Regional Transit Partnership (2017-2025) Meeting   6/26/2025

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Yeah, we don't want that coming out.

We are being recorded.

All right, recording's on.

I'm Peter Krebs from the Piedmont Environmental Council Taylor Jenkins, DJ PDC

Christine Jacobs, TJ PDC, Ms. Shannen, TJ PDC, and let's see what you usually do.

All right, Jason has to do the jobs.

Okay, city to be councilor, city councilor.

We'll send it to you all for vote.

Ms. Miller?

Yes.

And that is all.

Would you call the voting force on that one?

Supervisor McKeel?

Yes.

Allison Dick?

We're going to have three minutes for speaker

If so, um, raise your hand.

We're hearing from the transit providers and their budgets, so you go first.

I forgot to load the presentations, I'm sorry.

You're some funny guy.

Perhaps Taylor Jenkins could give us a vote before we talk about the lady.

Sure, I'd like to do that.

So Taylor is going to present the helping for the Transit Authority to work.

Ben, was there anything, Ben or Christine, that I missed that we could cover?

The non-voting are the RPT and UVA and the voting are?

So we have the RPT and UVA that have been approved as joining the card.

Yes, the CARTA board has indicated that they would like to make those invitations, and so now we still need to have those conversations and work through the process for whether that's a letter, you know, or a resolution from their bodies for how that would work, those invitations would work, but those are the two that CARTA has indicated.

And we have reached out to them.

We're doing continuing outreach with them.

OK.

And we're going to continue holding it in this larger room.

We did find you this little tendency.

We stalled long enough.

Yes?

Sir, just to clarify, is that the end of this fiscal year or calendar year?

We've had conversations with Diantha for the last three years.

That's correct.

It balances out, and that's how we get our final numbers, and we have a projection on how much

Okay.

All good things, not bad things, it's

How is the weekly net demand and the weekly rise different?

So you and I, I could take a trip, I may take two trips as opposed to one, and you would take one trip.

So it's weekly riders?

But this is their chart.

Wait, does that say 25% of the ride requests were not made?

Exactly.

But you were saying it's improved.

Based on the eight vehicles, they're not able to meet all those stress.

That's very interesting.

Or using it to get to school.

What's the second?

The second most used was Walmart.

So, you know, if this can help address teenage angst, a problem we've been working on for thousands of years,

And it's a way for them to get to their job.

Until such time as the activity bus is perfect, this is pretty good.

It's one of the fastest growing

So I multiply that by 52 and get like 100,000 some for the next slide.

I haven't looked at the survey information in a little while, but

Yeah, the seven is one of our highest ratchet rats.

Is changing the size of the vehicle changing efficiencies for you?

Like, you're talking about six-state passenger vehicles right now with a slightly bigger vehicle.

It's just because we were really probably talking about four to five additional vehicles needed.

There's kind of an inherent scalability problem.

Is there any demographic data that we're able to collect?

Yes, they have let them try to remember what was in the survey information, but I think you can actually pull, we don't get you at, we get a range of ages, we don't get you at our exact age.

Yeah, try not to, because I have a theory that I checked my subject, because...

All we want to know is

You're doing it the correct way, but for us to be able to think about what we're doing with this transportation, I think, does actually factor into the cost.

that will tell you where they've been coming to, or they will say you're outside the window that you need, you can't provide a service, but if you can, it will say we'll be there in 10 minutes.

That's where in turn, the last year, I'm thinking more in those terms.

And I was going to say, as we start as the community leaders, just by having these discussions, those are the factors

People ask me about an 18-year-old, $18 taxi ride and I can say back, well, if it were me that would probably be a bad deal because I could ride my bike.

But for a kid, it might be a good deal.

That is from a study that was done by, can you remember?

The original study.

Can we go on?

So those, they were the ones that set up the model we were just remembering.

We're the managers.

So, if the dynamics are changing and you want us to start tracking things, you just need to be informed so we can make sure that we'll start tracking things.

And I'm just saying because we are now a free service.

We just need to figure out what that means.

Did you have any questions?

Any other questions?

Do you have a sense for your drivers of what health insurance, as ours went up, and we were talking about close to 30% increase in our health insurance, which is why we've been open to limits.

I don't, John Lewis was the director at that one that used to work at GRTC, which is why I kind of followed what he was doing.

safety officers to be fit and healthy and well, and that extends also to all of our other employees.

