 We are testing some audio on our end. Please be patient. It's gonna have that echo. So I think everyone needs testing. Testing testing. Hi folks. We are having some technical difficulties and we are trying to square it away. We're zooming in right now. So please bear with us while we figure this out. Okay. If all CAB members that are present, if you could turn your cameras on, please. There we go. All right. I'm going to turn it over to you, Leslie. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining us this evening. And if you've been with us for a few minutes now, we have had just a tad bit of technical difficulties, but fabulous staff has gotten us online successfully. And we'll be holding at this moment, the Community Advisory Board, our regular meeting, and I'm calling this to order. We will have roll call by our staff. All right. So, member Chair Graves. Present. Vice Chair Weeks. Present. Member Barnett. Member Innocencio. Present. Member Hall. Present. I think we're going to make it. Member Lange. Member Diaz de Leon. Present. Member Rom. Member Rodriguez. Present. Member Sierra. Present. And member Staffie. Present. Okay. Let the record show that everyone, all members of our, are here on attendance. Thank you. We're full of transparency. We just share with the public right now that we are all in a room together pretty much. I don't believe that we have any of our members online at this time, but they may be joining us. How we are joining you this evening online is that we are all on our phones. So, if it takes just a little bit of time for us to unmute and be heard, please be patient with us. And we'd be thankful for your patience during this meeting. Again, we'll go on for the agenda item number two and public comments. Sorry, just there's an echo for whoever's unmuted in the room. With no public comments, we'll go on to item number three, which will be the approval of the minutes. Our last minutes are from November 16th. And that was a special meeting. And which we started at 7pm. The meeting minutes were attached in our agenda. As a link. Do we have any comments from the board members? For those minutes. A judgment or edits. And just where we're not speaking in the room. We'll go on to a roll call vote for approval. Thank you. It's been only a month and a half or something. And I forgetting about our motion. So do we have a motion on the floor to approve the minutes? Second. Thank you. Member wrong. And seconded by vice chair weeks. So we'll have a roll call vote for approval. Okay. Chair graves. Approved. Thank you. Vice chair week. Approved. Member more net. I'm wrong. Proof. Our own. Wrong. Wrong. Yeah. Remember in a sense. Oh yeah. First of all, everyone put their phones on you unless you're speaking. When a clarification. If you are a new member or if you were not here for that meeting, you have to abstain from voting for the minutes. Thank you. Thank you. Member in a sense. Member Lange. Approved. But can the people who are not speaking mute? Because there's an echo on my end. Someone's not muted. In the sky. In the sense. Remember. Yes. Abstain. Thank you. Member. Wrong. Member Rodriguez. Yes. Thank you. Member. Yes. I'm not speaking mute. Okay. I'm not speaking mute. Is someone not muted. In the sky. In the sense. Remember. Member. Member Rodriguez. Yes. Member Sierra. Abstain. And member Steffi. Approve. Okay, let the record show that I would say that all CAV members approve except for Henry's, member Hong, member Sierra, member Diaz de Leon, all abstained. Thank you for that. We will move on to item number four, which is CAV announcements. Our CAV members may share community news of interest to the CAV as well as a whole. And CAV members may also announce upcoming community events that may be of interest to the CAV. This is a time when CAV members may also announce departure from the meeting earlier, any other announcement that may affect the meeting. And so with that, I would like to welcome our new members to the CAV, all being sworn in prior to the CAV meeting and open up this time for the new CAV members to give just a couple of minutes. So really truly 160 seconds, 120 seconds of an introduction of yourself. And then at the end of the meeting, before we adjourn, we will introduce our current CAV members. So at this time, are there, let's move to Henry Huang for your introduction. I believe he's muted. Is that better? Stay active in the community. So I was asked by our mayor to serve on CAV. So here I am. And I'd like to announce a few upcoming events for the Redwood Empire Chinese Association in celebration of Chinese New Year. This Saturday, they have something at the Children's Museum from 10 to three. And then on February 4th, there's gonna be a lion dance performance at the Northwest Santa Rosa Library from two to three. And on February 5th, there's gonna be a lion dance performance in Healdsburg. I think it's at the morning. And I look forward to being part of this, serving on the CAV. Thank you. Thank you, member Han. And now we'll move to member Siar. Thank you. Remember to unmute. I'm Yvonne Siara and I've been here all my life at Sonoma County. I've been here all my life in Sonoma County and this is where I raised my family and they still reside here. And I had a career of 22 years at Keysight Technologies or Jorge, or except. So the second part of my life, I'm looking to serve my community more and I would like to stay active in the CAV and I was appointed by city councilman Eddie Alvarez and I'm here to do I'm proud and you too. Thank you. Welcome and thank you members, Siara. And now member Diaz de Leon. My name is Arianna Diaz de Leon and I grew up in Napa County, but I moved to Santa Rosa in 2015. So I've been a resident here for quite a few years and I previously, years ago, worked at Sonoma State where I was a data analyst and then I worked at the community foundation of Sonoma County. And now I'm at Santa Rosa Community Health where I'm the program and community engagement manager. And so I'm looking to just become more involved in learning about the concerns of residents of Santa Rosa. And I was previously on the commission on the status of women for Sonoma County. So now that I've come off that, I'd like to find other ways to become involved and this is a great thing to do. So I'm glad to be here. Welcome. Thank you everybody for introducing yourself and I will now open it up to our CAB members for any announcements that you may have. Through the chair. I have an announcement. And back to member Diaz de Leon. There are school vaccine clinics that are gonna be taking place in the next month and a few of those are gonna be in Santa Rosa. There was one today in Petaluma but there will be school vaccine clinics at Shepherd Elementary next week, February 2nd and then at Taylor Mountain Elementary on February 9th. And after that, there may be some at LCL in high school and Steel Lane Elementary. And these are being put on by the county and by SCO with other partners such as Santa Rosa Community Health also participating in it. But there are free vaccines available for anyone in the community. So that's something that I'm like the residents to know about. And thank you for that. I also wanna make mention to welcome, I believe members Rodriguez and member Lange to the meeting if I'm correct. Okay, yeah. And member Rodriguez, you have your hand up. Thank you. I just want to let everyone know unfortunately I probably will have to leave a little after seven. I'm traveling for work. So I had another obligation. Member Rodriguez, because I think all of you, so all of our, if you give us just a moment, we've all turned our volumes down in order to not have feedback in the room. So you're perfectly okay, but we need to have some volume in the room to be able to hear you. So member Rodriguez, if you can go again. Thank you. No, thank you. I want to let the cabinet unfortunately will have to depart earlier traveling for work and unable to attend the full meeting this evening. And I'm going to defer to staff because staff was had the microphone on. I think some of us in the room, we could not hear member Rodriguez. So if you can maybe summarize or repeat. Rodriguez, she will need to be leaving the meeting early. I think member Rodriguez, if you'd like to restate that I've turned the volume up on my device. So hopefully it can be shared amongst those here. No, I again, I apologize. I'm traveling for work. So I do have to leave the meeting early. So thank you so much everyone. Thank you. Thank you for that. And thank you again to everybody for bearing with us as I put my hand over my camera, but I am really still here. So also welcome to member Steffi who's joined us online as well. At this time, I recognize member Lange for cab announcements. Sweet. Next month is Black History Month. And so there are a number of programs and events. I will send a full newsletter through the staff to send the numbers so everyone can calendar them. Most will be available by link from the NAACP website. I hope for those who have not participated in activities before that you find a way to engage more now than ever before. And there are a slew of events up and down the county. And a few will continue into March as soon as I have dates I will likely be able to share those at the end of the month for February's or at February's meeting as well. Thank you, member Lange, I appreciate that. Also I'm looking around the room to see if there's any hands and I see Vice Chair Weeks. Actually, happening concurrently right now is a presentation by Santa Rosa Water concerning water resiliency and long-term planning for water resiliency in the county. And I don't recall how many more times they're hosting these. I think there's at least one more. So I would encourage anyone who's interested to certainly engage with the city on that topic as it's all very relevant to what we are doing here in the county. And contrary to popular belief, we are still in a drought. So thank you. Thank you. With no other hands up for CAV announcements I would like to announce that tomorrow at five o'clock in Courthouse Square is the dedication ceremony for Unum, which is the public art piece that today the fence went down and people I hear were standing under it and taking wonderful pictures, which is exactly what that was meant to do. It is a project that near and dear to my heart I actually served on many committees going, picking out the artist and the selection committee for what type of art was going to be in Courthouse Square. So five o'clock tomorrow evening, I believe that there will be music and a little dedication ceremony and Unum means oneness, if I am correct. So with that oneness, let's go to the oneness of being part of the public here and bring it to public comment at this time for agenda item number four. There are no hands raised for public comment. All right, well, thank you and thanks for all the announcements moving right along to staff updates agenda item number five. It's time is reserved for the city staff to provide a briefing on issues of interest and no action will be taken on these matters except to possibly place a particular item on a future agenda for consideration. So would that be you, Daniel? Thank you. Well, all right, just some of the stuff that we have for staff updates. Some of you know, we had the in response event on January 19th last week at LC Allen. We had 52 people show up to that event. So I would say it was pretty jam packed for the amount of space that