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From: Board.Secretary
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 4:47 PM To: VTA Board of
Directors
Subject: From VTA: Response to an A&F referral; September
2015 meeting list; SVRT Video
VTA Board of Directors:
Attached are the following:
1) Staff response to a question from the A&F Committee
related to Item #6.6 of the 9/3 Board Agenda: El Paseo Limousine
(El Paseo) contract for ACE Shuttle Services. The
document describes the training, wages and benefits of El Paseo
operators.
2) List of September 2015 meetings
VTA recently released a video regarding Drone Technology at
Future BART Stations. This
video provides an up-close look at how imagery captured by
drones that canvassed the project’s
corridor contributed to project data collection. To view the
video, please
click: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzhR01T4K5w.
Office of the Board Secretary
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
3331 N. First Street
San Jose, CA 95134
408.321.5680
[email protected]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzhR01T4K5wmailto:[email protected]
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8/31/2015 VTA Service & Operations Planning
El Paseo – ACE Shuttle Contractor Operator Training, Wages and
Benefits Operator Training New operators hired with the proper DMV
licensing are given a skills proficiency test. Once passed the
operator is then required to complete 40 hours of behind the wheel
training with a trainer to learn the multiple ACE shuttle routes.
New operators hired without the proper licensing are put through 60
hours of classroom training. They are instructed based upon the
commercial drivers handbook and take the DMV test. Once operators
have received their commercial permit they are required to complete
the 40 hours of behind the wheel training with a trainer. Also, a
trainer rides with each operator once every 90 days to ensure they
continue to operate the vehicle and route in a safe and profession
manner. Wages The current hourly pay scale for ACE shuttle
operators is $15 - $19. Effective January 1, 2016, with the start
of the new contract, rates will increase to $18 - $23. The current
15 ACE shuttle operators average $17.25 per hour. All ACE shuttle
operators are full time. Operators receive an annual increase of
2-4% based upon changes in the consumer price index. All current
ACE shuttle operators that are employed when the contract is
awarded will receive a $1,000 bonus in January 2016. Benefits El
Paseo currently pays the first $225 of an operator’s monthly health
insurance coverage. Effective January 1, 2016 this amount will
increase to $400. At this time three operators use the in house
Medical, Dental and Vision plan. Four operators are covered under
their spouse’s plans, three have benefits through retirement plans
& five employees haven’t disclosed their information but are
expected to move to the employer plan in January. Every full time
operator receives three days of sick pay per year. Effective
January 1, 2016 a new safety incentive program will be introduced.
While details are still being developed, the program will be
structured with each operator starting with a bonus amount for safe
driving of $750. Any occurrences during year would reduce the bonus
amount based upon the nature of the occurrence. The safety
incentive bonus is then paid at the end of the year. Also,
effective January 1, 2016 paid holidays will be added based upon
tenure with the company. Year 1 - 3 paid holidays; Year 3 - 4 paid
holidays; Year 5 - 5 paid holidays; Year 7 - 7 paid holidays
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* Meetings Subject to Change. 8/27/15
VTA PUBLIC MEETINGS AT-A-GLANCE SEPTEMBER 2015
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETINGS:
Regular Meeting Thursday, September 3, 2015 5:30 p.m. County
Government Center Board of Supervisors Chambers 70 W. Hedding San
Jose Workshop Meeting Friday, September 25, 2015 9:00 a.m. VTA
River Oaks Campus Auditorium 3331 North First St., San Jose BOARD
STANDING COMMITTEE MEETINGS: Governance and Audit Thursday,
September 3, 2015 4:00 p.m. County Government Center Committee
Conference Room 157 70 W. Hedding, San Jose Transit Planning and
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 11:00 a.m. VTA River Oaks Campus
Operations Committee Conference Room B-104 3331 North First St.,
San Jose Congestion Management Thursday, September 17, 2015 10:00
a.m. VTA River Oaks Campus Program and Planning Conference Room
B-104 Committee 3331 North First St., San Jose Administration and
Thursday, September 17, 2015 12:00 p.m. VTA River Oaks Campus
Finance Committee Conference Room B-104 3331 North First St., San
Jose ENVISION SILICON VALLEY MEETINGS: VTA River Oaks Campus, 3331
North First Street, San Jose Community Organizations Tuesday,
September 22, 2015 1:30 p.m. Auditorium and Transportation
Advocates Stakeholder Meeting Ad Hoc Committee - Thursday,
September 24, 2015 10:00 a.m. Conference Room B-104 Envision
Silicon Valley BOARD ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETINGS: VTA River Oaks
Campus, 3331 North First Street, San Jose
Committee for Transit NO MEETING SCHEDULED Accessibility (MEETS
QUARTERLY - Next Meeting October 7, 2015) Citizens Advisory
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 4:00 p.m. Conference Room B-104
Committee and 2000 Measure A Citizens Watchdog Committee Bicycle
and Pedestrian Wednesday, September 9, 2015 6:30 p.m. Conference
Room B-104 Advisory Committee
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* Meetings Subject to Change. 8/27/15
Technical Advisory Thursday, September 10, 2015 1:30 p.m.
Conference Room B-104 Committee Policy Advisory Thursday, September
10, 2015 4:00 p.m. Conference Room B-104 Committee
VTA POLICY ADVISORY BOARD (PAB) MEETINGS: VTA River Oaks Campus,
3331 North First Street, San Jose
Diridon Station Joint Friday, September 18, 2015 3:00 p.m. San
Jose City Hall Policy Advisory Board Wing Rooms 119-120
200 East Santa Clara Street San Jose El Camino Real Rapid
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 3:00 p.m. Conference Room B-104
Transit Policy Advisory Board
REGIONAL JOINT POWERS BOARD (JPB) MEETING:
Caltrain Thursday, September 3, 2015 10:00 a.m. SamTrans Office
2nd Floor Auditorium
1250 San Carlos Avenue San Carlos Capitol Corridor Wednesday,
September 16, 2015 10:00 a.m. Oakland, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid
Transit (BART) Boardroom MARKETING AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS OPEN HOUSE /
PRESENTATION / PUBLIC MEETINGS:
Almaden Art & Wine Festival Sunday, September 20, 2015 10
a.m. – 6 p.m.
