>> Excuse me. All right. Time
to start the C-tran Board of
Directors meeting for March
10th, 2026. Let's go ahead and
please stand and join me for
the Pledge of Allegiance.
>> I pledge allegiance to the
United States of America and to
the Republic for which it
stands. One nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
>> Cyndie will you please call
the roll?
>> Yes, chair. Ryan Davis,
>> Present.
>> Will Fuentes, Bart Hansen.
>> Present.
>> Tim Hein, present. Sue
Marshall here. Anne. McEnerny
Ogle present. Eric Overholser
here. Kim Harless. Michelle
Wagner. Joshua waits here.
>> Excellent. Now, on to
approval of the agenda. Are
there any additions to or
changes to the agenda? Seeing
none, I would entertain a
motion to approve the agenda.
>> Move to approve the agenda
in its entirety.
>> Second.
>> Got a motion and a second.
All those in favor?
>> Aye, aye.
>> Opposed.
>> Motion passes.
>> Now on to public comment.
Anyone requesting to speak with
the board of directors or any
agenda or non item agenda may
come forward at this time. If
attending virtually, the chair
will call on you when it's your
time to address the board.
Public comments will be limited
to no more than 60 minutes in
total, with up to three minutes
per speaker. This may limit the
number of individuals to speak
in person. The comments will be
heard in the order that they
are received. Written comments
are still encouraged and will
be accepted for the inclusion
of the official meeting minutes.
First up, we have Douglas Tweet.
>> There we go.
>> Ryan, are you there? Okay.
Thank you. Chair and board.
Douglas. Tweet. Camus. So I'm
strongly opposed the extension
of Trimet's Light rail as part
of the IBR project. I'm reading
from this, which you have been
given. There's several points.
First of all, I object to the
author last month to sign the
IBR without having even seen or
read it. Second point is c-tran
ridership numbers that would be
replaced by the bright light
rail route 60 are still very
low. I've got an updated
numbers and the plot is on the.
On the third page. You can see
it hasn't changed in three
years. And then also whenever
Tri-met light rail trains get
in trouble, the passengers are
rescued by guess what busses.
That has to happen. On March
1st there was a car accident in
Tri-met and the passengers had
to be rescued not by other
trains but by shuttle busses.
So why spend billions more for
a less reliable system? Finally,
we need to put the light rail
to a countywide vote, since it
will affect all of us. So the
first point, just my important,
most important one right now is
from the minutes of the
February 10th meeting. This is
your action items about
signature authority. And it
says at the bottom, C-tran
signature indicates general
agreement with the analysis
impacts and the mitigation as
outlined in the final CIS. So
at last month's meeting, the
board, with two in opposition,
voted to allow this to be
signed by the C-tran CEO.
However, as explained in the
presentation by IBR executives,
it still wasn't published, it
wasn't available to be seen,
and and it's still not
available. I was checking the
Eib's website and I couldn't
find it. So how could you agree
with analysis, impacts and
mitigation as outlined in this
report if you hadn't read.
>> It.
>> I was frankly shocked that
you could vote to approve a
document hadn't even seen in my
years of professional
experience as a as a research
scientist in the semiconductor
industry, both private and in
government laboratories, I
would never signed a report I
hadn't seen or read, especially
a technical report. That's my
field. That would have been
careless, unwise, and unethical.
At this point, I wonder if it's
possible for board member to
make a motion to rescind this
vote, and delayed until the
full board has had an
opportunity to study the issues.
If it's possible, I urge you to
do so. Second thing on
ridership. This plot here that
you've seen, I've got an
extension for the last five
months, and you can see it's
the red dots. It's just flat.
It hasn't really changed. About
890 per weekday average
estimated as unchanged. So
still very low. And then
finally, whenever Tri-met gets
in trouble, the light rail gets
in trouble. Parsons passengers
are rescued by busses. Nine
days ago. There's that report
that's on. You can read that
January 19th ice storm
passengers rescued a busses.
When it gets hot, passengers
are rescued by busses. So why
bother with the.
>> Next up?
>> Margaret. Tweet.
>> Good evening board. I also
was shocked at the last meeting
that this board voted to
authorize a report that none of
the board had read, definitely
hadn't reviewed the draft
sources was thousands of pages,
perhaps 10,000 pages. So it's
not something that could be
done quickly even if you had it.
But you don't. So I agree, I
believe that the proper thing
to do is to get the report and
have the board have adequate
time to consider all 10,000
pages or more, and before
authorizing approval of the
report, one of the things that
was very concerning that was
given right here to the C-tran
board was a forecast by IBR for
2024 ridership data. Now, there
is actual ridership data
available, but instead IBR
chose to forecast the past for
light rail. But there are no
light rail stations or trains
in Clark County today, so I've
never seen a weather forecast
for yesterday. And yet you're
submitting this information to
the federal government as valid
and correct. That would be one
thing you should look at.
Another thing was the single
data point about the the number
of people crossing the bridge,
the pedestrians that was
inflated. But a single data
point was cited in the draft
sources. And I sent an email
that there was data from 2024
for every month on the North
and South bridges that were not
in the draft sources, so none
of the public could comment on
them. But those numbers were
very different from that single
data point. There's a lot of
missing data, documents that
weren't shared with the public
during the draft public comment
period. So that's concerning.
