At the SacRT board meeting on Monday night (2022-02-14), the following motion was adopted.

The County of Sacramento will have an additional seat (four total) and the City of Elk Grove will have an additional seat (two total) on the SacRT Board of Directors.  Any member jurisdiction that would have alternates, the members of those jurisdictions would pick the alternates for their seated representation on the SacRT Board commensurate with the number appropriated for service on the SacRT Board.  The selection of those alternates is not restricted to elected individuals – it would be at the discretion of individual jurisdiction and their membership to select them. The 5^th member of the Board of Supervisors would no longer be considered the alternate explicitly. The Board must revisit seat allocation no less than every 10 years, but it must happen if/when Yolo/West Sacramento annex to SacRT or whenever a member jurisdiction has had a significant population increase or decrease or change to their landscape.  The maximum size of the SacRT Board will be 13 members.

STAR accepts this motion. We appreciate the board member, particularly Katie Valenzuela and Linda Budge, who spoke against the worst features of the Ad-hoc Subcommittee recommendation, and to the other board members who worked to find a compromise position that worked for most board members.

This is a follow-up, and hopefully final for now, post related to:

• SacRT may move to restrict citizen participation
• STAR letter on SacRT board composition
• SacRT board composition meeting #2
• SacRT board composition meeting

There may be a STAR effort, working with the other transit advocacy organizations, to ask that Sacramento County, or perhaps other entities, appoint a member of the Mobility Advisory Council as one of their members or alternates. A longer term consideration is whether we want to ask the same for a representative of the transit advocacy organizations, and whether the business community may ask for representation.

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