<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Oh, sorry not to explain better! The General Council is TRU’s elected leadership body (technically our board) — we’ll be talking about what to put on the membership meeting agenda in January, so that’s why I was hoping to hear some input. So that is different from BATS. :)
<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 16, 2024, at 4:09 PM, Yogi Donovan <yogi@deptofbioregion.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="auto">Where and what time is the BATS general council meeting? <br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">With Conscious Care & Consideration,</font><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">President; Board of Directors</font></div><div><font face="monospace" style="font-family: monospace;"><i style="font-family:monospace">Yogi Isaiah Donovan</i></font></div><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" style="font-family: garamond, "times new roman", serif;"><img width="420" height="105" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4whcUldGhsF0lYX3vNNSDtk0c0UsqdeJZ7lpCeYUiQai00rfq1_uyP1BziQiB2Fqfv_jpD-QJ4" style="font-family: garamond, "times new roman", serif;"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br></font><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" style="font-family: garamond, "times new roman", serif;"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 12:01 Dave Schuldt <<a href="mailto:dave.schuldt@me.com">dave.schuldt@me.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">I have not looked into this so I can’t comment.<div></div></div><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div><br id="m_3455917754083554826lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 16, 2024, at 10:02 AM, Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" target="_blank">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Trevor who is spearheading <a href="https://transportationreform.org/" target="_blank">this effort</a> reached out again about whether TRU wants to discuss and/or support. Here’s <a href="https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/12/10/op-ed-state-must-reform-sound-transit/" target="_blank">his op-ed in The Urbanist</a>, which may answer Dave’s question. He says "Since we talked the article went live in the urbanist and nearly 500 people have sent letters to the Legislature and Governor Elect Ferguson!"<div><div><br></div><div>A few possible ways forward: We could invite him to give a short presentation at an upcoming membership meeting, e.g. in January or February. Or BATS could invite him to a committee meeting and bring a report and recommendation to the membership. Or we could politely decline.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts? (We have a General Council meeting tonight, so bonus for replies before 6pm!)</div><div><br></div><div>Katie</div><div><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 19, 2024, at 3:19 PM, Dave Schuldt <<a href="mailto:dave.schuldt@me.com" target="_blank">dave.schuldt@me.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Can this be done by a part time leg? Who would do the audit?<div><br id="m_3455917754083554826lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 19, 2024, at 2:52 PM, Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" target="_blank">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space">I followed up to ask what endorsing would mean, here’s Trevor’s reply:<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium;padding:0px"><div><br></div><div><div><div>“Endorsing would mean supporting a statement asking the Legislature to do the following:</div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><div><ul><ul><li>Audit Sound Transit's governance, decision making, and powers with a focus on international leaders.</li><li>Review opportunities to partner with WSDOT </li><li>A broader review of how we deliver infrastructure projects and opportunities to improve relative to global best practices.</li></ul></ul></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium;padding:0px"><div><div><div><div>The format would be the same as MASS's landing page where there's a letter and supporting organizations' logos listed below. </div></div></div></div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div><div><div><div>These requests are modeled on an audit Minnesota completed of Metro's delivery and a review Quebec's legislature committed prior to approving the REM."</div></div></div></blockquote><div>
<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 14, 2024, at 4:49 PM, Dave Schuldt <<a href="mailto:dave.schuldt@me.com" target="_blank">dave.schuldt@me.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Looks good. Instead of a new group why not make this part of TRU? Everybody knows who we are so Trevor and his crew would get way more attention and TRU would become better known in the burbs.<div>They could be part of BATS or their own working group.</div><div><br id="m_3455917754083554826lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 14, 2024, at 2:23 PM, Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" target="_blank">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">Trevor Reed <<a href="mailto:trevorreed283@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">trevorreed283@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">TRU Endorsement</b><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">November 14, 2024 at 1:11:46 PM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">katie@transitriders.org</a><br></span></div><br><div><div dir="ltr">Hi Katie,<div><br></div><div>My name is Trevor Reed and I am starting a group modeled on the MASS Coalition called Transportation Reform focused delivering transit faster, cheaper, and of higher quality.</div><div><br></div><div>The Sierra Club and Physicians for Social Responsibility have both endorsed and are listed as co-authors for an Op-Ed we're submitting to the Seattle Times. A longer essay is currently being edited with the urbanist.</div><div><br></div><div>Our website should be live by the end of this week, hopefully both the ST and urbanist will publish next week.</div><div><br></div><div>What is the process for TRU to support this effort? I am happy to jump on a call and go over further at your convenience.</div><div><br></div><div>Please find a link to the urbanist <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UCv-PcK_0Ou95AroozY8_0c_K1vTcX3euakW24KHmSo/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE </a>ST draft attached.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Trevor</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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