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From: Board.Secretary Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 4:48 PM To: VTA Board of Directors Subject: VTA Correspondence - Comment on SR 85 and Additional Petitions for the VTA Board to Save the Alum Rock BART Station
VTA Board of Directors: We are forwarding to you the following comments: From Member of the Public District 5 United & San Jose United
Topic SR 85 Petitions to include and support the 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART Station
Thank you. Office of the Board Secretary Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority 3331 N. First Street San Jose, CA 95134 408.321.5680 [email protected]
COMMENT FROM MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC ON SR 85
From: Eric Ni Date: January 29, 2015 at 3:48:16 PM PST To: [email protected] Subject: Highway 85 Expansion - Has land been secured? Dear Mrs. Fernandez, I am in favor of highway 85 expansion, if land has been secured. Otherwise this project will turn into a 20 year planning and development nightmare. Squeezing an extra lane out of the existing is not an option. That will cause many fatalities and injuries every year. Selling express lane access will only add more cars to the road and make congestion worse. Sometimes the best solution is no solution. Sincerely, Eric Ni
From: District 5 United Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 10:37 PM To: General Manager; Gonot, Carolyn; Ristow, John; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Board.Secretary; [email protected]; Valles, Colleen; Pearse, Brent; [email protected]; Freitas, Harry; [email protected]; Larsen, Hans; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Save the Alum Rock BART station
___________________________________________________________________________ Dear Valley Transportation Authority, City of San Jose’s Mayor & City Council Members, San Jose City Manager, and Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, I petition the VTA Board to save the Alum Rock BART station by including and supporting the 28th Street location in the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Program planning. Our community deserves to have this major transportation hub located within our community as promised. The 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART Station has been a part of the BART extension to San Jose – Phase 2 Planning for years. Since 2001, the Alum Rock community has worked with the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) on concepts for the Alum Rock BART Station. The "Urban Village" concept embraces the BART Station as an important facet of the community and will have a positive economic impact on the neighborhoods surrounding the proposed station. The Urban Village designs were presented to the San Jose City Council in November 2013 and were unanimously adopted and included in the City’s General Plan. The plan has also received the support of the Envision 2040 Task Force. The 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART Station has a Park-n-Ride lot conveniently located immediately adjacent to an interchange on Highway 101 and would serve commuters from south county who work north of San Jose in areas with BART access. Commuters using the Alum Rock section of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) that is presently under construction would be able to transfer to BART at this location, providing addition public transit access to the community. In addition, the Urban Village plan would provide 4,050 jobs and 845 housing units to the residents of East San Jose. However, now the 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART Station is fast becoming another broken promise from the VTA to the residents of East San Jose. The VTA has a long history of reneging on promises made to East San Jose, a community with a large population of residents who depend on public transit to get to work and school. In 2002, the VTA promised Light Rail Transit (LRT) on the Santa Clara/Alum Rock transit corridor in their Downtown East Valley Transit Improvement Plan. The proposed Light Rail route would have connected the Alum Rock Station on the Capitol LRT line to the San Jose Diridon Station in Downtown San Jose. The VTA also promised LRT service along the entire length of Capitol Expressway from the Alum Rock Station on the Capitol LRT line to Eastridge Mall, and
continuing to the existing Guadalupe LRT line. These promises were broken in favor of the BART to San Jose Proposal. Rather than the promised Light Rail service in East San Jose, VTA is building Bus Rapid Transit from Eastridge to downtown. The proposed LRT extension along Capitol Expressway has been postponed until funds become available “ in the future.” East San Jose residents were promised trains and are getting expanded bus service. On October 6th, the VTA unilaterally proposed to the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Program Working Committee the elimination of the 28th Street BART station and inclusion of an “Alum Rock” station at E. Santa Clara St (near 23rd St), This new location is not located in the Alum Rock community, does not have accessible parking, and is located in a neighborhood of singlefamily homes. This new proposed plan virtually eliminates direct BART access to the residents of East San Jose. Once again, East San Jose residents were promised trains, but this time will get NOTHING. Therefore, I make the following petition: Whereas, the elimination of the 28th Street BART station location demonstrates a blatant disregard for a community who has worked with the VTA in good faith for over a decade; and Whereas, previously promised extensions of Light Rail Service promised to East San Jose residents have been eliminated and/or postponed indefinitely in favor of a BART extension; and Whereas, the residents of East San Jose have continuously supported sales taxes to support transit extension in Santa Clara County ($1.4 Billion to date) – including extensions of service to East San Jose; and Whereas, the San Jose City Council approved Urban Village plans that will