Council Airport Committee - Regular Meeting

Okay. Good afternoon. Ready? Okay. Perfect. Good afternoon. It is 04/22/2026. It is 05:33PM. This is the council infrastructure infrastructure and airport committee. I'd to call the meeting to order. And, miss Barras, if you can please take roll.

Council member Andrews? Present. Council member Cyrip? Mayor Salinas?

Present. Thank you. We are all here. Next is public comment. This is reserved for anyone in the public that would like to make a public comment on something that is not on the agenda. Do we have any public comment cards? Seeing none, is there anybody online? Seeing none, I will close public comment and move on to approval of minutes.

I'll move the item. Sorry.

Moved by council member Andrews, seconded by AmeriProtem, And if there are no objections, it will unanimously pass. Thank you. Moving on to, our action items, reports and action items. Item number three, which is the safe streets We

have two minutes to approve.

I believe. Oh,

I'm sorry. Yeah. Item number two, minutes for, February 26.

Second.

Moved by mayor pro tem Sarov, second by council member Andrews. And if there are no objections, it was unanimously passed. My apologies.

Mister mayor, we have three substantive, items on the agenda for this evening. I was going to request that you move the item number five, which is the CIP for 2736

Of course.

To the first one, and then item number four and then five, if that's okay with you.

So put five as three Correct. And then just bump everything else down?

And then bump number three as five. So

Oh, okay. Okay.

Okay. I see. Thank you.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. Sure. If there are no objections, is that fine? Okay. Then, let's do this. So the first item, action item, will be item number five, which is the review of recommended capital improvement program.

I would just say that, this item went to planning commission earlier this month. It was unanimously found to be consistent with the general plan, and it is before you this evening. I have Marissa Mata online who is going to go ahead and present the item. Marissa, are you there? Can you hear me? Yes.

I am. And I'm going to share my screen right now. Please let me know if you

can see it.

Can see it.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Okay. Good

evening, council infrastructure and airport committee. Tonight, I will be presenting the recommended fiscal year '27 CIP for your review and comment. For the past several years, the CIP has been developed as an online book using OpenGov stories. Staff will provide a refresher tour of the online book for the public at the city council work, city council work session scheduled on May 5. The online version can be found on the city's website linked on the screen here.

Opened up stories is intended to increase the user friendliness and ease of navigation within the document and make it more publicly accessible. The proposed CIP includes a total recommended budget of approximately $264,000,000 in fiscal year twenty twenty seven and a total budget of approximately $1,300,000,000 in the entire ten year planning period from fiscal year twenty twenty seven through 2036. The document also includes a proposed general fund transfer of approximately $3,700,000 in fiscal year twenty seven. Most of the general fund transfer increase covers nondiscretionary expenses that support basic operational needs from multiple departments in fund four zero five, such as police equipment, like integrated cameras and field operations equipment, and fire equipment such as fire radio replacements. For facilities management fund, staff proposes a 1,100,000 general fund transfer to correct previously overstated revenue and to balance the budget in fiscal year twenty seven.

The recommended CAP also includes proposed internal service fees. These are fees that are collected when one city department provides a service to another, drawing those service expenses from the operating budget of the benefiting department. The CIP includes a recommended ISF of approximately $1,900,000. Staff was able to defer purchases for fiscal year twenty seven in fund July, fleet management capital removing the need for a general fund transfer. This slide provides a snapshot of the recommended CAP budget broken down by category.

The amount shown are the forecasted expenses that are planned for fiscal year twenty seven. As you can see here, the largest portion of the recommended fiscal year twenty seven budget has been programmed in the sewer system category in orange. This category encompasses a wide range of projects, which support the ongoing replacement and improvement of our utility infrastructure. Projects include the annual sewer line replacement and the phase two improvement project at the water resource recovery facility. The second largest category is the water system projects category in blue, which includes projects like the annual waterline replacements, various groundwater sustainability projects, and the needs assessment for a new corporation yard.

On the previous slide, we displayed the recommended CIP by category, such as rodent streets. This slide shows a snapshot of our recommended budget broken down by fund as opposed to category. So you will see funds such as gas tax, which actually support the road and streets category. As you can see on the graph, funds with the largest allocation of the recommended budget are the water and sewer system funds in orange and blue. The fund with the third largest budget allocation is fund four zero five capital projects.

Many projects in fund four zero five fall within the livable neighborhoods category, such as La Vista Park and the South Hayward Youth and Family Center. The livable neighborhoods category includes beautification, safety, and neighborhood amenities, and improvement projects like the South Hayward Youth and Family Center and La Vista Park. Other examples include the Campus Drive improvements project through which a series of traffic calming measures are being implemented in the stretch of Campus Drive between 2nd Street and Hayward Boulevard. Next, the Alameda County Transportation Commission Safe Routes to School program conducts regular school safety assessments for public schools in Hayward and throughout the county, which result in a set of infrastructure recommendations to make it easier for students to bike and walk to school. Hayward's Safe Routes to School program was created to implement these recommendations in collaboration with Hayward Unified School District, Alameda CTC, and various community organizations.

The plans for this project are currently being developed. The city's safe routes for seniors project identifies areas in Hayward to focus accessibility and walkability improvements through collaborative efforts between the city and local senior housing facilities, senior centers, and community based organizations. The design for this project has been completed, and staff is currently working on a plan to implement construction. The improvements will be, near Weeks Community Center Park along Patrick Avenue and Tampa Avenue and at the intersection of Tennyson Road and Oliver Drive. Lastly, another project in this category is the Industrial Parkway Roos Road intersection improvement project, which will improve traffic safety at the intersection.

A key project in the roads and streets category is the Interstate 880 interchange improvements, Winton Avenue A Street. The first phase of this project focuses on the I 880 A Street interchange location where the project will construct shared pedestrian and bicycle separated paths, make enhancements to the interchange, and improve the freeway ramps and traffic signals for safer, more efficient operation. It will also address also address safety at the I 880 on and off ramps and will create improved pedestrian and bicycle connectivity under the freeway. Another project in this category is the Tennyson Road railroad crossing safety enhancement project located by Tennyson High School. This project will improve the safety at the at grade rail crossing located on Tennyson Road by mitigating potential hazards to reduce the chance of future incidents, especially as this area is frequented by students.

Proposed improvements include installation of cue cutter signals, signage, striping, crosswalk, bulb outs, pedestrian channelization, fencing, and trespass mitigation. This project is fully funded by the Rail Highway Crossing program or section one thirty program. The pavement rehabilitation category comprises all annual pavement rehab projects and is the fourth largest category in the CIP with approximately $13,300,000 in recommended programming for fiscal year twenty seven. The table on this slide shows the city's historical pavement condition index or PCI for the last ten years. It is measured on a scale of zero to 100, where 100 means a newly paved road.

As the table shows, PCI has had a significant increase over the last several years. A key project in the municipal facility improvements category is the public safety center project. The existing Hayward Police Station no longer meets the space, operational, staffing, and security requirements for the Hayward Police Department. The new public safety center project developed the conceptual design of the new facility, which included site assessment of two potential locations, which were the former California Air National Guard site and the former City Hall building on Foothill Boulevard. Although the city is now focusing on the California Air National Guard site as the preferred location for this project.

The scope of work encompass identifying space needs, conducting site analysis and design, creating facility layout plans, and cost analysis. The sewer system category is the largest of the categories in the CIP and includes projects which are enterprise fund supported and are related to the improvement of our sewer system, water reuse efforts, and the water resource recovery facility. Some major projects in this category include the fiscal year twenty seven sewer line replacement project, the water resource recovery facility phase two improvement projects, and phase two recycled water projects. Staff is currently developing a recycled water master plan to guide design and construction efforts for phase two of the recycled water program. Phase two will involve increasing the recycled water customer base, which will require designing and constructing an expanded treatment facility to meet the increased demand.

Water system projects are also enterprise fund supported and are related to the improvement of our water system as well as projects which promote water conservation. Some major projects include the cast iron water pipeline replacement program as well as the annual waterline replacement project through which we aim to replace two miles of water pipeline every single year. The fleet management category is comprised of projects involving the replacement of fleet units in various departments, divisions or work groups, and other city related vehicles. Fleet purchases benefiting the fire and police departments are predominantly funded by the general fund, while those benefiting the airport, stormwater, sewer, and water divisions are predominantly supported by enterprise funding. A project in this category is the citywide EV charging upgrade.

Staff is working with Eva Community Energy to install one to three fast charging hubs for electric vehicle charging. The first of which will be Muni Lot 4, which is located between B And C Street east of Foothill Boulevard. Hubs will be entirely funded by Eva Community Energy and will serve the general public, but will also be cited to serve residents of multifamily properties, many of which are older buildings that lack the infrastructure needed to support EV charging. The equipment and software category primarily includes equipment related purchases supporting the fire, police, and information technology departments, such as the purchase of radios, fleet cameras, and replacement of aging fiber optic lines between city facilities. The recommended fiscal year '27 CIP includes approximately $3,000,000 in this category.

