MEETINGS OF THE Boards of Directors Joint Meeting of Valley Metro Valley Metro Valley Metro RPTA RPTA and Rail Valley Metro Rail Date Thursday, September 22, 2016 Starting time 12:15 p.m. Meetings to occur sequentially Location Valley Metro Lake Powell Conference Room (10A) 101 N. 1st Avenue, 10th Floor Phoenix If you require assistance accessing the meeting on the 10th floor, please go to the 13th floor or call 602-262-7433. VALLEY METRO • 101 N 1ST AVE • STE 1300 • PHOENIX AZ • 85003 • 602-262-7433 September 15, 2016 Board of Directors Thursday, September 22, 2016 Lake Powell Conference Room 101 N. 1st Avenue, 10th Floor 12:15 p.m. Action Recommended 1. Items from Citizens Present (yellow card) 1. For information An opportunity will be provided to members of the public at the beginning of the meeting to address the Board on non-agenda items. Up to three minutes will be provided per speaker or a total of 15 minutes for all speakers. 2. Minutes 2. For action Minutes from the August 18, 2016 Board meeting are presented for approval. 3. Proposed April 2017 Transit Service Changes 3. For information Scott Smith, Interim CEO, will introduce Jorge Luna, Service Planning Manager, who will provide an update on the proposed April 2017 transit service changes and community outreach plan. 4. Safe Place Expansion to Regional Bus System 4. For information Scott Smith, Interim CEO, will introduce Hillary Foose, Director, Communication and Marketing, who will provide an informational update to the Board of Directors on the expansion of the Safe Place program to the regional bus system. 5. Future Agenda Items Request and Report on Current 5. For information Events and discussion Chair Williams will request future agenda items from members, and members may provide a report on current events. VALLEY METRO • 101 N 1ST AVE • STE 1300 • PHOENIX AZ • 85003 • 602-262-7433 6. Next Meeting 6. For information The next meeting of the Board is scheduled for Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 11:15 a.m. Qualified sign language interpreters are available with 72 hours notice. Materials in alternative formats (large print, audiocassette, or computer diskette) are available upon request. For further information, please call Valley Metro at 602-262-7433 or TTY at 602-251-2039. To attend this meeting via teleconference, contact the receptionist at 602-262-7433 for the dial-in-information. The supporting information for this agenda can be found on our web site at www.valleymetro.org. 2 DATE AGENDA ITEM 1 September 15, 2016 SUBJECT Items from Citizens Present PURPOSE An opportunity will be provided to members of the public at the beginning of the meeting to address the Board on non-agenda items. Up to three minutes will be provided per speaker or a total of 15 minutes for all speakers. BACKGROUND/DISCUSSION/CONSIDERATION None COST AND BUDGET None COMMITTEE PROCESS None RECOMMENDATION This item is presented for information only. CONTACT Scott Smith Interim Chief Executive Officer 602-262-7433 [email protected] ATTACHMENT None VALLEY METRO • 101 N 1ST AVE • STE 1300 • PHOENIX AZ • 85003 • 602-262-7433 DATE AGENDA ITEM 2 August 11, 2016 Minutes of the Valley Metro RPTA Board of Directors Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:30 p.m. Meeting Participants Vice Mayor Kate Gallego for Councilmember Thelda Williams, City of Phoenix, Chair Councilmember Suzanne Klapp, City of Scottsdale, Vice Chair Councilmember Lauren Tolmachoff, City of Glendale, Treasurer Councilmember Jim McDonald, City of Avondale (phone) Councilmember Eric Orsborn, City of Buckeye Councilmember Rick Heumann for Councilmember Kevin Hartke, City of Chandler Councilmember Jack Palladino, City of El Mirage Councilmember Brigette Peterson, Town of Gilbert Councilmember Sharolyn Hohman, City of Goodyear Vice Mayor Dennis Kavanaugh, City of Mesa Vice Mayor Jon Edwards, City of Peoria (phone) Councilmember Skip Hall, City of Surprise Mayor Mark Mitchell, City of Tempe Councilmember Kathie Farr, City of Tolleson Members Not Present Supervisor Steve Gallardo, Maricopa County Councilmember Rui Pereira, Town of Wickenburg Vice Chair Klapp called the meeting to order at 1:58 p.m. We will convene the meeting. And I'd like to welcome members, new members, to this Board which are Councilmember Bridgett Peterson, who is the new representative for the Town of Gilbert, and Councilmember Rui Pereira as the new representative from the Town of Wickenburg. 