 Good morning, everyone. County Supervisor Bruce McPherson, Chair of the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission. I'm going to be calling to order the Thursday, August 6th meeting at 9 a.m. 2020 of the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission meeting. Clerk, please call the roll. Commissioner Rotkin. Here. Commissioner Gonzales. Commissioner Bator. Here. Commissioner McPherson. Here. Commissioner Leopold. Here. Commissioner Alternate Mulher. Here. Commissioner Alternate Schifrin. Here. Commissioner Caput. Here. Commissioner Kauffman-Gomez. Present. Commissioner Whitney-Johnson. Here. Commissioner Brown. Here. Commissioner Bertrand. Here we are. Thank you so much for ever listening. And, your lemons. There, St unions also here. All right, thank you. Lowell his present. Lowell, are you there for really old Gonzales? No, I don't believe so. I don't think they have an alternate for the Metro. great trainers present excuse me okay and I am an alternate for Metro very good one of our members is missing I'm not sure who that is it's um so Commissioner Lynn is representing Commissioner Gonzalez yeah okay so we do have a quorum um we will go to item number so item number two for oral communications uh is there anyone and member of the public that'd like to address the commission on any item that is not on the agenda uh you would have three minutes to state your case is there anybody that wants to uh make a presentation yes this is Kerry Pico okay it may carry Pico okay go ahead okay I'm trying to get your item on the screen give me a minute I'm having no no no no no no no this is not about the item this is just about me okay I have not properly introduced myself in the past and I just want to end I would like to explain my background is as a research and development scientist in that the the board doesn't seem to take my input too seriously and so I'd like to say that my industrial research began at Bell Research Laboratories or Bell Telephone Laboratories I should say of which the group that I worked with during that summer was developing material that shortly thereafter led to a Nobel Prize so the quantum hall effect uh horse stormer and my point is I have associated myself or learned from groups that are of high quality thereafter I worked at IBM research labs of which I developed laser chemical vapor deposition of something where I was not expected to have any success on that as an intern and yet I did stuff like that I worked at UC Berkeley and MIT of where I have developed processes that were incorporated into the semiconductor industry from a university side I worked at Texas Instruments bringing that technology in and I developed laser drilling in which your cell phones and digital cameras are able to work otherwise you would have small yo excuse the telephone ring I have no idea if you guys are calling but the point is a strong research and development background and when I find problems that's what I bring up to light and that's what I do and that's the end of my input thank you thank you is there anybody else who would like to uh join us on oral communications for discuss any item that's not on the agenda mr people yeah hi this is Brian Peoples as you pull up my chart I just wanted to um Brian from trail now you know I'll I'm no carry and I'll tell you he is one of the most technical people I deal with a lot of technical experts for the company I work for and so I do want this recognize uh carry as a subject matter expert especially when we talk about um the subjects that are addressed by this agency um are you able to pull my slide up I think it's I think it's on is it shelling I can't I know there yeah uh well do you want me to share are you gonna be all yeah okay that's it thank you um so I want to take a minute just to um express our concerns with the RTC's train and trail plan um currently um the RTC is doing a mass transit study for a million dollars for a commuter train that would travel through the Santa Cruz Coast corridor at 45 miles an hour the 45 mile an hour speed is needed in order to justify the the duration of the train traveling from Watsonville to Santa Cruz um the federal guidelines requires that trails be 25 feet separation from the train um this is actually becoming more stringent because there has been so many deaths of people in at the smart train there's I think over maybe 12 deaths since it began so that's like six a year um so it's very dangerous for a speeding train to travel through our narrow corridor where it's 27 feet wide near 4th 41st Avenue now the concerns we can't is that um because is that you're currently doing a trail plan um and spending millions of dollars for that design and build at a separation of eight and a half feet um so essentially you're building a trail for a tourist train a train that moves not faster than five months and um so we're asking you to be more truthful I guess um on your approach um for how you're spending our money um our tax dollars we're a big supporter of measure D so please think about what you're doing in the sense of you're building it you're designing a trail and building it at eight and a half feet but federal guidelines requires 25 feet for a community thank you thank you there's anyone else who would like to join us uh discuss