You should be concerned about
it. I know that I am, and
regarding your motion tonight,
you should go back to what
Michelle Belkot proposed, that
it should go back to the
original conditions, the ones
that were agreed upon in 2022.
That is not paying for light
rail at all. And there was
supposed to be a freight only
corridor that seems to have
gone by the wayside in favor of
a bus only lane that isn't even
used for five hours a day.
Meanwhile, the trucks are going
24 over seven and they have no
dedicated lane like they said
they were going to do in 2022.
You should go back to the
original conditions. Just like
Michelle Belkot proposed. Thank
you.
>> Thank you. Next up, Bruce
Barnes.
>> Good evening, Council and
chair. Thanks for the
opportunity to speak. My name
is Bruce Barnes and I've got a
couple concerns tonight to
discuss. One being the Main
Street promise where your
busses go up and down it. The
road is too narrow. It's 20ft
wide. There's not a middle lane
yellow line separating it,
which would make it 19ft. Your
bus is ten feet. Mirror to
mirror. The or 11ft. The fire
trucks are ten feet wide. I've
measured them both myself. Fire
department folks are concerned
about it too, and they're
trying to do the same thing in
the city of Vancouver,
apparently on Broadway as well.
Also, I did a field trip up to
the Department of
Transportation Commission
meeting, and I'm going to be
making another one. And what
I'm going to do is respectfully
ask the chair to have an
investigation of this board,
because now there is apparently
a text message from chair Sue
Marshall from Clark County,
basically colluding to remove
Michelle Belkot off this
committee. And I ask any of you,
how would you like it if
somebody had done this to you
as a politician? As hard as it
takes to get elected, as hard
as it takes to gather money, as
hard as you guys work to do
what's right, it's not only an
oath of office violation, but
it's just wrong. And I would
ask the chair, respectfully
before I go there to try and
resolve this with the three
people that are involved in
this, I would really ask this
board to look into this. It's
it's I mean, Kim, you know, as
as a city councilman or woman,
she had an ethics charge. She
went through the whole process,
right? She took her lumps, you
know what I mean? And I think
that that's what needs to
happen. You know what I mean?
We got to have ethical honesty.
Integrity. That's what people
expect out of every one of you.
That's what I expect. I expect
that of myself. You know what I
mean? And I'm not here. I'm not.
There's no gain for me to be
here. There's nothing. I'm not
making any money off of this.
You know what I mean? I'm here
because I'm an extremely
concerned citizen and a
taxpayer, and my taxes just
went up another thousand
dollars this year. Right. And
when I see what I'm getting
from my money, I'm not getting
the bang for the buck, you know?
And and when you look at the
mayor of Portland and his
forecast and how badly in debt
they are, what are we doing? I
also talked to the director of
the Department of
Transportation. She was a very
caring woman that's in charge
of that. She also told me they
don't have the money to build
this bridge straight up. She
said that we do not have the
money. They're trying to get
the money, but they don't have
the money. And they said it's
going to be a 20 year project
that's going to impact this
area for 20 years, 1.3 to $1.6
billion in in tolls are going
to need. That's $14 or $12 each
direction on that bridge. The
taxpayers can't afford it.
Thank you for your time.
>> Thank you. Next up we have
Deborah Katz.
>> I'd appreciate it if people
would stop reading when people
are commenting, it's really
rude. So please pay attention.
So good evening board. Is this
turned on? Okay. Thank you for
the opportunity to address you
again I love history, I'm
actually an Anglophile. I love
British history. Everything old
is new again. History repeats
itself yet again. Except for
this time. You are King Henry
the Eighth. And the bridge with
the light rail is Anne Boleyn.
You see, the king was married
for years to the same woman who
was adequate. The queen even
gave the gave the king a
daughter who lived. But a
female couldn't rule on the
throne because she didn't
produce a male heir. The king
looked for his once elsewhere,
at the behest of his courtiers.
You must produce a male heir to
ensure the safety of our
country. So he turned his gaze
to a shiny new thing. Who was
Anne Boleyn? She was young,
educated, had a French flair
and confidence about herself.
She wasn't like all the other
women at court. Along with that,
she had all the promise of
being fertile and giving the
king a male heir, the thing he
wanted most. But it came at
great cost. So he pursued her
with reckless abandonment,
never considering the cost to
himself, his marriage or his
kingdom. For seven years he
tried to rid himself of his
queen so he could have Anne. In
the end, he got what he wanted.
However, it destroyed his
marriage, turned the kingdom on
its head from being Catholic to
Anglican, broke with the Church
of Rome beheading many of his
courtiers in the process, i.e.
Michele Belkot. Once he got her
Anne, he she gave him a child,
a girl, Elizabeth. How
disappointing. Still, she
couldn't Reule eventually lost
the initial lust he had for her.
The shiny new thing wore off.
He never got the male heir he
wanted and never knew that his
daughter Elizabeth would rule.