provide much needed economic opportunities for East San Jose Residents are dependent on the existence of the 28th St location; I therefore petition the VTA Board to provide direct access to public transit services and improvements in East San Jose, I petition the VTA to include and support the 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART station in the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Program planning. Our community deserves to have this major transportation hub located within the community as promised. You may not use my contact information for any purpose other than to respond (if you prefer) to my concern regarding the the Alum Rock BART station, nor may you share my contact information with any other organization(s) or individual(s). -This mail was sent on behalf of a San Jose resident via San Jose's District 5 United! Community Working Together district5united.org www.facebook.com/district5united www.youtube.com/district5united
** E-mail on page 1 and 2 were received from the following individuals. Additional comments in the e-mail, if any, are included below the individual’s name. Senders are from the City of San Jose, unless noted otherwise. The comments were copied and pasted as is; no edits were made. Michael Tessaro Chelsea
From: San Jose United Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 9:38 AM To: General Manager; Gonot, Carolyn; Ristow, John; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Board.Secretary; [email protected]; Valles, Colleen; Pearse, Brent; [email protected]; Freitas, Harry; [email protected]; Larsen, Hans; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Save the Alum Rock BART station ____________________________________________________________________________________ Dear Valley Transportation Authority, City of San Jose’s Mayor & City Council Members, San Jose City Manager, and Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, I petition the VTA Board to save the Alum Rock BART station by including and supporting the 28th Street location in the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Program planning. Our community deserves to have this major transportation hub located within our community as promised. The 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART Station has been a part of the BART extension to San Jose – Phase 2 Planning for years. Since 2001, the Alum Rock community has worked with the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) on concepts for the Alum Rock BART Station. The "Urban Village" concept embraces the BART Station as an important facet of the community and will have a positive economic impact on the neighborhoods surrounding the proposed station. The Urban Village designs were presented to the San Jose City Council in November 2013 and were unanimously adopted and included in the City’s General Plan. The plan has also received the support of the Envision 2040 Task Force. The 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART Station has a Park-n-Ride lot conveniently located immediately adjacent to an interchange on Highway 101 and would serve commuters from south county who work north of San Jose in areas with BART access. Commuters using the Alum Rock section of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) that is presently under construction would be able to transfer to BART at this location, providing addition public transit access to the community. In addition, the Urban Village plan would provide 4,050 jobs and 845 housing units to the residents of East San Jose. However, now the 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART Station is fast becoming another broken promise from the VTA to the residents of East San Jose. On October 6th, the VTA unilaterally proposed to the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Program Working Committee the elimination of the 28th Street BART station and inclusion of an “Alum Rock” station at E. Santa Clara St (near 23rd St). This new location is not located in the Alum Rock community, does not
have accessible parking, and is located in a neighborhood of single-family homes. This new proposed plan virtually eliminates direct BART access to the residents of East San Jose. Once again, East San Jose residents were promised trains, but this time will get NOTHING. Therefore, I make the following petition: Whereas, the elimination of the 28th Street BART station location demonstrates a blatant disregard for a community who has worked with the VTA in good faith for over a decade; and Whereas, previously promised extensions of Light Rail Service promised to East San Jose residents have been eliminated and/or postponed indefinitely in favor of a BART extension; and Whereas, the residents of East San Jose have continuously supported sales taxes to support transit extension in Santa Clara County ($1.4 Billion to date) – including extensions of service to East San Jose; and Whereas, the San Jose City Council approved Urban Village plans that will provide much needed economic opportunities for East San Jose Residents are dependent on the existence of the 28th St location; I therefore petition the VTA Board to provide direct access to public transit services and improvements in East San Jose, I petition the VTA to include and support the 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART station in the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Program planning. This community deserves to have this major transportation hub located within the community as promised. Respectfully submitted, You may not use my contact information for any purpose other than to respond (if you prefer) to my concern regarding the the Alum Rock BART station, nor may you share my contact information with any other organization(s) or individual(s). -This e-mail was sent via San Jose United (http://sanjoseunited.net)
** E-mail on page 1 and 2 were received from the following individuals. Additional comments in the email, if any, are included below the individual’s name. Senders are from the City of San Jose, unless noted otherwise. The comments were copied and pasted as is; no edits were made.
