be nimble and to embrace opportunities uh and you know when opportunities come along such as sb1 when you can access funds that had not previously been anticipated that's an opportunity that we should say let's look into it let's let's let's let's find ways to to make something like this happen because you mentioned our uh mr presen mentioned that this is a win win win and um i can't really think of much better opportunities than that uh for us to move forward so um you know we have a motion here obviously it's something that i'm 100 behind so i'll make the motion to approve the staff recommendation second uh moved by shifrin second by friend there's a couple more comments that wanted to be mr gondolas yeah that's quick shooting there anyways yeah this isn't an amendment and it's an important amendment this is actually opening up what the city of watsonville really needs and the people that are commuting from watsonville or las lomas to santa cruz to to work uh so we're taking a big step and we're taking the right step in making the amendment and of course we still gotta look at all the alternatives but i think the hybrid uh auxiliary lanes is going to be functional and so with that i'll scoff mongolias uh yes thank you we we have a hundred thousand cars taking on highway one right now and we know 30 years are supposed to be a 25 percent population increase so the comment that i keep hearing is that it makes a slight modification that slight modification exponentially is a huge modification and so when we do the math on that we're making a huge improvement of what we're doing here as the primary source of where our workers are traveling and that all projects you're always looking for the next project to put on the back of the queue and this is just that opportunity for us just to look at the vision beyond just the window of the five-year or the 10-year plan about what our our systems are that we're going to be investing in so we will always continue to be looking forward with those projects as we complete them as we see if we can combine them as if we can leverage them so that's why in the formality sake that this is being asked for of this body representing all of the districts and all the districts that voted two-thirds for the D so i'm very much in support of looking at those projects that we can bring to fruition help offer the relief that we have when it takes an hour and 25 minutes to get the 17 miles from Watsonville it's just crazy that we aren't doing this and the bottleneck is a primary location of where the emphasis needs to take place in terms of the improvements we hear about the GHG and we will not be able to relieve a GHG with a continued bottleneck of working around the epicenter of where the problem is and this gives the ability to work through that process it gives us the opportunity for the studies and the whole process to take place in terms of the the public input that the professionals coming in here what consultants of course we're going to be hiring and the reports and reviews that we'll be continuing to do but it gives the ability of what D intention is about to help the county move and put another project on there that will alleviate alleviate this bottleneck and so i i also support this Shalya Paul thank you chair you know when we passed measure D we did make a commitment to the community and it meant that projects that weren't my highest priority but were someone else's highest priority could move forward and that multimodal everyone win scenario was successful for us to actually pass a measure when i look at this i also remember that when measure D was passed we didn't know about SB 1 right i mean that i didn't know i i've been to Sacramento there was no idea that 2017 was going to be the year that it passed it was introduced only a couple months later but it was it you know there's been lots of unsuccessful efforts um in 2016 and November 2016 we also hadn't done all the work on the bus on shoulder we didn't know if that was going to work so what we to me it's important to honor what we told people as part of that effort and i think i i find some agreement with mr. Lajnadi in terms of how successful we are going to be in reducing congestion that's true um because of induced travel other issues but i also think that we all we are committed here to this multimodal effort for the bus on shoulder that could be that could be very helpful we're gonna we we unanimously committed to transit on our rail corridor that's gonna help as well that's a dedicated lane for transit that's that's gonna help us achieve our goals of moving people quickly uh throughout our community so what i like about this is we're not spending uh many other money from the initiative on things that we didn't tell people we were gonna do i mean in the in the sense that we aren't pulling money for this effort from another one of the buckets we are in effect spreading thin the money that we had committed for the highway in the anticipation that it might bring in more money but it's a risk there's no guarantee we we're putting a lot of weight on the director's shoulders and he might be right he might not but we so we're taking the same pot of money and we're spreading it thinner on the highway portion there's a risk with that we should acknowledge that risk um will there be benefits if we if we can do the bus on shoulder effectively uh through um the the name that apt us doesn't want to be remembered by um you know um we will have made a difference and it as my colleague mentioned it has to do a full environmental review we have to look at the impacts we're going to make the changes i'm also i was i was glad to hear that we can't turn lanes into something they're not now in the future these auxiliary lanes are not the the the camel knows under the tent right um we can make them uh restricted to transit but we can't go the other way and make them to through lanes uh that's a disappointment i'm sure to some of my colleagues uh so when i look at that balance of all those pieces i'm going to support the this recommendation because i think it does move us forward and it gives us a chance to look at all the things and allow us to to complete the bus on shoulder uh project which will be first in the state to do and uh it uh if we can leverage these