TO: AC Transit Board of Directors
FROM: Linda A. Nemeroff, Board Administrative Officer/District Secretary
SUBJECT: Amendments to Board Policy 155
ACTION ITEM
AGENDA PLANNING REQUEST: ?
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
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Consider approving amendments to Board Policy 155 - Travel, Meeting and Miscellaneous Expense Reimbursements for Directors and Board Officers.
Staff Contact:
Linda A. Nemeroff, Board Administrative Officer/District Secretary
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STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE:
Goal - Prioritize Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility
The District has made policy-decisions over the years in furtherance of this priority even before it became a strategic goal. The content in this report with respect to the District's policy banning travel to states with anti-LGBTQ+ laws is provided to inform the Board of dialogue that is occurring on whether the State's travel ban, which was adopted by the Board in 2018, should continue in its current form or be changed to instead raise public awareness and promote civil rights and antidiscrimination through education, advertising, and marketing activities.
BUDGETARY/FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no budgetary or fiscal impact associated with this report.
BACKGROUND/RATIONALE:
Board Policy 155 was last amended in 2021. The most substantive issues and/or amendments to the policy are outlined below:
Section IV.A.1. - Travel Authorization and Approval. Out-of-State Travel
In 2018, the Board of Directors approved a ban on District funded travel to states with anti-LGBTQ laws consistent with the ban the State of California enacted in Government Code Section 11139.8. As a result, Board Policy 155 was amended and the General Manager was directed to amend the employee travel regulation accordingly. At the time, only nine states were subject to the ban. That number now stands at 23.
Over the course of the last several months, officials at the local and state level have started a dialogue concerning the effectiveness of the ban...
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