For 40 glorious years. The
effects of those decisions are
still in play today in England.
You see, the shiny, sexy new
thing here is not just the
bridge, but the promise of what
light rail will be like having
that virginal, new, shiny,
wonderful thing with all the
prospects of joy and a green
choice. However, it comes at
great cost and will be like the
king who wanted one thing,
never looking at the
possibilities of another answer.
These decisions you make here
today will have lifelong
repercussions and cost to the
residents for the rest of our
lives. Will be paying for that
lust for the rest of our lives.
Only madmen and Englishmen go
out in the midday sun for the
sake of the peasantry. Don't be
King Henry the Eighth. Thank
you.
>> Thank you. Cyndie. Do we
have anybody on.
>> The line?
>> Nobody online. Okay. That
moves us to the consent agenda.
Would anybody like to pull
anything from the consent
agenda or.
>> Chair? I moved to approve
the consent agenda.
>> There's a motion. Do we have
a second? Second motion and
second. All those in favor say
aye.
>> Aye.
>> Opposed? Motion passes. Now
we're moving on to the
presentation. And that is Karen.
Strategic Strategic Priorities
2025 progress Update from Chief
Executive Officer Leanne.
>> Thank you. Good evening,
chair and members of the board.
I know we have some new board
members, as well as others who
were here when we developed the
strategic priorities about a
year ago. So I'd like to
briefly provide some context.
In March of 2025, we held a two
day staff workshop facilitated
facilitated by Transpo, to
identify key performance areas
we should track to ensure we're
in alignment with our mission
and vision values. The outcomes
of that workshop were presented
to the board during the April
2025 Board Workshop, and in
September 2025, the board
formally adopted the strategic
priorities. As you see this,
since that time, staff has been
collecting and tracking data
tied to these priorities. What
I'd like to do now is walk
through the scorecard
scorecards and provide a
snapshot of how we're
performing across each of these
areas, because this is our
first reporting cycle.
Tonight's presentation is
really about establishing our
baseline. Customer customer
experience, our Net Promoter
Score. This metric measures
customer loyalty and
satisfaction by asking riders
how likely they are to
recommend C-tran 382 responses
were collected through the
website, social media and on
street customer service and
operators. Many factors can
influence the scores that you
see before you. But while we
did not meet the goal, this
provided our first reliable
baseline. We take all feedback
seriously and will work to
improve results over time. The
goal will be reviewed and
adjusted annually on our on
time performance. This tracks
the percentage of busses that
arrive at the end of the route
within the scheduled time
window. This is for fixed route,
and this is more than no more
than one minute early and or
five minutes late with them
arriving at the end of the line
for demand response we had.
That measures the percentage of
Kyvin and current trips where
customers are scheduled for
pickup and drop off on time
performance. As we stated as I
know Ada, we don't really have
a we do not have room to cancel
or cannot cancel per Ada
regulations, so there is no
cancellation or drop time that
we can present to you on this.
But during for fixed route, our
drop time trips did improve and
we got a good score. And this
this measures the percentage of
scheduled fixed route trips
that were canceled or not
completed. This metric applies
only to the fixed route service
and the only like I said, the
only way we could cancel Ada
paratransit is if there was any
extreme weather, severe weather
that have to be severely icy
roads, snows to even be a
possibility for cancellation
for bus cleanliness and
compliance. Maintenance was
able to meet theirs at 100%.
This measures deep clean. That
happens in our in our yard 30
to 40 days for all fixed route
vehicles. The vehicles do have
more frequently cleaned as that
is our higher ridership busses
and are frequently used more
often. As you see, this is in
addition to what our vehicle
service workers do that are at
the transit centers that do the
touchpoint. Cleaning through
our day to day service.
Employee engagement. While this
goal wasn't met, this was the
first engagement survey
conducted in several years,
giving us a fresh baseline.
More than 200 employees
participated. The executive
team is currently reviewing and
working with departments to
identify improvement actions
and responses to inquiries,
field positions, track vacant
operator and mechanic positions
were critical to maintaining
our reliable service and
employee retention measures.
The number of employees at the
end of each quarter compared to
the beginning of the quarter,
giving us a snapshot snapshot
of workforce reliability.
Access. Is a measure to the
percentage of bus stops that
meet Ada accessibility
standards. The goal was not met
primarily due to staff capacity
constraints and focus on route
12 infrastructure investments.
This project prioritized
installing new stops rather
than upgrading existing stops.
This year, our focus has
shifted towards stop
accessibility and improvements.
Here you can see how they how
our planning team has over the
years been making stop
improvements throughout the
system.
>> Second here. Oops.
>> For access, there is a.
>> There we.
>> Go access bus stops or goals
were not met but measures the
percentage of bus stops that
met Ada accessibility standards.
The goal was not primarily due
to staff capacity and focus on
route 12 infrastructure and
pots. Excuse me. Investments.