The airport category is comprised of all projects within fund six twenty one, Airport Capital, which support improvements to the Hayward Executive Airport. One key project in this category is the Sulphur Creek mitigation project, which will allow for the design, engineering, and construction of a composing portions of Sulphur Creek adjacent to airport runways. The project includes a total budget of $8,300,000, which is being provided by the Federal Aviation Administration, Caltrans Division of Aeronautics, and the city's airport enterprise fund. And finally, the miscellaneous category includes projects that do not fit into other categories, such as the 2040 general plan update, the route two thirty eight property projects, and the parcel group projects. The parcel group projects, which are currently budgeted at $500,000 combined in fiscal year twenty seven, are used to facilitate the new cohesive development of former Caltrans two thirty eight property parcels with the goals of eliminating blight, creating public benefits for the community, and generating excess land value land value to the city.

In addition to including recommended project budgets, the CIP also includes a list of identified and unfunded capital needs. One of the largest unfunded needs continues to be the renovation of the corporation Yard. The necessary improvements to the Corp yard were estimated to amount to more than a $140,000,000. The fiscal year '27 CIP includes a corporation yard needs assessment project, which is funding the development of a revised assessment to determine the current improvement needs and update costs. Another significant need included in the unfunded capital needs list is the stack center, which currently has an unfunded need of an estimated $25,000,000 for the for future phases of the project.

Compared to last fiscal year, the unfunded needs have decreased by $70,000,000, which is largely due to significant improvements in pavement management. This graphic is intended to demonstrate the CIP's alignment with the city's strategic road map. The list of projects featured here is not exhaustive, but does demonstrate an overview of the priorities that CIP projects support. For example, you can see that CIP projects tend to directly support the invest in infrastructure priority. However, many of the projects support multiple priorities simultaneously.

That concludes the presentation. It is staff's recommendation that the committee review and comment on the recommended fiscal year '27 CIP and recommend its approval to city council. We are now available for any of your questions.

Good. Okay. I'll start with council or with committee. Yeah.

Thank you for the presentation. Thank you for the presentation.

And wanted to know about the STAT Center, and have we thought about

I can

hear myself. Can

you hear me now?

Yeah. Yeah. We can

hear you.

Oh, okay. Wanted to know about the STAT Center, and have we thought about working with HARD on that $25,000,000 of it not hitting our unfunded needs list?

So I was just gonna share the information that we need another $25,000,000. Mhmm. And there are some activities afoot to accommodate the library that is part of the stack center. For more information about the heart, allow us to gather the information and bring it to during the council hearing.

Okay. So there's more information is coming. Yes.

I'll gather information that we have for you.

Okay. Great. And then, can you remind me of the amount that's being transferred for La Vista?

For

So the amount you mean from measure c Mhmm. It's $5,200,000. Mhmm. And we have been nearly completely successful in offsetting that amount Okay. By value engineering. I have an agenda item for, June 2 to come before you and ask you to allow us to modify the MOU with heart

Okay.

And return that money to, measure c.

Great. Okay. And then for the senior Safe Routes for seniors, does that include signage for areas where we know that they're senior housing?

Absolutely. We can include that in in the projects.

Okay. And then I say this every year, but Tennyson exit on a 80, is there any way we can have some advocacy about making that exit safer? And then are we looking at anything to make it safer on Kaloroga and Tennyson? Is there any projects identified?

Yes. There is projects. You wanna speak to that regarding Tennyson and Kaloroga? This is Byron Tang, our

Mhmm.

Principal transportation engineer. Go ahead. Yeah. Turn it on. Okay. Byron.

Yes. So for Tennyson, we we will be presenting project that will have plans to reimagine Tennyson. So I think for Tennyson, we have that. Be regarding the interchange, that would require a different a whole different project, but the count ACTC does have some studies coming up to look at the ramps.

Oh, great.

And I think that's a great way where we can advocate to have Tennyson as part of that study.

That'd be great.

You know? Yes.

And we have

on institutions. Yes.

Okay. Great. Good to hear. Yeah. And then for the recycled water projects, do we have any customers that receive recycled water?

We have 31 customers that are receiving recycled water, including some HUSD schools and some businesses.

Are they using it for AC?

Or how

They are using it for irrigation at

this

Yes.

Have we is there any limit to how much recycled water we can actually charge for for customers, or are we are we maxed out?

So we are we have the capability to produce about half a million gallons a day, and we are not at capacity right now regarding the usage, at least not on average basis during the year.

Okay. Can we look at how we can be at capacity? Is there any way we can sell the mark?

What we are doing right now. We're doing a master plan or comprehensive plan to expand the system and take it to businesses that they can use this water for not only irrigation, but also industrial uses, like cooling and other purposes.

Are we working with any are we are we talking to industrial association or chamber or any other groups that we can

We have presented to chamber. We are in conversation with other businesses to see what their needs are.

Is there any way economic development can support us in getting the word out about our recycled water capabilities?

Absolutely. Yes.

And then are the CARB regulations impacting our fleet management? I know that there's some new heightened rules on on our electrical vehicles, having them being electrified by a certain time. I don't have all the details, but I know that there's public agencies that are starting to reach out about the new regulations.

Yes. There are new regulations, and we are currently talking about those things with our counterparts in, you know, other jurisdictions. It is extremely difficult right now to take delivery of, you know, fully EV equipment. Mhmm. But council has allowed us to make a com use a combination of hybrid and electrical in order to improve our mix of vehicles at this point.

Okay. And then do we need to do anything like a letter of support or something from the state to ease not necessarily ease the regulations, but just give us more time in order to do transfer if we if they do require us to have more in our fleet electrified.

There are conversations. As a matter of fact, yesterday with the Bay Area Clean Water Mhmm. Bakwa, there were some conversations about about that issue.

Okay. Great. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for the presentation. I was curious if you could maybe this is a question for director Mary or maybe even the city manager. Just speaking to the $2,000,000 increase in the use of general funds as part of this capital improvement budget, would you could you speak to that?

Absolutely. Marissa, you have that information handy. You can talk about it. Can you bring the Yeah. Change the slide to do it?

Talking about this one Yes. Capital projects.

Yeah. So this one, in fund four zero five, these were the increases that cover nondiscretionary expenses for police equipment, like the integrated cameras and field operations equipment, and the fire equipment. And we have the example of fire radio replacements.

Okay. So what percentage of the overall 2,500,000 there falls under that? Of the items that you just mentioned, how much of that 2,500,000 is that?

My recollection is that the fire purchases for radio purchases for fire is about $600,000. Out of that, $2,000,000.

Okay. And then what can can you help me connect some dollar amounts to the other items?

I don't have the the information handy in front of me, but I'll be happy to itemize them and bring it to you at council meeting.

Okay. I'm I'm just if the request from us tonight is to recommend this moving forward, I I think a lot of thought has gone into this, but having clarity around these general fund increases at a time where we're trying to wrestle with this deficit is, I think, gonna be very important. I imagine my colleagues will probably have similar questions by the time it gets there.

Absolutely. We can actually get that for you this evening. I don't have it in front of me. But, Ellie, you have access to CIP. Can you optimize the $2,000,000?

Yes. Let me share my screen real quick. Okay. It's actually in fund four zero five. So let me just do that real quick right now.

Thanks.

Can you see my screen?

Not yet. Not yet.

Now it's paused. It's coming. Okay. Yes. Now.

Can you

see it?

Yes. Okay. Perfect. Let me navigate.

Go to presentation mode to make it larger.

Okay. Let me zoom in here. It's a PDF version.

Okay.

So some of the items cover, like Marissa mentioned, in fiscal year twenty seven right here, these are sorry. These are revenue supported. And then these for the for example, the stock center have some revenue supported right here. But the police projects, they're right here. For example, the rapid turnaround, DNA testing, integrated cameras. Sorry. Supporting services, equipment, police.

Sorry

about that. WP operations equipment, criminal investigation equipment, etcetera. So all these amounts are listed here. And, also, under fire, emergency vehicle preemption as well as HFE Recruit Academy and emergency operation supplies, etcetera. So all those kinda sum up to about 2,200,000.

Okay. And is it the case that things like software are typically under the, capital improvement budget versus the department's budget?

They are not. They are not. In Hayward, for the past fifteen years or so, these have been put in the CIP for better visibility and having them all in the same location. But over the next few years, we are going to move many of these items into the respective departments

Okay.

Operating budgets as opposed to capital improvement program.

Okay. And then, you know, I saw, for example, the license plate reading cameras or flaw cameras have 320,000 budgeted for them. Is that based off the vote that happened earlier this year, or is this an anticipation that more are gonna be added? The recommended capital improvement program is what is going to be recommended to you for approval

Mhmm. During the public hearing.