Yonara Monica Maryann Haggerty
From: Board.Secretary Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 4:38 PM To: VTA Board of Directors; VTA Advisory Committee Members Subject: From VTA: Documentary "Hotel 22" Covered in New York Times
VTA Board of Directors and Advisory Committee Members: A documentary titled “Hotel 22” is debuting at the Sundance Film Festival this week and was covered today in the New York Times. The 8-minute short captures the experience of the Silicon Valley homeless who take shelter on VTA Bus Line 22, riding from Eastridge to Palo Alto overnight. The film contains no interviews with operators or passengers, but it does capture verbal exchanges between customers and at one point an operator. The documentary can be viewed from the New York Times website: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/opinion/hotel22.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=ccolumn-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority 3331 N. First Street San Jose, CA 95134 408.321.5680 [email protected]
From: Board.Secretary Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:41 PM To: VTA Board of Directors Subject: From VTA: Help test Envision Silicon Valley interactive online tool
VTA Board of Directors: Please see the invitation to participate in Envision Silicon Valley user group sessions. If you are interested in participating, please reply to this email. Thank you.
Invitation to Participate in Envision Silicon Valley User Group Sessions VTA is currently developing an interactive online tool to support our “Envision Silicon Valley” campaign, a process that looks closely at investing in Santa Clara County’s transportation needs. This interactive tool will make it easier for the public to engage in two-way communication and to support the Envision Silicon Valley communications and community engagement program. The purpose of this tool is to educate Santa Clara County transit riders, drivers, cyclists and other potential key stakeholders, as well as facilitate public commentary and discussion about mobility needs and revenue options, including a potential November 2016 sales tax ballot measure. VTA has hired a multi-disciplinary team, lead by SF-based lowercase productions (lcp), to design and develop this interactive tool, which will bring together contemporary web app design and targeted messaging in order to effectively reach a wide demographic. In light of our goal to create a user-friendly experience, we are inviting you to participate in user test sessions that will examine the interactive tool as it goes through three stages of development: 1.
On Feb. 10, 2015, from 6 - 7:30 PM, VTA and members of the lcp Design Team will conduct an in-person focus group and facilitate user testing on the design and layout of early functional concepts for the tool. These “wireframes” include a look at navigation flow, as well as how structural elements are arranged on the page.
2.
At a date to be determined in March, VTA and members of the lcp Design Team will host a second in-person or online user testing session focused on the user experience navigating through a partial digital mock-up of the site.
3.
On June 23, 2015, from 6 - 7:30 PM, VTA and members of the lcp Design Team will host a third in-person user testing session focused on the user experience navigating through a completely functional site.