we had. It was in the library. Everyone got fed. They got presentation on in response by Katie Swan. We're able to break out into different group sessions so everyone can give feedback and get an understanding of in response. Obviously positive and negative, of course, but I would say more positive than anything. Some of the negatives will probably be something around, you know, the hospitals getting full with people coming in in response, having to drop off. But other than that positive feedback as far as, you know, people getting served, deescalating situations through in response. So that's a presentation that's gonna be given to everyone here on the cab next month. So for the next cab meeting in response, we've come here to present. They have posted the recording of the event. So if you weren't there, you can watch it on YouTube. It's on the Santa Rosa City's YouTube page. And that's where you can find the recording of the event. Another thing that we're working on is our district town halls. That's how we're gonna get the cab involved in planning out seven town halls and seven of the each districts. We're hoping to start this by April, but this is gonna require coordination of each of the council members and each of their districts as well as securing some of the locations for these town halls. But if you have any interest in any of these districts, if it pertains to yours, feel free to let me know how you'd like to support, whether it's hosting or doing some of the outreach for this district, that would be great. I think the last one is obviously, Sima Ghali's not in the room. So right now we are having Danielle up us. So praise the Lord right now. But that's our staff updates for now unless Danielle has some. All right, can you hear me online? Yeah, okay, great. So as Danny mentioned, for some of our more seasoned cab members, Magali Teyes is no longer with us here tonight. She is not with the city anymore. She's taken a role with the Boys and Girls Club in Roseland. So we're super happy for her, we'll miss her. And as Danny mentioned, I am here helping him out, get knowledgeable and learn his role here with the cab before I step away again. So this is temporary. In addition to that, we are also very lucky to have our new assistant city manager, Darielle Dunstan, who is online with us today. He is going to be providing a lot of support and guidance to our team as we move through this transition with Magali leaving and as we try to figure out what the next steps are for our team. Thank you. Thank you for that update. And at this time, are there any questions from our cab members for staff? There are no questions from cab members. We'd like to take this to public comment. Are there any public comments? There are no hands raised for public comment. Thank you. That concludes agenda item number five. And we're moving right along to agenda item number six, which are scheduled items. 6.1 is a special presentation around bus stops and an iterative process. We have Yuri Colson here as a transit planner with the city of Santa Rosa Transportation and Public Works and they will provide the cab with an overview of the transit planning service and framework and information on bus stops. We have had questions in the cab about bus stops in the past. So we're looking forward to this presentation. Yuri, you have your laptop. And so you can unmute. I will mute and take it away. Great. Thank you so much for hosting this presentation. My name is Yuri Coslin. I'm with the city of Santa Rosa's transit division, which is within transportation and public works department for the city of Santa Rosa. Can everybody hear me? So I'll just keep, I'm gonna get my presentation up as well. I'll start sharing. Should I continue? No, I think I already have. Can you see the presentation? Yeah, great, great. So yeah, so I'm a planner. There's in our department, we have a deputy director in public works and there's two planners myself and another planner and we have a administrative analyst, technology analyst. We have a few people that work customer service that are either answering the phones or down at the transit mall. And then we have around 45 drivers at this point. So we're going through a bit of a, this kind of during the pandemic, we were able to provide a good bit of service and then kind of in the last year, we've had a lot of difficult, we've had a lot of retirements and pandemic related issues that have caused us to have a, we're limited by our service delivery by the number of employees we have at this point. So, but that's kind of a big overview. I'm gonna go through kind of a little bit about our service and about how we design routes. In the meantime, I have a limited number of bus schedules. I'm gonna hand out if nobody, if you don't want them at the end, you can, I mean, if you do want them at the end, take them, if not hand them back, we are on a small run right now. We'll continue to give them out to the public. Let's just give you an idea of that our entire system as I'm talking through the presentation. So tonight again, we'll go overview over service, a route planning framework and bus stops, land use context, street side and curbside factors. So just an idea of city bus. We are a fixed route system within the city. We, post pandemic, we're at about a million riders. We have 13 routes. We also offer paratransit services, which are basically curb to curb services for those who are living with the disability that prevents them from using the bus. And that fleet has special cutaway vehicles that can get people on and off. And then we also manage the transit mall. And then we have a few other hubs, probably Coyntown's the second biggest hub, but the transit mall is a regional hub. It probably has, it's 30 buses a day, 30 buses a day, 3000 bus trips a week. That's pre-pandemic, but it's a lot of service in and out. It's Mendocino transit coming down from Mendocino County and then there's Golden Gate Transit coming up from the city. There's also Greyhound and then the two big ones are the county and city bus operating out of the transit mall. We also do have service from Amtrak, but that's at a different location. So that's kind of our service area. Yeah. Feel free to ask questions along the way. Well, we should probably wait till the end considering our technology issues. Okay, so I'll just move along. Our fares, we have our standard fare. We have adult fare, which is $1.50. We have a half price fare, obviously 75 cents. And that's for seniors and people with Medicare and people living with a disability. You can receive those standard fares by purchasing passes from our kiosk or online, but you can also get them where we kind of try to push people toward more and more as Clipper, where Clipper's the Bay Area wide fare payment system that allows you to ride any system in the entire Bay Area. And you can either buy, you can either put cash on it essentially. So each time you use it, it's just like using cash or you can buy fare like month passes on it as well. And you need Clipper to ride the smart train. You can also use an app, but you need the Clippers. Clippers is kind of your access to the system. And then we've more and more tried to move with unlimited fare programs. Historically, city employees have been able to ride free. Pair transit registrants have been able to ride free. Pair transit registrants. The reason we do that is it's more expensive. It's $3 a trip when they take a ride on Pair Transit and we give them a free pass to ride fixed route free. So that way they're incentivized to ride fixed route and it's also less expensive for the public or our budget to provide that free trip. It's about $60 a trip for a Pair Transit and it's probably around $10 a trip for fixed route in terms of our cost. Santa Rosa Junior College before the pandemic, I think it was 2017, started, had a fare free program with the county and the city jumped on board and then Petaluma. So all SRJC students ride free. And they have recently started taking part in a very unique program that MTC offers, which is, it's called the Bay Pass Program and essentially all SRJC students can ride all Bay Area transit free. They're the only institution like that. There's other institutions who have segments of their population that can ride all transit free, but SRJC is the only one that all their students can ride free. Just recently we allowed students, we always allow students for an under to ride free, but we use a program to allow students up through 12th grade to ride free. High school students just need to show an ID, but otherwise eighth grade and younger do not need to show an ID, they can just ride. And starting, I think this is the second academic year we've had that in place and starting in July 1st, the county with some of their PG&E funds funded a program that's allow students county wide to ride free for up to two years. And we expect that we might be able to identify another funding source after that. So with including our transfers, almost half of our ridership rides free. So this is just some numbers in terms of what our service looks like before and after the pandemic. As you can see, the use on transit really took a dive in the pandemic and we have better ridership than some providers. And our youth ridership with a youth ride free program really has doubled. You can see that with 25% currently and 12% pre-pandemic. And there's just some numbers there to get an idea of how our services are operating. This is taken into account that we also have less service on the street. So this is not just rider, I mean more service generally means more trips. So we are about, I'm gonna say 62% of our service is available on the street. So as we design routes, these are some of the design principles that we look at for is obviously frequency. So one example of that would be the service that we have on Mendocino Avenue and Sebastopol Avenue where we have 15 minute frequency. Right now on Mendocino operating 20 minute frequency. That's just due to driver shortage. Our goal is to pre-pandemic also we had 15 minute frequency from basically from downtown to Petaluma Hill Road. Not a great distance, but you have basically half hour frequency on route three and five. So the idea is to extend that high frequency farther down Santa Rosa Avenue and then eventually have more frequent service between downtown and Montgomery Village. So we'd have an X in town essentially with that 15 minute frequency. And so we currently, in 2017, we went through this exercise and we put it in a new system and there's also a phase two to that which kind of suggests some of those changes we can show to you. Another piece is strong anchors, having large institutions with large ridership typically a sister out. Direct alignment, which is kind of like, where you're going to a location, you're staying on the main corridor, you're not jumping around and kind of going into narrow small streets in the city. Then bi-directional kind of trying to basically do the same thing you do outbound as you do inbound. So people don't have to say, oh wait, is it on this? At one point we had service on Sonoma Avenue for maybe inbound and Montgomery Village for outbound. So people had to be like, okay, wait, where is it? So you wanna basically kind of define your corridor and operate on that corridor. Spacing also is another factor. So we don't have service on Montgomery and Sonoma just because the distance is such a close walking distance but there are drawbacks. I