Well, I guess what I'm asking is there was a recent approval of an expansion of flaw cameras. Are we now budgeting for that purchase here, or is this saying that we're budgeting for it now and it's gonna come forward sometime in the next fiscal year?

This is going to come before you for approval during the public hearing.

I understand that the document of the capital improvement budget is coming. I'm trying to understand about one item inside of it, whether or not we're budgeting for a purchase in the coming year or if this is budgeting for a purchase we've already approved.

This this this is new recommendation that you need to approve.

Okay. I understand.

And just this is Jennifer. I just wanna chime in. And so we'll we'll find out. I think what you're asking about is the actual subscription for the police cameras and whether or not it's an expansion. Is that correct?

Well, I'm seeing ALPR expansion project. The and then I see $3.20, then I see $1.65. And so I is that the subscription cost for the software, or is that, like, a continual expansion of more cameras?

Yeah. And that let me find out. I mean, we're not I don't think we're expanding more cameras. I think we might need to replace or other, but we'll find out and make sure we have that explicitly laid out in the because if it's new, well, I think it's my understanding is it's explain replacement because we we would have to do it as part of our a b four eighty one, which will be coming to you in June. Okay. But we'll find out and make sure it's clear and spelled out in the staff report.

Okay. Got it. Yeah. And the only reason I raised this is just because not just for the police department, for but for software across the board. Oftentimes, if there are disagreements around certain programs, the justification's been used in the past. Oh, well, it's already been budgeted for in the capital improvement budget. It's like, okay. But that's separate from the conversation that the community is engaging with now. So I just you know, I wanna make sure that we're able to to surface those things. I know four eighty one will be an opportunity to talk about this too. Okay. Thank you. And then for the facilities management capital of $1,000,000, I think that's fund seven two six. Would you mind just helping me understand the the major expenses there? That's $7.03 6.

I think were looking for 726. Right?

And 26 is the facilities management capital?

Yeah. So the 1,000,000 we're looking at coming out of the general fund.

Mhmm. So this this fund had a beginning fund balance of a in a negative position. This 1,100,000 transfer is to really correct that and to have this fund to reach a balanced budget.

Okay. So we're we're okay. We're backfilling it.

Okay.

Got

it. Thank you. And then do you have an update on the status of the Wafi alone? I know it's we've kinda gone back and forth with the federal government.

Basically, to my chagrin, I don't have a whole lot of new information to give you. I know that this is a political issue. Yeah. We were one of the first agencies that completed all of our application with WIFIA. Mhmm. It was referred to office of, management and budget. Office of management and budget is sitting on it since April 15. Mhmm. City of Hayward is one of two or three agencies in California that has completed everything, but we are waiting for action from the federal government. This has actually put us in a bind right now.

Mhmm. How how often are we checking in? Very often. Okay. Very often. Okay.

On a

on a weekly basis. And we have talked to the administrator of WIFIA. We have talked to California Association of Sanitation agencies. We have inquired whether or not we have to use some of our political levers. Mhmm. And they have discouraged us from doing that because of the standing that California has right now with the federal government in DC. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. And then just to build on council member Andrew's question on recycled water usage, about how many more customers of the size of what's I mean, like, of the average size could we accommodate with the remaining capacity we have with our current recycled water?

I would say we can double this the number. Right now, we have about 31 customers. Yeah. We can double it to about 60.

Okay. So we're about using about half of our recycled water capacity. Correct. Okay. And then let's say, just as a hypothetical, something similar to the the stack data center was able to use recycled water. Yeah. Because they're a large consumer of water, how many customers of that size could use what we currently our current capacity? Would would that data center absorb that remaining 30 spots? Or

We have to expand not only our capacity to produce recycled water Mhmm. But the quality of the recycled water that we produce. Because right now, we are producing tertiary treated

Okay.

Which is good for general industrial use. Yeah. But for the type of use that data centers have, they need to have more purified water.

Okay.

So either we provide tertiary treated to them Yeah. And they produce the type of water that they need on-site Mhmm. Or we produce it for them at their expense

Mhmm.

And then distribute it to to them.

Understood. Okay. And then just in terms of the quantity of water that they would consume, like, you're saying we could accommodate 30 more customers with our current capacity of of the average size. But knowing how much water consumption data centers use, you have a sense of how many data centers that we could we could accommodate currently?

So I'm smiling because we really don't know exactly how much water they are going to use. I would love to have that information. Yeah. But I know that in our climate, in Mediterranean climate Mhmm. It is not, you know, a tremendous amount of water like it would be in Phoenix or, you know, in some desert Yeah. States.

Okay. Those are my questions. Thank you.

Thank you. Thanks.

Let me start with the with the eight eighty interchanges. What what are the, I know we've been talking about them at ACTC, and I know we're we're talking about them here. What can you give us can you give us an update on, you know, a Street, West Winton Industrial, and the Whipple the Whipple industrial

Whipple and industrial, they were one project, and we had a consultant that started the design. Mhmm. They completed 60% design. Then ACTC realized that they don't have all the funding for construction of both interchanges. So they are basically trying to concentrate on the improvement of industrial.

We have to get those who benefit from both industrial and Whipple to agree to concentrate on industrial improvement. Union City realizes that if we improve industrial, Whipple is going to benefit because right now, all the cars and trucks that want to go to industrial So use they are pretty much on board in conversation with them, but we are actually in conversation to make that to formalize that so that we can concentrate on improving industrial instead of both of them at the same time. When it comes to A Street and Winton, A Street is a much better candidate for funding right now. We have contributed $1,350,000 to ACTC from our own money, from Measure B, BB money. They are going to put up some $3,000,000 or $4,000,000 of their own for a total of $5,000,000 so we can advance the design.

And that puts us in a much better position to be able to secure the funding for construction, which is about $25,000,000 I think, for A Street. And that actually is going to improve bike and ped far more than the capacity of the interchange for cars. So that's a great candidate for funding at this time.

And the Winton?

Yeah. That is secondary right now. We don't have a whole lot of information about Winton. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. The the Public Safety Building, and I know there's been a lot of discussion about where. And, you know, I know there's been some discussion about, you know, it being over on on Winton and, you know, possibly, over by the old City Hall. Have there been any other sites looked at other than those two sites?

So we looked at initially, some years ago, we looked at Kaiser site, and Kaiser site was not gonna be available. Then we looked at Southland. But because Southland has such complicated ownership and leases and everything else, that is something that is very, very difficult to make any headway in conversations. Then be concentrated on the two sites you mentioned, one is on Winton and the other one, Old City Hall. Winton is a much better location in terms of size, in terms of proximity to the fire training center for some joint uses, and it is not adjacent to residential as Old City Hall site might be.

So Westwinton is a better candidate, and we are concentrating on that at this point.

I was gonna ask about the the water treatment plan, and, you know, I know, that is I mean, that's not even administratively. That's more of a political issue than it is.

It is. You know?

And you know? So what? The best case scenario is we have to wait another two years?

We we we don't have two years to to wait. Yeah. Our plans are 100% done. Yeah. And they get stale as you know. The codes change. Building codes change. So we are pushing as much as we can. The option that we have that is available to us is to go out and borrow money in the open market. Mhmm.

Believe it or not, when we went to market the first time, our loan was 3.99%. WIFIA loan is 4.7 or 8%, and it's going It's cheaper, but WIFIA loan has a function that we can defer payment by five years. That allows us to actually sculpt our rate system so that it doesn't have to jump up in the first few years. If you have to go back to the open market, then we have to take a look at our rate structure and see what we need to do. We are also applying I should say, applying to the state revolving fund for $50,000,000 That's only 10% of the total cost that we need, but we are pursuing that at this time too.

And the total cost is what? What's the what's

the $490,000,000 5x as expensive as any project that we have done so far in the history of the city of Hagler.

Yeah. And the 238 Mission Boulevard corridor project, that was, what, 90,000,000?

That was 9 exactly. That was $90,000,000. Yeah. Phase two was 30,000,000. Phase three was also $30,000,000. Okay.

Okay. And then lastly, just regarding the general plan, just the the next when is that up? When do we need to go back and revise that?

That's a great question. I think we did that in 2014, so we have another, you know '24?

No. They're not '24.

02/02/2000 and

'20 It was about

ten years ago that we did that. I'll I'll get that one for for you.

Okay. I okay. Because I know that that is a Yeah. Multiyear project Yeah. And a very expensive project. I do know that.

About $2,000,000. How much? 2,000,000. No. Okay. Yeah.

Well, if it's in you know? Okay. Alright. Okay. Alright. So if that is it, I will close questions, open up for public comment. I know these are I don't have any cards for public comment. Number five, Is there I don't think there's anyone online.