Almaden Lake Park Corner of Almaden & Coleman San Jose
Rock ‘n’ Roll San Jose Saturday & Sunday, September 26 &
27 Race start times vary by event
Downtown San Jose
Meetings at a Glance is a list of scheduled VTA public meetings.
Meeting schedules are subject to change. Please call Board
Secretary’s Office at (408) 321-5680 and/or the VTA Community
Outreach Hotline at (408) 321-7575 to confirm meeting dates and
locations. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA) and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; VTA will make
reasonable arrangements to ensure meaningful access to its meetings
for persons who have disabilities and for persons with limited
English proficiency who need translation and interpretation
services. Individuals requiring ADA accommodations should notify
the Board Secretary’s Office at least 48-hours prior to the
meeting. Individuals requiring language assistance should notify
the Board Secretary’s Office at least 72-hours prior to the
meeting. The Board Secretary December be contacted at (408)
321-5680 or e-mail: [email protected] or (408) 321-2330 (TTY
only). VTA’s home page is on the web at: www.vta.org or visit us on
F acebook at: www.facebook.com/scvta. (408) 321-2300: 中文 / Español
/ 日本語 / 한국어 / tiếng Việt / Tagalog.
mailto:[email protected]://www.vta.org/http://www.facebook.com/scvta
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From: Board.Secretary
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 11:14 AM
To: VTA Board of Directors
Subject: LAFCO's Notice of Availability and Public Hearing for
Cities Service Review Draft Report
VTA Board of Directors:
Per LAFCO’s request, we are forwarding the e-mail below
regarding the Notice of Availability
and Public Hearing for Cities Service Review Draft Report
(attached).
Thank you.
Office of the Board Secretary
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
3331 N. First Street
San Jose, CA 95134
408.321.5680
[email protected]
From: Abello, Emmanuel []
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 11:01 AM
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Dunia
Subject: LAFCO - Notice of Availability and Public Hearing for
Cities Service Review Draft Report
Dear Special District Managers, Clerks and Staff:
Attached for your information is the Notice of Availability and
Public Hearing for the Cities Service
Review Draft Report. The Draft Report is available for public
review and comment on the LAFCO website
at www.santaclaralafco.org under “Announcements.” LAFCO will
hold a Public Hearing for the Draft
Report on October 7, 2015 to consider and accept comments on the
Report. No final action on the Draft
Report will be taken at this public hearing. The attached memo
provides additional information about
www.santaclaralafco.org
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the public hearing and the Draft Report. Please feel free to
forward this email to those who may be
interested in the Draft Report or the upcoming LAFCO Public
Hearing.
Special District Clerks:
Kindly forward the attached Notice and the foregoing information
to the members of your board of
directors.
Thank you,
Emmanuel Abello, LAFCO Clerk
Local Agency Formation Commission of Santa Clara County
70 W. Hedding Street, 8th Floor, San Jose, CA 95110
Ph: 408-299-6415 / http://www.santaclaralafco.org/
NOTICE: This email message and/or its attachments may contain
information that is confidential or restricted. It is
intended only for the individuals named as recipients in the
message. If you are NOT an authorized recipient, you
are prohibited from using, delivering, distributing, printing,
copying, or disclosing the message or its content to
others and must delete the message from your computer. If you
have received this message in error, please notify
the sender by return email.
http://www.santaclaralafco.org/
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VIA E-MAIL
DATE: September 1, 2015
TO: City Managers and County Executive City Community
Development/Planning Directors and County Planning Director City
Public Works Directors City Council Members and County Board of
Supervisors NASA’s Ames Research Center/Moffett Field Stanford
University LAFCO Members
Interested Parties
FROM: Neelima Palacherla, Executive Officer
SUBJECT: CITIES SERVICE REVIEW DRAFT REPORT
Notice of Availability & Public Hearing
The Cities Service Review Draft Report is now available for
public review and comment on the LAFCO website at
www.santaclaralafco.org. The Draft Report reviews the 15
incorporated cities within Santa Clara County, as well as certain
unincorporated areas (i.e. Moffett Field, San Martin, and Stanford
University). The Report includes a service review and sphere of
influence update for each of the cities and a review of current
practices and potential opportunities for collaboration amongst
cities and other local agencies or organizations to achieve common
goals and efficient delivery of services. Special areas of focus
include shared services, sprawl prevention/infill development, and
agricultural land preservation.
LAFCO will hold a public hearing in order to consider and accept
comments on the Draft Report. No final action on the Draft Report
will be taken at this public hearing.
LAFCO Public Hearing: October 7, 2015
Time: 1:00 P.M. or soon thereafter
Location: Board Meeting Chambers
70 W. Hedding Street, San Jose, CA 95110
You may provide written comments on the Draft Report by mail to:
LAFCO of Santa Clara County, 70 West Hedding Street, 8th Floor,
East Wing, San Jose, CA 95110 OR you may email your comments to:
[email protected]. Written comments received by September
22nd will be included in the staff report with a response from the
consultant.
Written comments received by Wednesday, October 7th will be
considered and addressed in a Revised Draft Report that will be
available in late October for public review and comment on the
LAFCO website. A second LAFCO public hearing to consider adopting
the Report is scheduled for December 2, 2015.
Please contact me at (408) 299-5127 or Dunia Noel, LAFCO
Analyst, at (408) 299-5148 if you have any questions. Thank
you.
http://www.santaclaralafco.org/cities-service-reviewmailto:[email protected]
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From: Board.Secretary
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 5:02 PM
To: VTA Board of Directors
Subject: VTA September Board additional materials - Envision SV
comments (7.4); and Revised Memo,
SR85 PAB Appts. (7.6)
Importance: High
VTA Board of Directors:
Attached are additional documents for the VTA Board of
Directors’ meeting scheduled for
Thursday, September 3, 2015:
1) Agenda Item #7.4 –Email with comments on Envision Silicon
Valley (ESV) criteria for project selection; Letter from Carl
Guardino with comments on metrics for ESV
2) Revised Memo, Agenda Item #7.6 – Appointments to the State
Route (SR) 85 Corridor Policy Advisory Board
Revised reflecting the addition of the following
appointments:
Marcia Jensen, Representing the Town of Los Gatos (Member)
Rob Rennie, Representing the Town of Los Gatos (Alternate
Member)
Copies of these documents will be provided tomorrow.
