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Approval of a resolution appointing CapMetro Board Member Jeffrey Travillion to serve as the CapMetro Board’s representative on the Austin Transit Partnership Board of Directors, and waiving the residency requirement for their appointment, if applicable.
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FISCAL IMPACT:
This action has no fiscal impact.
STRATEGIC PLAN:
Strategic Goal Alignment:
☐ 1. Customer ☒ 2. Community
☐ 3. Workforce ☒ 4. Organizational Effectiveness
Strategic Objectives:
☐ 1.1 Safe & Reliable Service ☐1.2 High Quality Customer Experience ☐ 1.3 Accessible System
☒ 2.1 Support Sustainable Regional Growth ☐ 2.2 Become a Carbon Neutral Agency
☐ 2.3 Responsive to Community and Customer Needs ☒ 2.4 Regional Leader in Transit Planning
☐ 3.1 Diversity of Staff ☐ 3.2 Employer of Choice ☐ 3.3 Expand Highly Skilled Workforce
☒ 4.1 Fiscally Responsible and Transparent ☐ 4.2 Culture of Safety ☐ 4.3 State of Good Repair
EXPLANATION OF STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT: According to the Austin Transit Partnership Articles of Incorporation, the ATP Board includes a member who is appointed by the CapMetro Board of Directors, to represent the CapMetro Board. CapMetro representation on the ATP Board ensures ATP and CapMetro alignment on key decisions related to the Project Connect transit expansion program.
BUSINESS CASE: The current CapMetro appointee is Chair Jeff Travillion, who was reappointed by the CapMetro Board to the ATP Board in November 2022 for a two-year term ending in December 2024. The CapMetro Board must appoint a person to serve a two-year term beginning in January 2025.
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION: This item will be presented to the full board on December 16, 2024.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) is a local government corporation jointly created by the CapMetro Board of Directors (Board Resolution AI-2020-1399) and Austin City Council (Resolution No. 20201218-002), as the principal entity responsible for financing, designing, building, implementing and contracting with CapMetro to operate and maintain assets programmed as part of the Project Connect transit expansion program. As part of the ATP Articles of Incorporation related to ATP Board composition, the CapMetro Board appoints one member of the ATP Board to represent CapMetro on the transit expansion program board.
The CapMetro Board reappointed Jeff Travillion as their representative on the ATP Board for a term from January 2023 through December 2024. This action on behalf of the Board will appoint a CapMetro Board Member to the ATP Board for the next two year term, beginning January 2025 and ending in December 2026.
If the CapMetro Board elects to appoint a CapMetro Board Member who resides outside the CapMetro service area or is not an Austin resident, the CapMetro Board must also waive the residency requirement for their appointee. If applicable, the waiver is valid only to this action item and this specific term and does not assume or consider future waivers for any future appointments.
DBE/SBE PARTICIPATION: Does not apply.
PROCUREMENT: Does not apply.
RESPONSIBLE DEPARTMENT: Board of Directors
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RESOLUTION
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CAPITAL METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF TRAVIS
AI-2024-1319
WHEREAS, upon passage of a successful referendum to provide funding for the Project Connect program of projects, the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (CapMetro) Board of Directors (Board) and Austin City Council approved the creation of the Austin Transit PartnershipLocal Government Corporation (“ATP”) by resolutions adopted on December 18, 2020 (City Council Resolution No. 20201218-002 and CapMetro Board Resolution AI-2020-1399) as the principal entity responsible for financing, designing, building, implementing and contracting with Capital Metro to operate and maintain assets funded by the Joint LGC;
WHEREAS, according to the ATP Articles of Incorporation, the ATP Board includes a member who is appointed by the CapMetro Board of Directors to represent the CapMetro Board;
WHEREAS, on November 21, 2022, the CapMetro Board, via Resolution No. AI-2022-641, approved the appointment of CapMetro Board Chair Jeff Travillion to serve as their appointee to the ATP Board for a term beginning January 2023 and concluding in December 2024; and
WHEREAS, the CapMetro Board must appoint a representative for the next two-year term beginning in January 2024 and ending in December 2026.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Capital Metro Transportation Authority Board of Directors herby appoints CapMetro Board Member Jeffrey Travillion to serve as CapMetro’s representative on the Austin Transit Partnership Board of Directors, for a two-year term beginning in January 2024.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that, if the appointee above lives outside of the Austin city limits and the CapMetro Service Area, the Capital Metro Board hereby waives the residency requirement of the ATP Articles of Incorporation so that the appointee can serve as CapMetro’s representative on the ATP Board. This waiver is only applicable to this specific appointment and term of CapMetro’s representative on the ATP Board.
____________________ Date: ____________________
Secretary of the Board
Becki Ross