TO: AC Transit Board of Directors
FROM: Kathleen Kelly, Interim General Manager/Chief Executive Officer
SUBJECT: June 2025 Service Sign-up
BRIEFING ITEM
AGENDA PLANNING REQUEST: ?
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
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Consider receiving a report on the District's June 2025 Service Sign-up.
Staff Contact:
Ramakrishna Pochiraju, Executive Director of Planning & Engineering
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STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE:
Goal - Convenient and Reliable Service
Initiative - Service Quality
The primary objective of the June 2025 Sign-up is continuity with the December 2024 and March 2025 sign-ups, in anticipation of the August 2025 service change.
BUDGETARY/FISCAL IMPACT:
While there are no changes in the schedules in the June Sign-up compared to the March Sign-up, the District will operate service on "School Holiday" meaning staff will not deploy the Supplementary Service trips. The cost of keeping Supplementary Service in the June Sign-up but on School Holiday is an estimated $285,000 in operator wages assuming an hourly wage rate of $38/hour. However, under the existing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ATU 192 for the June and August 2025 sign-ups, operators with Supplementary Service runs will need to check-in with Division Dispatch on a daily basis to potentially fill in any missing pieces of work as necessary. This could result in some overtime cost savings that would offset some or all the additional cost in Supplementary Service wages.
BACKGROUND/RATIONALE:
AC Transit typically conducts four Sign-ups each year as required by the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with the Amalgamated Transit Union Local #192 (ATU 192). These occur in March, June, August and December.
The June 2025 Sign-up uses the same runcut as the December 2024 and March 2025 runcuts. However, since the roster, or weekly operator work assignments, was changed at the request of ATU 192, it is not considered a rehang or a complete duplicate of the last two runcuts.
In accordance with t...
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