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The draft frames transportation as a tool to reverse historic harms and to expand access, protection and opportunity for communities that have been disproportionately affected by past transportation decisions. Committee staff said the document will be refined this summer with member feedback and returned for final review in the fall.

Why it matters: The vision and mission will guide how the EAC advises the California Transportation Commission (CTC), Caltrans and the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA). Members said concise language alone is not enough: the committee must attach measurable outcomes, visuals and public-facing materials so residents can see what the statements mean in practice.

What the draft says and how the committee reacted
- Core idea: Committee drafts position transportation as an instrument of equity, environmental stewardship and mobility justice. Staff described the vision in plain terms: to create a California where transportation systems equitably reflect community diversity and foster mobility, sustainability and opportunity for future generations.
- Definitions: Draft materials include new terms for committee use such as \"right relation\" (an Indigenous-informed practice of respectful reciprocity with land and communities) and \"eco-justice\" (the intersection of environmental protection and social equity) to ground the language.
- Member priorities: EAC members asked staff to clarify accessibility and disability-related language, to add sharper references to economic opportunity, and to avoid language that reads as abstract or performative. \"What feedback that we got from staff was that the vision and mission statement needed to be concise, but that's where we can expand on many of the things that you all brought forward in the foundation principles,\" said member Carrie Akemi Hernandez, who co-led the drafting effort with staff.

Members also urged the document to: include explicit reference to rural and geographic differences across California; spell out what success will look like and include measurable goals; create plain-language explanations and graphics for public use; and provide a short list of priority actions the committee expects to pursue first.

Next steps and committee process
Staff said the purpose of the concise draft is to provide a short, shared statement that can be supplemented by a more detailed set of foundational principles and visual assets. Staff and the member leads will incorporate feedback this summer and aim to return a revised draft for committee deliberation in September or October. The EAC also plans to align the final statement with the committee's 2025 work plan so that the vision ties directly to the advisory opportunities the group will pursue.

Bottom line: Members welcomed the draft's ambitions but emphasized the need for two follow-up elements before adoption: (1) explicit, plain-language examples and visuals that show how the vision translates into policy and projects; and (2) a short list of measurable near-term actions the EAC can claim credit for achieving.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","May Interagency Equity Advisory Committee Executive Meeting","oneSentenceSummary","The Interagency Transportation Equity Advisory Committee presented a first consolidated draft of a vision, mission and set of foundational principles on May 14 and asked members and agency staff to refine the language and add measurable outcomes.","taxTitle","Transportation Commission, Agencies under Office of the Governor, Executive, California","taxId",70065,"location","California","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6236026,"Caltrans rolls out engagement playbook, pilot portal and draft director policy to standardize community input",751,11514000,12265000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3392213-bf3890ee66164329970b9bcc7ddecf45&start=11514&end=12265","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3392213-bf3890ee66164329970b9bcc7ddecf45/thumbnail_11514000.jpg","/articles/6236026/California/Caltrans-rolls-out-engagement-playbook-pilot-portal-and-draft-director-policy-to-standardize-community-input","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6236026-7571d9747f072d5fb65795f9b24659dc/orig.mp4?Expires=1770450950&Signature=EuQNnPk5IoftdrCpjfbg~~OwmXdPtCzeOpPyA2eT8IHDD2OTKPQ2uYHtbwz9Jfy4rgF100IEp6KS7Nv3BPUa-UfiZbQiZvbirYS6gMzD5AzNe0waFIUise8E9tv5ksPmnz6KnIbk~o96XEwuHMqwlBdIRhEknDtUd~lX5Z1Ck~Qy7lqVYfHgGaiwFkT6JXCVGIrBxP3gQ0i28ytxhUVFsvWWJoNKzYVZHl35FxEqYuW6c9pUSodq6twlXw6-qf96JaUE0q715UNjj9sH4xL3qYBTbhJWm6kANJPHlRuxwCEEI~PWEm-PH5gGI-BTH~Meb-IjiZv1tHdn9D3Lk3tAVQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Caltrans executives and staff told the Interagency Transportation Equity Advisory Committee on May 14 that the department is formalizing how it engages communities across the life cycle of transportation projects and plans.