if it's not on the agenda or would not be here at the time uh to discuss an issue that is on the agenda uh anybody else that would like to address us I don't see any more hands up okay thank you are there any additions or deletions to the minutes I think we have one on team one or something is that correct there's a um a couple handouts for items six and 22 and there's a replacement page for item 13 okay they're the only changes I have uh chairman all right um those are noted we will move on to the consent agenda these are items numbers uh four through uh 20 we will vote on vote all in one unless there is a member of the commission that would like to pull one of those uh is there anybody that would like to pull one of the consent items from the agenda Mr. Chair I have a comment yes go ahead Mr. Bertrand I just have a question about item number seven okay go ahead okay my question is um I'm glad this report was brought forth to the board so that it could be disclosed to the public but my question is was this particular report reviewed by our legal staff uh I'll answer that question uh commissioner Bertrand yes it was reviewed by our legal staff thank you very much okay any other uh commissioners would have a would want to pull an item from the consent agenda no I just have a comment on on an item I just want to appreciate excuse me I just want to appreciate the work of the staff on a number of these to be moving forward on projects that we promised in measure d the highway one work the storm damage work and and and looking at the uh revised bike Santa Cruz County work which has been really helpful in my district I just appreciate all the staff work that went into that thank you and I I moved the consent agenda if we were if we were ready for that and this is Kerry Pico I may have misunderstood that item seven was something to be spoken about separately I do have a presentation on that um is now the right time or the wrong time well it's the right time but is there a commissioner that would like to pull it from the agenda I'll pull it for a three-minute comment from Mr. P uh from the gentleman we will pull that um just have a three-minute comment we'll get to it um okay so since we'll address it we'll go have it be 18a separate uh that'll we'll just get to it right away item number seven will become uh 18a well second the motion okay seconded by uh Bertrand to do that thank you my misunderstanding oh you're right that's fine anyone else would like to comment on something from the consent agenda okay uh I'd entertain a motion right maybe Mr. Leopold has made a motion to approve I had my hand up can we send the Sally Arnold had her hand up oh excuse me okay hi um I'm Sally Arnold with uh Friends of the Rail and Trail um thanks I know that it's really confusing when we aren't all in the same room and we can't see each other so we're all just kind of doing the best we can to figure out what's happening here um I just wanted to speak on the items um 9 through 11 about repairing the storm damage um and I just want to say that we are so pleased to see that there's plans in place to repair that storm damage to the branch line and we're really hopeful that by having a repair crew on call um we can catch any future storm damage early and get it fixed before it becomes a really big wash out and why I just know that this has been a long time coming and we really appreciate the staff work uh to to get that done thank you okay thank you miss Arnold um we also have Barry Scott go ahead Mr. Scott you're muted probably very yeah uh I'm unmuting um am I am I on we hear we're here thanks so much I'm so sorry I jumped on kind of late uh uh Barry Scott I live in Aptos and with Coastal Rail Santa Cruz and also work with Fort uh like Sally I want to thank um thank the commission for all of the work being done on the uh on the on the rail corridor for drainage repairs to the rail line this is such a an important investment I know that it was a real challenge since over over the two years since the storm uh damage occurred uh and it's just so gratifying to see the tremendous work that's being done and and to know that the RTC is committed to getting that work done and to take taking care of uh this important uh asset that the county owns um the other thing I'm just super happy to see is is in regards to the um Highway 1 corridor projects specifically around Aptos where we see the bus on shoulder project combined with uh construction planning and construction for two new rail bridges that would uh include uh our our segment 12 uh bike and pedestrian infrastructure all in one package uh and and it's really amazing and impressive to see the way that the RTC has been working with Caltrans and county public works to combine uh what three different types of of transportation modes uh at a at a place that is such a transportation not what Jarrett Walker referred to as the the Aptos Strangler so I'm just uh very grateful and I just wanted to express my thanks thank you thank you do anyone else from the public that would like to comment on the consent agenda I do not see any other hands but could you please clarify what um item number number seven will be number seven will be 18 a we'll get to it right after the consent agenda okay 18 is still on the consent agenda so do