mean, like Montgomery Avenue for instance has the hospital, which was, that was a big choice to decide whether we were operating on Sonoma Avenue or Montgomery. So those are, and then connectivity in terms of making sure transfers can happen, making sure people can get to where they need to go in a timely manner. So those are some of our design principles. And then a big thing that gets, is productivity is that kind of high frequency that you see on the right there on the screen and then coverage is kind of what you see on the left. And coverage is typically, for people who can't walk long distances or there's a benefit to coverage because you're making it easy for people to get to it. There's also a benefit to productivity, essentially where you're having high frequency on particular corridors. And so it allows people to really define those corridors, allows development to come back, to come in and kind of build around transit. It allows for that higher, more higher density and more focused attention on locations. So then you have this different type of bus routes. You have the higher, the kind of the rapid bus routers are 15, which are more 15 minute frequency are much more productive, which I've described some of them. And then you have, I'll say our service is more of the trunk routes that's a 15 minute frequency. The rapid bus is more of like, where you have kind of separate lanes, more, there's features that really would allow for quick on and off boarding. So we're more of the trunk routes. And then our local routes are kind of that more 30 to 60 minute frequency. And then we have some circulars. We have the route 15 that operates from Southwest Community Park and serves LC Allen. And then comes up a stony point and then makes its way over to Coddingtown. So that's kind of a circular route where it doesn't go down to the central hub. So here's just an image of some of our, come of the areas that we're really aware of that need improved service. And we go through every four years, we go through what we call a short range transit plan, which is required by MTC, which gives us some of our funding. So as we go through our current short range transit plan, these are some of the areas that we're identified that we know we need to focus on and an additional service to those areas. So that's something that we're working on. So now we're gonna jump into specifically the bus stops, that framework of how the buses, we sometimes get requests, can I get a bus stop? But we don't have a service on that route. So key to having a bus stop is kind of how the routes are designed and having a bus route there. Once you have a bus route there, then we can kind of get down into, can we get you a bus stop? So some of the elements for a bus stop design are kind of land use context, like density, like we'll have more frequent bus stops in downtown than we necessarily do at the outskirts of town just because there's a higher density. There's the within the street design, do we have a turnout or how does it operate with traffic? And then we have the curbside factors, in terms of, do we have an ADA path of travel? Do we have a sidewalk? How much right away do we have? Do we own the land, all those things? And then there's the stop elements. There's all the furniture or amenities that go there. And our bus stops evolve based off new infrastructure projects or new developments. So when we're touching a corridor, we advocate for what we think is best and work with the developer, work with our internal teams to make those comments. If we get requests from the public, which I'm always surprised that we don't get more requests from the public for new bus stops, but that's definitely a big driver. If we know about it, then that's something we can act on. And then just gaps that we identify. Like I know of some gaps that are kind of like on my project that I need to get to, but I haven't got to them that would benefit from having someone from the public say, hey, what about this? And they're like, yeah, I agree. But, and then things to think about for the new bus stops which I mentioned, some of them are just land ownership, pedestrian connections, spacing between stops. Amount of ridership is a big one. And then just the safety factors in terms of how the operators are serving stop and whether it's make sense to have it at that location. So just some of the basic requirements, there are bus up improvements are our responsibility. And there is federal guidance around them and in terms of where they need to go, it's like where they're practical, where it's practical for them to be located for boarding and alighting. How can we construct it? And what are some of the limitations there? And even if a bus stop is at a specific, it will say we have a bus stop at a specific location currently that doesn't serve somebody who needs to access it. We do, we will provide reasonable modifications like our bus drivers will stop at a different location or we'll look at the stop and we'll move it. So if there are individuals that have trouble getting to a particular stop for a particular reason, we'll figure out ways to work through that. But the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 basically drives a lot of what we do at the bus stops, act on complaints and NACTO, which is a website you guys can all go to it. They have a really nice guide on terms of like, what are the elements of bus stops in much more urban areas and areas like ours? And some of the images I use later on the presentation are from their site. So this is just kind of a bigger context of land use. A lot of times, the image on the top right there where the development is kind of set back and there's a big parking lot between the development and the road. This is kind of some of the development style that we see in a suburban area that makes it really difficult for transit to serve it well and makes it really, makes it difficult for those that are using transit to access the buildings. And as you can see here, there's some progressively different designs that make it easier for transit to have an impact on how people get to that particular location. So that's an important factor in bus stops and their use. And then the next slide here is kind of the street side factors. Where is the bus stop located? We basically want the bus stop to be located and it doesn't necessarily show it on the slide but you can see it on the images to the right near a crosswalk. They say that basically there's four legs of a bus trip. It's walking to the bus stop, waiting at the bus stop, then you get on the bus and then walk in your final destination. So three of those four legs of that trip rely on the pedestrian network. So that's really where we rely on for transit and serving people is, are there good sidewalks? Are there safe places across the street? And that's where we're gonna co-locate our bus stops to that. So whether it's before the, first side is far side in the lane and then there's near side in the lane and then there's mid block in the lane. So any of those need to be co-located with a bus stop. And then there's pullouts. So you can do the same thing for pullouts. You can have the bus stop pullout of the road. And then those images on the right, you can see the top one that shows it in the lane, the sidewalk is coming out to where people are loading and the bus is just pulling, it's not pulling in, it's just pulling straight. You have a little bit of distance from the sidewalk, I'm sorry, the crosswalk to make sure that the crosswalk's not being blocked. That's number one. Number two is this safe place for pedestrians. Number three is just showing space in between buses and number four, I don't remember what it's showing. And then the second image below kind of shows where you have, it takes more space for one single bus because the bus has to pull in. So you're using more, there's less space for parking or so these bull bouts are useful, they keep us in the lane, but they do slow down traffic too, which has its clusters and minuses. Okay, so next slide here, this is kind of the curbside factors. Pedestrian access, like I talked about, ADA access is critical. And when we say ADA access, you can see on the bottom image, there's a number four, there's a five by eight pad area. So that's really kind of, it's not only the sidewalk, but it's also having that five by eight career area. That's essentially where the bus lift can come down, sit on the sidewalk for four or half of that eight feet. And another half that eight feet is where the wheelchair gets off and has a safe place to sit before we lift the ramp back up and then they can continue on their trip. So that's critical. So we can put a bus stop basically anywhere. We don't need a sidewalk, we don't need anything. We can put it in the ground, but as soon as we add a bench or trash can or a shelter or anything, we have to meet the kind of strict rules of ADA. So there's a good example would be like on Fresno Avenue way in West Santa Rosa. There's no sidewalks on that road. We can stick a pole in, but we can't do more infrastructure. In the county, that's how the county transit works. They're way off providing all areas of the county where there are no sidewalks, but they can put a pole on the side of the road and that gives people access to the transit. So some of the other features typically that we see are, you know, shelter bench, real-time information. Right now we mostly have that the transit mall, although we're working on a contract to get that at some of our other bus stops. But I'll explain how people can also get that from their devices a little later on. Bike racks, trash cans, lighting, signage and art. So those are some of the elements that make up a bus stop traditionally. In these images that you're seeing here, besides the five by eight area, I'll just say that, you know, where the shelter or benches located kind of can vary depending on the land that you're working with. You know, essentially you need a, as long as we have an eight foot deep area, we can usually get those in. But if it's a short eight foot deep area, then we don't really have the length to get the clear pad plus some of the infrastructure in. But generally we can, as long as we have eight feet back of curb, and so we oftentimes will advocate for just eight feet of sidewalk and a site just so that later on we can come in and put a shelter in it if ridership demands it. So I'll go back one slide here and just say, yeah. Generally when we're putting shelters in kind of at a staff direction, it's basically we're looking for more than 20 riders a day at a bus stop that are boardings, we say, you know, not riders, but there's boardings and then there's what we call, what D boardings is a lighting. So I don't know, I can't remember where the term comes from in trade, but it's boardings and the lightings, but we just basically based off boarding. So if we have more than 20 boardings a day, we're aiming to get a bus stop in there. There's a few locations where we don't have the property. At this point, there's probably a handful, but we can't make them ADA. So that's why we don't have them at those. But basically all our bus stops with high boardings have shelters. And then basically between 20 and 10 riders a day, we're looking to put benches in. And so that would be an area that we would say, yes, let's put a bench in less than 10 riders a day. You know, we kind of, we don't prioritize it for furniture. So I'll just give