We prefer that you are available to attend all three sessions so that we might maintain a level of consistency with the same users throughout the process. (However, we’re still interested in speaking with you even if you have a scheduling conflict). Each session will last 90 minutes and snacks will be provided. We will make every effort to keep the following dates set, but may have to make adjustments as we get closer to the March and June
sessions. All sessions will be held at the VTA’s River Oaks headquarters, located at: VTA, 3331 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95134 Conference Room B-104 Accessible off of Visitor Parking Lot Public Transportation: River Oaks Light Rail Station or Bus Line 58 (see campus map below) To confirm your interest in participating, please fill out the following questionnaire: http://bit.ly/1EMT3W2. No special expertise or web/mobile proficiency is required. We have 10 available spots and will weight our selection towards people representing a diversity of perspectives and who show a willingness to participate in all three sessions. Detailed directions to the sessions’ location, parking and transit information will be included in your confirmation email. We hope you choose to participate in our sessions! Sincerely, The Envision Silicon Valley Team http://www.vta.org/envision For questions, please contact Jennifer Pechacek at [email protected]
From: Board.Secretary Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:28 AM To: VTA Board of Directors Subject: For your Info: VTA MWBE outreach event - 1/29/15
VTA Board of Directors: As part of our ongoing commitment and support of increasing diversity participation in our contracting, VTA and Minority Business Consortium is conducting an outreach event to give opportunity for Minority and Women-Owned Businesses to meet the Prime Contractors and to participate in variety of workshops. The goals of the Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) program, adopted by the Board on August 2014, are: a. Increase minority and women-owned business participations for locally funded projects. b. Ensure that MWBEs are afforded an equitable opportunity to compete c. Connect MWBEs to services and resources to enable them to compete and qualify for VTA contracts. d. Invest in the local business communities as part of VTA’s community engagement efforts. e. Ensure compliance with non-discrimination of minority and women-owned business enterprise. Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority 3331 N. First Street San Jose, CA 95134 408.321.5680 [email protected]
Introducing VTA’s Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise Program Introducing VTA’s Minority and Women Business Enterprises program that broadens outreach to Santa Clara County’s minority and women owned businesses. This historic program will open doors to hundreds of millions of dollars in increased contracting opportunities.
Join Us January 29, 2015 10am to 2pm VTA Auditorium 3331 North First Street, Building B-2 San Jose, CA
For assistance or inquiries please call the Minority Business Consortium at (408) 660-9171 This new program streamlines the certification process at VTA. Don’t miss this exciting event and the prospect for greater contracting opportunities. Register online at: http://vtaenterprisebusinessprogram.eventbrite.com
VTA Board of Directors: We are forwarding to you the following comments: From Member of the Public District 5 United & San Jose United
Topic SR 85 Petitions to include and support the 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART Station
Thank you. Office of the Board Secretary Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority 3331 N. First Street San Jose, CA 95134 408.321.5680 [email protected]
COMMENT FROM MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC ON SR 85
From: Eric Ni Date: January 29, 2015 at 3:48:16 PM PST To: [email protected] Subject: Highway 85 Expansion - Has land been secured? Dear Mrs. Fernandez, I am in favor of highway 85 expansion, if land has been secured. Otherwise this project will turn into a 20 year planning and development nightmare. Squeezing an extra lane out of the existing is not an option. That will cause many fatalities and injuries every year. Selling express lane access will only add more cars to the road and make congestion worse. Sometimes the best solution is no solution. Sincerely, Eric Ni
From: District 5 United Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 10:37 PM To: General Manager; Gonot, Carolyn; Ristow, John; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Board.Secretary; [email protected]; Valles, Colleen; Pearse, Brent; [email protected]; Freitas, Harry; [email protected]; Larsen, Hans; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Save the Alum Rock BART station
