Charlottesville Albemarle Regional Transit Authority Meeting   8/24/2026

Do we need to call official role or can we just go around and say?

I do need to read the notice of electronic meeting and I'm not sure, Taylor, if I do that before or after introductions.

I think if we did it now at the start, that would be great.

The meeting minutes will reflect that the meeting was held electronically by electronic communications and the type of electronic communication means by which the meeting was held.

And I'm present.

Mike Pruitt, Albemarle County, also present.

Jen Fleisher, City of Charlottesville, here.

Alright, that's all for announcements, so we can move on to acceptance of the agenda, which is an action item, so I'll entertain a motion and second.

I move that we approve.

Motion and second from anyone, please.

Move to accept minutes.

Is there anyone?

There are members of the public on the meeting, but none of them are raising their hand to speak.

Jen Debruehl.

Awesome.

She's back muted, so I guess she's okay.

All right, back to you Jen, thanks.

And again, put that incremental cost in there.

What does bundle mean when you're talking about bundling potential micro CAT and jaunt link expansions?

So you'll see in a second, it's much more of a generic recommendation for those services.

Okay, thank you all.

So I'm ready for questions.

Anyone have any questions or would like any clarifications?

that we would spend on all scenarios above it versus it's just the county link expansion cost?

Good question, very good question.

It seems very confusing that we would have been given anything other than the incremental cost previously.

We probably should have started with an incremental cost.

Incorporated in or is that part of the incremental or is that not part of the incremental?

Those would be part of the incremental additional cost.

This is presented almost as in lieu of any existing transformation planning that CAT is doing.

Is that correct, Jennifer?

Okay.

Not answered in this, but a good question to kind of keep in mind.

It was my next comment.

Yeah.

This is to increase the frequency on them, so to make them much more frequent so people can use the system better.

Okay, so this is both the existence of 2A2B and the improvement that we are already planning on?

This is assuming that 2A2B is already up and running and this would be the incremental cost to get it to a 30-minute service which means we have a 15-minute trunk.

When we get it to the 30 minute slash 15 minute service, it'll be an additional mill 89 per year to keep that high level of service up to serve up to 300,000 people a year.

Hang on, Garland, you're muted.

Go ahead, Garland.

Yeah, I didn't want to step in.

kind of back into something theoretically for today, it would be the total column minus the incremental column.

But I just want to clarify, we don't actually, today, this actual day of the year, we don't actually have 2A and 2B yet.

February.

February of 27.

Okay.

So that may be something that you want to look at when you start to think about, you know, which side of this you're kind of planning for and looking at.

And just to clarify, that means the kind of baseline operations

Legislated Funding Sources has slightly different language, but it's just something to keep in mind.

And how strict are they in reviewing that effort?

I was asked to review it many times in a prior life, and I don't want to put Grant on the spot, but it is relatively difficult to track and pin down.

In practice.

Okay.

And just to clarify, Mr. Murphy posted in the chat, double checking that these are the local parts of what it costs to run the route, not state and federal dollars, which is correct.

Correct.

Yes.

And with that, I will pause again and answer any questions.

Mike had a question in the chat just clarifying that these were only local costs.

Still working on the timing of that.

Who's providing that input?

Do you want to answer that?

That's the Board of Supervisors and City Council.

So we would get a presentation and then ask and feedback would be provided in a meeting?

We're still nailing down exactly which session it's going to be, but probably early October.

What do we do once we review it?

OK.

We can derive more and reduce the locality contributions, but that's what it creates a roadmap for.

It creates a goal, and then we have to figure out how we want to reach that.

No, no, no.

Jen, Sally, any questions, thoughts?

You guys have kind of said everything I was wondering.

So I'm wondering that the whole separate thing that doesn't really apply to solve the problem that

Is that kind of what you're asking?

But if that doesn't get us toward our goal of what we're trying to define, what we do with the information, I cannot see that being a separate examination.

We keep putting off those in the weeds conversations, but they will have to happen at some point.

Totally.

Ben, you had your hand up?

But if there are things that you're seeing in here that you feel like are conflicting with the goals of CARTA, that's something that we do need to know about so that we can make an adjustment on.

Is that the kind of like, not super deep in the weeds, but lightly specific notes that are useful?

And if you have additional detail behind those notes of why they're not a goal, why they are not important to CARTA, that also helps us justify making changes.

Or like, how do we have that conversation?

So I think it would be good to ask your questions about that now while we have Jen to answer questions.

Okay, before we do that, I'm gonna recognize Taylor who's also got her hand up.

like a smart scale system like there's a staff recommended funding scenario where they give them here's what the data says and here's the order that we would fund these based on that but the CTP ultimately still has discretion right and so like Ben said this is the forum where if there's something on this list that gives you all heartburn like this should be the forum for you all to be able to talk about that with one another and give us that feedback so it informs the final document that comes before you.

And if not, how do we incorporate that into a regional request?

You could show that going to the airport, but

That's route seven.

I'm getting my numbers wrong.

So I'm sorry.

I think I see a

And I realize I've been yakking while Mike's had his hand up.

Other Mike, Mr. Murphy.

really with the intent only to move potential airport employees as opposed to people who are trying to be travelers.

I'm not sure what is the appropriate way to make sure that this is a conversation that we do set aside time for at some point.

I think I can put some narrative around that to explain what it is and a little bit of what it isn't.

Do we need a motion?

I read a whole thing about this on LinkedIn, sorry.

So, in an abundance of caution, we will note that the next meeting is September 24th, and can someone make a motion just in case, please?

Second.

Thank you.

The motion.