SacRT Board 2024-02-26

The agenda for the SacRT Board of Directors meeting on Monday, February 26, 2024, has been posted. STAR recommends that the public attend board meetings from time to time. Except for rare occasions when a particularly controversial item comes up, meetings are usually poorly attended, so the board and staff often goes off in their own direction, not necessarily in support of what the public wants and needs from transit. The agendas are posted three days (72 hours) or more before the meetings, at Current SacRT Board Documents.

Barbara Stanton of Ridership for the Masses (RFTM) routinely sends an email with board meeting highlights a few days before the meetings. Contact RFTM at rftm@rftm.info to get on that mailing list. STAR will not post on every board meeting, so being on RFTM’s email list will keep you well informed.

For this meeting, STAR notes

  • 2.11: Low Floor Light Rail Vehicle Procurement. SacRT is planning on purchasing nine more Siemens low-floor (NOT level-boarding) rail cars for service on the Gold Line, which would bring the total to 45. SacRT is currently testing earlier orders for service sometime in summer 2024.
  • 7.1: Review and future strategic capital expansion and modernization plan presentation. This could be interesting, however, no text nor presentation is available at this time. Sometimes presentations are posted after the agenda, and sometimes they are never posted.
  • 7.2: Board Composition and Voting. The board will consider three proposals from the ad-hoc governance committee (which has been meeting without little public notice) for board seat arrangements. STAR opposes this motion because it locks in the flawed one seat – one vote governance model and does not address non-elected persons serving on the board if appointed by their member city or county.
  • 8.1: General Managers Report. Covers 2024 service changes and branding survey, and includes staff reports on Equal Employment Opprotunity Update, Internal Audit Update, and General Counsel Update. There are usually but not always presentations to go with the General Manager’s Report.

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