___________________________________________________________________________ Dear Valley Transportation Authority, City of San Jose’s Mayor & City Council Members, San Jose City Manager, and Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, I petition the VTA Board to save the Alum Rock BART station by including and supporting the 28th Street location in the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Program planning. Our community deserves to have this major transportation hub located within our community as promised. The 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART Station has been a part of the BART extension to San Jose – Phase 2 Planning for years. Since 2001, the Alum Rock community has worked with the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) on concepts for the Alum Rock BART Station. The "Urban Village" concept embraces the BART Station as an important facet of the community and will have a positive economic impact on the neighborhoods surrounding the proposed station. The Urban Village designs were presented to the San Jose City Council in November 2013 and were unanimously adopted and included in the City’s General Plan. The plan has also received the support of the Envision 2040 Task Force. The 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART Station has a Park-n-Ride lot conveniently located immediately adjacent to an interchange on Highway 101 and would serve commuters from south county who work north of San Jose in areas with BART access. Commuters using the Alum Rock section of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) that is presently under construction would be able to transfer to BART at this location, providing addition public transit access to the community. In addition, the Urban Village plan would provide 4,050 jobs and 845 housing units to the residents of East San Jose. However, now the 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART Station is fast becoming another broken promise from the VTA to the residents of East San Jose. The VTA has a long history of reneging on promises made to East San Jose, a community with a large population of residents who depend on public transit to get to work and school. In 2002, the VTA promised Light Rail Transit (LRT) on the Santa Clara/Alum Rock transit corridor in their Downtown East Valley Transit Improvement Plan. The proposed Light Rail route would have connected the Alum Rock Station on the Capitol LRT line to the San Jose Diridon Station in Downtown San Jose. The VTA also promised LRT service along the entire length of Capitol Expressway from the Alum Rock Station on the Capitol LRT line to Eastridge Mall, and
continuing to the existing Guadalupe LRT line. These promises were broken in favor of the BART to San Jose Proposal. Rather than the promised Light Rail service in East San Jose, VTA is building Bus Rapid Transit from Eastridge to downtown. The proposed LRT extension along Capitol Expressway has been postponed until funds become available “ in the future.” East San Jose residents were promised trains and are getting expanded bus service. On October 6th, the VTA unilaterally proposed to the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Program Working Committee the elimination of the 28th Street BART station and inclusion of an “Alum Rock” station at E. Santa Clara St (near 23rd St), This new location is not located in the Alum Rock community, does not have accessible parking, and is located in a neighborhood of singlefamily homes. This new proposed plan virtually eliminates direct BART access to the residents of East San Jose. Once again, East San Jose residents were promised trains, but this time will get NOTHING. Therefore, I make the following petition: Whereas, the elimination of the 28th Street BART station location demonstrates a blatant disregard for a community who has worked with the VTA in good faith for over a decade; and Whereas, previously promised extensions of Light Rail Service promised to East San Jose residents have been eliminated and/or postponed indefinitely in favor of a BART extension; and Whereas, the residents of East San Jose have continuously supported sales taxes to support transit extension in Santa Clara County ($1.4 Billion to date) – including extensions of service to East San Jose; and Whereas, the San Jose City Council approved Urban Village plans that will provide much needed economic opportunities for East San Jose Residents are dependent on the existence of the 28th St location; I therefore petition the VTA Board to provide direct access to public transit services and improvements in East San Jose, I petition the VTA to include and support the 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART station in the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Program planning. Our community deserves to have this major transportation hub located within the community as promised. You may not use my contact information for any purpose other than to respond (if you prefer) to my concern regarding the the Alum Rock BART station, nor may you share my contact information with any other organization(s) or individual(s). -This mail was sent on behalf of a San Jose resident via San Jose's District 5 United! Community Working Together district5united.org www.facebook.com/district5united www.youtube.com/district5united
** E-mail on page 1 and 2 were received from the following individuals. Additional comments in the e-mail, if any, are included below the individual’s name. Senders are from the City of San Jose, unless noted otherwise. The comments were copied and pasted as is; no edits were made. Michael Tessaro Chelsea
From: San Jose United Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 9:38 AM To: General Manager; Gonot, Carolyn; Ristow, John; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Board.Secretary; [email protected]; Valles, Colleen; Pearse, Brent; [email protected]; Freitas, Harry; [email protected]; Larsen, Hans; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Save the Alum Rock BART station ____________________________________________________________________________________ Dear Valley Transportation Authority, City of San Jose’s Mayor & City Council Members, San Jose City Manager, and Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, I petition the VTA Board to save the Alum