Hi. Can you hear me okay?

Yes. Go ahead.

Hi. Yeah. Thank you for going over this. Just wanna make a comment about Flock. I know there was, like, some con conversation about the Flock security cameras. And I just wanna warn you that it shouldn't be considered a capital investment because Flock, they don't really sell you the camera. They they lease them to you. So when when your contract is over, the data and those cameras, like, they're not owned by the city. And I also wanna raise some concerns because I do have a cybersecurity background, and these cameras, they've been exposed to the Internet. There's been a lot of issues.

I would say I recommend you that you look at the investigations that were done by Ben Jordan. And this they're they're pretty bad. Essentially, like, these cameras are easily hacked, and they've been exposed to the Internet, and it's they're not very secure. And then also the some VPs by Flock, they've been found to be looking at cameras that were because you can con you can also connect cameras from, like, anywhere. So for some reason, someone connected the cameras at at a gymnasium where, you know, people were doing gymnastics, you know, mainly, like, young girls.

And some VPs from Flock, they were found to be watching those cameras multiple times. So I would really like to see the city move away from Flock because it's not it's not a real capital improvement. And, also, this company doesn't really care about security, and they don't respect the privacy of people and, like, you know, really creepy to see these VPs looking at cameras where, like, you know, young girls are doing gymnastics. So, you know, especially now with the apps FNAF files, you know, this is really concerning. So I would just warn you against using Flock from a cybersecurity perspective, from an investment perspective, and then just from a, you know, common sense perspective.

So thank you.

Thank you. Okay. So a closed public comment. Do you have what you need? And, I mean, it it do you have what you need?

I do. Thank you. Thank you very much. I will get the answers to some of your questions.

Okay. I mean, is Ashheim's I'm wondering does it require a formal vote? Yes, please. Oh. Oh.

Recommend approval to council.

Okay. Can I just make a comment? Sure. Yeah. Sure. Sure. And I I think the whole council should discuss this, but I will be abstaining from the vote tonight just because I need a clear explanation, especially in the middle of a deficit as to how exactly we're spending the funds from the general fund. So I think seven two six you explained while we're backfilling, and you have the numbers there laid out. But similar to the public commentaries, similar to my thoughts on the use of block cameras, I'm yeah. I I just I don't know if I'm fully bought in that all those expenses coming out of the capital improvement budget, from the general fund, need to be spent from the general fund. So I just wanted to be clear about that.

Absolutely. No problem. We'll get that for you. Okay.

So Well, I just wanted to see if there is a way we can add an amendment to have a breakout of the general fund expenses. I'm sure you're gonna do that. Just add it into our motion that that that that's what we want.

You have the breakout of general fund, but you want the detail of

the design.

Yes.

That's what I was saying. That will get that to you.

Okay. Yes. And then just so we have it in our vote. Sure. Okay. And then, also, are there alternatives to flock? Like, I don't even like, I wanna know if that's even been discussed because how would we I'm trying to figure out how would we provide an option if we were saying no to to.

So I don't have any expertise in that, but we will research that. And

Is there any way we could put in our motion that the public safety committee should review Sure. That as well before it gets to council?

I don't know about the timing of that. Okay. We are planning to come to council on the June 2. So

I don't know if assistant city manager or general manager will I mean, assistant city manager. Yeah.

I see Jen here too, and she's gonna go up.

Yeah. I can I'm here, and I can talk a little bit about this. So I did confirm with the police chief that the the expansion project is not we've delayed that, you know, is not are not planning to fund that. That what's in the budget now in order to be attentive to the budget is to is just our current subscription for our LPR cameras. I just wanna clarify that so that you have that information. And then, you know, the flock, it's hard because all of our systems are structured to us. So I think it would be a a major cost to switch systems. Mhmm. And just in response so I think that would be very difficult to do. Whether or not there are actual alternatives, I think there are, but I I would we can put that in more detail and confirm that in the staff report going forward.

But but I know for us to switch would be very expensive and difficult, and cost us a lot of money. But I do wanna say that we have done audits of the system, and we are looking very carefully and and have put a number of safeguards into place ourselves. And then, so has Flock and has changed a number of their settings and other things. So we we've recently done an audit and have we feel that we have a lot of safeguards in place going forward and that we don't think there's any violation of privacy or any of our data policies, as part of the system.

Okay. And then can we have it go to the public safety committee for a review?

Sure. Absolutely. But I don't I agree with, director Amiri. I don't think we have one coming up before we need to take action on the CIP, but it could be something that we look at more carefully.

Okay. Thank you. I'm the designer.

Moved by moved by council member Andrews, seconded by mayor Salinas, and I think it'll be a two one vote. Or two for affirmative and then one abstention. Yeah. Okay.

Thank you. Okay.

Pretty good. Okay. Next is item number four. Right?

Yes, please.

Item number four, which is transit oriented committee transit oriented communities policy planning grant scoping.

So that is exactly what it is. And George Foster, who is our senior transportation planner, is here to present the IT. George?

Yeah. If you're able to. I can pull it up too. I have my laptop as well.

Oh, that takes too much time. Yes. Picking up. I might just

have to freestyle with this. I'm too tall.

Might just have it.

Oh, cords taped down. I get down.

Oh, click. Please

do that. You wanna use this one?

Sorry.

Yeah. Okay.

Thank you, Amber. Yeah. Thank you all for having me. My name is George Foster. I'm a senior transportation planner with the transportation division, and I'll be talking about transit oriented communities and how Hayward can be consistent with MTC TOC policies and hopefully unlock some funding now that you all are coming off of that budget conversation.

Next slide, please. So we'll be talking a little bit about MTC, their role in funding a lot of our transportation work throughout the region, but Hayward specifically. The new TOC set aside that's available, how their scoring works for that, our current progress, and then, next steps that we've identified. Next slide. So MTC, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, they are the funding source, through which all federal revenue, for us goes, generally.

And so they designate those over a four year period. We apply, through a process with competitive projects, and they identify ones, to move forward with that funding. So Main Street, those beautiful improvements that you've seen, 1,750,000 from OBAG, the 1 Bay Area grant two. We did not receive any OBAG three funds, and OBAG four application process is about to begin. So we're really excited about hopefully getting some federal funds through this large regional process.

Next slide. In OBAG four, there's about 310,000,000 available for the programs in the region, that we'll be applying for generally. But they've also added 45,000,000 as a set aside for cities that meet transit oriented communities policy requirements, which I'll go into a little bit later. That would, based on, the number of municipalities they think will be in compliance, be about 2 to $4,000,000 for Hayward, which I know we were just talking in, like, hundreds of millions. But, when we look at streets specifically, that's a significant amount of money and, two to four times as much as we got last time.

And so city staff secured a grant from MTC, in 2025 to meet that consistency. So they are hiring out consultants to help us identify policies to meet those scoring requirements and get access to that, which is a really fantastic opportunity. Next slide. So these are the TOCs in the Bay Area, as tiered by MTC. You'll see in Downtown San Francisco and Oakland, there are some tier ones, big transit areas where you want very high density.

And generally around BART stations in the East Bay and Peninsula, you're seeing a lot of tier two where they're held to a higher standard than, say, some of the more small rural communities further east. Next slide. So Hayward has two, one at Downtown Hayward Bart, one one at South Hayward Bart, and that is a half mile buffer around each. And we are trying to meet these scoring requirements so that we can unlock those funds. You'll notice that each of these have different numbers of points assigned to them.

For example, under density, residential density ones have a much higher point, scoring than commercial, and that is in part due to how, office life has changed post COVID, and we wanted to allow a lot more flexibility. And by we, mean, MTC. And so, generally, density and housing is gonna be covered by development services, but we'll be talking about parking and station access. You'll notice that some of these are kind of still related to development services, but they do have a significant impact on our roadways. And so we wanted to come to you all tonight with that.

Next slide. So we estimated what the city would score, and that was about 50 out of a 100. And these unlock at 85 points, so we really want to get, a much higher score. Our density score was pretty low, and a lot of that has to do with, minimum density requirements and development services. We'll we'll be handling that and bumping those numbers up. But tonight, we'll talk a little bit about parking station access. There's a lot of great opportunities for us to gain more points. And, generally, these policies are good policies. They're best practices. They're good standards.

As far as the, like, specifics of the rubric is where we start getting into, like, a little bit of friction, but these are good things that MTC is asking us to be doing. Next slide. So just to give you a little background on the density, this is where we're currently scoring estimated and are expecting changes. We're not really gonna dig into this tonight, but I wanted to make sure to include this for your own information. South Hayward, especially with the Mission Boulevard, form based code overlay, does do a pretty good job at meeting some of the the standards around, density, parking, things like that.

But both of them have a range that we can tighten up to to meet those, especially around residential. Next slide. So we can lose about 15 points on here and and get to that 85. Development services is looking at being about minus five in in updating some of those, development pieces. And so transportation staff, is looking at how we can close that gap.