If you have any questions, please reply to this email.
Thank you.
Office of the Board Secretary
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
3331 N. First Street
San Jose, CA 95134
408.321.5680
[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]
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-----Original Message----- From: David Coale Sent: Wednesday,
September 02, 2015 2:16 PM To: Board.Secretary Cc: Adam Stern;
Bruce Hodge; Adina Levin; Pierre Delforge Subject: Criteria for
project selection for Thursday's meeting Dear VTA Board Members, We
are writing to comment on your criteria for project selection for
the possible sales tax measure. We have been following this
potential tax measure very closely and are surprised that, with
transportation accounting for about 40% of the greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions in the state, even higher for Santa Clara county and Palo
Alto (60%), that there has been little mention of this in the
selection criteria for projects. As the Governor of Washington
state said, (paraphrasing) we are the first generation to feel the
effects of climate change and the last ones to be able to do
anything about it. With a 30-year sales tax measure, reduction of
GHG emissions and measurable goals for this, are very important and
must be part of the plan. We would like to see real goals of a 50%
reduction in GHG emissions overall for projects funded by this
possible sales tax measure with a reduction of single-occupancy
vehicle trips by 30%. We believe having real measurable goals is
the only way to see that our tax dollars are spent in an effective,
equitable and efficient manor. This would also force the projects
to be more coordinated across the county. These types of goals also
match what is happening on the state and federal level with respect
to GHG reductions and should be front and center. With goals such
as these in place we would see more bike and pedestrian projects
throughout the county. Caltrain, which is at capacity now and is
the backbone of the Peninsula, would be set at a higher priority
for electrification and other improvements. Traffic demand
management (TDM) would be selected over expressway widening
projects. We should know by now that road-widening projects only
increase the amount of cars and only provide for temporary relief.
Even the County Roads and Airport Department, which developed these
expressway projects, admits this to be true. True relief can only
come with fewer cars on the road. TDM along with the other projects
listed above can deliver congestion relief faster and less
expensively than expressway widening and expensive BART extensions.
An analogy from the electricity sector is instructive here. Faced
with the prospect of building new power generation (roads) the
first step is conservation of the resource (reduce vehicle miles
traveled by changing to other modes, biking, walking, public
transit and carpooling). The next step is load management (this
would be TDM and flexible work hours). The third step is more
efficient use of the resource (improving our bike, ped, transit and
alternate forms of transportation). The last item would be to
actually build more power generation and then this would be
renewable energy. For the transportation sector this would be
electrified rail (CalTrain) and buses and greater promotion of EVs
first and then hybrids second. As a last resort for energy
generation would be a gas fired power plant. This might be equated
to adding HOV lanes. We are asking you to support these priorities
moving forward. We believe these types of criteria for project
selection will also give us more equitable and more effective
solutions to our transportation
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problems with greater quality of life then the more nebulous
goals that VTA has cited so far. Silicon Valley should be leading
the way here and with your help, it can. Thanks again for your
efforts in this very important area. Sincerely, Adam Stern
Executive Director of Acterra Bruce Hodge Carbon Free Palo Alto
Adina Levin Friends of CalTrain Pierre Delforge 350 Silicon Valley
PS now if we could only get this funding through a gas tax in the
county, then we would really be adding an incentive to get people
to stop driving one person per car and use other ways to get to
where they need to go.
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September 2, 2015 The Honorable Perry Woodward Chair VTA Board
of Directors 3331 North First Street San Jose, CA 95134-1927 Dear
Chair Woodward and Board Members,
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on metrics for Envision
Silicon Valley. The Leadership Group strongly supports the
following metrics in order to best measure the impacts and benefits
of projects in a potential 2016 Transportation Measure. Overall
Metrics:
• Voter support o Any projects in a transportation measure
should have strong voter
support. There are great needs in Santa Clara County when it
comes to transportation, but we need a package that at least 2/3 of
voters will pass.
• Connectivity to jobs/homes o Transportation projects in a
potential measure should serve not
only today’s housing and job population centers but also plan
for future land uses.
Metrics for Road Projects:
• Vehicle Hours Traveled o Reducing vehicle hours traveled is
essential to improving mobility
and addressing traffic congestion. • Pavement Condition
Index
o The quality of pavement impacts the ability of all road users
including drivers, bus riders, and bicyclists to get around
smoothly and safely.
• Reduce Single Occupancy Vehicle Trips o How would potential
road projects impact single occupancy
vehicle trips and reduce congestion?
Metrics for Transit Projects:
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions o Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
are a key benefit of transit
projects. How well would potential projects achieve that goal? •
Vehicle Miles Traveled
o How would transit projects reduce vehicle miles traveled by
replacing car trips?
• Farebox Recovery Ratio o VTA should measure the farebox
recovery ratio of any transit
project. • Ridership
2001 Gateway Place, Suite 101E San Jose, California 95110
(408)501-7864 svlg.org CARL GUARDINO
President & CEO Board Officers:
GREG BECKER, Chair SVB Financial Group
KEN KANNAPPAN, Vice Chair Plantronics
JOHN ADAMS, Secretary/Treasurer Wells Fargo Bank
TOM WERNER, Former Chair SunPower
AART DE GEUS, Former Chair Synopsys
STEVE BERGLUND, Former Chair Trimble Navigation
Board Members: MARTIN ANSTICE
Lam Research SHELLYE ARCHAMBEAU
MetricStream, Inc. ANDY BALL
Suffolk Construction GEORGE BLUMENTHAL
University of California, Santa Cruz JOHN BOLAND
KQED CHRIS BOYD
Kaiser Permanente BRADLEY J. BULLINGTON
Bridgelux HELEN BURT
Pacific Gas & Electric DAVID CUSH
Virgin America CHRISTOPHER DAWES
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital KEN DRAZAN
Johnson& Johnson MICHAEL ENGH, S.J. Santa Clara
University
TOM FALLON Infinera Corporation
BRANT FISH Chevron Corporation
HANK FORE Comcast
KEN GOLDMAN Yahoo!
