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General Services presents staffing and program requests; supervisors flag commuter bus crowding trends
Summary
Director Ernie Brown described General Services’ FY2026 requests and recent accomplishments—stormwater grants, facility maintenance, recycling center work—and discussed transit ridership increases on metro and commuter routes; supervisors asked the department to monitor persistent crowding and return with options if service additions are needed.
General Services Director Ernie Brown reviewed the department’s FY2026 resource requests and highlighted recent operational achievements to the Board of Supervisors on March 10, while supervisors raised questions about commuter bus and Metro ridership trends.
Brown noted DGS manages extensive infrastructure: more than 8 million square feet of county‑owned paved surfaces and trails, over 1,000 miles of stormwater pipe and roughly 154 owned and 48 leased county facilities. He reported the stormwater team manages 13 grant‑funded capital construction…
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