We have some in progress ones that we're currently doing. We have some fit ones that we think are generally pretty good idea and should be low effort. And then we have some goal ones that may be a little bit harder, and may want a a little more more guidance and and nuanced effort around. And so we're roughly thinking we can we can probably hit it, but I'll I'll, go into that next. In progress, we're looking at a gap analysis around the two BART stations, and that is for walking, biking, and taking, buses to get to those transit stations and what we can be doing to improve it by, doing that study. That's nine points. So it's a lot of points right there. We're also looking at transportation demand management plan. That is in our general plan. It's in the mobility element.

We, like, should be doing this anyways. We're like, great. Let's do it. Curbside management, that's tightening up some of what we already have. We have that downtown parking, plan.

We have the Mission Boulevard, regulations around parking, and so there's some that we can kinda tweak a little bit to do a better job of managing our curbside. Next slide. These fit ones, these are ones that are not currently in progress, but we have identified them as opportunities where we can pull in these, MTC consultants to help us draft policies that would meet these. One is adopting secure bike parking minimums. We've required vehicular parking minimums, for a long time, and this is generally a pretty low lift, something that would be fairly easy for developers to do, something that there's not a lot of opposition to.

About 10 parking 10 bikes can fit into a parking space. Like, it's not a huge expensive requirement. Another is allowing unbundled parking. So say I live in an apartment, but I do not own a car, I would not have to be paying rent to include that parking space. I could have reduced rent.

Someone else could rent that parking space, and that allows me to have cheaper rent. It allows someone else to have access to that spot there. And so allowing that in these areas is is generally good practice. We also could be allowing shared parking. And so say you have a a big nighttime use generator and a big daytime use generator or weekday versus weekend, to be able to share that parking there is a great opportunity to reduce that footprint, especially near transit.

Next slide. These next ones are goal points. These are ones that we think we could do at some expense. We could do with some, you know, political will. We could do in some partial fashion. And so trying to figure out what those next steps are is is a big part of why we're we're here tonight. One is adopting parking maximums. Some of those maximums are a little high for for Hayward's market for development. Half a space per unit residential would be a hard one to push with developers at least now. Again, this is, like, long term looking.

We're hoping to develop our our downtown and South Hayward areas into really having great access around transit there. But looking at maybe getting some level of points, you'll see South Hayward does have some level of parking maximum with the Mission Boulevard overlay, And so it could get some partial points there, but we don't necessarily need to get all of the points all at once. The other would be mobility hub plans. We have a low confidence estimate of around six points being fully given, but we're not super sure that that will be accurate. Because we don't have a mobility plan for these stations, but we could have elements of that, like where are, you know, buses being routed, where are amenities available nearby on city managed property.

But because BART owns the property on BART, it's difficult for us to come in and tell them what to do. It's also difficult because we have a TOD plan currently in process for the Downtown Hayward BART station, and so that's on the table there. And the other is implementing price parking. I think we would like to be doing that in the coming years in in areas of Hayward, especially near these BART stations where we do have a lot of development, a lot of density, but that is something that is a pretty big lift to suddenly do by next summer. And so we've identified that as kind of a goal one that, like, someday we would like to be doing, but maybe we're not going to be putting in that effort over the next year.

And then the other option is to take some steps now and and not get that that funding. And we would like to be getting that funding. It's a it's a huge opportunity for us. This would be in addition to any other OBAG funds that we apply for. And and we as taking this grant from MTC to meet this consistency, we did say that we would work towards meeting that. And we're very close, and I think that we can probably get it. So I don't like that one. But, next slide. So this is the number of points that we think that we could secure if in progress and fit goals are met. And you'll see down there, it gets averaged between the two TOC stations for our municipality.

So we're hitting about that 86.5. We've made that 85 threshold, but I do not feel super confident about that six out of six for the, mobility hub plan that MTC is maybe saying we could get full points for, but I'm I'm not convinced exactly. And so having a little bit of buffer would be really helpful. And so that could be, whether we do some part price parking, really, like, dig into, like, to create a mobility hub plan that, like, is kind of, something or adopting some level of parking maximums. And that doesn't need to be the whole one.

If we have any maximum, we can get a point. And so it doesn't have to be that full full value. It can be the half value, and you get half the points. There's there's options there. And so next slide. And so these are those policies that we're considering in progress of doing and here to maybe get some input from you all about where you think maybe there is too much friction to consider or maybe you're actually, like, pretty excited about. And so with that, like to open it up to any questions.

Okay. Bring

the the list, Neil. Bring the slide just before this.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. We could go back one.

Yeah. Yeah. Great.

Perfect. And there's also the full table before that if you want numbers too.

Thank you. Yeah. I've got the table up here. Appreciate this presentation. Very supportive of us trying to find ways to pursue this funding. It's a significant amount of funding to make our streets safer. I think, yeah, the devil's gonna be the details figuring out which goals we wanna pursue. I'm supportive of the in progress and the fit steps. I think those make a lot of sense. Those seem like, you know, low hanging fruit. I'm excited about bicycle parking minimums. I think we've done a lot of great work around development, street safety, but there's an absence of bike parking in front of destinations where people wanna go. Mhmm. And, yeah, I I just as a way of setting this conversation, this is all within that green two mile circle. Right? Yes. We're just talking about Half mile buffer. Okay. So we're not talking about anything outside of those circles. Okay.

I I just want people to freak out when we're talking about, you know, potential parking maximums or minimums across We don't we

don't have to put parking meters in all of Hayward to to make this.

Yeah. I think with parking maximums, you know, there were a few different options we had to be able to score a few points. There was half points. Like, we could get four out of eight if we did one spot per unit versus half of so, I mean, I'm interested in playing with those numbers. I I I think if there's points for us to secure there for at least half of them, that's leaving four points. I wouldn't wanna leave at least four points in the table. I don't know if I would support going all the way just because development is quite difficult right now, and I don't wanna discourage any other development. The mobility hub plan, I understand that that's a little bit iffy. Is that what you're saying?

Yeah. That, like, you know, where we would be putting together some some plans off-site nearby and and that maybe some of the access gap study that we're doing could fulfill some of that.

Okay. I'm curious how community partners might play a role in helping us fulfill that obligation. We have a good relationship with Bike Hayward and Bike East Bay. Is there a way for them to play a role in helping us check that requirement with MTC

by

doing, like, a regular type of mobility? I don't know what what would constitute the hub here. But

Yeah. So we're working with with the consultant team to to re figure out what MTC and MTC is being a little squirrely about, like, what they're defining exactly as it because it it it can be a lot of things. Yeah. And so, potentially, we could just get the full points because we're doing these other things.

Yeah.

Potentially, we could, like, put together, like, just a a real high level plan of, like, we think we could put some benches here, and we'd like to see, you know, buses moving through this space, and, like, that'll be enough. Yeah. Potentially, they'll they'll want more than that. And so first, we're getting that definition from MTC.

Okay.

And then we're working with the the team to be like, is there some low hanging fruit?

Are there

partners we can work with? Are there nearby property owners that we can work with?

Okay. Because that would that was gonna be my my concern here is just the staff time required for a moving target. So, you know, I'll defer to staff whether or not it's pursue worth pursuing those six points. Six points is a lot. But if we feel like it's not gonna yield the result we want, we're we're gonna have to do too much work to achieve those six points. You know? Yeah. Yeah.

And we're pretty confident in at least partial points for that one. Yeah.

Got it. And then for before I get into to price parking, for the one of the fifth steps are a shared oh, shared parking. So I find that interesting because just as an example, you know, we've been exploring pilot for not paid parking downtown, but to have timed parking or be able to enforce that more effectively so that we're making more room for customers. We're allowing employees to park a bit further out, and we're reserving prime real estate for people that wanna patronize the businesses. The Lucky's downtown has a massive under underutilized parking lot. We can see it from our our windows on the 4th Floor.

Parking.

Yeah. They have rooftop parking. And I was curious, you know, is it currently against the rules, for example, for the city to engage in some kind of contract with Lucky to say, hey. We want this to be employee parking as part of our downtown, for the businesses down here, timed and and enforced on it because it is technically a private building. Would would shared parking address that? I'm just trying to figure out how to unlock more parking capacity because I know we're planning some spots for employees on the, Northern side, or the the, sorry, the Eastern side, but not necessarily the Western side closer to, City Hall. So I I guess I just wanna hear your thoughts on on shared parking or what what this means and if that definition would apply here.

So doing so is not prohibited, but we'll have to jump through some legal issues and some contractual issues Yeah. To get them to allow us to use the rooftop for that kind of parking.

And with shared park I'm trying to understand what we mean by shared parking here because, like, to me, that would be an ideal use case of shared parking. Like, if we regal if we had that rule put in place, how would that change the kinds of hoops we we would have to jump through?