you, here's an example of kind of some, there's some good, bad bus stops. So you can see these bus stops all have sidewalk access to them, except for the one in the lower left corner has no sidewalk, but it's just the pole. One kind of in the kind of center lower has is a shared stop. So there's city bus Sonoma County and Golden Gate on that bus stop. So we have some bus stops like that. Let's see. Yeah, I think that's, I mean, you're seeing benches, poles, shelters, trash cans, kind of that variety. The one with the bike lane kind of going between the sidewalk and the bus loading area is not from Santa Rosa, but that would be one that we'd be interested in and seeing installed in high bike traffic areas. Yeah, so that's some good, again, samples of good bus stops. Here's some bad ones, you know, the top right, you know, there's a shelter, but there's no sidewalk to get there. You know, no ADA access. Kind of the one middle to top is from Santa Rosa. I believe, could be wrong, but you don't have the five AA pads. So you have a bench, but you don't have this distance where somebody can get on and off. So technically it doesn't meet the ADA. The one on the far right, you know, there's a bench and there's a sidewalk, but there's no connection between the bench and the sidewalk. So that doesn't need ADA. And typically if you're providing a bench, you also need kind of like a waiting area for somebody who's in a wheelchair next to the bench, which could be within that five by eight area, but in the one kind of lower down similar situation where there's no five by eight waiting area, even though there is a bench. And then here's some fun ones. There's a lot of opportunities with bus stops to do place making. There's a lot of examples around the country. You know, we've thought about, you know, our bus stop vendor can take images and put them onto the bus stops, onto the shelters. I'm gonna go back for a second here. You can see at the top right, there's that blue shelter. Those panels could have images on them. So, you know, if we could incorporate local art and art board suggested that, I think there's just been a limitation in time, but that's definitely something that's feasible. That'd be a very simple incorporation of art in the bus stops. But yeah, as you can see, with some money and some attention, we could have a lot of fun with bus stops. And that's, so one more slide, I think. So at the bus stops, I talked about real time bus information. So you can get real time bus information with Google Maps. You can, is typically how I do my planning for bus routes in the entire country, really. And then Clipper also now has an app that you can, you can have your fare on the Clipper app and you can plan your trip on there basically using Google Maps. And then it also gives you real time when there's a bus going to arrive. But, and there's also something called the Transit app which provides that as well. CityBus, we currently have what we call the, it's called the MyStop app and it provides real time information only for city buses. But on that, you can actually see physically where the bus is and you can kind of watch it move. And then you can also, for people who don't have a smartphone, you can text, basically you're texting the number of the bus stop to the 32123 number and it responds and tells you when the bus is going to arrive at that bus stop. So we don't have a lot of the real time information but partly because people have it in the palm of their hands. Yeah, and that's, it's my presentation. I can take any questions. All right, so thank you so much for that presentation. We appreciate that. And at this time, we'll recognize our members for any questions or comments. And I see a member Hong has a question or comment. Yeah, so regarding bus stop, like what's the process? What do they want to talk about and how do I call? And then once I call them, what's the process, how long does it take? Yeah. I think that, you know, we have just our main, our main number are the folks that are, you know, who provide the information. It's the five, four, three, three, three, three number. And it's just, it's what's on all our schedules. So you can call that number anytime and make a request. It would probably then come to me or the other transit planner. And then we would, you know, probably get back to you fairly quickly and kind of give you our quick assessment of the location. And then we kind of go from there depending on what the, you know, how complicated it is. If it's simply on a route that, that it makes sense to, you know, makes sense to us. Since there's a lot of things to line up, it can be fairly quick. I'd say probably two months. But if it becomes a longer, like we don't have the property, there's just a number of things. So I'd say, I'd say it can be fairly quick or there can be complications. What do you, you don't have the property? Well, you know, I mean, we could stick a, we could stick depending on what you want from the bus stop. Whether, you know, if, if, if it's, if we don't have the property to make it, if we don't have an easement for the property to make it ADA capable. Yeah, that would be the issue. I guess that's what I mean. Yeah, yeah. There's no right away. There's no easement. That becomes problematic. But if there's right away and there's easement and it makes sense, you know, sometimes the issues we get into or the stops can be too close together or it might not be, you know, from the driver standpoint, is it safe to stop there? It's just, it's really, it really just depends on the location. But we want to hear about it. We, I mean, we either want to have that conversation with you to say, oh, there's a bus stop, you know, 300 feet down the road. Can you use that one? Sometimes it's no, I can't. Why can't you use that? Well, I can't walk that far. Okay. Have you heard about paratrans? So a lot of times it becomes, the request leads to providing information for somebody who might not have that information about how to access our system or use public transportation in general. Thank you. Thank you for that question. I am going to recognize member Lange first and then next is member Diaz de Leon. So I brought this item forward. And I just been observing, was this particular stop at all, after I was speaking to you about, the stop is at the traffic light on Bellevue and Stony Point. And it's right outside of, not outside of LCL and you have to walk about a quarter mile from the campus entrance to get there. And so it's a bench and then the bus sign. And it's in the turn light. Now when I was 16 driving, I would speed around the bus. And that's exactly what happened that day I was standing there. And a person that needed extra assistance and driving across the street was at the crosswalk. And the students didn't hit the person, what good thing for anybody breaks, they were able to stop themselves. And so for me, that maybe I think about that route more deeply because as you said, it needs to be 20 plus riders a day for shelter threshold. But because that route comes through steel lane where I live past Palm Sock, none of those have shelters and all of those students ride the bus. When they ride it all the way through and around depending on where they live between most of the Codding Town and that Southwest corridor of North Plainer and Stony Point Road where it comes back ground. And a number of those stops are either assigned with a bench 40 feet away like the cement style you showed where there's a covering but the side is then 25 yards away. And I mean, it makes sense because sometimes as you said, the infrastructure may not be there, but I think from an equity standpoint, how do we ensure we build to make it an incentive to ride the bus instead of an inconvenient to ride the bus, especially through that corridor of community where we have some of our varied income residents and students with families that may only have one or two vehicles with multiple students at the back schools. Agreed. Let's work, let's look at those bus stops. I appreciate your attention to those and be happy to go over that floor. I wrote down the Bellevue and Stony Point and was there other particular locations? Steel lane and its entirety from Stony Point all the way through the Girdville weird turnabout by the mattress room, all the way to there. Especially the one out in front of the ice skating rink. It is able sleeping corridor and a signage issue and it's not well lit. But next one is Stony Point and West Knight. It's one of those as you described with one number of dollars we'll have to cross the street to go around to the other side to get around. I watched a woman when they took her three hours to go for walks. I was tempted to just give her a ride but I thought it would be weird. So Stony Point and West Knight. Right, so it's the one right in front of like Ulias. The church on the corner. Oh, it's on West Knight. Yes. It's where the church is, it's all I remember saying. So many. Oh, tell me the rest of the direction. West Third. West Third. Yes, West Third. First Third. West Third. Well, I'll go to the other side. Yeah. Okay, so, the West Third one is on Stony Point. It's on the corner and it's oh, yes, so it's and is it northbound or southbound I Don't know. I just saw people thinking forever. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that one now. There is problematic ones there, actually And then the one on the snow point this is still the point on that same shot consider here and then The basketball road and study point further up, but most of the stops to the East Stony Point Road are a little shady the ones to the West Every other is covered or has the bench of I have your contact too, so I'll follow up with more detail I just have to give member land a little props right there for all of that homework that you did And thank you for divulging your 16 year old self to us I'm glad to hear that that that writer was okay going across the crosswalk So remember Diaz Daniel Thank you Yuri for being here and presenting on transit to us and thank you member Lange for Bringing this topic to us as well my question is regarding Something that you mentioned Yuri regarding residents. They're able to request modifications if To accommodate them if they have a disability and can't read reach the exact route Mm-hmm, how do they know that that's something that they can do are there? Ads to them are there ads in different languages? Is there a they know they can request a bus stop? How do they know they can request a modification? If there's a bus stop, that's not close enough for them for them to somehow Be able to get access to transit You know we we talk about it on You know we on our buses we talk about paratransit services We talk about non-discriminate. There's a there's a non-discrimination policy. That's that that really addresses race national origin and And color that's on the buses so You know in a story, it's stated on our maps. It's on our website You know that people don't have to know that that's what they're requesting They can just make their quest and our drivers and our staff are supposed to be able to know that You know recognize that if there is something we can modify and we give trainings to our staff I actually today I gave some trainings to our driver and our driver safety safety meeting on the matter but but so yeah, that's it's mostly through training and just being able to Kind of counting on people to give us feedback. Yeah And then a follow-up