you want to put it on the regular agenda which would be 21 a no I wanted to make an 18 a because I oh well maybe um yeah I just I think it's it's okay to make an 18 a it's a separate item that we're going to discuss uh I don't think her advice Bruce just make it 18 a please uh on the agenda so we can get right at it and then get to the regular agenda I think that's that's the best way to go we'll make it a number seven will be a separate item 18 a for Mr. Pico to make a comment three minute comment okay we have a motion by um uh um Richard Leopold with there was a second by version second uh to adopt all the consent agenda putting number seven is an item 18 a separately although some I don't think we have to call it roll on this all those in favor it's referring to the law Mr. Carey you do actually have to call the roll we do actually okay yeah this was the last meeting I was chairing yesterday we didn't okay all right call the roll please Commissioner Rockin I Mission Alternate Lynn I Missioner Bottorf I Missioner McPherson I Missioner Leopold I Mission Alternate Malheur I Mission Alternate Schifrin I Missioner Capit I Missioner Kaufman Gomez yes Commissioner Johnson I Missioner Brown I Missioner Bertrand I that passes unanimously that passes unanimously just now we're moving right along uh to item 18 a which was item number seven on the uh consent agenda Mr. Pico you had a comment that you would like to make Mr. Pico if you would please speak uh we want to move right along please it has to be unmuted be unmuted Mr. Pico I'm sorry I thought I was put off for a little bit so I went downstairs I apologize would you bring up my presentation yesenia yeah I'm trying to here navigate all my screens give me just a second here we have three up to three minutes for this absolutely it's four slides I'm go to the first one no that's the wrong one you're supposed to go to the the one I sent you that was the replacement one um I didn't do that I sent it to you yesterday um I can speak through this but can you look on your your computer to see that I sent you yesterday morning uh it's the same title but it says replacement at the end while while we're waiting for her presentation I will speak through it which is rather than talk about the limitations on the on uh on what I talked about who owns which which properties and all this I'm going to try and educate the RTC on what is in in the titles themselves meaning in the deeds that were there in particular um the let me let me pull up mine give me one second because I wasn't prepared for for this now through um that um here we go so what defines a railroad easement in a deed and in a court ruling California these are all California ruling the general rule is that construing contracts in deeds for railroad rights of way such deeds are construed as giving a mere right of way although the terms of the deeds would be otherwise apt to convey a fee so it starts out that when you see a deed for a railroad right of way that tends to be an easement and not a fee title so there are situations that determine a parcel to be only a railroad easement there are three situations one is eminent if eminent domain was used for railroad meaning that this comes from a great northern versus the united states court hearing if the term right of way is used to describe it and that's in california civil code section 801 and if there's an implied use in the deed for railroad and that can be done seen by the city of los angeles versus specific electric railway that's where i'm getting that now i'd also like to point out that the term easement was rarely used in prior to the 1900s because right of way had a different meaning and was meant as an easement at the time the next thing is so i what i have are snippets from different deeds that were presented that that come from the 1870 deeds and i have the question on my slide saying do either of these three conditions fit here and here's deed number one and i'm going it's not the whole thing it says have granted to the said santa cruz railroad company for a quote right of way for its railroad the land said conveyed hereby conveyed being necessarily required by the said santa cruz railroad company for the construction operation and maintenance of its railroad that's deed number one deed number two dot dot dot the land the said land here conveyed being necessarily required by the said santa cruz railroad for the construction company operation and maintenance of its railroad by the way i'm quoting from claus freckles from james leonard thomas allen i've seen them all all the way from the beginning of watsonville up to um to santa cruz and they all tend to include these terms a third one has the said said santa cruz company its successors dot dot dot are being uh have and hold the said premises while the same are being used for the conducting and maintaining of a railroad and while such use shall cease the said premises shall be reconvened to me my heirs or assignees that's in the deed that means that if it doesn't have a railroad running it reverses to that and that also means that that's an easement okay number four and that said premises dot dot dot and and that said premises are hereby taken and acquired for and condemned and appropriated to said plaintiffs use for railroad purchases