So the way I look at it, that particular use would not be shared parking because no one parks up there right now. Okay. But an example of using the actual parking lot Okay. Could be one because they use it during the day. Yeah. And during some odd hours of night, they are not using it as much.

Okay. I I guess yeah. I I guess I'm just curious what it means in practice because it's people park there anywhere at night when the store isn't being used in the day. And and so I I guess what are what are we we what's the legislation that we're writing here when we say we're gonna create shared parking? What is it that we're doing differently necessarily?

So one idea could be, and, of course, I haven't explored it with anyone Mhmm. Is that right now we do not allow any parking in our parking lots during certain hours of the night. Okay. We could enter into an agreement with a residential development that would allow them to park there during the night under certain circumstances and certain conditions and so on.

Okay. So it's us as a city developing that policy for our own parking lots? Or I I just I'm like, what's stopping this from already happening, I guess, is what, like, why is this something new or different is the question that I have.

Potentially, we ticket them. They're not supposed to be

party. Okay.

It is posted as no party Okay.

During the night.

Okay. Gotcha. Alright. Well, look. I I support it. I just wanna I I I

You take the time.

Yeah. Exactly.

And and and and this does, you know, be become an issue in in certain areas outside of these COCs where, like, maximum or or minimum parking, like, may be an issue. Okay. And this, like, allows them to get

I see. I see.

In TOCs, you cannot have minimum parking currently.

It's not

state law. Okay. We've adapted to that. And

so Okay.

We'd get those points.

Gotcha. Okay. And then, yeah, I think with price parking, I mean, that's it feels like the timeline's much too quick for us to do that in a way that feels intentional or that addresses some of the, I think, consternation some you know, myself and some of my colleagues have. I think, I'm supportive of price parking as a way for paying for, specific services in the areas we're providing it, but I want to be really intentional about if we're gonna roll it out. It's in a very specific area, for a very specific reason. We have to be cost sensitive to it. And I I think there's just a lot of questions we have to work through together, and I don't know if we have time in the next year to to make that one of our priorities. So, yeah, is there any in between? It says it's it says some level of price parking. Like, if we just had one municipal lot that we were charging a dollar a day on, like, would that help us get those points? Because I'm like, what's Yeah.

Based based on how it's it's currently being presented to us by MTC is that if there's, like, some price parking in the DOC, that that can get you the the point.

Okay. So my

direction there would be, like, what is the minimum least painful version that would get us those points? And when this comes before the full council, like, the I would like for that option to be presented where it's, like, really not gonna be that painful for residents,

and it it's gonna unlock funding. And And the and the back end of price parking is Yeah. A lot. Yeah. And so we we do want to be, like, rolling that out pretty judiciously. Okay. And and so just kind of putting it out real quick. If if if you all are like, George, do it now. Mhmm. Like, maybe. But, yeah, that's something that we're a little a little more hesitant to put on on such a quick turnaround.

Okay. Sounds like we're aligned there. Okay. Thanks,

Mary. So so what is the timeline? I I guess I wrote here like, what's the timeline? I I mean, July. I'm seeing a lot of

stuff seven.

So okay. So so so then, I guess, the question next question is is what can we get done before then? I mean, what's the low hanging fruit in

all of this?

Mhmm. I mean, a lot of a lot of this is

I mean, can you

I mean, can you can

you get can you can you get these policies to us so that we can I mean,

mean, that's that's the goal? And and so our and this with this grant, they're going to help us. Yeah. With this grant, they're gonna help us have the policies ready to bring before council. They're gonna be doing community outreach as well with it. And so, yeah, some of it will require, you know, a lot of back end work like the gap analysis. But some of it's like, do we put in bike minimums into that? Like, yes. Like, development services can write that up and and have that move forward. So

Okay. Okay. I I I just wanted to ask those two questions before, but go ahead if you have

Sure. I would say yes to the bike parking minimums. Yes. Yes. Unbundled insured parking. Mhmm. I wanted to can you remind me what is missing for our mobility hub plan? It says potentially in fulling me, but what's missing?

Yeah. So that's one that we've we've been told we might get full points, but they're kind of squishy about how they've been defining that rubric for us. And so we're in the progress of, like, trying to figure out how much of it can we meet. Do we do we fully meet it like they say we will? But our our staff is not exactly confident in that estimate, and so we're, like, kind of hoping for a little wiggle room in the points we're pursuing in case for some reason they come back to us and are like, you only get four out of six.

I understand how we can get six out of six

and be confident about it.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So we're we're currently in in a back and forth with MTC about that and are seeing if there's any, like, low hanging fruit that as part of the, like, gap analysis study, we can just identify a couple things and be like, you know, mobility hub done.

Okay.

But it's it's it's a squishy concept anyways. It's like, how do you provide amenities around transit hubs?

Okay.

You know, like, some flexible parking, some e charging, some benches, coffee shop. Like, it's it's a a little bit of a nebulous thing.

Okay. And are we partnering with AC Transit or BART on some of these?

Yeah. We're working closely with BART and AC Transit on this one, especially because this process is going along at the same time as the TOD at the downtown BART. And so that, unfortunately, is timed such that they'll probably be doing a lot of mobility hub plan things with that, but it's a little later than we would need.

Okay.

So

Okay. Yep. And I'm concerned about just the it sounds like we're not going in this direction right now anyway, but the price parking, just how much time it's gonna take to outreach for the businesses. Some of them are struggling already.

Yeah. And Yeah. And so

right right now, timed parking is kind of the, you know

First step.

The the first step and then introducing price parking. I see. Yeah. Hope hopefully, someday, but not in in the next year, we can be doing that in targeted areas.

Okay. Alright. And then

how does

I know this is a long way off. I just always ask this, like, every couple years. But how does residential developments if they were to have a a shuttle, how how would that would that impact this if we were to say if you have points in your development to have a shuttle?

Yeah. A lot of that may play into TDM strategies and and and other elements there that it that they're like, can we get a density bonus if we're providing a shuttle or if you know, other things like that.

And so

because we have so much senior housing coming downtown, and maybe we can identify that as a point. And then maybe we can work with development services on encouraging that. I don't know if Emeryville's Emery Emery go round. Is that development based or business based, or is that city based?

Actually, I don't know off the top

of that goes around the residential development. So I don't know if that's

taken it.

Yeah. Okay. But I don't know who pays for it.

Yeah.

Okay. Well, yeah, if we can look at that, that'd be great.

Absolutely.

And I think

I think that was it for me.

So I I guess the I mean I mean, what what I'm hearing I think what I'm hearing is, you know, what whatever are the easy things, I mean, let's do them. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, they're they're good fits. That way, we're

like You know? So there's that.

Silver bladder.

And, you know, and I guess we can continue. You know you know, there's no one from Hayward on the on the MTC board, you know, but, you know, maybe, you know, I can try to get on the MTC board from the you know, through the mayor's conference or through the, you know, ACTC.

Mhmm.

But those are, you know, those are highly competitive positions to fight for. But Mhmm. Okay. And then for some reason, as we're having this conversation, you know what's sticking out of my mind right now is, if we are partnering with, like, AC Transit or BART, can that property on the corner of B And Montgomery Street, can that be utilized for something to get points?

So so that's the property that they want to develop. Mhmm. Okay. Yeah.

But that's not gonna be that's, you know, that's not gonna happen in two years

or when Yeah. They're they're, like, doing the outreach process, I think, in, like, two weeks. Yeah. Or Byron and I will be What's the plan? Well, they're

Yeah. Go go ahead. Go ahead.

Oh, they're they're just starting.

Oh, they don't have a conceptual plan? Or

But they

don't know what's gonna they don't know what's gonna there's nothing, they don't know what's gonna be there?

They're going to do some units, a good number of units. Yep. And the conversation is about how many parking spaces they should provide. We have talked about half a parking space per unit.

Mhmm.

I think that that is going to provide a challenge in the downtown area for all the, you know, resident future residents that would want to have some parking just similar to what happened with green shutter, you know, that we allow that development without any parking, and then they realized that they couldn't lease some of those units without parking.

Okay.

Okay. I'm gonna call on mister Jeremy look. Yeah. Jeremy.

Thank you, mayor. I just wanted to I was listening, and I wanted to respond to commissioner and council member Andrew's questions about the Emery go round. I am familiar with that, shuttle service, and that is an 100% employer funded shuttle service. And so all of the employers, they they developed kind of the I would call it quasi, JPA. It was a joint powers kind of group, a transportation group just for Emeryville transportation, and it's it's free. It's it's free for everyone. And but it is paid for by the employers whose employees end up using that shuttle. And so every year, they get a tax bill that helps to, fund the operations of that, of that shuttle.