The department is developing a suite of tools — a director's policy on external engagement, a statewide community engagement playbook, district-level playbook templates, and a web-based Caltrans Engagement Portal — designed to make engagement more consistent, trackable and easier to carry forward from planning into design, right-of-way and construction. \"We are creating the ability to be able to engage people through the life of a project,\" said Naila Pope Hardin, deputy director of equity and tribal affairs for Caltrans.

Why it matters: Caltrans staff and committee members said communities have been invited into planning unevenly and too often late in the project timeline. The new resources aim to reduce late design changes, keep community feedback visible from phase to phase and help districts tailor outreach to local needs.

What Caltrans presented and why the department says it's needed
- Director's policy: Caltrans staff said a formal director's policy will set the department-wide expectation that projects incorporate meaningful external engagement and will clarify roles and responsibilities across headquarters and the 12 districts. \"A director's policy is intended to broadly cover a specific policy area and translate its purpose into an action plan,\" said Jacqueline Garcia, equity analyst on the Caltrans team.
- Statewide playbook and district playbooks: The statewide playbook will set best practices and an overall framework; district playbooks will adapt that guidance to local conditions and procedures. Staff said the playbook work is informed by internal listening sessions and by an internal community engagement advisory committee.
- Public engagement plans (PEPs): Staff described a standard PEP template that project teams would use to answer six essential questions (what's open to change, who is affected, level of involvement, methods, timing, and responsibilities). Caltrans presented the PEP as the operational tool that ties strategy to activity throughout a project's life cycle.
- Caltrans Engagement Portal: Emily Abrahams, the portal lead, described the web platform tested in an 18-project pilot beginning in late 2023. The portal provides a public project page, surveys and comment collection, translation and captioning, livestream hosting for hybrid meetings, and a back-end for staff to filter and map participant inputs. \"The Caltrans engagement portal is a new tool that Caltrans is beginning to use to foster greater access and opportunity for the public to engage on projects and plans, both online and offline,\" Abrahams said. Staff said the portal allows inputs collected in person or by phone to be uploaded into a single system of record and supports equity-focused mapping to check whether outreach reached under-resourced communities.

Staffing and near-term rollout
Caltrans said each district will receive a community engagement coordinator (CEC) position — the department described 12 new positions (one per district) whose responsibilities will include supporting PEPs, advising project teams on methods, maintaining the portal, and drafting district playbooks. Staff said the portal pilot showed promise and that a \"soft launch\" to add more projects begins in July following refinements. The statewide playbook and district playbook templates are expected to be available in interim form this summer, with a first draft of the statewide playbook targeted for publication in January 2026.

Committee input and next steps
EAC members pressed for metrics that show not just how many participants were reached but whether engagement changed outcomes. Members also urged Caltrans to catalog prior outreach in places where communities already have a long history of interaction with agencies; to avoid re-asking questions residents answered years before; and to build in methods to compensate community-based organizations for time when feasible. Caltrans staff acknowledged those requests and proposed to continue the detailed drafting in the newly formed EAC community engagement subcommittee and to return with updated drafts and examples this summer.

What Caltrans is not yet doing
Staff said the department does not yet have a statewide roster of dedicated community engagement practitioners available for hire on demand, nor does it yet have a departmentwide budget for compensating every community group that participates. Both items, they said, are areas under discussion but not yet implemented.