okay we start to conclude your comments please i'm sorry uh conclude your comments as quickly as you can my my last comment is here's from rodeo gulch which is land that is conveyed shall cease be used uh shall return to me so my point is the deeds that are in there are easements and uh are not clear title is what everybody is saying what i've been hearing from the responses from the rtc it is not that clear and i suggest you look at the original deeds and go through them and and i will honestly tell you that it's not a slam dunk on what is an easement or a or a fee title but there's enough uncertainty here where i don't trust the title company and as i said my earlier statement my research i do not think i do things carefully thank you thank you mr chair okay yes i'm not going to pull this item for any further discussion i'm going to move approval of it i want to tell um the gentleman second the gentleman who called in that if he wasn't able to get all those points out he could certainly send us an email and be happy to look at any other comments he'd like to make to us about this yes okay thank you uh i uh need a motion a second to i just moved it bruce oh excuse me okay uh if there's a second i second did it thank you my share friend uh please call the roll to approve item i 18a commissioner rockin all right mission alternate lin hi mission or botwork mission or mcpherson i mission leopold i mission alternate mulher that i commission alternate shifrin hi mission or cap it or mission or kofman gomez yes mission or johnson mission or brown hi mission or burtrant hat passes unanimously approved unanimously on my um 18a we go to uh item number 19 to accept letters from the rgc committees and staff to other agencies um they're listed do is it necessary for me to mention each one of them no the consent agenda was already approved so we're moving regular agenda okay all right um we will go to item let's see the regular agenda excuse me um i'm sorry um the commission reports do we have any uh committee reports uh current reports from commissioners many commissioners have any reports item number 21 do we have any uh new information on how are really i was doing i i don't get miss kofman gomez uh yes he's it's been a very slow arduous recovery process for him he's home with his wife um it'll take him some time it's really impact him on his on his health situation so we wish the best for him to heal quickly thanks for that thank you for that question uh commissioner reports any other reports from commissioners we will move to item number uh 20 22 the directors report a normal report excuse me good morning chair mcpherson commissioners and members of the public um i didn't plan to cover anything on covid 19 everybody's very topic um we've gone over it extensively in the past but i did want to mention a couple um uh quick things uh first our staff is still primarily working remotely um essential staff is still coming into the office and our intention is to continue that until uh the situation um warrants making a change which we don't see at this time we're going to continue with uh remote meetings um as long as the brown act allows for it and health conditions um remain the same um i have a an update on the emergency bridge repair project um thanks to all the public for for the comments and all the work we're doing on the rail line and also those that came from the commissioners it's been quite an effort to try to get this work completed um the structural bridge work um on the emergency project that we uh we started this year um has been completed and that bridge can now carry construction equipment and materials to the 2017 storm damage sites one and two which are under construction and on schedule to be completed this construction season um bridge was classified as an emergency and accordingly i've been approving um emergency contracts um including one with rail surveyors and engineers to perform construction management on the job um as we're doing this project uh time and materials um we are watching it closely and trying to make sure we get the most for our money um we were not able to do a full survey before we hired a construction contractor and as we completed the bridge and looked at the drainage we decided that we wanted to do a survey and so i've amended the contract with rail surveyors and engineers to do a survey so we can um put in some pretty good uh drainage to get us through the next couple winners um the overall final you know drainage in the area is dependent on on uh improvements on a much bigger uh situation out there and that's the slide itself which which uh you know caused a lot of the runoff um that resulted in the slip out just before this bridge and the bridge damage itself um so we're working real hard on that and we're also um working on um the site one and two improvements and if you had ever walked the rail line um beyond this bridge repair and over to storm damage sites uh 20 the 2017 storm damage sites one and two it was pretty much forced it over um and um all of that clearing is has now taken place and you can actually see a rail line out there it's pretty impressive to see the amount of work that we've got done in a very short period of time um i also have um an update on the uh governor's executive order on