Glenda Marsh, of the Transit 101 education program of 350 Sacramento, has invited the transportation advocacy community to come to the Sacramento Transportation Authority (STA or SacTA) board meeting on May 11 at 1:30PM, in the Sacramento County supervisors board room on H Street. Glenda’s email is included below, for those of you not on her email list.
The agenda has been posted, and the potential “son of Measure B” is not on the agenda, so if you wish to speak in support of true public engagement and progressive, climate- and people-friendly transportation funding, it will be during the public comment period at the beginning of the meeting. Though there are beginning to be rumors of a delay in a ballot measure until 2020, we are all concerned that things may be going on behind the scenes to bring a ballot measure very similar to the unacceptable Measure B back to the voters in 2018. The development of Measure B had NO meaningful public input, and that was one of the many reasons it was opposed by STAR and other organizations.
These daytime board meeting are impossible for many people to attend, particularly low-income citizens who work during the day and can’t take time off work, but if you can attend, please do. A show of force at this meeting could well cause the board to change directions and to take seriously their responsibility to engage with the public.
Is your organization planning on attending the STA’s May 11 Board Meeting and would make in person points about how to make community participation meaningful and accessible? Following on to the ECOS letter to the STA Board that several groups signed onto in March asking for community participation in development of future transportation measures.
This seems really important and not to be missed opportunity to drive the point home and make recommendations on how STA should do this. We’ve heard ideas like holding evening and weekend meetings, locations around the county accessible by bus/light rail/bike (bike valet for ballot measures anyone?), webcast meetings (not cable only), etc. How about some funding from SACOG to help out? Come share you ideas about how input should be received and how the community can see and hear deliberations of the Board and any committee set up to develop a new measure.
350 Sacramento reps will be there; will other organizations send a rep?
STA Board Meeting
Thursday May 11, 1:30 PM
Sacramento County Board of Supervisors Chamber
700 H Street, Suite 1450
Downtown SacramentoRSVP to this email so we can be in touch!
Glenda Marsh [marshmellow8562 yahoo.com]
350 Sacramento volunteer
Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR) 