Well, and when you get, when you have the availability of a gymnasium for the employees, it's easy for them to get to use.

We've given you enough time to get it loaded.

does have a level of fitness that they need to have and they have annual physicals and so in order to keep their license and continue to drive with us and particularly for us since you know 40% of what we do is complimentary paratransit each and every person has to be able to get down on their hands and knees and strap into a wheelchair and be able to push that and operate a lift and all these other things as well and people are testing for that.

Safety officers, jail security officers, fire and rescue police, and then people who are sedentary in their jobs, like folks that drive buses a lot.

I'm not going to answer you and launch you in here, but I'll just say that think of John as somewhere in between those things because this is a door-to-door service and so this is not a sit-in-the-channel.

And I'll stop.

Right, Katy?

It'll bother them.

It's correct that it's a benefit to us and actually actually provide a little more money.

And so, I'm at the point for questions, a little bit different approach, but hopefully not too bad.

We'll get around with the members here and see if they've got any questions.

That's individual rides?

The highest on record that we can find for Jaunt is some number that looked like 300,000, but it also happened at a period of time where there's some record keeping issues and we don't have entire confidence in them.

What do you mean anticipating the new pavement and your lighting and your fencing and all of that to be completed?

Thank you very much.

Almore County Public Schools is first, and I think Jamie's not here.

Devin Thompson was online for Jamie, but she is not online.

We also put in our notes, let's make you a name tag so you don't have to have Scott in front of you when you are his alternate.

We'll take care of that.

So he's having a grand old time.

Oh yeah, he's been blowing up my phone all day.

The Fontaine parking garage is coming along nicely, so that's a big win for us coming up here soon.

How many battery limited buses are you getting?

It's just an hour, I think, outside of San Francisco, so.

Are you flying in here?

Good luck.

They're driving.

All right, good luck.

So if someone were to be there, and literally go and check us, sitting in the airport, hot out, doing Netflix for a little while.

Green.

Green County.

All but 33.

It breaks them in.

It does, it certainly does.

It's all about framing and perspective.

So one time one of our buses got a diesel bus

Because there's also the battery capacity that you want to keep the charge within.

I do want to just thank you because I'm hearing from

Yes, the many

but they're really opening up some opportunities for us in service because in the past we've just had these big transit vehicles and there are certainly necessary transportation services that don't warrant or can't be supported by a larger vehicle so we're excited.

All right, so Carl, you're back on.

Last year, the state authorized us to add up the vehicles.

So from our border, we delivered a lot of the seats.

We don't know what we've done.

It's almost a challenging project.

It seems all of our opponents were at GBS systems pretty much today.

So we're at the top of the range.

And we will be borrowing some of the generous funding from CTV this day.

I don't know.

I think those cars are always out-hopping for folks.

Yeah, I didn't say the cars.

Charging is probably, I don't know the figures here, but $2.3 million for the size of, you know, it's a different model that a trainer needs to have to buy as opposed to a school professor.

It's a lot of money, but...

Really expensive stuff.

And she's still smiling.

We've been trying to get our numbers now, but really expensive.

All right, if there are no questions,

and so... You did say required, right?

You said required, right?

Happy summer.

Oh, right.

Okay.

I think that's kind of the thing.

That would be with this kind of heat.

So that is a new project that we

Is it that's permanent now?

Thank you.

That starts June 30th.

And that's which one are you talking about now?

That's kind of our next one that we'll be starting.

Don't tell me you're out on it before you get to the cabin.

But the goal we're probably having to learn about the first 30 years in the history of hospital service.

And I thought that the process from the state and the general services, I thought we had two or three years to prove that we could make this work, and we've already used it here, or somewhere close.

We're going to be fine.

OK, that's what I wanted you to say.

We engaged the DRPT team, obviously first because Bethany got her shoes on.

It's costly, but it's beautiful.

So you got to get into the spot, be compliant, be on the move, and be able to get out of the spot.

But that's good, great information to have.

You also have a spot going in for developers' devices.

We have a lot of, because we've been requiring them in all of our development.

We have them and they're pretty close to putting them in.

Is there some notion that each year this is going to cost me a certain amount to send somebody to pick up trash or maintenance or vandalism?

So we do want to put in trash cans, but that also

Cause like, I mean, somebody has to think about these things.

All right, any other questions?

Same place, same time.