climate change um as most of you are probably aware um last year and september of 2019 governor nusum issued executive order and 1919 was aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the state specifically related to transportation and the executive order directed the california state transportation agency which is also known as calista to leverage the more than five billion dollars in annual transportation spending for construction operations and maintenance to help reverse the trend of increased fuel consumption and reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with the transportation sector and i um i've provided a copy of the full executive order to my um director's report so trans transportation pretty much is 60 of greenhouse gas emissions so there's a reason why um transportation always comes up in discussions about uh greenhouse gas emissions so in response to the executive order calista convened a state agency working group develop a draft action plan and that action plan outlines 10 strategies and actions for state agencies that have a role in planning funding and delivering transportation projects um the working group uh produced a a draft of these uh 10 strategies and it provides opportunities to advance several of the rtc's priorities including integration of complete streets into caltrans shop projects especially in the san lorenzo valley and watsonville areas where uh the state highway access are main street it allows for reducing speed limits and implementation of uh multimodal projects such as bike pedestrian and transit projects that will help reduce vehicle miles traveled and it'll do so in a way that directs funding towards these projects and provides opportunities so the calista has been meeting with a lot of the transportation group statewide um one of which is uh the the central coast coalition and on the central coast coalition is one of our key um uh groups that we work with to promote the policies and goals of the transportation commission and we were able to at this meeting present how our goals are very much aligned with those in the state we emphasize the importance of taking a multimodal approach to transportation solutions and i was given a considerable amount of time to speak and specifically called out several of rtc's multimodal projects including our hybrid bus unshoulder ox lane project and that's that project has received considerable interest by several commissioners at other meetings that we've had with them about our plans because they're looking for these sorts of projects to do this very thing um included in those projects are our highway one um bike head over crossings um we we're also looking to do complete streets on soquel drive the moderate base sanctuary scenic trail and of course our ongoing transit corridor alternatives analysis i provided a summary of our meeting and presentation um which was included in the letter to cal sta thanking them for this meeting um so cal sta is continuing to seek feedback into their plan to address the governor's executive order the draft plan is expected to be released for public review this fall and finalize this spring 2021 and you can be assured that i'll continue to promote things that will increase funding for santertree's town and that includes my director's report very encouraging is there anything that the commission can do you're doing your part of course is there anything formally that we could do to cal sta to write a letter thank them there is there what's your is there any recommendation that we should uh just encourage them to keep moving forward um we could certainly send a letter we've we've sent letters as part of the coalition um also um uh part of the self-help county's coalition as well um but if if you would like um we south can work to draft a letter for the chair to approve i think that'd be appropriate uh since we're right in the mix right now um i don't think it uh mr schiffrin were you um were you trying to say something there yeah i was i just wanted to make a motion that we send a letter around you suggested a second second by burr trend um the motion to second uh call the roll please mr rockin hi mission or uh alternate lin hi mission of artorf hi mission or mcpherson hi mission or leopold hi mission alternate mulher hi mission or alternate schiffrin hi mission or cappett you're on mute mr cappett commission alternate um sorry commissioner kaufman gomez yes mission or johnson mission or brown mission or burtrant hi mission or cappett you'll need to unmute well let's go ahead and just have the unanimous vote with uh mr cappett non voting we're uh we will let it pass unanimously uh we'll move to item number 23 and while we deeply miss miss uh eileen moe uh we have a great feeling today uh mr tim govins our district five director uh to give us the cal trans report all right but thank you for that chair mcpherson uh commissioners um tim govins cal trans district five director um yes we as usual you do have a cal trans report in your agenda packet and i wasn't going to go over any specific projects um we we have been very very busy in the area as um with our projects as well as working closely with your staff on highway one as has been noted highway nine and some other joint partnership efforts we're doing um you chair