Yeah. Was wondering. How so if we were to do that, let's just say, are there any businesses in the downtown that would get together to do that? Because, obviously, I could see in Emeryville, they have their larger companies are in that area versus ours are in the industrial area or Cal State East Bay. But he or Pepsi or wherever. But downtown, I don't know if we have that type of employer that would be able to do that. Right? Is that the concern?

Yeah. It's interesting because the DHAI you know, when you when you have the it's really you know, the Downtown Hayward Station is pretty close to most of the businesses downtown. I would I would argue that it's pretty walkable. And so, ultimately, you would want to for the shuttle to be successful, you'd wanna hit other, service or employment areas, like maybe out to the industrial park, as you had mentioned, Chabot or Cal State East Bay, something that is a more organized, frequently scheduled service that could connect either to downtown or even the South Hayward station. It is possible.

One of the biggest challenges, of course, is is just the operational costs and leveraging and and levying those fees off to businesses that are participating. And, obviously, it's a little bit more difficult to control when it's just open to the public because it may not necessarily be employees that are writing. It could just be members of the public going shopping. Right? So, it it does get a little bit more challenging, but it is not impossible.

It just would require a lot of extra, probably work and and to to figure out, specifically what the participation would look like, what the annual cost of operating those shuttles would be. And then finally, you know, is there any additional support, that we could get from ACTC or from AC Transit? I know in many jurisdictions, like, for example, Walnut Creek, they have a free shuttle that goes between the downtown, Walnut Creek Station and Broadway Plaza. And that money is actually partially funded by the city and, actually, the other half of the funding for that service is coming from, County Connection. And so it is a collaboration between the service provider.

In this case, it would have been, BAC Transit and the city of Hayward if if, you know, if if we were to adopt a very similar kind of program with Walnut Creek. But even then, depending on the frequency of service, depending on the hours of operation, the cost could go up pretty high. And so, you know, you would probably wanna if if anything, you would probably wanna launch a pilot program first to see whether or not it's gonna be successful before you do a long term commitment.

Yes. And who would be the lead? Because I know the city can't we're not interested in, you know, taking on any new projects that are gonna cost anything anything to the general fund. But it seems like DHIA would have interest in bringing people downtown from across the city. Also, I can see the mall, if they were to engage, have interest in being a stop on that. And like you said, Chabot, Cal State East Bay, industrial sector. So would it would who would be the lead if it wasn't the city to do that? Who would we encourage? And can we just have that in the plan? Like, even if we don't get to it right away and and they get it to a point.

Like, we have a plan here. We can't lead it, but the city has a a route that would be ideal for a shuttle. Can we get a point for that?

And it and it's interesting. George has pointed out that MTC has has not been completely

don't wanna say that they're

not transparent, but I'm not sure that they have fully baked, the OBAG four process and what would be eligible. They just finished updating a lot of these TOC guidance framework, late last year. And so a lot of cities are trying to figure out what they could do to help partner to get to get relative points. Mhmm. We did hear from, from the consultant team that is, working with the city staff that if we have a commitment to ABAG MTC that we would pursue something, obviously, no guarantees.

But if we would study something or try to pursue something, then there's a potential that we could get some points that way. So I think I and I and I think part of that is just an appreciation understanding from MTC that a lot of cities are in the same position that Hayward is. There's a lot of cities that are not meeting that point threshold except for maybe maybe some of the large larger cities like San Francisco, Oakland, maybe Berkeley. But even Berkeley, and speaking with their staff, they are having difficult meeting that point requirement. And so, the way that MTC is getting around it is they're basically saying if the city is committing to try to adhere to TOC compliance, then they will potentially award partial points even though the project may not be completed fully yet.

So there are those options, and, certainly, we'll continue to have those conversations with our consultant team and m MTC. And to as Joe said George had pointed out, if there's any possibility to get maybe partial points or, you know, if we don't go the full compliance, maybe partial compliance, you know, that would at least get us a couple extra points and make it more make us more competitive.

Okay. Alright. Thank you.

Okay. Do you have what you need?

Yes. Thank you.

Oh, before I do that, public comment. So I will go to public comment, and I believe we have one public commenter. We have two public commenters, and I'll start here. Tyler Dragoni. Hi.

So I think just, like, all throughout that, there are some things that we always bring up, like the Caltrans and the freeway overpasses. I know I always bring this up, but you have a great mobility hub running throughout your entire city, and that is the Oakland Railway subdivision. And I think that would be so beneficial to put energy and time into actually, making that active. When you go and see the examples that cities have done like Santa Cruz, they are able to have not disturb the tracks, but still have a pathway, and it really does bring people out. I mean, I think there was a suggestion of, like, benches and stuff like that.

But what if we actually, you know, took this idea of a mobility hub, you know, you know, authentically and really tried to get people to go from, you know, housing developments to housing developments to downtown to BART stations. And, it also works for the Ohlone Greenway as well. So putting, like, time towards Union Pacific and getting some sort of way to I know if you look at the Santa Cruz plans, some of their plans is are are to, like, fill in the railroad tracks with, like like, asphalt and then saying, like, if Union Pacific wanted to reactivate those train tracks, then the city would, like, vacate and say, okay. Well, you know, since Union Pacific wants to use it now, if that, you know, will ever happen. Right?

Who's to say? And, also, if you take a look at the city of San Leandro, they actually have built a pathway that it that does parallel at San Leandro BART Station. It does parallel on the on the railroad right of way. There is a path there. And so I always wondered how did they get that done, you know, because that would be, like, definitely a a connection point.

That's to my mind, that would actually be, you know, from this housing development connecting right into the BART Station when otherwise there would not have been a pathway there. So I just think we have this great resource. Whenever I'm on BART, I see it, and it's just this massive underutilized piece of land that people would take, and people would people wanna get away from fast moving cars, and, it would be great. So thanks.

Thank you. We have another comment online.

Hi, everyone. Thank you. This is a really exciting project. Thank you for working on this. It's crucial because I've done some research about the bar stations, and the Downtown Hayward is one of the bar stations with the most coffee shops in the East Bay.

You know, you might take it for granted, but, like, there's no coffee shops near Milpitas Bar Station or the South Fremont Bar Station. So I think we're pretty lucky. We have some really great locations for bar stations. And I do wanna mention that for the mobility hub, you know, our there's a makerspace in downtown where we store our bike repair tools that could become like a mobility hub for the bike parking because that you know, I struggle myself trying to go out in downtown, and, you know, there's no secure bike parking. So I have to park my bike at the bar station.

So, you know, that could be, like, another an option for, you know, partnering with the city to, you know, turn that into a secure bike parking facility. And, additionally yeah. Regarding, like, the paid parking, you know, I know it's a concern, but I don't know if this would qualify as paid parking. But a lot of cities offer, like, two or three hours for free, and they only start charging after those hours. So I think if you're gonna implement time parking, that could be a way to also meet that goal without getting so much pushback because, you know, you already gonna have to you're gonna have to find a way to time people.

And, you know, if you just charge a dollar per hour after three hours, like, I don't think there's gonna be a lot of pushback. I don't think it's really gonna, like, affect businesses, and, you know, it's not really gonna make a difference if you're planning to go to downtown already. You have two, three hours for free. I don't think people are gonna be concerned about, like, paying, you know, like, $2 for parking five hours in downtown. So, yeah, I would still we'd like to encourage the city to consider some of the, you know, pay parking because, you know, it is heavily subsidized by the city.

We have a budget deficit, and, you know, it's not free. It's costing us money. So I think it will be important for the city to look into, you know, just charging a little bit. You know? It can help it can it can actually help businesses. Yeah. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. Do you have what you need? This is an

informational item.

But Very good.

Okay. Feedback. Okay.

Thank you.

Okay. I will move on to item the real number three, which is Safe Streets Hayward update, A Street, B Street, Tennyson.

So this is the segment of, as you mentioned, Safe Street Hayward includes AB and Tennyson. It is very comprehensive, and we have decided to break them down into a Street first, get your comments, and then B Street, get your comments, and so on. And for that, Byron Tang, who is our principal transportation engineer, is here. After he fixes his high-tech here, he's going to present. Yes.

Yeah. So tired. Yep. Okay.

Alright. Good evening, committee members. My name is Byron. I'm the principal of transportation engineer for the Public Works transportation division. I'm joined with Akash Patel. He's from Kimley Horn. They are a consultant for this project, and online is Perrin Patel from Alta Planning. They are also a consultant for this project, and they'll help to assist with any questions, that you may have. So very quickly, background of this project. We received a federal grant to study some of our, most, dangerous corridors in Hayward.

And, the first of this is phase one and includes three quarters, A Street, B Street, and Tennyson Road. I'm here to provide, an update. Oops. I gotta go back. It's too sensitive. Okay. Okay. So 2025 was when the project started, and that the purpose of the first round of outreach during that summer was to really understand the need of the communities living near these quarters and understand the challenges they were facing. Towards the end of the year, it culminated in going to SEAC. We had, through the phase one outreach, we developed three alternatives for each quarter.