Bottom line: Caltrans has moved from ad hoc outreach toward a formal, layered system of policy, playbooks, staff roles and digital tools. The department asked the EAC for detailed feedback on draft language and on measurable standards the EAC would like to see included before any policy is finalized.","Caltrans executives and staff told the Interagency Transportation Equity Advisory Committee on May 14 that the department is formalizing how it engages communities across the life cycle of transportation projects and plans.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6236017,"Bike East Bay urges mobility justice approach, growth in education and multilingual outreach",1008,12798000,11790000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3392213-bf3890ee66164329970b9bcc7ddecf45&start=12798&end=11790","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3392213-bf3890ee66164329970b9bcc7ddecf45/thumbnail_12798000.jpg","/articles/6236017/California/Bike-East-Bay-urges-mobility-justice-approach-growth-in-education-and-multilingual-outreach","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6236017-cb2d63832013dd87f4e4040477780280/orig.mp4?Expires=1770450950&Signature=fcuXNeFbjYXIwVAVFJRQ0lUlq-gRfsMFNkbad-6aORwvTetOFMXs22608A8iTfsxVFoKhGH7k~h5Dv~yEzYsRK4n9wZqq8risNaIarA5RCf9QYXryHzpCSg7oG~SL8RxNaA5OLRH79ET9R8bitXfejbBwYOMJPVysT2UfXhfbgKNpPKs7~f4B9Qzgl98nTdgK6pu7GMuOkrg3DRRIGXxRyYRNOPB8fG8FD9vaF9qh9dj~Fks7VeXU~0qdswZRE8lBPBhrSJ6HoFiksTyX8BFtm6HH-jWucopQXcnbqvVU3Tclkkj6Ws3AkZy7xO3XNAKqSzNvyIONXc69Jdk5geDBg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Bike East Bay officials told the Interagency Transportation Equity Advisory Committee on May 14 that the organization is scaling programs to broaden who can access and influence mobility projects across the East Bay.

The nonprofit's presentation focused on three priorities: building an inclusive movement, advancing mobility justice in project design and policy, and investing in bicycle and micromobility education. \"We're not just advocating for bike friendly policies and infrastructure. We're also building a movement where people from all walks of life have a voice and feel empowered to actively shape our communities,\" said Justin Huynh, co-executive director of Mobility Justice at Bike East Bay.

Why it matters: Bike East Bay said conventional bike advocacy has historically centered a narrow demographic; the group aims to change that by recruiting leaders from low-income communities, expanding in-language classes, and tailoring outreach to communities affected by traffic violence. The organization said these investments also support equity, climate and economic goals by increasing safe active trips to jobs, schools and businesses.

Key programs and metrics the organization highlighted
- Movement building: Bike East Bay's strategic plan sets a goal to grow an email list to 50,000 supporters as a proxy for broader public awareness and participation.
- Community training and leadership: The Green Mobility Ambassador Program trains local residents in public planning processes, environmental justice and public speaking; the organization has piloted the model in West Berkeley and Hayward.
- Bike education and access: Bike East Bay said it runs about 100 classes per year for more than 1,000 participants. The group reported that roughly 24% of class participants come from low-income households, 61% identify as women or non-binary, and 50% identify as people of color. The nonprofit is expanding bilingual instruction and recently hired Cantonese-speaking instructors.
- Event and infrastructure support: The group reported it provided secure parking for 1,500 bikes at large events last year and resumed bike valet services in the region.

Questions and follow-up from committee members
Members asked about outreach to the disability community and whether curricula and infrastructure planning considered larger micromobility devices and accessibility needs; Justin Huynh pointed to partnerships with the Bay Area Disabled Sports organizations, Oakland mayor's disability office and other groups that did joint programming. Members also pressed the group to detail policy wins and strategies for funding local street safety projects; Bike East Bay pointed to local levies and measures (Measure U in Oakland; Measure FF in Berkeley) and to recent corridor projects such as Telegraph Avenue bike lanes and San Pablo Avenue planning efforts.

Bottom line: Bike East Bay presented a mix of on-the-ground programs and policy advocacy aimed at expanding who benefits from bicycle and micromobility investments. The group asked agencies and the EAC for continued partnership on multilingual outreach, community leadership training and funding approaches that keep smaller local priorities on track.","Bike East Bay told the Interagency Transportation Equity Advisory Committee it is scaling education, multilingual outreach and community leadership training to broaden who benefits from bike and micromobility investments across the East Bay.","actionData","errors"]

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