mentioned uh miss low and i believe this board already knew that um after 34 years with our department um deputy district director eileen low retired last week so she's and i've talked to her recently uh she's enjoying what she calls her seventh saturday in a row now um just kind of uh all her days are saturdays and i have been able to appoint a replacement already for her mr scott eads is our new deputy district director of planning local assistance and sustainability scott is internal from within the district most recently for the last four years he was working down in san abarbara on the 101 corridor which has a lot of similarities to the highway one corridor up here with um highway components as well as local and other other components making up the corridor plan and before that he was doing project management traffic operations as a transportation engineer and he started his career with one of your sister agencies um slowcock he was a transportation planner with them back in the nineties so i hope you'll welcome scott he will likely be attending a lot of these meetings he is off this week on a pre-planned vacation which we're all trying to do as we can in these uh trying times executive director preston had gone over some of the uh agency action plans caltrans is very involved in those as well we we uh joined joined the center coast coalition in meeting meeting with uh agency showing how we're able to put some of those actions forward already looking forward to doing more together in the future and that is the sum of my update um i would be happy to answer any questions if i could or uh that's it i know i personally i think we've all and all of us each of us is that recognize a lot of overlay projects and improvements that are going on on state highways in the region so county so we really do appreciate the efforts and uh to see things getting done again it's uh because of the passage of sd1 and uh our own uh measure d that a lot of these things are underway and getting done that it could be years away without those two important measures um is there anybody that else uh that would like to make a comment mr de govans uh caltrans operations at all uh i'll make a uh just a question i can i go good yeah my monthly question on uh the crosswalk uh when you can get an update uh on march and street on east beach which is part of highway 152 uh putting in a crosswalk and uh uh pedestrian uh activated uh light okay um i don't know that off the top of my head commissioner uh cap it so i will i will be uh responding back i will get back to you before the next meeting that'll that'll be fine thank you horrible yeah please have somebody give us an update on that during the report so mr cap it doesn't have to ask the question again all right yeah okay um anybody else would have a question for our district director okay um i have a question donna linds got to discuss valley for metro though had several people on the um uh one of our intersections that caltrans has put the yellow striping around the lights and we had several calls to our city asking about that project and is it for i'm assuming is for visibility but um there was there were several people in the community asking about the background of the outlining the lights okay um yes we we've we've done that as a safety measure on on certain in intersections and what what we discovered last year statewide um in in fire season which as we all know is getting longer and longer a lot of the utilities are having to do planned outages or we have emergency outages and not everyone in the state knows how to handle traffic signals when they're out you know that they should be treated as a stop sign and sometimes with all lights out it has been very dark so the yellow background is to highlight so that we have a reflectivity in the in the nighttime when all power is out for the whole area so that people actually realize they're coming up to an intersection thank you i think it's a fantastic thing even in the daytime and you just notice the lights way more i'd assume maybe a lot fewer people just running the light because they didn't know it was there that is the hope the problem is our young people i think hadn't experienced power outages so talking to some of them they said well there's no light it's free for all so we have some education to do in that area and and i can say that is a statewide commonality okay thank you mr. governor ready another commissioner have a question of the district director okay um we will move on we have a an update on the scott's valley projects scott's valley public works department like daryl jordan the public works director is going to give us a report thank you uh chairman furson and commissioners i appreciate the time today uh welcome to scott's valley i wish we could be in person of course but we need to do what we have to do as you know our community is led by our mayor randy johnson which is on the commission and miss lin who's also there today and our fabulous city manager team of friend which i think some of you are familiar with that family as well um first of all like to just begin with some special thanks to a few members uh we continually work with that have significantly contributed to our rtc project success first the person you know well is miss rachel marconi