1. Public Comment We'll begin with the first item on the agenda which is public comment. This is an opportunity for members of the public to talk on non-agenda items. Again, you have up to three minutes for your comments. And we will start with Mr. Crowley. Mr. Crowley said (Microphone off.) The executive director when he stated you needed to look at those objects on the light rail. Did he say use mass transit to get there? Said use your car. You need to change his attitude and your own and let's use a little more mass transit. VALLEY METRO • 101 N 1ST AVE • STE 1300 • PHOENIX AZ • 85003 • 602-262-7433 I was one of the ones that wrote Prop 400 and when I look at the county map, which is where you get all your funding from, how many of the cities have even 10 percent? Surprise, do you have 10 percent of yours? How about Buckeye? Well, we won't even go there with strip annexation with maybe 1 percent. But it's totally not what should be happening. When I see you putting money to miles of rail where is it going, and what is happening to it. We need to get the system to be twenty-four hours and seven days a week in the entire grid. When I look at the executive director and see what his community only has one-third of its population has bus accessibility. And if you look at the county facility of the dog pound and his Cubs facility, do we have a bus that you can get there from, Scottsdale? When I asked them about it, they said Dobson, but if you're west of Mesa how do you get there? What about Chandler, how much of your city have you covered with transit? I know it's important to you to make sure everybody on the rail pays, but when is Chandler going to pay and get some transit and do the grid. Scottsdale the same. All of you are totally inept and inadequate on this. What is your job? Well, one of your jobs is air quality and to get the transit out there to work on it. What grade could you give yourselves over the last two weeks since we've had 10 days of serious violation? I'm one of the ones that it has a serious effect on. When you have changed the way that public inputs, as I've stated before, when it's on an action item it should be there. And I don't understand why this Board feels that if you have something there for action that the public should be limited in how they're inputting into it. On your last meeting I had to speak on the action items. There were four. That meant how many seconds per. Thank you for your time. Chair Klapp said thank you. Next speaker is Mr. May. Please give your full name and city where you reside. Mr. May said something a few others have already mentioned is inadequate areas of the region that do not have bus service like going west of 67th Avenue. Where you have expanded in the region, you have places where there are no shelters. That's all over the place. I made the mistake of going to Scottsdale the other day and switching at Indian School and Scottsdale Road. I got lost trying to find a bus stop because it was a pole, because of the way the businesses are and the bus stops are laid out. I found out according to Google maps that it's about three blocks from the northbound bus stop -- I mean from the bus stop on the north side to the bus stop on the south side and I was trying to go south on 72. 2 Some of the areas of town I love, Tempe, I love the transit center there. It's fun to switch there. One of the other things is that you continue to have -- I believe that's all for this item. Thank you. Ms. Hartman said I, like the other gentleman, have an -- besides being legally totally blind there is a difference, I also have a severe breathing problem. I need shelters at every stop. I need -- and I mean every single -- I don't care if it's only a quarter of a mile from the last stop a shelter has to be everywhere, because I have to do any walking to and from a bus or things I have to sit down quite often. I mean, in a quarter of a mile, I have to sit down twice. That's pretty bad. So we've got to get more shelters up here. Thank you. Ms. Fields said I have several things I'd like to talk to you about. One, you're talking about shelters. I'd like to talk about the pads at the bus stops. They're not big enough. Ensenada is one of those. It's on the 184 route. When the bus driver has to stop to let me out, if he can find a pad, he's in the middle of a driveway of a busy junior high school.