One was more like a baseline alternative. We're calling it, baseline enhancements. Second one is more of that plus more connected, like, facilities, and we're calling that, the connected quarter alternative. And then for the third one, we're calling it the reimagine, alternative. That is when we have maximum safety improvements, but it also comes with the most costs and impacts.

So I'm gonna talk a little bit about what we've been doing since 2026, and the phase two round round of outreach and then our recommendations based off those, outreach results. So phase two outreach, second round of outreach started in 2026 and was for the purpose of going back to the community now with these three alternatives for each quarter and getting feedback on which they prefer. It was also important for the project team to understand, the trade offs, get them to understand the trade offs that participants were willing to make when it comes to, these alternatives as they increase in safety intensity. Over, almost 500 surveys were taken, and over a thousand public comments were received over 10 community events. Surveys were available online and in in person events.

Online survey demographics, 80% came from ZIP codes nearby. Over 25% responses were in Spanish, and over 50% indicated, participants who were low income. Over 3,000 postcards were sent, and these were within about 500 feet radius of each quarter. And a bunch of other methods we used to outreach. It was also important for the project team to really understand the trade offs that people were willing to make and prefer.

And the first one of one questions we asked is if you preferred, more safety improvements, what, trade offs were you willing to make between parking, and losing travel lanes? And what we found was for all three quarters, the community mostly preferred, to preserve, keeping the travel lanes and, losing parking, but not not everyone. Some people did prefer to preserve parking. Another question we asked was, if you had a choice, do you prefer to get something to be implemented faster and at a cheaper cost, or would you prefer to have something with maximum safety but would take longer and have a higher cost? And for all three quarters, we received a overwhelming response that they preferred maximum safety improvements at the expense of faster implementation and quicker

They didn't want maximum danger?

No. They did not want mass maximum danger. So I'm gonna go over quickly. Just for Tennyson Road, this applies to all, alternatives, the intersection improvements. For Tennyson Road, we are recommending protected intersections and bulb outs, installation of hybrid pedestrian beacons, and restrictions of certain turn movements that are that could be dangerous, and the eventual redesign of IAAD interchange, which would need to be carried out as a different project in partnership with Caltrans.

We then took the three alternatives to the community, and I'm gonna explain a little bit about how it was scored. For so, basically, people can choose the the highest the first, second, and third ranked alternative. First rank was three points, second rank was two points, and the last, third rank was one point. So we tallied the points, and, the table to the left shows, the reimagined quarter received the highest score. The bar chart to the right just tallies the first place votes and shows, which had the most first place votes.

So for both, the reimagined quarter was preferred for Tennyson. One of the common many of the common themes, describe Tennyson as scary for walking and biking with several referencing recent pedestrian injuries and fatalities. There were concerns about parking removal, and then there was a a large preference for building something safe over building something fast. For that reason and for the, looking at the outreach results and analyzing what we have, the project team is recommending the reimagine quarter alternative for Tennyson Road. The re oops.

The reimagine, corridor recommendation for Tennyson Road includes separated bike lanes on both sides of the street from Hesperian to Whitman, a separated two way cycle track on the south side of the street from Whitman to Dixon, and removal parking on both sides of the street from Hesperian to Roos and Dixon to Mission Boulevard. And this is where I have to be very clear. We have a chart here or a map that shows the parking spaces that are being impacted. So I would say, a total of 158 parking spaces is proposed to be removed. In that, 43 of the 158 on the East side are BART.

Yeah. Yeah.

I know. I told

him to be prepared for the reaction.

43 of the 158 on the East side are BART designated parking spaces that are not being used currently. Yeah. 43, on the East side.

BART.

It's it's near near the BART station and the school. Yeah. To the left, there's 34 between Hesperian and Sleepy Hollow. From our studies, we did not see them being utilized, but the ones from Sleepy Hollow to Kalaroga, there's a large, apartment air area there. The 35 spaces there are utilized, and those are proposed to be removed.

That's because they're well, I don't wanna

What time did you go? Well,

what time we did the study? We we looked at night. We looked at I believe we looked at day too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're out there at 02:00 in the morning.

Data collection.

Not not because I'm not in car since.

So, since we're gonna pause it here to get feedback, as we go, and then we'll go on to the next quarters.

So I have to so, I have a public comment, but it's

how many when are you anybody on the phone? No one will generate.

No one will generate? So do you guys wanna do a public comment now or wait till the end? I'll give you guys a choice. My goodness stops in thirty seconds. I'm kidding. I I call it up in her calls. Okay. Okay.

At the end. Yeah.

Oh, okay. Go ahead.

There's a lot of cards that work from Dixon to Missions on that's my biggest concern. Dixon to Michigan. But there's also Mark there. So is there any way we could figure out some kind of

where Are you saying on Dixon? No. What do mean Dixon? Timmison. On From Dixon to Mission.

From Dixon to Mission. Mhmm. That's where the most

Yeah. Is

there any kind of partnership we can do with the bar that we would propose taking those projects to go away? But there's a lot of housing there if it's packed, and I just don't Mhmm.

Yeah. I understand how it's hard decision.

If if we are going to remove those, definitely, we need to talk to BART and find out what their needs are today because that designation was made years ago when BART ridership was was at a different level. So we need to have a conversation with them to see how they feel about losing some of the parking spaces for safer, better, because they also share our interest in having active transportation to bars.

Yeah. And I'm just wondering if it could also encourage people to take a bar too.

Exactly. So I

I that one I have the multihyper about just because everything in reaction is gonna be very, like, switched on it. So

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

The other ones underneath, I think, will be okay. I agree. I don't see a lot of heart heart care, so I don't have No. It's just that Dixon.

Mhmm. But

I do agree that you need to do something on on Tennyson. So do you see a ton of parking further west?

Further west of where?

West I guess closer to Tampa.

Tampa.

It's it's before it's in New Hollow.

Oh. That's where we see a

lot of, you know, activity and pedestrian situations in that

area. Yep. Do you

see actual parking? Because there's so many commercial lots where I don't know if I see a lot of street parking in that area. I just can't Yeah. So I think you'll be okay Mhmm. There. I'm also concerned about tourist citizen departments because Mhmm. There's a lot of bills spent that are parking. They're already I mean, the housing crisis, people are packed in those apartments. So I'm concerned about that.

So if there is no parking, we are talking about taking a lane then. Traveling.

We did we did look at the Jason Streets going into the neighborhood. Is it We did look at, yeah, we did look at the Jason Streets going into the neighborhood. And a lot of cases, there is some capacity to take some of that. But yeah. Yeah. Right.

Yeah. Dixon emission is not ready for unless we can figure out a solution with work. Mhmm. I

guess I'm confused. So you're talking in you're talking It's like a bar. Be Tennyson between Dixon and Mission? Mhmm. There's no parking there right now. I mean, you

can't park. I mean, you

mean this spot right there. There's Dixon. There's Dixon. This is Mission, and this is I

think it's industrial. Industrial? I might

Yeah. That might be industrial because so to read this chart, the solid lines, already no parking.

Okay.

The industrial side of

park there, yeah, there's a lot of parking. Okay.

Yeah. And because there's apartments

Yeah. That sounds more like industrial. Yeah.

So

so the the bulk of the parking on Tennyson, I would say, is underneath the underpass.

Mhmm.

And then between Kalawurga and Sleepy Hollow. Yeah. Kalawonga. That's that's really where the parts

Mhmm.

The west part is. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

I mean and

Yeah.

I mean so what I was gonna say, I mean, I like the I like this. But, you know, if we could just you know, a good a good compromise would be keep the parking between Caloroga and Sleepy Hollow. And Sleepy Hollow. And I know the trade off is gonna be you know, I have to think that out first. Mhmm.

So this was done in in design.

I mean, I don't think

they're Conceptual. Conceptual plan.

This is conceptual plan to get outreach at those pop ups or whatever. Did you do anything on social media, by chance? I was just

We oh, yeah. We, advertise the project and the outreach events on social media for people to visit the website or to, participate.

Do, like, you choose?

You choose? Of what they You did? Yes. That's basically, the survey was for people to tell which option they prefer.

That area.

Well, for for the whole Tennyson Road.

That area.

Mhmm. It's the that you can target in that area. Mhmm. I would just want Or or,

you know, the the the the operate the the the operator of that of the tenants and apartments Yeah.

Or whatever it's called today. Do that.

The operator, we know the the operator. Mhmm. Why don't

we just go in there and have

first Exactly.

Exactly. Exactly.

And I'd say there there is some flexibility. As we go on the next phase of this project, there will be another outreach period to to to get the detailed concept. We may have some flexibility to, like, figure out these details.