she's been amazing with uh her cooperation and coordination with our staff here helping us keep projects um online and uh and then budget we appreciate her tremendously secondly uh mr michado from the county public works department his him and his county staff have worked with us in multiple aspects of our projects to create better job specifications and designs um we appreciate their communication on their projects suggestions to the city limits as a matter of fact on scott's valley drive uh chair mcfurson you're very well aware that there's some work going on right now and so we're coordinating very closely with the county and uh they've been fabulous to work with so just some feedback for you guys on the other side and finally just some appreciation for uh guy preston uh to be added to our countywide team it's been refreshing to have him with our team he's been instrumental on uh programming funds for all stakeholders around the whole county including the cities and even the metro so just a shout out for uh mr preston thank you for your work um and just a few projects we'd like to highlight today uh glinwood drive rehabilitation and the bike lanes is underway now should be finished hopefully uh within the next couple weeks the project is a little less than one mile of new pavement designated bike lanes and speed control we've had a great response from the community especially the cycling community on the appreciation of the new surfacing and uh and the delineations uh matter of fact santa cruz county cycling club will be featuring a story about the project in their next edition you'll be seeing that soon coming out so again this should be done in a few few weeks uh secondly uh our glinwood open space trails project east um we have a a trails program on both sides of glinwood a west and an east project the current east project is approximately five miles of new equestrian trails for uh both horses and pedestrians including some bridges to be constructed as well this project complements our west trail system on the west side we accommodate cycling and animals on the east side we accommodate the uh horses and pedestrians so again we get a lot of positive feedback from that project um and it's going very well we hope to have that completed with uh with a final um bridge this fall a thirdly uh measure d street maintenance projects for the city of scott's valley we had a project approved last night at city council uh with mayor johnson's direction and they approved 11 streets within the city to be resurfaced or rehabilitated staffs working with the county staff on this project matter of fact we suspect almost the same treatment that the county's working on a similar project in town which helped us streamline part of the process again appreciation to them that that award was about 300 000 and we should be commencing that project in a couple weeks um our current just f y r current pc i payment payment index here is 66 in scott's valley we're really shooting to try to get to 70 as soon as we can with our sp1 funds and our measure d funds um i'd like to also just uh give a quick update the r st px funding once again working with the overall team uh mr preston was able to assist us in landing this program with a portioned approach we're currently designing projects to complete sidewalk gaps and additional pavement projects throughout the city one project in particular to highlight would be blue bonnet in our town um unfortunately it has a discontinuous sidewalk on one side of the street and during school when we actually have kids in school believe it or not the high the junior highs students use this corridor to get to the library and to the park so there's probably 50 60 kids who use that on a daily basis when in session and part of the road does not have sidewalk at this time so these funds um we'll be fortunate to use for the completion of the sidewalk project and some other minis along that corridor um so those are just a few of the things that are going on in scott's valley right now we're pretty excited about it it's nice to see things happening um with the low um concentration of cars at the time is actually helping us get some street projects done believe it or not um but in conclusion our staff is uh mitigating the covid challenge as best as we can as is possible of course we have some technology issues i think everyone's dealing with uh but we hope to be pursuing a few new projects this year with an ATP plan that should be approved this um fall and with that we'll be coordinating with the rtc staff to find additional funding to help us complete some of those projects so thank you for your time chair and i'll be happy to answer any questions you might have thank you mr jordan and congratulations to scott's valley on a number of projects you've been doing your you've completed or on the middle of or it's just about to begin and i do want to as a member of santa cruz county on the board supervisors thank our county public works department too for coordinated efforts with you it's just a very efficient way to do it and uh it's going to just make for a better uh better opportunity for a lot of uh well pedestrians bicyclists motorists whatever it may be so uh thank you and uh and i think it's great that uh that's a great example of a