question to that is so for example member leash They brought something very specific which sounds like it was helpful to you in terms of thinking through how to make improvements to transit How can community members or residents Know that they can do that as well because they may not even be thinking about as they're walking down the street and are thinking I would love to have a bus stop here or it's really inconvenient to get from point of point B And I'm driving when I don't have to be so I'm just kind of like trying to think through especially in using us or You know just thinking about how community can be informed about Yeah, that ability to reach out to your department and come up with these ideas right Yeah, I mean You know at one point we did have like a specific bus stop line You know, but we found you know, it was like too many multiple phone numbers and you know, so So at this point, yeah, you just call the main number and make those kind of comments and and requests and But yeah, we would be very you know, if there was if there was newslet if there was newsletters or or strategies that you know, and you know just because We think we do know, you know, it's it's it's it may be time to do something different So if you guys have any strategies or ideas around, you know, communities that we can better communicate with or provide presentations to or Make at you know, put place ads and newsletters or whatnot or or emails, you know, we'd be happy to feel those those recommendations Thank you. Yeah I mean and and you know, Santa Rosa community health me if it may be maybe posters in facilities Um, you know, I know you guys are I'm guessing are on north dotons. Is that the location? Yeah Yeah, yeah so Yeah Yeah, yeah, and and there's there's a specific there's there's some specific services we have That we're thinking about Implementing for specifically north dot because we just have service there right now the closest services on either gernvill road or mostly on college So they have to make their way from college to there. But yeah, so any ideas you guys have we'd be happy to Center to All right. Thank you for that question It sounds like we're getting questions with quite a bit of follow up for you, Yuri I want to let you know that our next questions will be coming from Member inocencio and the lineup after that will be member barnett member rom and then our vice chair weeks Yeah Interesting example you provided there On colgan avenue because we used to have service there and in 2017 we removed service from there. We had In 17 we had more of kind of that coverage type service and we switched to more where we were trying to reduce the number of Uh quarters we operated on to focus on specific corridors. So for colgan is a is is a is a is a good example On that, you know, you have petaluma hill road on one side to the to the east and santa rosa avenue to the west And so it's not a big walking distance. But for some of those communities It's it's an impediment. Um, and so we met with those communities multiple You know times I went on site and we tried to inform them about pair transit and then we tried to uh You know make sure those bus stops particularly the one on santa rosa avenue could meet their needs but um The the kind of the the walkway along colgan is not What it should be We did we were able to remove some of the some of uh, we were able to have the the path the the asphalt path Uh was was improved. There was some major trees Uh that were that made it so the wheelchair couldn't operate on it And so we were able to do that but we were not able to get the find the funding for the city to put a proper sidewalk in there um So yeah, so that's that's that's that's what happened at colgan and colgan avenue and um um, you know, so the the the idea, you know around, um, you know another example would be um on um On d street the uh um The the senior home there that just just off d street Where we used to we used to have a bus route that went right to the front of that and now we stay on d street And so there we did it we and and the and the same thing happened, uh For um off of um Off of Was it fourth in college that the senior the senior housing over there now they have they basically have to get to fourth street So we some people got some people end up using pair transit Which provides a door to door and that those that could walk the the distance to a bus stop would kind would make that distance so, um, you know, so that some of the so so Yes, we take that into account the the the communities or the the the locations and and and the neighborhoods that are there But at the same point we're trying to stay on the major corridors so that The service is can maintain You know an expedited service so people can get to where they're going as much as we can for everyone I don't know if that answers your question You You know, I I do have a spreadsheet where we have requests Um, and it's basically just kind of a spreadsheet. Um, we all we try we we have information on ridership per bus stop So we have that on per bus stop But it's not it's not it's not in any kind of elevated form and they're and they're the bus stops are Requests are infrequent. I'll say that Yeah, yeah So I'm going to interject here. Um before we move on to our next member's question. Uh, we do have uh, a city staff from transit, I believe no from uh, no just a city staff person who has joined us online Yuri that would like to interject Great at this time so They're being promoted Hey, Yuri. It's lawn peterson with the communications department. Um, I was just going to comment on the On the communications part happy to coordinate with you Tomorrow or anytime next week on any of that calm related stuff to getting the message out We put out a weekly newsletter which goes out tomorrow Also managed social and a lot of other stuff. So we can definitely coordinate on all things. Um, communications and outreach That's it. Thanks lawn absolutely All right. Thank you for that appreciate that information and now onto our lineup. Uh, it's member barnett then ron and then vice chair weeks I'm pushing Nope Can you guys hear me? Okay, okay Apologies to anyone on zoom who's not hearing what I'm about to ask so on the communication question how to broadcast the bus stop request in the case The city center is a business newsletter called city connections And I think person that leads that for projects in the room city What's going on with the let's connect website that was my other question because that might also I know that you guys have a A potential user base with that That could be another key and then I know at some point the cab had a facebook page that we broadcast out We did for early cig. So that might be another possibility of taking deliverables From transit and broadcasting it to that audience potentially. So those were the how to get it out there um, and then my question um, so I actually get to work with iris. I'm pretty excited about this because we work on Bike month bike to in which by the way bike to work day. It's coming back Because transit solves for one of the biggest challenges with biking to work which this well, Sonoma county There's a first mile last mile Disaster and a lot of people saw for already with bikes but one question I had for you had actually to do with smart because Well, I ride a bike So I saw the first mile last mile problem with a bike from smart to getting wherever But at one point I thought the idea was that the trains and the buses were going to sink But one of the things I know is like when I'm downtown, I never see the bus in the downtown. So I'm guessing that isn't You could stop seeing it. That was my question to you was the first mile last mile challenge of if you arrive at smart Do you have to walk to the transit mall or is there a route that I don't know about? specifically to the downtown station, I think Where smart is located to Cottingtown you would have to Walk because I don't I don't think there's anything convenient with that site, but I'm just wondering about downtown. I know there's the kiss-off Part of what they've got set up for smart But I was gonna ask you specifically about the bus route down there is that Am I just not am I just missing the route for when the bus is connected? That not happen and people actually have to walk to transit. That was my question Yeah, so For the smart and and downtown transit mall connection. We have uh, if you're looking at your map you will see it But we have basically 10 buses an hour that go between transit mall and pass by this Pass through railroad square and it we we know we need to make improvements and part of it's around the development of There's there's city has a project connecting to the bike path on the south side and then there's the development on the north side So some of that will get improved, but essentially Route 2 and 2b which serves the basketball road and route 12 Basically gets you to the smart station and so it and and then there's also the route 6 and the route 9 And so those all go right by The smart station and and it is a little confusing because there's three different bus stops and it's not super obvious, but but Route 6 and route 9 will drop you off right on the path leading to the smart station The route 2 2b and 12 will drop you off On railroad street. So you just have to cross third and then on your way back into the transit mall from the smart station Essentially, there's one bus stop there in front of the Hyatt that Serves all those routes and so you have 10 buses an hour making that that that You know making that connection That all being said we we do hear that it's not Obvious and there's can we continue to work with smart on signage and then those bus stops We would like to see and we're we've we're working traffic engineer that The the route 2 to be in 12 would basically stay on third street to Dutton and then make their way to stony point That way we put everything on the same same corridor same bus stops that would slightly simplify things We do have Serving the the north station up at codding town But you obviously we have the city obviously has the bike pedestrian bridge coming You know kind of being designed from the jc and then right right right there's a bus stop there and edwards, which is what serves Amtrak and so eventually we've met with amtrak and so eventually amtrak will likely move to More the codding town location. So then there's that gap. How do you fail the pedestrian bridge to codding town gap? And then there's the gap from codding town to the smart station. We do have some plans for route nine that would go. I think Adriana De Leon you mentioned Serving north Dutton and that same route would serve north Dutton and make its way It will pass the smart station and then make its way to codding town So we we have some plans in the work for north for north codding town, but everything's basically We're working on it Sharing sharing is caring um So I noticed I don't the signs weren't numbered but there was one there was called route planning and the youth doubled from 12 percent to 25 percent Is that because it's free? Is that the only reason you think? Um I I So, um, the You know it coming out of the pandemic It was one of the first programs that we offered that was that was new And um and students were coming back. So there's this there's this bit of like when You know for the jc for instance You get a lot of ridership right at the beginning of the semester And then it drops