As we measure. Sorry, I got a
little off track there. Okay,
we're at access to C-tran
services. Excuse me. So,
measures to the percentage of
the public transportation
benefit area population within
one third mile of any C-tran
bus stop or current zone. This
reflects whether people can
realistically access transit
within walking distance of
their home, regardless of
service frequency. This measure
does not include paratransit,
which is an eligible
eligibility based service for
stop access. 30 minute service
is measures the percentage of
the population within one third
mile of a stop, with service
every 30 minutes on weekdays,
hourly on weekends. This
indicates whether residents can
reasonably access frequent and
reliable transit options, and
our 15 minute service measures
the percentage of the
population within one third
mile of the service, operating
every 15 minutes. While this
goal was not met primarily
because population growth in
Clark County occurred outside
existing frequent service
corridors and no new frequent
service corridors were added,
one quarter was removed due to
low productivity, which is a
route 34. We look to continue
partnership with local
jurisdictions to promote
transit supportive development.
The upcoming highway 99 BRT is
expected to significantly
improve performance in this
area.
>> Lehan. This seems.
>> Like a.
>> Tough metric because there's
stuff out of your control. If
the to access the bus stop,
there is not an Ada curb cut
out. How much control do you
have over that? Because it's
going to limit the access to
the bus stop.
>> That is where the that's
where the Ada accessibility bus
stop improvement comes in to
play, and how we're looking at
how we can provide those cut
outs that are needed to access
for access for for customers
that so they don't have to ride
paratransit or demand response
van to get to where they need
to be. So that's where working
with our local jurisdiction,
jurisdiction parties for
locating land use and whatnot,
and how they're going to build
so we can be a part of that
plan of having those cut outs
available for bus stop.
>> Thank you.
>> So fiscal sustainability,
our budget adherence, the
metrics reflects Premier
Premier goodness preliminary
2025 budget to actual financial
performance. C-tran is
projected to finish the year
approximately 4.6% under the
adopting operating budget,
which is within our target of
less than 5% variance.
Maintaining a strong, strong
budget discipline will be
particularly important as we
prepare for potential fiscal
deficit in the coming years. As
you see, the fixed route cost
per hour, BRT cost per hour,
paratransit, the current and
Vanpool cost per hours are
going to our establishing
starting January of this year,
with the starting to track this
data and change how we track
this information, it did not
make sense, or we're not able
to realistically go back and
redo all of 2025. So finance is
making, has made changes and
will be tracking this through
starting the first of this year.
See, we updated financial
coatings to ensure this metric
reflects fully loaded
operational costs. So next
report out. We'll see more on
those areas. Ridership. Local
bus ridership reflects trips on
fixed routes within Clark
County, only showing strong
demand for shorter local trips
for daily needs. And I think as
we've expressed prior, we've
seen how the the how people's
travel demands and patterns
have changed over the past past
years since Covid has happened.
So we our local ridership has
been doing great and has been
at or above pre-pandemic levels.
Are express bus ridership
reflects routes crossing the
Columbia River to downtown
Portland. This goal was not met
due to no additional service or
no service investments were
available. We expect
improvement with the opening of
Salmon Creek Transit Center to
make an improvement. Regional
bus ridership reflects routes
crossing the Columbia River to
connect, crossing the Columbia
River to connect to Trimet
transit centers. Max service.
This goal was not met due to no
additional service hours needed
as well. Planning staff are
currently evaluating potential
adjustments to route 65 and 67,
and as well as proven
connections in Portland,
including airport access. Line
ridership. Is represents the
Red and Green Lines service
experience. Services
experienced significant
construction delays during Q4
in downtown Vancouver during
2025, and now since then, we
are seeing travel times have
already improved, especially on
fourth plain due to City of
Vancouver business. That's the
City of Vancouver's business.
Access to transit. As you may
hear, Battlings referred to as
that this the red, the red line,
the red roadway goodness, the
red roadway on the main streets
where you can see where busses
are able to access their stops
and be able to pull out easier.
C van ridership, as you see,
has a -3.9 is our goal. And
that was that's because we want
to manage our c van ridership.
This is due to it being our
it's a door to door service for
riders who are unable to use
fixed route transit due to
disability or mobility
limitations. This is a vital
and critical service, but is it
also is one of our most
expensive service. So as part
of our access card with
creating the Ada bus
improvement stops, this would
allow more access to
individuals not relying on our
C van ridership, c van service
to ride, and they'd be able to
have more access to our fixed
route and the current. So we're
looking to decrease our
percentage of ridership for
that. So we're working on that
as it will tie into our access.
And then the current ridership
tracks trips on our on demand
service, which is a
particularly valuable, valuable
in areas that are not well
served by fixed route. Again,
you see a negative in our Q4
results, but this is while the
fourth quarter number may
appear to show decline, the
primarily reflects normal
seasonal ridership patterns as
demand typically decreases
during the holiday seasons and
winter weather months, and the
our highest ridership usage are
usually the youth. And so with
school and holidays being out,
that tends to affect the
numbers as well as for the full
year. The current provided more
than 50,000 trips represented
nearly a 50% increase compared
to the previous year. So we
expect this to start to level
out as we have grown the
service by expanding it to
battleground and in addition of
to the part time, adding the
addition of the part time
workers, which allowed us to
increase service availability,
availability and respond to the
growing demand.