RAQUEL GONZALEZ Bank of America
DOUG GRAHAM Lockheed Martin Space Systems
LAURA GUIO IBM
JAMES GUTIERREZ Insikt
MARK HAWKINS Salesforce
JEFFREY M. JOHNSON San Francisco Chronicle
AARIF KHAKOO Amgen
GARY LAUER eHealth
ENRIQUE LORES HP
MATT MAHAN Brigade
TARKAN MANER Nexenta
KEN MCNEELY AT&T
STEPHEN MILLIGAN Western Digital Corporation
KEVIN MURAI Synnex
JES PEDERSON Webcor
KIM POLESE ClearStreet
MO QAYOUMI San Jose State University
STEVEN ROSSI Bay Area News Group
TOMI RYBA El Camino Hospital
ALAN SALZMAN VantagePoint Capital Partners
RON SEGE Echelon Corporation
ROSEMARY TURNER UPS
RICK WALLACE KLA-Tencor
KEN XIE Fortinet
JED YORK San Francisco 49ers
Established in 1978 by DAVID PACKARD
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o How many new riders would a transit project generate?
Metrics for Bike/Pedestrian Projects:
• Gap closure o A connected network encourages people to bike
and walk. Would this project help
close a critical network gap? • Vehicle Miles Traveled
o How would this project reduce vehicle miles traveled by
replacing car trips? • Pavement Condition Index
o The quality of pavement impacts the ability of all road users
including bicyclists and pedestrians to get around safely.
• Enhanced Safety – Collision Reports o Bike/Ped projects should
enhance safety by targeting areas with high collision rates.
Other/Innovative Programs:
• Vehicle Miles Traveled o How do these projects replace solo
car trips?
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions o How do these projects reduce
greenhouse gas emissions?
Thank you for your leadership in developing these metrics and
for taking our comments into consideration.
Sincerely,
Carl Guardino President & CEO
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Date: September 2, 2015 Current Meeting: September 3, 2015 Board
Meeting: September 3, 2015
BOARD MEMORANDUM TO: Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Governance and Audit Committee THROUGH: General Manager, Nuria I.
Fernandez
FROM: Board Secretary, Elaine Baltao SUBJECT: Appointments to
the State Route (SR) 85 Corridor Policy Advisory Board
3331 North First Street ∙ San Jose, CA 95134-1927 ∙
Administration 408.321.5555 ∙ Customer Service 408.321.2300
Revised Agenda Item #7.6
Policy-Related Action: No Government Code Section 84308 Applies:
No
ACTION ITEM
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommend that the Board of Directors approve appointments to
the State Route 85 Corridor Policy Advisory Board.
BACKGROUND:
VTA policy advisory boards (PAB) are established by the VTA
Board of Directors to ensure that the local jurisdictions most
affected by major transportation capital improvement projects are
involved and have a voice in guiding the planning, design and
construction of those projects. PABS provide input, perspective and
recommendations to the VTA Board and administration. The Board
established the State Route (SR) 85 Corridor PAB comprised of
voting membership from jurisdictions within or near the corridor.
These include the County of Santa Clara and the cities of Campbell,
Cupertino, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Mountain View, San
José, Saratoga and Sunnyvale. In addition, one ex-officio,
non-voting member and alternate may be appointed by the California
Department of Transportation (Caltrans).
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The VTA Administrative Code provides that each of these voting
positions, jurisdictions may appoint governing board members to
serve as its representative and alternate member. All appointments
by external bodies to VTA PABs require ratification by the Board of
Directors.
DISCUSSION:
Submitted for Board ratification are several recent appointments
to the SR 85 Corridor PAB made by member jurisdictions. All meet
the requirement of being a current governing board member from the
appointing jurisdiction. The appointments are:
• John McAlister, representing the City of Mountain View
(Member) • Lenny Siegel, representing the City of Mountain View
(Alternate Member) • Rod Sinks, representing the City of Cupertino
(Member) • Barry Chang, representing the City of Cupertino
(Alternate Member) • Howard Miller, representing the City of
Saratoga (Member) • Mary-Lynne Bernald, representing the City of
Saratoga (Alternate Member) • Walter Huff, representing the City of
Monte Sereno (Member) • Burton Craig, representing the City of
Monte Sereno (Alternate Member) • Marcia Jensen, representing the
Town of Los Gatos (Member) • Rob Rennie, representing the Town of
Los Gatos (Alternate Member)
ALTERNATIVES:
The Board could choose to not ratify any or all of these
appointments.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no fiscal impact as a result of this action.
Prepared by: Stephen Flynn, Advisory Committee Coordinator Memo
No. 5181
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From: Board.Secretary
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 11:54 AM
To: VTA Board of Directors
Subject: VTA September Board additional document - SPUR letter
for Envision Silicon Valley (7.4)
VTA Board of Directors:
Attached is an additional document for the VTA Board of
Directors’ meeting scheduled for tonight,
Thursday, September 3, 2015:
Agenda Item #7.4 – SPUR support letter for Envision Silicon
Valley (ESV) staff recommendation with additional comments and
suggestions
A hardcopy of the letter will be provided at the meeting.
If you have any questions, please reply to this email.
Thank you.