cooperative effort really producing some really good results uh is there any other can i say something yes is that mr johnson yeah uh thank you well what you know uh just like to echo what daryl has said he does a great job we have a very limited staff with respect to public works two or three people and just also mention of course the collaboration that we have with the rtc in and as he mentioned the county of santa cruz to kind of get the job done which i think is appreciated both by county residents but in particular the citizens of scott's valley so thank you um and uh well done uh daryl thank you ranny thank you mr and i just like to take on that a little bit there's one more project too that i believe this is all i know it's um i believe it's also involving major d and that's glenn wood and that has been such a a dangerous area for for students and pedestrians and there's just been a lot of really a lot of praise for the work that's being done under difficult circumstances and again with limited staff and that's right at the county line so um i add my thanks and and congratulations on this project moving forward for years it's been something that the community has hoped to see happen and that's only with rtc support that that happened so thank you thank you i just want to thank the scott's valley public works department and the others involved in this because i ride my bicycle a lot recreationally up into scott's valley and the improvements to the bicycle facilities are fantastic and i really do appreciate them thank you thank you i think i'm speaking with a lot of other cyclists in the county any other comments from commissioners okay this does not require action but thank you for your report i appreciate it very much that completes our regular agenda we're ready to move into closed session is there is there going to be anything reportable from our closed session mr chairman we may have reportable action from item number 27 on the agenda the commission does have two real property negotiation closed sessions one related to the acquisition of property and easements that's item 27 and then one related to the negotiations related to license agreement with progressive rail st pollen pacific that's item 26 i would remind the commission that the commissioners would have received i believe again this morning the email from ian berry with the um meeting information for the closed session can i ask on behalf of i think sally arnold had asked us how will members of the public i know about getting our report back out are we just going to leave open the link to this public meeting and when we're done we'll come back and make their announcement uh correct i would recommend that we leave this one open while we go into closed session then come back and report out thank you okay once you're done with closed session please do remember to come back through the regular zoom meeting that from your links or the regular phone number for every so that there's a there's a separate link for the closed session correct correct all right okay so we may have a reportable item to close we will not close the regular meeting we'll move into closed session but i would like to announce in advance can you say anybody leaves that our next rtc meeting will be thursday september third at nine o'clock and i'm sure it's going to be by teleconference again so that's thursday september third and the transportation policy workshop meeting is scheduled for thursday september 17th at nine a.m also by teleconference so we will not close this meeting but we'll leave this meeting go into closed session we may have a reportable item after our closed session so thank you everyone and uh we'll go into closed session yes i don't believe since i came in as alternate late i don't see the link so if someone can uh forward me the link for closed session if i will do that miss outland thank you also can we have the um screen the share screen sharing ended so i can find my way back to my email um i think you need to leave the meeting in iraq and just end the meeting on your end okay and then i'll come back to it right after we're done thank you okay any other questions okay we will uh go into closed session um see you there and say five minutes it is five minutes to ten about now we'll reconvene in closed session at 10 o'clock i think um just you and i is that correct uh we um would like to have our commissioner right can you give us a minute um they're going to be back live if i you were cutting out but okay we uh we have uh we're reconvening after our closed session i will ask our um attorney uh see madis is there anything reportable from the closed session uh yes mr chairman you said we are live now we are thinking okay thank you um so with regards to item agenda item 26 closed session there is no reportable action with regards to item 27 conference with real property negotiators the commission by an 11-0 vote um authorize the executive director to make offers on the properties listed in item 27 thank you mr chairman that's the report out okay thank you um that is uh i don't think we need there's nothing else on our agenda so the uh the august 6 meeting of the uh regional transportation commission uh will be formally adjourned at this point thank you and everyone have a nice day thank you