monies for not only the highway but for the rail corridor um to improve uh and a widely acknowledged choke point by all sides that's that's a win for the community okay we have a motion on the floor mr rotkin i've been a supporter of bus on shoulder for about 25 year in public for about 25 years now and excited at the prospect that we actually could be moving significantly towards it but i want to take a moment to appreciate the comments from the audience about that put the question of climate change front and center i think those are really critical questions this is a very complex issue that's in front of this and trying to balance how do you best deliver the projects that actually in the end may result in people getting around in ways that are less destructive to the planet and to at least to our our existence on the planet i think it's important so i want to appreciate those comments i assume that when we get to the discussion of the environmental work on this that there'll be another opportunity for a full public this that to me is critical that there be a full public discussion i think people do need to understand the somewhat limited um reality of congestion relief that we're facing here i don't i think there's some people that think you know if we do this they'll just be able to you know flow down highway one it's just not going to work that way i appreciate also the comment that it won't be that much worse with 25 more people on the highway are they in the community that are going to not so on the highway but to me trying to figure out how to balance the big picture questions about climate change with the actual practical decisions about how do you improve transportation options is it's complex and difficult and i want to appreciate that there are people that are pushing us to look at that question in terms of what has to be the central question there how we you know do something about the greenhouse gas effects of all the decisions that we're making here the cabinet everybody wants to say something okay mr cap okay i guess uh with uh with everything we're looking at here if we could just keep the traffic moving uh between here and Santa Cruz or Santa Cruz to watsonville um if in the bad areas if we if we have the traffic moving at 25 miles an hour as long as it's moving at 25 miles an hour i believe that we would cut the commute time in half when we're talking about the bad areas it's that stop go stop go between marmonte and state park drive that that just kills the commute time right there so if we can keep the traffic moving with either the auxiliary lanes or the bus only lane or whatever uh we we can cut that down about half i i believe i'm correct on that and the other would be of course metering lights metering lights do help i don't know exactly we're in the plan the metering lights would be but uh they've been proven to actually improve traffic also so i i don't know if you can make a little comment on that it's the accordion effect of stopping then going and then stopping and going that's causing all this backup so yeah the the accordion effect is real um it's usually caused by vehicles entering and exiting the highway and that's why auxiliary lanes will will help that problem um with respect to the metering lights um they're not included as part of this project um we considered to you know whether we could um it does require reconstruction of the intersection the interchanges and ramps in order to be able to do that you have to have enough storage capacity otherwise um you put a stop light on the on ramp and suddenly your surface streets are all backed up with the traffic extending into those locations so um it is something that is included in the programmatic eir for highway one it is something that we can consider as um additional improvements for the highway in the future but they're not um currently being included in the hybrid auxiliary lane bus and shoulder project and i i guess caltrans would be part of that also a metering lights later absolutely and the local local entities as well because of the you know the concerns over traffic backing up on their streets but and one last comment is uh it seems to me coming back from Santa Cruz at commute time we're talking about commute time by the way uh there's other times where the traffic is moving very well but uh coming back the worst spot is uh from morisee to soquel avenue uh that uh that's worse than the actually going from Watsonville to Santa Cruz and that's because of where the auxiliary lanes end right now right and so as you continue them on you you move the bottleneck or the choke point further to the south and that's why it's important to go far enough south to um not just move the bottleneck from one location to another but to eliminate it thank you mr. Bertrand yeah um that last comment is definitely true in terms of the soquel morsee um i just want to recognize the gentleman who spoke about our process and that um you know we weren't on scrutiny um measure d there was a lot of scrutiny and this is a change of measure d and so i appreciate you coming and talking about your sense of whether we're actually following the correct process um in support of our director i read the notes that he provided us and he not only provided um details according to the process that we have to follow as to why he felt this was a decent amendment so i support that but also in general i'd like to recognize that comments from the citizens that come here are a very important part of this process i believe that and i know personally that everyone on this commission appreciates the public involvement and the comments that are very thoughtful often and very helpful for us to make our decision so i'd like to recognize the individual that came and talked to us to us about our process yeah miss brown did you have comment yeah uh thank you i don't know how to turn it on can you hear me yeah okay thanks um so yeah i wanted to just make a quick comment uh acknowledging the members of the public who have been speaking up and continue to uh communicate with us via email and showing up here uh to talk about the um the realities of human induced climate change primarily due to greenhouse gas emissions i believe that um you know young people understand this they're telling us uh loudly and