Office of the Board Secretary
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
3331 N. First Street
San Jose, CA 95134
408.321.5680
[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]
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PRESIDENT & CEO Gabriel Metcalf
SAN JOSE DIRECTOR Leah Toeniskoetter
CHAIR Rob Steinberg VICE-‐GHAIR
Connie Martinez SAN JOSE CITY
BOARD Teresa Alvarado Michael Bangs
Chris Block J. Richard Braugh
Garrett Herbert Karla Rodriguez Lomax
Richard Lonergan Suzanne Rice Tim
Steele Lydia Tan
September 3, 2015 Board of
Directors Valley Transportation
Authority 3331 North First Street
San Jose, CA Subject:
Envision Silicon Valley Evaluation
Criteria -‐ Item 7.4
Dear Chair Woodward and Directors,
SPUR is a non-‐profit,
member-‐supported organization that
promotes good planning and good
government. We recently published
Freedom to Move: How the Santa
Clara Valley Transportation Authority
can create better transportation
choices in the South Bay. We
commend the VTA board for
convening an open process to
develop goals for the County’s
transportation system, and also
evaluation criteria to measure how
each project compares against these
goals. SPUR supports the
proposal before you for evaluation
criteria. We would like to
offer two additional metrics for
your consideration. Significantly improving
the usability of transit will
be the key to achieving all
of these goals, whether they
are safety or pollution or
travel time reduction. For that
reason, we would like to
suggest two additional metrics
related to transit:
1. Transit wait times. This metric
would capture both transit frequency
and transit connectivity.
2. Portion of population living within
walking distance (1/4 mile) of
a place with frequent, all-‐day,
all-‐week transit service.
SPUR would also like to
comment on the decisions that
you have ahead of you. Through
the Envision Silicon Valley process,
you will prioritize investments for
the next 30 years. In that
time frame:
• BART, Caltrain, and High Speed
Rail will connect at Diridon
Station. Diridon will become one
of the biggest transit hubs in
the nation.
• Bikesharing, private jitneys, driverless
cars, delivery drones and new
small electric vehicles may
proliferate.
• Private auto ownership might plummet
as shared taxis and delivery
vehicles eliminate the need to
drive – even in very suburban
areas.
• People may pay for transportation
seamlessly, using some kind of
wearable device.
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Also in the next 30 years,
Santa Clara County could add
roughly 642,000 new residents and
303,000 new jobs1. How will all
these new residents and workers
want to get around? What
investment should we make today?
SPUR suggests focusing investments in
transportation that improve access to
destinations, those that support
walkable, livable neighborhoods and
cities, support safety and
well-‐being, increase equity and
minimize damage to the environment.
SPUR’s research has shown
that, in the past, transportation
investments to increase access in
the South Bay have often worked
against each other. For example,
road expansions worked against
transit success. Land use and
transportation decision have also
been disconnected. Going
forward, it is imperative that
we make transportation investments
work synergistically, shifting travel
away from the private auto,
toward shared vehicles, biking, and
walking: the three most cost-‐,
space-‐, and energy-‐efficient modes
of transportation. With this
new direction in mind, SPUR
recommends that the board prioritize
the following categories of
transportation investments, which should
pay dividends for decades to
come. We will be providing more
in-‐depth discussion of these in
the near future.
• Development of a transit network
structure based on all-‐day, frequent
regional transit network (BART,
Caltrain)
• Frequent and efficient local and
feeder transit service. • Seamless
Transit experience: schedule and fare
and trip planning integration,
seamless connections. • Mode shift
programs and public/private partnerships,
targeted at places and at
corridors. • Develop safe streets that
work for all users and
countywide bicycle network. • Grow
parking and road pricing and
management programs.
In closing, SPUR would like
to remind the Board that not
everything can measured, modeled, or
forecast. An evaluation process is
one input to your decision-‐making,
which we hope will be guided
by a long-‐term vision for
thriving and sustainable communities
and region. Thank you
for your consideration.
Sincerely, Ratna Amin
SPUR Transportation Policy Director
1 Plan Bay Area, 2013
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From: Board.Secretary
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 5:43 PM To: VTA Board of
Directors
Subject: VTA Correspondence: Support Floor Memos; Envision
Silicon Valley Correspondence; Federal Legislative Update; LeBrun
DBE Correspondence
VTA Board of Directors:
We are forwarding to you the following:
From Topic
VTA ESV Criteria Correspondence – Adina Levin, Jeralyn
Moran, Chris Lepe, Monica Nanez, Vanessa Warheit
Federal Legislative Update
Roland LeBrun DBE Correspondence
Chairperson Perry Woodward Support Letters for the following:
AB194(Frazier),
AB516(Mullin), SB9(Beall), SB413(Wieckowski),
SB508(Beall)
Thank you.
Office of the Board Secretary
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
3331 N. First Street
San Jose, CA 95134
408.321.5680
[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]
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From: Adina Levin Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 3:42 PM To:
Board.Secretary Subject: Envision Silicon Valley Goals and Metrics
Dear Board Members and Staff, Thank you very much for engaging in a
process to define goals and metrics to evaluate projects for the
upcoming Silicon Valley ballot measure. Friends of Caltrain is a
nonprofit with over 5000 participants supporting sustainable
transportation on the Peninsula Corridor. We have been
participating in the Envision Process. We would like to suggest
some refinements to this robust set of goals that incorporates many
dimensions for improvement of the transportation system. Overall,
it would be helpful to set weighting for the metrics, to help
prioritize the projects. Since climate change is a major challenge
of our time and a major focus of state policy, the greenhouse gas
reduction and mode shift metrics should have a very high priority.
A few specific comments 1) The document includes a potentially
powerful goal to improve transportation experience, but that does
not yet have strong metrics. A metric to reduce transit wait time
would measure improvements in frequency, schedule coordination, and
first/last mile integration to provide more competitive transit
trip times. 2) VTA has high priority goals to increase ridership
and active transportation. A valuable metric to assess progress
toward that goal would be to measure and increase the share of the
population within 1/4 mile of high frequency transit stops and high
quality bike lanes/trails. This is a very powerful metric to drive
ridership and mode shift. This is the metric that Houston used to
provide a major increase in transit accessibility with its recent
service change. “Almost a million people are going to be in walking
distance within a seven-day frequent route, and also a million
jobs,” says Luhrsen. “That’s almost a 50 percent increase in people
and almost a 60 percent increase in jobs.” 3) VTA has an important
goal to strengthen financial sustainability. In addition to Farebox
Recovery as a metric, it would be helpful to add Revenue per dollar
spent on service delivery. This metric would also reward improved
financial returns, while encouraging the use of strategies that
would increase ridership (rather than strategies that might
increase revenues at reduced ridership). This measurement is the
most synergistic with VTA's goals for ridership, GHG reduction, and
equity. Thank you very much for your consideration. - Adina Adina
Levin Friends of Caltrain http://greencaltrain.com
http://greencaltrain.com/
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From: Jeralyn Moran Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 6:26 PM
To: Board.Secretary Subject: VTA Evaluation Criteria - please
EXCLUDE car-centric projects! Dear VTA Board, I implore you to
include in your final Evaluation Criteria a high proiority on
rejecting all projects that accommodate single occupancy vehicle
use! We are at a critical time where Climate Disruption is at our
doorstep - alternative forms of transportation are desparately
needed -- please do not continue the problem - be part of the
answer! NO Lawrence Expressway or Page Mill Rd. "enhancements".