Rock BART station by including and supporting the 28th Street location in the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Program planning. Our community deserves to have this major transportation hub located within our community as promised. The 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART Station has been a part of the BART extension to San Jose – Phase 2 Planning for years. Since 2001, the Alum Rock community has worked with the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) on concepts for the Alum Rock BART Station. The "Urban Village" concept embraces the BART Station as an important facet of the community and will have a positive economic impact on the neighborhoods surrounding the proposed station. The Urban Village designs were presented to the San Jose City Council in November 2013 and were unanimously adopted and included in the City’s General Plan. The plan has also received the support of the Envision 2040 Task Force. The 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART Station has a Park-n-Ride lot conveniently located immediately adjacent to an interchange on Highway 101 and would serve commuters from south county who work north of San Jose in areas with BART access. Commuters using the Alum Rock section of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) that is presently under construction would be able to transfer to BART at this location, providing addition public transit access to the community. In addition, the Urban Village plan would provide 4,050 jobs and 845 housing units to the residents of East San Jose. However, now the 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART Station is fast becoming another broken promise from the VTA to the residents of East San Jose. On October 6th, the VTA unilaterally proposed to the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Program Working Committee the elimination of the 28th Street BART station and inclusion of an “Alum Rock” station at E. Santa Clara St (near 23rd St). This new location is not located in the Alum Rock community, does not
have accessible parking, and is located in a neighborhood of single-family homes. This new proposed plan virtually eliminates direct BART access to the residents of East San Jose. Once again, East San Jose residents were promised trains, but this time will get NOTHING. Therefore, I make the following petition: Whereas, the elimination of the 28th Street BART station location demonstrates a blatant disregard for a community who has worked with the VTA in good faith for over a decade; and Whereas, previously promised extensions of Light Rail Service promised to East San Jose residents have been eliminated and/or postponed indefinitely in favor of a BART extension; and Whereas, the residents of East San Jose have continuously supported sales taxes to support transit extension in Santa Clara County ($1.4 Billion to date) – including extensions of service to East San Jose; and Whereas, the San Jose City Council approved Urban Village plans that will provide much needed economic opportunities for East San Jose Residents are dependent on the existence of the 28th St location; I therefore petition the VTA Board to provide direct access to public transit services and improvements in East San Jose, I petition the VTA to include and support the 28th Street location for the Alum Rock BART station in the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Program planning. This community deserves to have this major transportation hub located within the community as promised. Respectfully submitted, You may not use my contact information for any purpose other than to respond (if you prefer) to my concern regarding the the Alum Rock BART station, nor may you share my contact information with any other organization(s) or individual(s). -This e-mail was sent via San Jose United (http://sanjoseunited.net)
** E-mail on page 1 and 2 were received from the following individuals. Additional comments in the email, if any, are included below the individual’s name. Senders are from the City of San Jose, unless noted otherwise. The comments were copied and pasted as is; no edits were made.
Yonara Monica Maryann Haggerty
From: Board.Secretary Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 4:38 PM To: VTA Board of Directors; VTA Advisory Committee Members Subject: From VTA: Documentary "Hotel 22" Covered in New York Times
VTA Board of Directors and Advisory Committee Members: A documentary titled “Hotel 22” is debuting at the Sundance Film Festival this week and was covered today in the New York Times. The 8-minute short captures the experience of the Silicon Valley homeless who take shelter on VTA Bus Line 22, riding from Eastridge to Palo Alto overnight. The film contains no interviews with operators or passengers, but it does capture verbal exchanges between customers and at one point an operator. The documentary can be viewed from the New York Times website: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/opinion/hotel22.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=ccolumn-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority 3331 N. First Street San Jose, CA 95134 408.321.5680 [email protected]
From: Board.Secretary Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:41 PM To: VTA Board of Directors Subject: From VTA: Help test Envision Silicon Valley interactive online tool
VTA Board of Directors: Please see the invitation to participate in Envision Silicon Valley user group sessions. If you are interested in participating, please reply to this email. Thank you.