>> And.
>> So on. The ridership is down.
>> Ten oh. Thank you.
>> Current ridership is down
10.9%. Is that measuring it
over prior quarter?
>> That's for Q4 orders. So
that's why starting this
starting this report out is
kind of a hard picture to paint,
showing that the we went into a
negative for this just showing
what our. Our current numbers
were for Q4. Is there more of.
>> A no. And I think, boy,
excuse me, I'm getting choked
up here too as well. The the
the numbers that were that
we're looking at here represent
just the last three months of
2025. And so when you're
looking at the fact that it's
10.9% of my understanding is
that's compared to quarter
three of the same year in 2025
and in the second or in the
third quarter of 2025. That's
when we implemented the new
dedicated operator pool for the
current service, and we saw
significant percentages on the
increased side. I don't know,
Taylor, if you know the number
off the top of your head, but
it was a significant increase.
And so as we as Lehan mentioned,
as we move moved into the
fourth quarter, whether more
holidays we typically see
throughout the system, not just
the on demand and current
service, lower ridership levels.
So if you look at 2025 as a
whole, and we will be having a
more detailed ridership
presentation that Taylor is
going to give at the April
board meeting, you're going to
be able to see that, you know,
while we want to track these
metrics on a quarterly basis
when it comes to ridership,
it's really important to look
at the trend lines and to look
at, in this case, all of 2025.
So you could see how everything
kind of measured out. But at
times looking at these,
especially when you're looking
at ridership in the fourth
quarter, the numbers are going
to be a little bit up and down
just because of the time of
year it is.
>> That helps a lot. Thank you.
From my perspective, it would
also be helpful to look at
prior year, the same quarter.
We're getting a quarter.
>> To.
>> Quarter perspective. You
know, how's you're looking. And
then how is the prior year same
quarter. Look, we.
>> Can. Kind of see.
>> Yeah. And I think that's the
benefit since we're just
getting started with this type
of a reporting system as we're
going forward. It's it's a
great idea to be able to look
back and compare Q4 26 to Q4 25.
And so that will be that will
definitely be a part of of this
going forward.
>> Is looking at this is really
helpful.
>> Thank you.
>> Our paratransit service is
conversion is a measure of how
often Kyvin eligible writers
use fixed route or the current
instead. So this is tracked
through the hop pass that
individuals have. Again
improving our stop
accessibility will continue to
support this progress and give
us progress in this area. And
last but not least is fixed
route. Weekend ridership
reflects weekend ridership on
routes with Clark within Clark
County. This indicates shifting
travel patterns toward local
weekend trips. Again, this is
another travel pattern that has
expanded in. Our weekends have
gotten busier over since Covid
recent weekend service
investments are producing
strong and sustained ridership
growth. Like I said, while Q4
is typically and Scott
mentioned our time for lower
ridership overall, we are
seeing across these measures as
the demand for transit
continues to grow in our
service, are adapting to meet
the different ways people are
choosing to travel in our
community. And as we continue
tracking these measures over
time, they will help us better
understand trends, identify
areas where we are performing
well, and highlight where
additional attention may be
needed. Ultimately, these
priorities help ensure that the
work happening across the
organization stays aligned with
the strategic direction set by
this board and the needs for
the community we serve. They
also serve as an ongoing
reminder of why we do the work
that we do. This concludes the
update on our strategic
priorities, and I'll give it
back to you, chair, for any
more questions.
>> Thank you. Yeah.
>> Thank you for this. This is,
I agree, very valuable. One
metric that I was hoping to see
and maybe I missed it, but I
wanted to ask about it anyway
is do we have goals related to
fair recovery?
>> We do not at this time. And
that doesn't mean that we can't
as we continue to make onion
layers and peel them back. But
at this moment, we did not
identify that.
>> As a okay metric. Thank you.
Okay.
>> Thank you. Chair Lehan. As
you set the goals for 2026,
just for example, in ridership,
what might that goal be for
seven ridership?
>> These the goals? We do not
we're not changing on the
scorecards. Is that what you're
talking about? The goals that.
>> Are set. It's a -3.9%.
>> Well that that is our goal.
So there's room for discussion
on that. As we were going
through these slides and
getting this data together, we
did identify that there's room
for discussion. Not quite sure
where that would land at this
moment. We're still going to
kind of track and see how we
how it goes and where our how
our accessibility with our Ada
stop improvements and all that
stuff. If it makes a difference
or if there's something we need
to adjust to make it a
realistic goal.
>> And is that a discussion of
staff or in combination
workshop with this board?
>> It would we would update the
board with any discussion if we
were to look at changing it,
because we identified this as
an initial goal with for the
board to initially adopt. So we
would update you with that and
give you an opportunity to give
any input.
>> So are we since we're in
2026 and we're almost done with
that first quarter it might
this be on the agenda for April?
>> It could be, yes.
>> Are there other goals that
you have here that, for example,
under the fiscal sustainability
establish a baseline. Could
those items be on a board
discussion board workshop or is
staff establishing the baseline?