Additional expressway widening and capacity projects that
accommodate cars must be rejected. Sincerely, Jeralyn Moran Palo
Alto resident
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From: Chris Lepe Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 3:26 PM To:
Board.Secretary; General Manager Subject: Recommendations for
Evaluation Criteria for Potential 2016 Transportation Tax
Honorable Members of the VTA Board of Directors and General
Manager Fernandez,
TransForm is committed to ensuring that the 2016 transportation
funding measure under development through Envision Silicon Valley
(ESV) achieves the greatest benefit per dollar spent in meeting
critical community needs. We are pleased that the proposed
evaluation criteria for VTA’s call for projects for ESV have been
significantly improved from previous iterations; however, we would
like to provide the following recommendations to ensure the
criteria further advance the Board-adopted goals for ESV.
• Provide weighting to the evaluation criteria in order to
emphasize the key goals that the agency is most interested in
advancing. The current criteria have no prioritization or
weighting, meaning that criteria as important as reducing
greenhouse gas emissions, reducing fatal and serious collisions,
and increasing ridership will be equally weighted with roughly 30
other factors.
• Provide greater priority on reducing Single Occupancy Vehicle
(SOV) use and improving transportation options. There are several
proposal criteria that could move us in the opposite direction of a
sustainable and healthy transportation system, particularly "reduce
vehicle hours traveled per capita" and any metrics regarding
"access" that do not state a priority in the mode such as the
proposed "increase access to planned growth areas".
o For the "vehicle hours traveled" metric, are we just talking
about automobiles? It would be much better if VTA focused on person
throughput to give equal weight to all roadway users, including
pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users. In other words, saving
people hours of travel as opposed to just vehicle hours of
travel.
o For the access metrics, what kind of access does VTA want to
prioritize? From TransForm’s perspective, considering the
significant population growth in the coming years, VTA should focus
on improved access via active transportation OR transportation
options that have the ability to move more people with fewer cars
(VMT reduction).
• The concept of equity needs to be better integrated in the
goals as a means of addressing a more efficient, healthy, and
sustainable transportation system. Adding the following criteria
will help to further promote equity, environmental sustainability,
health, ridership, and quality of life:
o Reduce transit travel delay and minimize transfer waiting
times. Improving on time performance and reducing waiting is
fundamental to attracting ridership to the system.
o Increase the percent of low-income households with
accessibility within 1/4 mile of pedestrian/bike lanes/trails and
to high-frequency transit stops. This criterion would advance the
goal of improving the last mile gaps/connectivity and promote mode
shift.
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o Increase ridership per dollar spent on service delivery. This
criterion would evaluate how projects improve the efficiency of the
transit system without pegging it to transit users’ ability to pay,
as is the case with farebox recovery.
TransForm appreciates the opportunity to comment on the
evaluation criteria for Envision Silicon Valley.
Respectfully,
Chris Lepe
Senior Community Planner,
TransForm -- Want to improve your community and your commute?
Let us know what your priorities are for Santa Clara County's next
transportation funding measure! Fill out our short survey and
attend an upcoming community meeting in Gilroy, Mountain View,
Central San Jose, and East San Jose. Chris Lepe, Senior Community
Planner, Silicon Valley TransForm 48 South 7th Street, Suite #103,
San Jose, CA 95112 (Sign up for our emails at www.TransFormCA.org.
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September 3, 2015
RE: Proposed Evaluation Criteria for Potential 2016
Transportation Tax
Honorable Members of the VTA Board of Directors and General
Manager Fernandez,
TransForm is committed to ensuring that the 2016 transportation
funding measure under development
through Envision Silicon Valley (ESV) achieves the greatest
benefit per dollar spent in meeting critical
community needs. We are pleased that the proposed evaluation
criteria for VTA’s call for projects for
ESV have been significantly improved from previous iterations;
however, we would like to provide the
following recommendations to ensure the criteria further advance
the Board-adopted goals for ESV.
Provide weighting to the evaluation criteria in order to
emphasize the key goals that the agency is most interested in
advancing. The current criteria have no prioritization or
weighting, meaning
that criteria as important as reducing greenhouse gas emissions,
reducing fatal and serious
collisions, and increasing ridership will be equally weighted
with roughly 30 other factors.
Provide greater priority on reducing Single Occupancy Vehicle
(SOV) use and improving transportation options. There are several
proposal criteria that could move us in the opposite
direction of a sustainable and healthy transportation system,
particularly "reduce vehicle hours
traveled per capita" and any metrics regarding "access" that do
not state a priority in the mode
such as the proposed "increase access to planned growth
areas".
o For the "vehicle hours traveled" metric, are we just talking
about automobiles? It would be much better if VTA focused on person
throughput to give equal weight to all roadway
users, including pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users. In
other words, saving people
hours of travel as opposed to just vehicle hours of travel.
o For the access metrics, what kind of access does VTA want to
prioritize? From TransForm’s perspective, considering the
significant population growth in the coming
years, VTA should focus on improved access via active
transportation OR transportation
options that have the ability to move more people with fewer
cars (VMT reduction).