Invitation to Participate in Envision Silicon Valley User Group Sessions VTA is currently developing an interactive online tool to support our “Envision Silicon Valley” campaign, a process that looks closely at investing in Santa Clara County’s transportation needs. This interactive tool will make it easier for the public to engage in two-way communication and to support the Envision Silicon Valley communications and community engagement program. The purpose of this tool is to educate Santa Clara County transit riders, drivers, cyclists and other potential key stakeholders, as well as facilitate public commentary and discussion about mobility needs and revenue options, including a potential November 2016 sales tax ballot measure. VTA has hired a multi-disciplinary team, lead by SF-based lowercase productions (lcp), to design and develop this interactive tool, which will bring together contemporary web app design and targeted messaging in order to effectively reach a wide demographic. In light of our goal to create a user-friendly experience, we are inviting you to participate in user test sessions that will examine the interactive tool as it goes through three stages of development: 1.
On Feb. 10, 2015, from 6 - 7:30 PM, VTA and members of the lcp Design Team will conduct an in-person focus group and facilitate user testing on the design and layout of early functional concepts for the tool. These “wireframes” include a look at navigation flow, as well as how structural elements are arranged on the page.
2.
At a date to be determined in March, VTA and members of the lcp Design Team will host a second in-person or online user testing session focused on the user experience navigating through a partial digital mock-up of the site.
3.
On June 23, 2015, from 6 - 7:30 PM, VTA and members of the lcp Design Team will host a third in-person user testing session focused on the user experience navigating through a completely functional site.
We prefer that you are available to attend all three sessions so that we might maintain a level of consistency with the same users throughout the process. (However, we’re still interested in speaking with you even if you have a scheduling conflict). Each session will last 90 minutes and snacks will be provided. We will make every effort to keep the following dates set, but may have to make adjustments as we get closer to the March and June
sessions. All sessions will be held at the VTA’s River Oaks headquarters, located at: VTA, 3331 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95134 Conference Room B-104 Accessible off of Visitor Parking Lot Public Transportation: River Oaks Light Rail Station or Bus Line 58 (see campus map below) To confirm your interest in participating, please fill out the following questionnaire: http://bit.ly/1EMT3W2. No special expertise or web/mobile proficiency is required. We have 10 available spots and will weight our selection towards people representing a diversity of perspectives and who show a willingness to participate in all three sessions. Detailed directions to the sessions’ location, parking and transit information will be included in your confirmation email. We hope you choose to participate in our sessions! Sincerely, The Envision Silicon Valley Team http://www.vta.org/envision For questions, please contact Jennifer Pechacek at [email protected]
From: Board.Secretary Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:28 AM To: VTA Board of Directors Subject: For your Info: VTA MWBE outreach event - 1/29/15
VTA Board of Directors: As part of our ongoing commitment and support of increasing diversity participation in our contracting, VTA and Minority Business Consortium is conducting an outreach event to give opportunity for Minority and Women-Owned Businesses to meet the Prime Contractors and to participate in variety of workshops. The goals of the Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) program, adopted by the Board on August 2014, are: a. Increase minority and women-owned business participations for locally funded projects. b. Ensure that MWBEs are afforded an equitable opportunity to compete c. Connect MWBEs to services and resources to enable them to compete and qualify for VTA contracts. d. Invest in the local business communities as part of VTA’s community engagement efforts. e. Ensure compliance with non-discrimination of minority and women-owned business enterprise. Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority 3331 N. First Street San Jose, CA 95134 408.321.5680 [email protected]
Introducing VTA’s Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise Program Introducing VTA’s Minority and Women Business Enterprises program that broadens outreach to Santa Clara County’s minority and women owned businesses. This historic program will open doors to hundreds of millions of dollars in increased contracting opportunities.
Join Us January 29, 2015 10am to 2pm VTA Auditorium 3331 North First Street, Building B-2 San Jose, CA
For assistance or inquiries please call the Minority Business Consortium at (408) 660-9171 This new program streamlines the certification process at VTA. Don’t miss this exciting event and the prospect for greater contracting opportunities. Register online at: http://vtaenterprisebusinessprogram.eventbrite.com
