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2. Resolution Honoring Community Service Agency(CSA) 50th Anniversary of Service to the Los Altos Hills Community. (Resolution No.24-07) • Richard Hull, representing the Community Service Agency, was presented a City Council resolution honoring the service agency's fifty years of providing social services to Los Altos Hills residents and surrounding communities. Mr. Hull thanked the Mayor and Council and acknowledged that the organization was looking towards another fifty years of community service. 3. Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority(VTA) Councilmember Breene Kerr, VTA Board member, introduced this item to Council. Following a recent audit performed by outside consultants, the VTA has been implementing recommendations culled from the report. An evaluation of their mission and the development of a comprehensive plan to improve and streamline services were being undertaken in parallel with the internal evaluation. Kerr introduced Ann Carey, Executive Assistant to the General Manager and Bill Capps, Service and Operations Planning Manager, Valley Transportation Authority. Ann Carey, thanked the Council for the opportunity to update them on transportation issues relevant to Los Altos Hills. Carey provided a brief background on the history of the VTA, their operations and services. She spoke to their recent organizational review and advised that the VTA had undertaken an extensive analysis of the agency services • and was looking to make internal organizational changes; revisit the mission of the Authority and the process for setting priorities with the Board; and, review the financial management of the agency. Carey explained that the VTA was the Congestion Management Agency(CMA) for Santa Clara County. CMA's are State mandated agencies whose purpose is to increase the efficiency of the existing transit and roadways systems and to plan capital improvement projects for those systems. One of the key activities of the VTA is long range planning including the programming of money for grants to local projects. Carey offered that the programs were multi-module and included pedestrian and bicycle paths and noted that one of the plans administered was the Bicycle Expenditure Plan. Carey reported that in 2007, the VTA has committed $438,000 towards the LAH Moody Road Bicycle and Pedestrian improvement project. Matching funds provided by Los Altos Hills will complete segment 2 of the project. Funding for segments 3-4-5 of the project was currently under review. Carey introduced Bill Capps. Capps provided an overview of the study of services that was being performed by the Agency with the ultimate goal to better match services to areas where they were being utiltized. A recommendation to consolidate Route 52 Downtown Mountain View-Foothill College and Route 23 that currently operates between the San Antonio Transit Center and Foothill College was being considered. This • was the only proposal for a service change that would have an impact on the Town. Capps distributed handouts that provided background information on the two routes 2 Regular City Meeting Minutes May 10,2007