The concept of equity needs to be better integrated in the goals
as a means of addressing a more efficient, healthy, and sustainable
transportation system. Adding the following criteria will help
to
further promote equity, environmental sustainability, health,
ridership, and quality of life:
o Reduce transit travel delay and minimize transfer waiting
times. Improving on time performance and reducing waiting is
fundamental to attracting ridership to the system.
o Increase the percent of low-income households with
accessibility within 1/4 mile of pedestrian/bike lanes/trails and
to high-frequency transit stops. This criterion would
advance the goal of improving the last mile gaps/connectivity
and promote mode shift.
o Increase ridership per dollar spent on service delivery. This
criterion would evaluate how projects improve the efficiency of the
transit system without pegging it to transit
users’ ability to pay, as is the case with farebox recovery.
TransForm appreciates the opportunity to comment on the
evaluation criteria for Envision Silicon Valley.
Respectfully,
Chris Lepe
Senior Community Planner,
TransForm
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From: Monica Nanez Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 4:29 PM
To: Board.Secretary Subject: Transportation Funding Evaluation
Criteria : Agenda item 7.4 I am writing to strongly support
criteria that will be used to exclusively select projects that
improve walkability, bike lanes, and public transportation, and
that will exclude projects used to widen expressways or roads.
Great cities across the world are created with infrastructure that
promotes walkability, bikeability, and a strong public
transportation system. Widening expressways is far more expensive,
increases pollution, induces demand for more roads, and promotes
urban sprawl; we need to move away from this! We have a wonderful
opportunity to lead the world in sustainability and it starts with
transportation that emphasizes: walkability, biking, and effective
public transportation.
Thank You,
Monica Nanez life long San Jose resident
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From: Vanessa Warheit Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 4:32 PM
To: Board.Secretary Subject: Please fund cycling, walking, and
transit - don't widen our roads! Dear VTA Board, As you consider
the evaluation criteria for Envision Silicon Valley, I would like
to express my strong support of TransForm’s recommendations. We
have an opportunity to solve multiple pressing problems: air
pollution, climate change, childhood obesity and asthma, traffic
congestion, community breakdown & isolation. All of these
things can be addressed by redesigning our communities and streets
putting PEOPLE first: adding better cycling and pedestrian
infrastructure, and better/faster/more transit options. We must
stop thinking about moving CARS and instead look at how we can move
PEOPLE. Sincerely, Vanessa Warheit Palo Alto — Vanessa Warheit ***
I’m fasting for the climate, on the 1st day of every month between
now and the COP21 climate talks in Paris this December. If this
email was written on the first of the month, please forgive any
aberrant behavior, as it is likely inspired by low blood sugar.
More information on Fast for the Climate is here:
http://fastfortheclimate.org ***
http://fastfortheclimate.org/
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MEMORANDUM TO: Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Board
of Directors FROM: Kurt Evans, Government Affairs Manager Santa
Clara Valley Transportation Authority DATE: September 1, 2015
SUBJECT: Federal Legislative Update
________________________________________________________________________
Congress is in recess until after the Labor Day Holiday. When
senators and House members return to Washington, DC, in early
September, they will need to negotiate a new multi-year budget
agreement, finish up the FY 2016 appropriations process, and reach
common ground on reauthorizing federal surface transportation
programs. At the same time, Congress will have to grapple with
raising the federal government’s debt limit. FY 2016
Appropriations: The new federal fiscal year begins October 1. To
avoid a federal government shutdown, Congress must pass either an
omnibus appropriations bill or a short-term continuing resolution
before that date. Currently, Senate Democrats are blocking all
appropriations bills until an overall budget deal can be negotiated
that either eliminates or raises the “sequestration” spending caps
for domestic discretionary programs contained in the Budget Control
Act of 2011. If such an agreement can be reached, the 12
appropriations bills (including transportation) would be aligned
with the deal’s proscribed spending levels, and then packaged into
one omnibus appropriations measure that could be taken to the House
and Senate Floors for a vote. It will be a challenge for Congress
to complete all of this work prior to October 1. Therefore, a
continuing resolution is the more likely outcome in the short term.
The House FY 2016 transportation appropriations bill is done, but
the Senate’s is being held up on the Floor by the Democratic
leadership pending a larger budget deal. While both the House and
Senate versions maintain appropriations for federal-aid highway and
public transit formula programs under the Highway Trust Fund at
their FY 2015 levels, they reduce appropriations for discretionary
surface transportation programs that receive their money from the
General Fund, though by dramatically different amounts. For
instance, the Senate legislation provides only $1.585 billion for
the New Starts/Small Starts Program, which is a $535 million
reduction from the FY 2015 enacted level and $336 million less than
the $1.921 billion recommended in the House bill. Although the
Senate and House versions both appropriate the entire amount of
funding for those New Starts projects with existing Full Funding
Grant Agreements (FFGAs), including $150 million for Phase 1 of
VTA’s BART Silicon Valley Extension Project, there is a big
difference when it comes to the Small Starts Program. The Senate
bill targets only $30 million for Small Starts projects versus $335
million in the House legislation.
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The other major discretionary grant program that falls under the
General Fund is the Transportation Investment Generating Economic
Recovery (TIGER) Program. The Senate bill recommends $500 million
for TIGER, the same amount as in FY 2015. The House version
appropriates only $100 million. Surface Transportation
Authorization: Before the summer recess, both the House and Senate
approved a three-month extension of the Moving Ahead for Progress
in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), which keeps federal highway and
public transit programs in place and maintains the solvency of the
Highway Trust Fund until October 29, 2015. President Barack Obama
signed this extension into law. The Senate also passed the
Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy (DRIVE)
Act, a six-year surface transportation authorization bill covering
FY 2016 through FY 2021 that is intended to replace MAP-21. The
DRIVE Act provides an inflationary adjustment to current spending
levels for federal surface transportation programs, as well as a
small amount of growth over the authorization period. Although the
legislation covers six years of spending authority for highway,
public transit, passenger rail, and transportation safety programs,
it includes enough revenues to pay for only the first three years
of the authorization period. Therefore, if the DRIVE Act were to be
enacted into law, the Highway Trust Fund would reach insolvency by
the end of FY 2018. While the DRIVE Act generally maintains the
overall program structure that was established under MAP-21, it
does make a number of changes, the most notable of which are as
follows: • Creates a new formula-based freight program, with a
total authorization of $13.4 billion over six
years. • Establishes a new Assistance for Major Projects (AMP)
Discretionary Grant Program, authorized
at $300 million-$450 million annually, for large-scale
transportation infrastructure projects generally costing in excess
of $350 million.