clearly that um they don't want business as usual and what we are doing here is really voting to continue to deliver the status quo it it is a frustration of mine um you know a lot of this i believe is about the perception of uh the potential for traffic relief that we are unlikely to get so i i agree with uh the members of the public who have spoken up about that and some of my colleagues have also acknowledged um i also uh understand that this is you know we're making a decision about the about sanikers county as you know regional transportation network uh i understand that uh the voters were clear about what they want wanted just what they would were willing to support with their tax dollars um and i do believe that uh we have another opportunity with uh environmental review to consider um with more information available to us uh the potential cost benefit and and what the um the you know the data tells us in that regard may may change uh the direction we take um so i did want to just say that it's you know i'm i'm reluctant to support uh moving forward in this way but i also understand that this is something that um the community has spoken about and my colleagues here have also spoken on and so i'll leave it there and but thank you all for um sharing your perspectives i just think it's curious why you know it's we're moving east uh west to east why do we say if we're always from freedom to state park and not state park to freedom and that's just is that something uh just this bugs me that that was one of the problems i had and why i had to make that correction here today um we're building them in one direction uh caltrans stations projects from south to north um and from uh west to east so they um it's a nomenclature or a style that has been adopted by the state department of transportation and kind of carried forward in how they printed on all of their documents and so as to not reverse things thank you chair mcpherson once again that's my item um again it's on measure d and uh the measure d ordinance um has a requirement that the santa cruz county regional transportation commission and his role as the measure d authority shall allocate administer and oversee the expenditure of all measure revenues which are not directly allocated by formula annually to other agencies through an implementation plan which it will update every five years following a public hearing approximately 53 percent of the expenditure plan is not directly allocated by formula to other entities the measure d strategic implementation plan or the draft of it was released for public review on friday december 20th a public hearing was held on january 16 additional public comments received on the sip by 12 o'clock uh on january 28th have been included as attachment three and comments received by noon um on february fifth um have been distributed as handouts staff has made minor revisions to the draft 2020 measure d strategic implementation plan based on the input and comments received from members of the public rtc commissioners rtc committees public interest groups and partner agencies revisions were also made to improve clarity syntax and formatting uh the day after i presented the strategic implementation plan i went to sacramento for yet another meeting um with uh state officials that were developing the guidelines for sp1 uh state and local uh state local partnership program and the solutions to congested corridor program at that meeting they changed uh their guidelines from requiring that environmental review be complete by the time the commission take action to uh to state that uh environmental clearance would need to be obtained within six months of uh that action that uh put a big smile on my face because it made another one of our projects eligible this round for funding and that was the the state park to uh bay porter project um we thought we would not be able to apply for that uh for that project in uh this round of funding and it now made it eligible at some us as if somebody was speaking to us and telling us to hurry up and get this thing done so uh we made that revision to the the strategic implementation plan and that was posted on our website uh one late comment came in from uh the city manager for the city of santa cruz uh assistant public works director christ schneider asked that um some language be changed or modified or considered to be changed for our project delivery management process i agreed to make those changes it's provided as a handout today it was done in the spirit of partnership the city of santa cruz has been a wonderful partner in the development of projects on the santa cruz branch rail line for the coastal rail rail trail and mr schneider and i agreed that um it was in our mutual benefit to provide some minor revisions to ensure that we had a strong working relationship built on partnership so those changes were also made so um and with that stated and those changes noted staff recommends that the regional transportation commission adopt by resolution the 2020 measure d strategic implementation plan and to direct staff to seek opportunities to leverage measure d funds for state and federal funds to expedite deliverables for measure d regional investments thank you uh comments from the commissioner what's the comments from the public i'll second and move by mr rottkin second by kofman gomez i just i just wanted to make one remark uh the more and more that i look at the strategic plan the better i feel about what the future looks like for these projects and as i go out uh i've been spending a lot of time talking to to members of the community talking about transportation and the strategic plan does prove incredibly useful in saying how we're going to accomplish what we set out to and i appreciate the work that goes into it and these changes make a lot of sense to me and i support the effort mr shifrin not to contradict my colleague i also support the staff recommendation but i think we really have to look at the strategic plan for what it is which is a document that's going to keep changing because it's really a function it's going to be driven by the outside grants that we're able to get and it's this tells us where we are at a point in time but as we've seen with some projects so far the ability to get outside grants so that