>> So this. Is again we're not
looking to change because we
this is our first time
reporting out and creating the
baseline. If there's a
discussion you would like to
have to explore, maybe if we
need to look at adjusting, we
are more than open to having
that discussion and see where
we land on that.
>> Chair. I wonder if the board
could be asked which of these
items, which of these goals are
important to them to have input
on that decision making process?
And it doesn't have to be
tonight. It could be a survey
monkey or whatever. But if
we're basing finances and such
on ridership and fiscal
sustainability, I believe the
board should have input on what
those goals are.
>> And to add to that, ideally,
when we get our date finalized
for the board retreat, this
would we were looking at to
review our, our our strategic
priorities. And if there's
adjustments, we could discuss
them then too. So we could do
that before.
>> Thank you.
>> Thank you. Chair. To
piggyback on that, I think that
that would be great to be able
to review review these at the
retreat. My question was on
slide 16 and thank you for the
presentation. Ada accessible
bus stops. Do all the cities
know? Do we like for example,
in Kamea? Do we know where we
need to improve and have, you
know, our Ada accessible bus
stops?
>> Because if.
>> The short answer is yes, and
we could, you know, get some
more, more detail or our
planning team interacts very
regularly with our, you know,
our partner jurisdictions. And
a lot of that I think we've
talked about this in relation
to the update of our long range
plan, because the cities and
the county are still going
through the comprehensive plan
updates that we're working
really hard to kind of link
those long range plans with
some of C trans future long
range plans. So we're being
able to really make headway.
And I think Taylor can share
some more precise data, perhaps
as part of the presentation
next month on ridership about
the advancements and
improvements we've made to cut
that deficit down. So hopefully
in not too many years from now,
all of our stops will, in fact
be Ada accessible. And then
going forward with new
development, we're going to
have things in place that will
help ensure that that happens.
>> Thank you. Because I if if
it's happening, if they're
identified, improvements are
happening with the cities.
They're great. But if there's
something we can do to improve.
It quicker we want to know.
>> Yeah.
>> You know.
>> Yeah it's great feedback.
>> Appreciate it. Thank you.
>> Any other questions I see a
lot of this. Like we would see
our fire departments at our
local where we're representing
the standard of coverage is
something that is developed by
staff and then amended through
time. When you take a look at,
you know, Suppressions response
to medical or fire, it could be
within nine minutes of of, you
know, from call to arriving at
the scene in an ambulance
arriving within 11 minutes. And
then when you take a look at
like marine, for instance, it's
new and you're learning, you
know, was that a reasonable
metric from the beginning? So
that's that's kind of how I
would see this unfolding.
>> Please continue.
>> Yeah I agree it's it's like
I said, this is to set our
baseline. And further
discussion is much, much needed
as we learn and see what
becomes realistic.
>> Are you. You're finished I.
>> Am done okay.
>> I just wanted to make sure.
I just want to make sure.
>> Thank you.
>> Since there are any other
questions, we're going to be
moving into executive session.
This board will move into two
executive sessions, the first
pursuant to CW 42 .3.1101 II
litigation or legal risk of a
proposed action or current
practice that the agency has
identified. When public
discussion of the litigation or
legal risks is likely to result
in adverse legal or financial
consequence to the agency, the
labor representative will be
excused for the second
executive session, begins the.
The first executive session is
going to be our CW 42 .31101 II
litigation or legal risks of a
proposed action.
>> One no.
>> No, I'm sorry. The second
executive session is going to
be the Chief Executive Officer
evaluation review pursuant to
RC 40 .3. 1101G. And the first
executive session is going to
go ten minutes. The second is
going to go 20 minutes. So
that's 30 minutes. And that
would be 641. And now we will
go into executive session. Did
I.
>> Miss anything. All right.
>> Executive session extended
another 20 minutes to 721.
Executive session extended ten
minutes 731.
>> Thank you.
>> Coming out back out of
executive session. Cindy, will
you call the roll?
>> Ryan Davis, present. Bart
Hanson, present. Tim Hein,
present. Sue Marshall. I see
you. Yep, I see you. Anne.
McEnerny.
>> Ogle present.
>> Eric Overholser here. Kim
Harless, Michelle Wagner here.
Joshua Waits here. Michelle
Belkot present.
>> All right. The first action
item is a discussion. Possible
action responding regarding CEO
compensation, which is a
standard responsibility of the
board. We will now open this
item for discussion.
>> Chair. Point of
clarification would you like us
to discuss.
>> Our our.
>> Personal feelings and
interpretation regarding the
evaluation. Of Chief Executive
Officer?
>> Yes.
>> Well, your personal feelings
are always welcome, Tim. But as
far as the compensation, was
there something you'd like to
add to that?
>> Well, yes, sure. Thank you,
thank you. And I welcome,
obviously with this motion
discussion to follow. But given
the discussion review of all
the compensation of the
evaluation of Chief Executive
Officer Lehan, I make a motion
to increase compensation by
2.5%.
>> I will second that chair.
>> We have a motion and a
second, but let's keep this
open for discussion. Do we have
anyone else that would. Like to.
>> Chime in? Eric.