• Provides a modest increase in funding for the Transportation
Alternatives Program (TAP) by
authorizing the program at a fixed amount of $850 million per
year, rather than through a 2 percent set-aside of a state’s total
federal-aid highway apportionment.
• Makes improvements to the Transportation Infrastructure
Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan
program to increase its utilization, but decreases its
authorized amount from $1 billion to $300 million a year.
• Significantly increases spending for the Section 5339 Bus/Bus
Facilities Program from the current
level of $428 million in FY 2015 to $816 million by FY 2021.
While the bulk of the funding would continue to be allocated by
formula, the DRIVE Act sets aside $180 million-$190 million a year
for competitive grants, $55 million of which must be awarded for
low- or zero-emission buses, facilities, or related equipment.
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• Provides discretion for the Federal Transit Administration
(FTA) to allow a large public transit agency in an area with high
unemployment to use its formula share under the Section 5307
Urbanized Area (UZA) Program for operating expenses on a temporary
basis.
• Under the Capital Investment Grant Program (New Starts/Small
Starts), establishes an Expedited
Project Delivery Pilot Program to allow FTA to enter into 10
FFGAs for New Starts, Small Starts or Core Capacity projects that
are supported by a public-private partnership and that are seeking
federal funding equal to 25 percent or less of the project’s total
cost. The DRIVE Act takes 10 percent off the top of the annual
amount appropriated to the Capital Investment Grant Program to fund
projects receiving FFGAs under the Expedited Project Delivery Pilot
Program.
• Increases the maximum amount of federal funding that could be
provided to a Small Starts project
from $75 million to $100 million. The DRIVE Act also specifies
that a project is eligible for Small Starts funding if its total
cost is $300 million or less. Under current law, the total cost of
a Small Starts project cannot exceed $250 million.
• Changes the overall distribution formula for allocating
Section 5337 State of Good Repair Program
funds in a way that would increase the share going to public
transit agencies that operate fixed guideway rail systems.
• Requires FTA to conduct a review of existing safety standards
and protocols used for fixed
guideway rail systems to determine whether there is a need to
establish minimum federal standards. • Increases the Buy America
content for rolling stock from the current level of 60 percent to
70
percent by FY 2020. Despite pressure from the Senate, House GOP
leaders have no plans to bring the DRIVE Act up for a vote.
Instead, the House intends to work on its own surface
transportation authorization bill when members return to
Washington, DC, after Labor Day. Action in the House would lead to
a conference committee, where senators and House members would
attempt to reconcile their differences and negotiate a final bill
that could be sent to the House and Senate Floors for a vote. It is
unclear whether all of this work can be accomplished before October
29, when the current short-term extension of MAP-21 expires. The
main point of contention between the House and Senate is how to pay
for a six-year bill. Similar to MAP-21, projected Highway Trust
Fund revenues are not enough to cover the DRIVE Act’s authorized
spending levels. Therefore, the DRIVE Act calls for using roughly
$40 billion in General Fund transfers to keep the Highway Trust
Fund solvent, but only for three more years, and backfilling the
General Fund through a series of offsets to prevent the federal
government’s budget deficit from growing. These offsets include
indexing customs fees, selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve, lowering the dividends paid to banks by the Federal
Reserve System, extending Transportation Security Administration
(TSA) passenger fees for another two years, prohibiting felons from
receiving Social Security benefits, and more aggressively
combatting tax fraud. House leaders do not support this approach.
Instead, they want to fully pay for all six years of a surface
transportation authorization bill with revenues that would be
generated from a comprehensive overhaul of the federal tax code,
which Congress has yet to undertake.
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From: Roland Lebrun Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 1:05 AM
To: Caltrain Board Cc: SFCTA Board Secretary; Board.Secretary;
SFCTA CAC; Caltrain CAC Secretary Subject: ITEM 4.c VTA DBE MOU
Dear Chair Tissier and Members of the Caltrain Board of Directors,
Please approve funding for the joint DBE Availability and
Utilization Study with the VTA as it is the only way we will ever
be able to restore equity to a process that allowed consultants to
award a total of $47M in contracts to their peers and themselves
while completely ignoring the 12% DBE Goal set by the Board as
evidenced by page 57 of the attached FY15 Q4 JPB quarterly DBE
report. Thank you in advance. Roland Lebrun cc: SFCTA Board VTA
Board SFCTA CAC Caltrain CAC
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September 2015 Caltrain Board Meeting Roland Lebrun Item 4.c VTA
DBE MOU
9/1/2015 Dear Chair Tissier and Members of the Caltrain Board of
Directors, Please approve funding for the joint DBE Availability
and Utilization Study with the VTA as it is the only way we will
ever be able to restore equity to a process that allowed
consultants to award a total of $47M in contracts to their peers
and themselves while completely ignoring the 12% DBE Goal set by
the Board as evidenced by page 57 of the FY15 Q4 JPB quarterly
report. Thank you.
mailto:[email protected]
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meetings-at-glance_sept2015.pdfVTA PUBLIC MEETINGS
AT-A-GLANCESEPTEMBER 2015
Item 7.4._ESV Letter_Guardino_090315.pdf/2001 Gateway Place,
Suite 101E(408)501-7864 svlg.orgCARL GUARDINOPresident &
CEOBoard Officers:GREG BECKER, ChairSVB Financial Group STEVE
BERGLUND, Former Chair Trimble NavigationBoard Members:MARTIN
ANSTICELam Research JOHN BOLANDKQEDCHRISTOPHER DAWESLucile Packard
Children’s HospitalKEN DRAZANJohnson& JohnsonMICHAEL ENGH,
S.J.Santa Clara University
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