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From:Angela Ely <br />To:DL-Council; Ashleigh Scott; Jennifer Gregerson <br />Cc:David Hall; Ramsey Ramerman <br />Subject:FW: [EXTERNAL] Regarding Agenda Item (9) - Transit Consolidation Briefing <br />Date:Wednesday, January 31, 2024 4:31:13 PM <br />Attachments:Fact Sheet.pdf <br />Category 2: Sensitive information <br />Hello, <br /> <br />Please submit the email and attachment as written comment for the record at our Council meeting <br />this evening. <br /> <br />Thank you! <br />Angie <br /> <br />Category 2: For official use only / disclosure permissible by law. <br />From: Sabina Araya <sabinasum@hotmail.com> <br />Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 1:22 PM <br />To: Donald Schwab <DSchwab@everettwa.gov>; Ben Zarlingo <BZarlingo@everettwa.gov>; <br />Elizabeth Vogeli <EVogeli@everettwa.gov>; Judy Tuohy <JTuohy@everettwa.gov>; Paula Rhyne <br /><PRhyne@everettwa.gov>; Mary Fosse <MFosse@everettwa.gov>; Scott Bader <br /><SBader@everettwa.gov> <br />Cc: Cassie Franklin <CFranklin@everettwa.gov>; Angela Ely <AEly@everettwa.gov> <br />Subject: [EXTERNAL] Regarding Agenda Item (9) - Transit Consolidation Briefing <br /> <br />CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open <br />attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. <br /> <br />Dear Council Members, <br />As you move forward in your consideration of a consolidation plan between Everett Transit <br />and Community Transit, I urge you to include a provision in the future agreement that ensures <br />the service growth plans presented to the public in the process are sustainable and will be <br />provided in the timeline presented to the voters. <br />I say this because public trust in initiatives that ask for added revenue depends on the fulfillment of <br />those promises of service growth. Recently, Community Transit’s decision to implement a vaccine <br />mandate significantly derailed their own service maintenance and service growth plans and had a <br />deep negative impact on their workforce (see attachment). <br />I spent more than 17 years in the public transportation sector, and two and half of those were <br />with Community Transit, as their Manager of Service Planning (overseeing the 2024 network <br />restructuring plans) and later as Long Range Planning Manager (producing the 2021 Transit <br />Development Plan and starting their Journey 2050 long range planning project). I left the