ALAMEDA-CONTRA COSTA TRANSIT DISTRICT - Report ID: 18-211L

• Report ID: 18-211L
• Type: Regular - Planning
• Meeting Body: Board of Directors - Regular Meeting
• Meeting Date: 4/23/2025
• Final action: 4/23/2025
• Recommended Action: Consider receiving an update on the District's transit shelter maintenance, advertising, and capital contracts, and consider granting the General Manager authority to: 1. Swap the location of shelters, as necessary, while maintaining a maximum limit of 276 District-owned shelters, in coordination with the local jurisdictions; and 2. Enter into agreements with local jurisdictions to maintain additional transit shelters if the local jurisdiction retains the ownership and agrees to reimburse the District the net maintenance cost (total cost of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance costs less advertising revenue). [Requested by President Shaw - 10/23/2024] Staff Contact: Ramakrishna Pochiraju, Executive Director of Planning & Engineering

Date	Action By	Action	Result
4/23/2025	Board of Directors - Regular Meeting	Received	Pass

TO: AC Transit Board of Directors
FROM: Kathleen Kelly, Interim General Manager/Chief Executive Officer
SUBJECT: Transit Shelter Program Update

ACTION ITEM
AGENDA PLANNING REQUEST: ?

RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):

Title
Consider receiving an update on the District's transit shelter maintenance, advertising, and capital contracts, and consider granting the General Manager authority to:

1. Swap the location of shelters, as necessary, while maintaining a maximum limit of 276 District-owned shelters, in coordination with the local jurisdictions; and
2. Enter into agreements with local jurisdictions to maintain additional transit shelters if the local jurisdiction retains the ownership and agrees to reimburse the District the net maintenance cost (total cost of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance costs less advertising revenue). [Requested by President Shaw - 10/23/2024]

Staff Contact:
Ramakrishna Pochiraju, Executive Director of Planning & Engineering
Body
STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE:

Goal - Convenient and Reliable Service
Initiative - Service Quality

Clean and safe bus shelters enhance the customer experience and increase service quality.

BUDGETARY/FISCAL IMPACT:

There could be additional maintenance costs to the District by swapping District-owned shelters, even though the number of shelters remains unchanged, if there is a large increase in unscheduled maintenance costs for the shelters in new locations. However, it is impossible to estimate the potential for such costs, and staff does not think that there would be significant cost changes related to changing shelter locations.

There would only be increased costs to the District by entering into a cost neutral maintenance agreement with local jurisdictions if those jurisdictions fail to adhere to the agreements and do not fully reimburse the District.

BACKGROUND/RATIONALE:

In 1999, AC Transit entered into a third-party contract with Lamar Advertising (then transferred to CCO) an advertising c...