we're just leveraging the measure money is going to be critical in really carrying out the projects in all the different categories that are in we're in the measure so um i i think it's important that we do it we sort of have to do it i think it is helpful as commissioner leopold says in terms of explaining to the public what's um what's anticipated but really just keeping in mind that this is this is a document that's going to be changing i would guess on an annual basis as we learn about grant opportunities and are able to obtain them so again i support the recommendation because this is where we are now i agree measure d we a lot of us worked on it for years to just get the right language on the ballot is a multimodal program it's very inclusive which everybody obviously wanted or there's certainly two-thirds more than two thirds of the voters but it does complicate some things and you know your your plan and how things might move from one year to the next particularly in the state but i i really just it is complicated but it's inclusive and that's why it passed by such a good margin i think um any other comments okay we have a motion all those on item number 25 all those in favor hi pose so ordered unanimously now we will go back to item number eight which is now 25.1 highway one state park freedom auxiliary uh bus on shoulder cooperative agreement with caltrans and i'm very appreciative it says state park to freedom so you can move ahead i move to staff recommendation second yes any comments uh public comment um yeah i just want to mention that in cooperating with caltrans we should get clear from them about their policy on bus on shoulder you may recall that mark stone carried legislation that allowed monterey county and santa cruz county to develop bus on shoulder monterey county's already funded their bus on shoulder it does not include auxiliary lanes it's a bus on the shoulder and it's in its only lane so the notion that caltrans would not approve a bus only lane on the shoulder of the road is something that i think you need clarified thank you thank you sir any other comments from the public uh here's a mo oh motion on the floor all those in favor i'm opposed so ordered uh item number 26 the 2045 santa cruz county regional transportation plan goals policies and targets ryanna goodman good morning commissioners ryanna goodman of your staff today i'm requesting your approval of the draft goals policies and targets for the 2045 regional transportation plan they're in your packet as attachment one page 26-5 regional transportation plan identifies transportation needs for santa cruz county over the next 20 plus years and is required for certain types of funding an rtp is completed every four years there was an rtp completed in 2014 2018 and we are now working on the 2022 update referred to as the 2045 rtp for the horizon year of 2045 the goals policies and targets and attachment one form the foundation of the policy element of the rtp there was a significant update in the 2014 rtp policy element to incorporate the triple bottom line of equity environment and economy as the basis for the goals policies and targets the santa cruz county rtp is incorporated into the federally mandated metropolitan transportation plan and the state mandated sustainable community strategies otherwise known as the mtp scs that is prepared by the association of monterey bay area governments draft goals policies and targets were revised from the 2040 rtp goals to shift their function from forecasting based on the constrained project list to monitoring trends in real time in order to measure the progress towards the rtp goals performance measures were also revised based on federal requirements from the fast act for caltrans and metropolitan transportation agencies to report on the performance of their transportation systems although rtc is not required to report the performance of these measures the 2045 rtp performance measures and targets were revised to be consistent with this legislation throughout our recent process several policies were also added to reflect increased focus on at the state level on goods movement transportation system security transportation system resiliency in the face of climate change these are policies 1.7 2.5 and 3.6 of attachment one after feedback from the rtc visory committees and the public the project team also modified several targets including modifying safety targets to align with the vision zero and increasing separated bicycle facility and active commute targets thank you okay thank you um any questions from commission questions from the public okay and that's i just want to point out that i'm coming oh excuse me uh go ahead you can come up sir just that these are due um for uh to the rtc staff by april first so go ahead sir craig chatterton uh district two so again i may not fully understand things but this was scary to me the original if i'm correct and on my understanding the original document had things like increasing the percentage of people that could travel the key destinations within 20 minutes 30 minutes or whatever metrics that the public could actually look at and say is rtc are the supervisors doing good things for us now it simply says that they're going to monitor these trends there's no specific targets now maybe those are somewhere else but as a as a resident and a voter this scares me because you're basically it's almost as like the rtc is saying we don't know what's going to happen so we can't commit to anything so we're taking these out of the out of our metrics so how does a voter measure you guys in your success you're going to spend hundreds of millions billions of dollars on this are we going to get anything for that if all we're doing is monitoring the changes i don't see how we can hold you accountable for that so that unless i'm missing something that kind of scares me uh that they keep that phrase shifting from forecasting to monitoring so where's the accountability maybe it's somewhere else but i don't see it um and another comment was that uh oh yeah it seems like the rc is kind of admitting that they really don't know what's going to happen and they can't measure it so they're going to not try it and not even try and that that's scary to me i wanted to make another comment if i could