>> Being rather new to this
board, three months in, I did
ask my predecessor for his
input on this as well. And just
from what I've witnessed and
from what I'm seeing, and
you're doing a phenomenal job.
And as a board member, I
appreciate that. But as a
member of this community, I
appreciate that. I appreciate
that even more. And so I would
just encourage you to continue
on the path that you're on. If
you're doing a phenomenal job
leading this organization. And
I look forward to the future
and what it has in store.
>> For you.
>> Any other takers?
>> Okay.
>> I'd like.
>> To.
>> Add. Thank you. Lehan I, I
agree completely with Eric. I
know that from the perspective
of the city of Camas, we
appreciate the engagement
C-tran has with our community
directly. We also see it in the
presence in other and other
areas of, you know, the service
area. I, I personally enjoy the
opportunity to work with you. I
see a very I, I sense a high
degree of trust with you and
your team, which is extremely
important, especially as we
continue to navigate.
Challenges that will lie ahead,
especially fiscal ones. We're
all going to have to make
adjustments, changes, be open
to change, and trust helps to
do that. So thank you. Look
forward to continuing to work.
>> With you.
>> All right. Not seeing
anybody else I'm going to jump
in. Leanne, I think you've done
a fantastic job. I think your
team has done a fantastic job
because if you don't mention
the team, then they really go.
But I only have one ninth of
the say in, you know how this
works up here. And when I look
at where we were last year and
where we are this year, any
deficiencies that are out there
as far as your performance, I
take some responsibility on.
And the reason that I do is
because the guidance that comes
from a board can be difficult
if you're not getting that
guidance and getting that
direction. So I'm going to work
very hard this year as the
chair to make sure that you do
get the proper direction from
this board and feel that you
are confidently moving forward
in what our directives are. And
I just wanted to relay that I'm
going to end on a good note,
okay. And you have done a
fantastic job. So any other
discussion not seeing any. I
have a motion. And a second.
All those in favor say aye.
>> Aye aye.
>> And opposed. See I even
asked twice not hearing any
motion passes. All right.
Moving on to proposed amendment
of board resolution 20 2-004
exhibit A, I'm going to go
ahead and defer to you, Mr.
Davis.
>> Yeah. Thank you chair. So I
have. Submitted, I guess, a
something for us to consider in
regards to addressing our, you
know, our current predicament
legally as well as the division
that we have had on our board
for a little bit over a year.
And so it is a proposed
amendment to board resolution
that, well, it amends section
8.2 going into this thought
process, the three priorities
have been for City of Richfield
at least. How do we keep the
members of C-tran together? How
do we keep the bridge project a
priority? And assuming the
bridge is going to have a light
rail component, identifying.
That the money that pays for
that is new money. And so it's
trying to find that middle
ground. And I'm hopeful that
what I put forward is going to
be something that hits those
marks for all of our
jurisdictions, so that we're
able to, for one, move forward
together. But also, you know,
and our entanglement with the
state of Washington as well,
and be able to just start
pursuing the work that's in
front of us. So I'm going to
move to amend section 8.2 of
the modified locally preferred
alternative as follows C-tran
may participate in funding the
operations and maintenance of
the Bi-State transit, including
any new park and rides that may
be constructed or co-located
station maintenance, security,
and other operational support
as agreed to and part of the
project. Funding authorized as
part of this section may not
come from RCW 82.14 .045. Sales
tax revenues previously
approved by the voters, which
are collected outside Vancouver
city limits, or the Vancouver
Urban Growth Area. This shall
become effective after the
following actions are completed.
Number one, the CRC recommends
two, and the C-tran board
adopts composition of C-tran
board, consisting of four
directors for the City of
Vancouver, three for Clark
County, and a combined total of
two directors representing the
cities of battleground, Camas,
Leichner, Ridgefield, Washougal,
and the town of Yacolt, and two
request the dismissal with
prejudice of Clark County
Public Transportation Benefit
Area versus Washington State
Department of Transportation,
Thurston County Superior Court
Number 25-20405134 by Wasch Dot
with the support of name
parties of said suit sitting as
members of the Baugh BC RC.
>> Second.
>> We have a motion and a
second. Now let's get to
discussion. Put all your hands
up.
>> At once.
>> Yeah, I can weigh in a
little bit on this battleground
is in. Support of this. I think
this is something that'll get
us over the hump of the
hesitance that we've had to
engage with the light rail and
IVR, and having that weight
carried by our taxpayers
battleground. Again. It we
don't want to be in a hindrance
or, or or get in the way of the
bridge replacement. And, and if
light rail needs to be funded
by C-tran I agree with that,
that it should be new money,
not the existing funding. We
know C-tran needs that funding
to operate at their current
operations level, and so
battleground is in favor of
that.
>> Thank you. Okay.
>> Thank you. Chair. City of
Camas also agrees with this as
a as a compromise solution.
We're in support of bridge
replacement. We don't want to
get in the way of that. We
support it. We want to stay as
a positive member of C-tran.
Services are valued and
increasing in value. But to the
canvas does not want to help
fund additional services for
light rail. To have citizens
pay for services of light rail,
and we want those to be limited
to City of Vancouver or the
Vancouver Urban Growth Boundary.
