Report to the Commission: December 18, 2024
Personnel
Retirements
- Tricia Mendoza – Tricia started with MTC in January 2023 as an Accountant/Auditor I. Her last day with MTC was December 2 as an Accountant/Auditor I in the Financial Reporting and Operational Accounting section.
New Appointments
- Evelyn Moran – Capital Projects Manager in the Procurement, Risk, and Property Management section.
- Graham Prentice – Climate Adaptation Specialist in the San Francisco Estuary Partnership section.
Updates
On January 1, the third of three $1 toll increases approved by voters through Regional Measure 3 in 2018 will go into effect at the seven state-owned toll bridges, bringing the toll to $8 for twoaxle vehicles. Preparations are on track through December, including signage updates and a public information campaign that includes inserts in FasTrak statements, press releases, information posted on the 511 and FasTrak websites, billboards, and radio and print advertising.
On January 13th, MTC, BART and other transportation operators throughout the Bay Area will sign the Equity in Infrastructure Project Pledge. This pledge solidifies our commitment to build generational wealth and reduce the racial wealth gap by improving public infrastructure contracting practices to create more prime, joint venture and equity contracting opportunities for Historically Underutilized Businesses, such as Disadvantaged and Small Business Enterprise firms. The efforts of the Equity in Infrastructure Project Pledge closely align with MTC’s current policies and practices, and will reinforce and strengthen our current programs.
Our Regional Mapping & Wayfinding project provides easy-to-understand, dependable and familiar transit information for travelers. Commissioner Noack and I attended an event on December 12 at El Cerrito del Norte BART station where transit maps and test transit signs debuted as part of the project.
Jon Rubin, a longtime San Francisco Mayor’s appointee to the Commission who served under Mayors Frank Jordan, Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom and Ed Lee, and who chaired the Commission from 2005 to 2007, died November 24. He was a genuine renaissance man — incredibly well read, well versed in everything from transportation policy to film production, an intrepid world traveler and a world-class wit. He was one of one.