just quickly uh with respect to mr. Bertram's comment about the process that i raised earlier the process i'm sure follows the book it's very explicit you're following all the regulations but as a layman it's very hard to figure out what's going on and i may turn to something like santa cruz local they can summarize one of these meetings in 10 minutes and tell me what i need to know and what's important and what's not and i can spend three hours in one of these meetings and read all the 150 page documents ahead of time and not know what's going on so it's it's it's kind of like from a layman standpoint what are the things that i should be paying attention to as a citizen how do i figure out you know when to come to these meetings and what's important to me it's just really hard to figure out so thank you uh michael st the campaign for sustainable transportation i just wanted to make a couple comments about some of the wording uh agenda at a 26 page two under policy element they talk about a triple bottom line concept of sustainability i would just like to point out that you miss the most important part of the definition of sustainability in that summary what needs to be added to that is without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs that's sustainability and that's not included in that comment an example of that would be the breakdown of the oxloons which is forecast by caltrans eir in 2035 that's future generation one other one i was wondering if i can get a clarification maybe from ginger on this we're talking about vehicle miles traveled and according to the 2040 report which you know is five years earlier it says that the vmt has decreased this is all compared to the 2005 vehicle miles traveled they're starting at that point it has decreased by seven percent compared to 2005 by the year 2015 so we've already reduced seven percent if that trend continues there will be a 15 percent reduction by 2020 which is this year i'm not sure that has happened that was the forecast from the 2040 vmt or the rtp so if you look at the present one the new one is for 2045 and is only requiring a four percent decrease by 2030 and a 10 percent by 2045 so i think you're already there i mean you're going to forecast four am i correct on this or am i missing something it's 14 percent by 2045 now and it's forecasted to be 15 percent by 2020 so basically for the next 15 years or 25 years we're not going to do anything with vehicle miles traveled actually going to lose a percent i may be wrong in that interpretation but i think that's how i understand it also the tier one project will add 29 percent vehicle miles traveled if we proceed with that project so my estimate would be are we going to dump this project just so we don't increase vmt my suggestion that it'd be a good idea and that's basically all i have to do and again if you want mode shift you don't widen highways to induce more demand thank you thank you any other comments from the public bring it back to the point yes mr shifrin yes i would want to clarify with staff the public comment regarding forecasting versus monitoring the concerns seem to be with holding the whether the the commission would be accountable for achieving its goals or these trying to achieve its goals and i my understanding about what that change is about is it's changing the method of determining whether the goals are being met or not and it said it says shift from forecasting to monitoring in real time in order to measure the progress towards meeting the rtp goals so it's not like we're not going to have goals and we're not going to be measuring whether we meet them it's just it and it seems to me the change makes sense because we will be getting information along the way which it means monitoring in real time so we'll know how well we're doing in terms of meeting our goals rather than just sort of generalizing trying to figure out what the future is going to hold so if in fact we learn that we're not meeting we're not moving in the direction of meeting our goals there's a chance of redirecting that this the direct what the commission is doing rather than just forecasting and hoping for the best so am i understanding the intention here correctly because it was seeing it's not from my perspective we're not backing away from meeting our goals what we're doing is trying to understand on a more regular basis on it along the way how well we're doing in meeting our goals so we can redirect if necessary you're correct commissioner shifrin the forecasting methodology would be to take a look at the future and try to project what you think might be happening in the future so that's the forecasting model and then the monitoring a real time model is actually in a way more accountability to the goals because we're looking at how things are currently and how they compare against where we want to be so it's more precise methodology and it also is current instead of future okay thank you that's what i that's how i understood it yeah commissioner shifrin made my first point but the other point i want to respond to is on the one of the reasons that the drop in vehicle miles traveled is as large as it is in the period that you're looking at because we went through a five-year recession in which people stopped going to work not by choice i assume and so that those numbers are a little inflated over what actually was going on in terms of the long-term trends not that we won't have another recession in the future that would give us another one of these unfortunate positive benefits from a nightmare situation where people can't find work commissioner rott can if i may point of clarification on that target one dot b dot one that the member of the public was speaking of as as now become reduced per capita vehicle miles traveled so that is the reason for the difference in the numbers before it was total vehicle miles traveled thanks comments move approval to staff recommendation second moved by rottkin second by leopold all those in favor hi passes unanimously okay we will that concludes our agenda for today the next meeting of the regional transportation commission will be thursday at nine a.m a thursday march fifth at nine a.m and the board of supervisors chamber and santa cruz 701 ocean street fifth floor this meeting is adjourned