off as you click closer in december and it drops off for most of the year So I think what we did is we helped I think we launched it at a time where we were able to create patterns for students And and so and they found that it worked um But I would say that yeah making it free really removed a hurdle that that uh because at one point we would sell passes to the We would give passes to the to the to the schools to allow them To then give it to the student or sell it to the students essentially and so we've removed that barrier and so that's Yeah, I I there's been a lot of free fair programs that you know Yeah, you see 100 200 improvements and this is one of those where we want to continue How can I continue the fair free program for youth? Yes, we have we've we city has funding through the end of June and then uh The county funded a countywide program So it'll be free fair countywide on soma county petaluma and city bus for two years starting um july 1st So that's so no matter what it was through 2000 point. Yeah, yeah And then and then we measure measure measure m on us go sonoma. There's a chance that that could continue the funding And then and then when you talk about ridership and the the Investment into the bus stop based on usage, right? So You I guess you guys track It's on each stop. Yeah, so not not who but well keep number number. Yeah location and and number. Yeah, so coffee park Obviously we built it used to be on hopper and coffee rain that was on hopper now It's been moved to coffee rain right lost amenities right Is it So I think there's a project uh, there's there's a couple project for the bus stops not on the project right now Um But if that yeah on hopper on hopper. Yeah, so I think yeah, they're um I I reviewed that project recent. I think we're moving the bus stop back to hopper with a Shell, I don't know if it's a shelter might just be I don't remember before it was a bench trash can pull Right and the ridership was what it was right. You feel that putting coverage and making the bus stop more um attractive or Inviting increase in ridership Um, I've seen it both ways Where I mean we have examples where we've had to remove bus stops because because it uh, people end up Sleeping the bus stop or it attracts the type of uh activity that we don't want at bus stops airway and copper So we not not at airway and hopper no airway and hopper is horrible. Okay. Okay terrible hopper Yeah, I have I have neighbors that don't even go to that bus stop and start right right so So so we've removed bus because we've removed shelters for that reason and it's I mean You know the biggest one would be sam jones. I think where we had to remove the bus stop there because there was just too much activity but we Do we move the I think we just removed the shelter That's still a bus stop. We removed the shelter and that really cut down on the on the activity So it really depends. I don't I don't I think um The the the shelter really just provides assistance in the rain or in the really hot sun You know a tree can do it in the hot sun So but so You know, I think I think when you get into really, you know, when I think the best thing that For a bus stop is when a community Helps to own it because it was a transit facility that we can respond to issues that come up but it doesn't but we can't be there all the time and and and So I think I think that's probably the best thing is when that when a neighborhood really begins to own the bus stop and And makes it what you know asks us to throw in resources and has some ownership to it that You know, whether that's to have a shelter or not have a shelter or have a bench or not have a bench to have art or not You know, I think that's that's probably the best thing for I've never I mean, I actually I I've read some statistics around and some reports around You know improvements in ridership connected with facilities at bus stops But but it kind of goes both ways But we can reach out to you for that bus stop specifically. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you Thank you and vice chair weeks Already unmuted so convenient um My first question was actually related to the the funding that you mentioned I'm assuming With mtc the the funding is is largely derived from obag and you can correct me if I'm wrong What First what is the share Of funding that stems from mtc as it's, you know invested in terms of like the dollars that we get from them And how we're able to use as a larger portion of our our investment package locally in the community And then also, do you know what the share is relative to other jurisdictions? Are we kind of, you know, kind of getting the short end of the stick I I know it's often the case that we don't get as a Creative investment nor the the forgotten borough of sorts Here in the north bay. Um, so that's the first one. Yeah, I'm not the finance guy So I don't have the numbers to roll off my head. Um But I do know that, you know, we we a lot of it's tda funding state state, uh state, um Sales tax that then gets, uh, then gets, um, you know sent to mtc and then gets distributed To the transit agencies throughout the bay So, um, there's for me. There's like for me. That's like formula funding. Um, and um So it's based off our population And and then there and I think it's dedicated to the county and then and then we split it up with the bus operators golden gate get some of that Um, and um, it's based off there. There's there's a formula. So I don't know that I could say that I mean, I think there is generally that there there's there's many different examples of situations where, um You know, there's there's a critique that maybe the small operators like like city bus might not, you know, get Um, the finances and some of the big operators in the inner bay get, um But essentially we we we get made pretty whole. We at this point, we're not dealing with, uh, financial shortage really the issue that we're facing right now is The lack of drivers. Um, and that's really what's preventing us from having more service out of the street Um, but to have a further financial discussion. We probably want to talk with our deputy director to better understand Okay, those those pieces. Um, the other question I had was And you might have already mentioned this and forgive me. I've not had a lot of sleep How do you make determinations around I think someone sort of mentioned this determinations around Essentially opportunity zones or equity opportunity zones like case in point I believe one is actually centered around the ice rink and there is a project Going in soon a housing project. Hopefully I think it's proved Um That happened tonight. So I don't know There's a one acre parcel right across the street from there, you know, soon that could serve a quite a few new families And it's an equity opportunity zone Yeah, I think I know the project you're talking about it's just China. It's kind of on the south side of Correct steel and it's yes. We have a bus stop very close proximity to that So yeah, so that would be the one that serves that area Yeah, okay. Yeah, I mean and there's one across the street from it I mean if we if we have you know when a development comes in if We would prefer the bus stop to be located In proximity to that development we'll make that comment Usually it's because it's closer to the Crosswalk or there's a gap But yeah, essentially like a bus stop on one property will serve You know the a quarter mile is essentially an acceptable walking distance. You know, that's a five minute That's a six minute walk five minute five minute walk You know, they say they say you know takes 20 minutes to walk a mile or 20 to 30 minutes to walk a mile Do you ask those projects to put in like car routes because obviously that street is pretty busy Sometimes biggest complaints is it's so much traffic over there. Yeah, I think I think that bus stop there. That's at the corner of West steel and Range has a pull out. Yeah Wow, yeah Sometimes sometimes, you know, if there's I know our traffic engineer Really likes pull outs because it gets out of traffic exactly if there's two lanes You're not it's less important to have a pull out because you can have one lane that can be passed in And it's you know, and it doesn't take so much right away But you know, we we'll we'll operate in you know some depending on the location The traffic engineer and our division will decide what kind of comments we want and what's feasible to construct Okay, and then uh, my my last quick question. I'm just curious um, because you said You showed some essentially very creative bus stops Um, which I don't think we have any of those in the city of santa rosa Has there been interest registered by the community to to consider Something like that. Maybe is you know Part of a revitalization of a neighborhood I have not uh, I Let's see And we we talk with the art board at one point about bus stops and art So I think there was some interest from an art perspective, but I've not heard interest specifically from a community Like a from a from a neighborhood. Yeah Well, it's a memorable reason I bring it up because you know If you make an inviting or attracting put it in the right place You know more people might actually end up starting to use and someone that works in housing I always like to see ways in which we can kind of bridge that And then really start to spur more people to use those alternative modalities get around town And that starts and ends with with really creating an inviting space and so I understand it's complicated though Totally and and when we when we have developments, we will say, you know We have a standard bus stop that you can use but we would we oftentimes say, you know We're happy if you incorporate the bus stop into your architecture. So The the bust they The Dutton flats development Where they put a kind of carve out into the building that was Not doesn't kind of doesn't make it an afterthought And yeah, I mean, I think you're right. I mean if if we're able to You know have More invited more inviting locations I think it just raises our profile and the profile of transit and and alternative commuting In general, so I mean, it's it's definitely to something that we're interested in working on great. Thank you All right. Well, thank you for all of that. Um, I do want to follow up with a couple questions of my own Uh, one of which is actually from a writer That is uh is wheelchair bound. Um, so does have some of those, uh, the issues around ridership, but instead of Of around Where the bus stop is located it's around times of availability And specifically being able to attend meetings like this that are held in the evening um, this person rides the bus does the bus everywhere um and Would love to be involved in in these types of Um Activities and community involvement, but is unable to because of the bus times That are not available. So how do they approach that? Um, and how What is that Determined because we have a lack of drivers at this time. What's what's the barriers in that? Yeah, great question. And um, you know, when we when we have the reimagining city bus, which was a a planning Uh, um, you know a planning it was our plan is our planning document that we culminated in 2016 17 And what that you know that really point and changed a lot of the routes and kind of the next Uh to dues on that were extend hours of service And I think that's you know, very consistent that we hear that. Um, and Um, it's really you know at one point