SacRT Board 2025-08-11

The Board of Directors of SacRT will meet Monday, August 11, 2025, at 4:00 PM at SacRT Headquarters, 1102 Q Street, Sacramento, 4th Floor, the agenda (pdf) is below. Items of particular interest to STAR and our readers are linked. Other documents are available on SacRT Current Board Documents page. The consent calendar items are adopted as a whole, without discussion, unless a board member requests that an item be pulled from consent for discussion and separate decision.

Public comment may be made in person at the time of the agenda item, or for ‘matters not on the agenda’. “Written public comment submitted to boardcomments@sacrt.com up to 250 words and received by 1:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting will be provided to the Board and will become part of public record upon submission to the Board.”

Agenda

  1. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
  2. CONSENT CALENDAR
    • 2.1 Motion: Approval of the Action Summary of July 28, 2025
    • 2.2 Receive and File: Quarterly Treasurer’s Report
    • 2.3 Resolution 2025-08-086: Approving Work Order No. 26 to the Contract for General Engineering Support Services – 2020 with Psomas for LED Lighting Upgrades Project Design
    • 2.4 Resolution 2025-08-087: Delegating Authority to the General Manager/CEO to Approve the Eleventh Amendment to the Contract for Low Floor Light Rail Vehicles Procurement with Siemens Mobility, Inc.
    • 2.5 Resolution 2025-08-088: Delegating Authority to the General Manager/CEO to Approve and Execute the First Amendment for Sheriff Services with the County of Sacramento to Add 6 Security Officers, 1 Sergeant and 1 Deputy
    • 2.6 Resolution 2025-08-089: Awarding a Contract for State Lobbying Services to EJ Thronson Consulting LLC
    • 2.7 Resolution 2025-08-090: Approving the Acceptance of Income From the Automated Bus Stop Enforcement Program
    • 2.8 Resolution 2025-08-091: Amending and Restating the Personnel Policy Manual (PPM) to Align Benefits for Non-Represented Management and Confidential Employees to Those of Represented Employees
    • 2.9 Resolution 2025-08-092: ADA Notice Effective Communication Policy
  3. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
  4. PUBLIC ADDRESSES BOARD ON MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA*
  5. NEW BUSINESS
    • 5.1 Information: Light Rail Ridership Update
  6. GENERAL MANAGER’S REPORT
    • 6.1 General Manager’s Report
      • a. Major Developments and Updates
      • b. SacRT Meeting Calendar
      • c. Next Stop News
      • d. Monthly Social Work Report (July)
      • e. Midtown Surplus Electronic Update (July 28, 2025 – Item 4.3)
  7. REPORTS, IDEAS AND QUESTIONS FROM DIRECTORS, AND COMMUNICATION
    • 7.1 Mobility Advisory Council Meeting Summary – July 17, 2025
  8. ADJOURN

Notes:

2.5 Law enforcement: The board passed a consent item for SacPD services of off-duty, overtime SacPD officers at the last meeting. This was said to be temporary. On this agenda is an arrangement with Sacramento County Sheriff for law enforcement officers. Apparently, SacRT has only two officers on staff, and it contracting out all other officers. STAR has not had time to analyze the situation, nor to compare with peer agencies, but we are concerned about contracting out law enforcement services rather than having officers in-house. There seem to be liability implications for having others do the job, rather than staff.

3.1 customer service: It is unknown what the content of this presentation will be, as the presentation has not been posted to the SacRT Board Documents page. SacRT has claimed that presentations are not part of the agenda, and therefore the 72-hour notification under the Brown Act does not apply, so long as the item is shared with the public and the board before the meeting. Most advocates disagree with this interpretation of the Brown Act. In any case, there have been a number of instances where the presentations were NOT available to the public and board until after the meeting.

3.2 midtown surplus properties: The staff report is much improved over that provided for the 2025-08-28 meeting. It now includes addresses of the parcels to be surplused, and a map. STAR is concerned that continuity of bus maintenance offices, which are in the 1400 29th Street parcels, are subject to negotiation with a developer rather than being location in a parcel not to be surplussed.

6.1 General Managers Report: This is a strange document. It includes information seemingly unrelated to the GM report, including information from previous agenda staff reports and presentations, which could be part of agenda item 3.2.

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