Thank you.
>> Sue, you have your hand up.
>> Yes I do, thank you. I think
with that we were on the verge
of adopting something very
similar to this. We it we it
was good that we took a step
back and not rush. The decision
gave our council a chance to
discuss this, and I would be
supportive of this.
>> Washougal City Council has
been briefed. They're
supportive of this new language.
>> All right. I'm not.
>> Seeing anything.
>> Else for comment. So we have
a motion and a second. All
those in favor say aye.
>> Aye aye.
>> Opposed?
>> No.
>> And so it passes. Taking a
look here that moves us on to
communications from the chair,
which.
>> You know.
>> Last night I took the number
25 and I had my umbrella, I had
my backpack. And it's been a
while. I took it to the state
of the city address, and it's
been a while since I've ridden
for other than, you know,
having a good time on the
longboard, but basically taking
the number 25. It was one of
those where the, the busses,
the, the two opportunities that
I had for that purpose were.
Full. Anywhere between 16 to 18
riders. And it was a great
experience. So, you know, when
you only get a glimpse of using
it only so often, it is one of
those things when you do use it
and you have that experience,
it's positive. So good job.
Anybody have any communications
from the board?
>> Thank you. Chair. Just one
I'd like to say thank C-tran
Leanne Scott for sending me the
assumptions, as I requested
from the February 10th meeting
on the Aiber ridership
assumptions. So thank you for
that information.
>> Yeah. Thank you chair. I
just through conversation we
were having recently internally,
we were talking about how in
Richfield we have the current
service. But and we also have
system wide the youth
opportunity path. And talking
about opportunities that we
might have to let you know our,
our especially like families of
teens and things like that, be
aware that, you know for
transportation throughout the
city, this is a more or less a
free to them resource. And how
do we leverage that? So I guess
I bring that up of saying, you
know, I'm hoping we can start
maybe having some dialog about
how we can work on that
outreach so that, you know, our
community is better able to
utilize that, that resource
that we provide. So thanks.
>> All right.
>> Seeing no other comments
from the Chief Executive
Officer.
>> Thank you, chair.
>> And I'm going to say thank
you to the Board of directors
for your encouraging words and
your guidance through this past
couple years, and I look
forward to where we're going on
second year, which is crazy,
but look forward to further
guidance and your leadership
through this process. So
appreciate it all. And thank
you to my fabulous executive
team and the rest of the
employees of C-tran that make
this place a successful place
to work in providing service to
our community. So thank you to
all. I wouldn't be successful
without you again and to Ryan
to your request. We can have
our travel trainer I can get
with our customer service
manager, and we can work some
plans out with getting our
travel trainer out in the area
and figure out how we can
further educate and
battleground, I think, yeah, I
think we did when we first
started the current, but we can
do more. So yeah, just let us
know. And Bart, thanks for the
kudos, is always good to hear
the positives of what we do in
the community. So thank you.
Speaking of thankful to our
transit Employee Appreciation
Day is next week on March 18th.
So this is a national day that
is that is recognized by
transit city transit agencies
across the country. So this is
a great opportunity to
recognize the incredible team
at C-tran who keeps our system
running. Every day. We will be
inviting the community members
to share shout outs about their
favorite transit employees.
You'll be able to see the on
our website, so please make
sure to send positives and
thank yous to all of our
employees that are out there
making. A service successful
out there and providing that to
everyone. Ten years on March
22nd, there will be celebrating
the 10th anniversary of Poetry
Moves, which features local
poetry on board C-tran busses.
Since the program began, we've
showcased 15 collections of
poems bringing local art into
writers every day. Transit
experience. The celebration
will take place at the Magenta
Theater in downtown Vancouver.
We'll have a bus there
displaying the current winning
poems. So this program is made
possible through our
partnership with Our Arts, a
local nonprofit arts advocacy
organization. So that's always
a fun thing to do. Another
layer to, as we highlighted on
our access of Ada stops today,
we have partnered with Portland
State University's Master of
Urban and Regional Planning
Program. They're working with
our planning team to develop a
bus stop accessibility plan. So
this goal is to create a
roadmap for bringing C-tran bus
stops up to 80 accessibility
standards. So this supports an
important priority for our
system while giving students
meaningful, real world
experience of transit. We look
forward to getting that roadmap
together and sharing that with
you guys as it comes alive. And
last but not least, we're
continuing our community
partnership with the Vancouver
Bears basketball. If you don't
know who that is, they used to
be known formerly as the
Vancouver Volcanoes. They still
offer discounted tickets for
fans who ride the transit to
their home games at Hudson Bay.
We'll also help highlight the
team's community engagement
work throughout the season, and
they're off to a good start.
They won their season opener
last weekend against Yakima
Heat and that is it for tonight.
>> Well.
>> The time is 747 oh did I oh,
I almost forgot our legal
counsel. You were ready to jump
in there and I had it coming.
>> I don't have any comments,
but thank you for asking.
>> Thank you. I'm getting I'm
new at this. Okay. The time is
now. 748 and seeing no further
business, this meeting is
adjourned.