we would have said it's a financial thing You know financial issue at this point. It's definitely a driver shortage issue You know and Yeah, so I think it's it's both Um, but without a doubt, you know To for our community to not to not have service really after eight o'clock really limits a lot of people and um, it's That that need has been identified in all our plans that when we've gone to the public. Um So um, and and it's usually You usually will you'll see it in our surveys a lot when we're when we're when we're trying to do planning It'll be you know, what how do you what's what's the trip? Would you like more service? Would you like later service? Um, you know, would you like higher frequency and that that's definitely one of the questions? Um Um, so you know in terms of how to get there Um, you know It's it's gonna it's I mean with post pandemic it's going to take us to have riders and then it's I mean drivers and then it's going to take Probably community advocacy or some additional funds that that we can expend um Not a great answer, but I think that's it's not a unique request I mean, it's it's definitely something it's it's it's I would say it's our highest priority Yeah, I mean between it's either, you know, a lot a lot of times we'll ask do we want more service on sunday? Um, do we want to make sunday service like saturday? I think because we have a we actually have quite a bit of ridership on sunday even though the hours are less Um, and then the next thing is in the evenings Those are the two big requests I'm just a follow-up on that as well as another question, but This post pandemic world that we're we're quickly moving into um during the pandemic we had So many opportunities for people to be involved and be a part of meetings Um that where they're study meetings or different community organization meetings on zoom And now we're moving into hybrid and in more in person. So, um, I just definitely want to elevate that uh request for those extended hours and also maybe an investigation or Some way to connect with a public private Partnership in those in those ways Um, so that those extended hours could could happen Especially for those people that have ambulatory issues um, or disabilities, so Just a comment on that my other question is getting the information out to people And We have these district meetings coming up. So we have this district meetings Uh that we just talked about the town hall meetings and each district will be doing a meeting and The cab members are going to be involved um, and I think that Uh, you know, trans that's an opportunity for transit To also get information out to people but once again also Availing the opportunity for people to come to the meetings Because sometimes we have these opportunities for people in the community But then no way for them to have Um the ability to attend So, uh, I know hybrid meetings will help that but I don't know that these town hall meetings will have that capability um, so if there is ever any possible way to coordinate with different functions of the city so that when there is An opportunity for the public to come out and meet for a town hall or meet about um the in response Programs or other programs with the city to link up the transit transit services so that more people could attend those meetings That would that would be something um Yeah, I would and i'm i'm not i'm not part of planning those meetings, but yeah location and time. I mean in terms of In terms of access to transit. Um, yeah so I really thank you for And one more question before I go on with that appreciation. So member land Not so much a question, but a brief snippet of something. I think that transit can consider My brother started the transit program because he thought like this was a good way to get a government job and have stability but um The morale was really low of everybody he encountered So as somebody who's under 30 it was intimidating to hear from so many miserable people And be confronted with having to work with them on a daily basis and find what little bit of joy the job could provide for him and contractually He would have been bound to a 12 month rotating schedule which will essentially will be the request to his child and so when we think about opportunities and intergenerational connectedness and often hiring practices and Scheduling the offer for folks a glimpse of hope to know like i'm going to be able to work around this and work with my family Dynamics of structures I think would be really key to Insighting interest in folks from a younger generation who may also still be working multiple jobs or how We all know there's no big here available. So that poses an issue for families That was definitely a catalyst for him not completely I'll add the link to that Yeah, um Yeah, I mean we have a group of drivers that are That are the the the ones that get to bid on a standard schedule and they get to pick their schedule And then there's the there's the new drivers and i'm not part of part of how that's set up with the new drivers Yeah, they basically have to Be there when uh when the rest of the work is available and that's how they make their way up into those Um full-time positions young Having the essentially possibly work seven days a week. I'm really sure it's done. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely So that's those some of the issues why we maybe don't have uh enough drivers Is that it it really the job? It's a great government job, but it right it does it it does Require a very available schedule to to get through the initial stages of it. Yep. Yep. Yep. Thank you for that feedback So, uh, I want to thank you. You're here for your uh, just diligence with this and bringing the presentation forward but also um for Your listening ear this evening. Um, we certainly threw out a lot of uh questions and comments uh about something that I know is so important to the infrastructure of our community and To so many people's lives being able to get from one place to another and also really appreciate all of the free programs that the transit has been able to enact and Looking looking at more and we did hear you when you said that you are down in drivers And we'll seem to acquire more drivers and great points by member landge about Some of the equity issues around that and whatnot. So Um, not without challenges I also want to thank all of our members tonight for bringing all of the questions And once again just point out member lands for initiating Uh getting this presentation to to the community advisory board Um, I'm sure that there'll be some follow-up In the months to come. So thank you so much for your time. Thank you all for your great comments valuable And these are the kind of comments that a lot of times we we don't we don't get so, uh, you know, thank you for representing the community and Uh, please have us back. Uh, transit back, uh, you know, our deputy director would be happy to come back to and We could talk about other we could talk about finances. We could talk about Um, a number of different things. Uh, we will have a a short range transit plan If that's something that's appropriate to bring this committee, you know, that that's where we're getting into Where the routes are going and some more of the details So we'd be happy to come back and we'll follow up with some of you individually on some of your comments as well Thank you so much. And before you step out Um and go catch a bus Let's bring it to public comment really quickly just in case All right, I hear that there are no hands raised for public comment. So once again, Yuri, thank you so much and we'll we'll see you dart away Thank you so much for having me on those buses though. Absolutely. Please. All right. Thank you So that concludes, uh, scheduled items number 6.1 We're moving right along to item number 6.2, but it is close to 8 o'clock and I just want to provide a five minute break If uh, that is something that is needed. We most of us are here in house Um, and there are a facility right around the corner and to the right So without objection does anybody need this without objection should we take a five minute break? I'm not seeing an objection. I'm not seeing a hand raised Yeah, are we? Oh, it looks like it's not as close as you. All right. So I'm now I'm hearing an objection. Okay, so we're going to continue on um Unless there is someone strong feeling about it, but I alone so we're going to be moving right along to item number 6.2 and our 2022 q4 community improvement grant application selection I believe uh, daniel you're doing this. All right. Thank you I think that you have the community improvement grant program Update right there. So you're going to go through that and then go into the actual Grant application. Is that am I correct? Yeah, all right Okay, so for all the new Yeah, I'm good Uh, for all the new cap members and current cap members, uh, the community improvement grant program each year city council provides cap funding for the community improvement grant program The goal of the program is to support community building improves neighborhoods strengthen city relationships with the community and Funds neighborhood neighborhood, but that's currently suspended at the moment Community groups can apply for up to 2,500 this Uh Includes neighborhoods or community groups for more informal schools nonprofits and service clubs services club so For uh, this quarter. We got one. We had one eligible application From maria cardenas. The project name is mm. I w ribbon skirts and the amount requested was 16 Or 16 90 80 cents. So that's like the total funding request for this application for this quarter um So as you can see like this is where our budget is right now the total starting budget was 82,661 2020 project total is to 12,256 2020 project total is to 41,651 and then 2020 2022 Current project total is a quarter one quarter two and 43 only is a 21,640 which Leaves us with a budget remaining of 7,114 Yeah um So I kind of went through that pretty fast, but yeah, this this application that came in in quarter four was of 16 90 Uh point 80 as mentioned before for the ribbon skirts from maria cardenas So that leaves us I guess for this part of questions Yeah, it's Yeah, so um Make sure lino needed. Okay. So first, let's do a little bit of a procedure here Are we opening it up to Questions first and then we will shoot for We're doing the questions right now on the presentation about cab grants in general And then we will move to the cab grant application that we have So, um, henry just uh, you're opening it up right now To your question about the cab grants in general and the funding You can We can Yeah, yeah, it's for this presentation right now. So you can ask that question. Yeah all right I just did everybody hear the question He already asked the question Okay, um, so yes, so normally what happens is the council will allocate $35,000 per year to the community advisory board for this grant program However, because of the pandemic and because of a variety of other factors the balance the fund balance kind of Built up and kept building up to where we had a really large amount And so they decided to stop allocating those funds until we spent the fund balance down So now we're getting to a point where okay great We're going to spend this down So we're the city is about to go into its next budget cycle And so we will ask the council. Okay, we've spent the money down It's time to start out reallocating those funds again Um, so we will be asking for the full 35 000 for the new fiscal year which starts july 1st Yep Okay at this time, um, are there any other questions from cab members looking around the room i see And we have vice chair weeks Forgive my aged memory Um Remind me how often can someone apply for a grant? Is it once per year once every other year? So with the the grant program Typically we ask applicants to abstain So if they get funding one year we ask them not to apply the following year Um, and then they can reapply again after they've taken that year off But the focus of their project has to be different than the last time So we can't have this be an ongoing thing where we continually fund the same exact thing over and over again um, and with that A little bit of clarity I Think that we probably have staff at some point do a look at all of the cab grants over the past year Maybe a little bit more because I think that we have done a cab grant to a recipient Back to back years and in fact they waited for their program To have been completed and the year and then to come back. So it was A previous staff understanding that it was just year to year and that they had to wait that 12 months. So um, that might be so I I Just want to make sure um that that gets looked into and that some clarity around that comes back to the cab because um, I'm Recalling not only just one but maybe two that have done that. So I I understand your statement danielle But I know that we've operated differently So, um, that might be something to look at and just kind of do a full scope Of what has happened so far and then make sure that we're very consistent moving forward And I know that there are some changes and some transitions coming up But I just um need to state that out loud So, um, so at this So at this time, let's go to public comment for the cab grant presentation That danielle just made With no hands raised We'll move on to the second part of this as I understand it which would be about our q4 cab grant application um, there's Daniel, I'm looking at you. Are there a Presentation with that or are we just moving right into questions about that cab grant? application Yes So we're moving Did you unmute for that answer? There you So it sounded like danielle answered the question saying that we're moving directly into questions For the cab grant applications to remind our members that this is for The mm i w ribbon skirts project um, and we are all given that application as a link um in our agenda So are there any questions or comments and I see um member barnett's hand up Motion to approve the cab grant application for the ribbon skirt second So we have a motion from member barnett and a second from a member diaz de leon Can we go to a roll call vote at this time? All right start with uh cherry graves Yes, approved. Thank you vice chair weeks Approved member barnett approved member hola member inascencia member lang member diaz de leon approved member romp member Rodriguez not here uh members sierra and member step approve Oh, let that be known that uh everyone in attendance has approved this quarter four grant for the mm i w ribbon scripts And I apologize. I did do a procedural error that was supposed to go to public comment before we took the actual vote I want to check with staff at this time. Were there any hands raised and I'm getting uh, uh, I mean being uh Told no Thank you. So there were no hands raised so that procedural error will get stricken striked from the record um so I just want to note with this that um This is an application that I just thought was absolutely wonderful And I want to also make mention That uh the state of california has now instituted an alert for missing indigenous women and women of color And that it goes right along with our amber alert system I believe that was approved and starts uh very very soon and um I just thought that that was Great to have this come forth right around that same time and it's a wonderful program that our state is now instituting uh, so I hope everybody is aware of that That finishes out item number 6.2. And now we're going on to item number 6.3 Which is the uh issues of concern to city residents and this is a standing agenda item where cab members Can report on issues of concern and to the community members within their cab areas And the city as a whole community members may use public comment during this time to Bring issues of concern also to the cab. So are there any cab members who have issues of concern to city residents? Raise your hand And uh member inocencio you have the floor All right All right All right, so um The issue of concern I was reporting was just Civic ready and it's not performing as well as nixle was And in particular during the recent rains people were reporting that some of the messages were going to their spam folder Um, and the website to sign up is only available in english Um, I haven't confirmed that that's the case but I've heard of that reported multiple times and Yeah, that's it. Okay Are there any other issues of concern from cab members at this time? Okay, I will bring up one that I know of is um There's a recent report that as of yesterday there were arrests made um with the uh kind of car Side shows correct the car side shows. Um, it has been uh mentioned to me that Hopefully this can be an opportunity for restorative justice um being that these are all young men of color um, and some very very young that were arrested uh As it proceeds to um a potential Trial type of a situation. So, um, I know that this is an issue of concern to all of the city residences That have been affected by side shows but Just bringing in that human element to Having someone's life affected by a side show Situation where they were promoting it so Uh, I wanted to bring that forth because community members have have mentioned that themselves. So I'm restorative justice is a wonderful program and I know that there are judges here in Sonoma county that are um on top of that but if that can make its way throughout the city as well Then um, I'm happy to elevate that comment So at this time, uh for Item number 6.3. Can we go to public comment? Thank you that closes out item number 6.3 and at this time we're going to future agenda items I think we had one mentioned earlier. Um, this is the tentative schedule and its subject to change We've got uh in february a presentation for in response and and ongoing Coming up is implemented implementing strategic planning for those of you that are new that was um Something that we started quite a while back and that's something to continually touch upon and to Have the staff Bring into the agenda in ongoing months um Also, there's the my santa rosa app presentation and the santa rosa general plan update and uh potentially in march also at this time I want to um Provide some information to the rest of the cab that uh tonight is my last meeting with the cab um, I am stepping down um and Moving on to other responsibilities uh Including um a new position those of you that know me um just a little bit You know that I just beat cancer breast cancer last year I finished all of my treatments in august and um while I was working last year I did take some time off starting in october to reevaluate um what I wanted to do and um have taken on a position as uh an event facility manager in downtown santa rosa with a historic facility the santa the saturday afternoon club so um and I also do quite a bit of volunteer work uh, and I will be I've been um Hiking a lot during my recovery from cancer and uh, I have uh got myself appointed to the measure in parks uh community oversight committee with the county so It has been a pleasure to be part of the community advisory board since 2000 and um the end of 2019 and for the last two years to be the chair of um of this Board um, we've given out over 75 000 dollars worth of uh grants and have persevered through a pandemic and uh a lot of virtual meetings um and had members on our board throughout that time that I have yet to meet in person and I hope to meet them one day um So I wanted to before we end this meeting uh to let you all know that and really share my thanks to the staff and to the members for um making this such an enjoyable time for myself and really extremely worthwhile I also want to take just a minute for each of our current members to say a little bit about themselves because we tend to not do that we tend to introduce the new members and then our current members don't get a chance to say much um and I wanted to make sure that you guys get off to the right foot um before I pass on the gavel so um I would like to start with um member Barnett uh and and then move around the room and then I'll come around this way Howdy folks, uh I will do introductions with you next month because I am missing out on Shady O'Kee with my husband right now so I'd really like to be done with this meeting right now and that's great um member Lange thank you member Lange and member Innocentio yeah uh my name is Jorge Innocentio I've been on on this board now for since 2020 so what is that three years now um I'm also on a number of things and I joined me on CAV to be able to provide feedback and feel involved in my community um some things I do for fun is uh I'm also a coach I coach rugby so coach uh Soch is here and that's about it so thank you all right thank you and vice chair weeks thank you uh quick note related this item and you can talk after but I would very much enjoy an opportunity to speak with Marquesha or Dariel one of the two about their kind of vision for community engagement and kind of get that one in one conversation going so if we could have that discussion we talked about it I don't know what happened sorry again age memory forgive me I've forgotten um uh uh yeah I've got Calamics uh policy direct I mean they all know me so I'm mostly going to look this way uh I'm the uh I'm a policy director for a housing organization um really passionate about you know creating um communities that are sustainable long-term that you know can can support um you know all folks whether you know you be a child or a community or a family that is just trying to find their way so you know um really passionate about community engagement as well I've been on here for sure what is it like four or five years now something like that I know time is so fluid I was here then I wasn't then I came back again um and then yeah in my my free time I'm I'm just always working on a bunch of odd knickknacks and the former mayor's uh garage because I don't have anywhere else to go so I'm off of him yeah thank you I remember wrong uh my name is Steve rom I am a president of coffee park former president of coffee strong fire survivor and was appointed by Tom Schwedhelm two years now this will be my second year and and through the fires just got more engaged with the community and and here I am short and sweet great thank you I really appreciate that because I know that as a new member when you're coming in and you don't know everybody on uh the board is really important just to hear a few words from everybody so that you can kind of start to make those connections um you are all what makes the community very strong so thank you so much for your time and energy and um are there any public comment for item number seven there are no hands raised for public comment thank you and item number eight is there a motion to adjourn so all right that was that was land and rom and everybody thank you so much for your time