Okay, great. We'll get started. Welcome everybody to a meeting of the MetroLink comms committee
and some of us are attending via Zoom, but we'll call the meeting to order and let's start with a
security briefing by Cody. Good morning members of the committee. We are at one Gateway Plaza
here in Los Angeles, California, third floor of the Metro boardroom. In the event of a fire,
we'll want to evacuate the building to my left here. We'll go down the stairs and meet out by
by the Metro's customer service
and wait for their instructions.
In the event of an earthquake,
we'll drop, take cover in this room
until the shaking stops, do an assessment,
and see if we need to evacuate.
If we do evacuate, be aware of any hazards in the room,
such as backpacks, chairs, cords,
things of that nature when we exit.
In the event of a first aid situation,
we have security at the front desk there
on the third floor of the Metro building,
as well as an AED directly across the hall.
In the event of an active attacker,
the procedure to follow is run, hide, fight. And for those online, just make
sure you're familiar with your exit path and place of safety if you do need to
evacuate. Unless there's any questions, that concludes my briefing. Thank you.
Thanks, Cody. Appreciate it. Pledgable allegiance. Ray, can you lead us on the
pledge, please? Thank you. Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one
nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you
real it's moved to roll call please. Director Marquez. Present. Vice chair
Spiegel. Director Vargas. Present. Director Dimitri. Present. Director Carol.
Director Engler, Director Barger, director Solis, director Allen.
Here.
Director Preciado, chair Wapner.
I'm here.
We do have a quorum present.
Thank you very much. Is everyone on Zoom?
Two of us are here, Mr. Wapner.
Well, I didn't hear you even see that you were here.
I did.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Thank you very much.
I bet there's someone in the room.
public comment public comment portion of the meeting if there's any members of
the public any of our locations don't want to speak or have we received any
written comments I have not received any written public comment for this
committee and I have not received any requests to speak here at the Metro
Boardroom thank you very much that closes the public comment portion of the
meeting bridges to the regular calendar item number 6a approval of the minutes
the motion move approval to be true second Allen your motion is second roll
call vote please I sure Spiegel I'm going to have to abstain I wasn't here
director to meet true director Engler's absent director Allen I chair Wapner yes
a motion carried thank you very much next item 6b a contract amendment and
and that's presented by Renee.
Chair, members of the committee, Renee Vega,
Manager of Transit Asset Management.
Next slide, please.
On October 25th, 2021,
Metulink executed a single source firm fixed price contract
with Trapeze Software Group for $1.5 million
to optimize and authorize the Enterprise Asset Management
System known as Trapeze, EAM.
Metulink has deployed the EAM system
across several functional groups in the agency
and continues working on the final implementation stages
for the remaining groups.
The benefits from having a single system of record
for the authority's assets include the ability
to monitor and track assets through their entire life cycle,
managing costs, performance, identifying risks
and prioritizing future capital rehab investments,
ensuring the state of good repair objectives are achieved.
Next slide.
Implementation of the maintenance of way disciplines
has required more time and resources
than originally scoped due to the scale of the assets,
the unique system configuration,
and inspection requirements between the disciplines,
staffing availability,
and the FRA electronic record-keeping approval process.
The process of collecting millions of asset data points
across all MoW assets, validating uploading this data,
configuring the EAM platform,
automating processes, and refining inspections and workflows
has proven significantly more complex
and time consuming and planned.
It is recommended the committee recommend
the board approve the contract amendment
with Trapeze Software Group
for additional technical support
to complete the implementation
of the EIM optimization project
for an amount not to exceed $803,907.
That concludes my presentation.
I'd be happy to answer any questions.
Thank you.
Any questions or comments?
We have a motion, please.
I'll move it, Allen.
Dimitri, second.
And can we get a motion and a second?
Roll call, please.
Vice Chair Spiegel.
Yes.
Director Dimitri.
Yes.
Director Engler's absent.
Director Allen.
Aye.
Chair Wapner.
Yes.
That motion carried.
Thank you.
Item 6C, purchase order, Eduardo.
Good morning, Chair, members of the committee.
Next slide.
After a suspension of the Aero Service
on August 1st, 2024 due to the air brake system
on the DMUs being out of compliance,
the maintenance of equipment team
and the maintenance of equipment contractor
identify the components needed for the required maintenance.
To prefer the maintenance
and avoid an impact to the Aeros service,
the authority had to purchase enough components
to complete three preventive maintenance kits.
While Stadler manufactures the DMUs,
Nord Brake Corporation was identified as the OEM
for the needed components.
On October 10, 2024,
Nord Brake Corporation provided an overhaul proposal
of the components and the final quote for new components
on November 13, 2024.
Negotiating directly with the OEM avoids markups
from third party distributors or loss of quality
and compatibility.
The delivery lead time is 56 weeks.
Having a multi-year agreement in place
will allow for ordering to be done in a timely manner
will reduce the possibility of having multiple DMUs
out of service while waiting for the air brake maintenance
to be completed.
So it is recommended that committee recommend
that the board authorize the CEO
to award purchase order number PO978-25
to Nord Brake Corporation for the purchase
of new air brake components and overhaul service
with an estimated, not to exceed total amount of 1.5 million.
Next slide, please.
That concludes my presentation
and I'll be happy to answer any questions.
Thanks, if we're to any questions or comments.
motion? Spiegl moves. Dimitri second. Roll call vote please. Vice Chair Spiegl.
Director Dimitri. Yes. Director Angler's absent. Director Allen. Aye. Chair Wapner.
Yes. That motion carried. Thank you. Item 6D. New Code of Federal Regulations
presented by Luis. Good morning Chair members of the committee. Luis Carasquero,
Deputy Chief Operating Officer. Next slide please. On May 21st, 2024 FRA announced new
regulations requiring railroads to develop certification programs for dispatcher signal
employees similar to the existing conductors and engineers. This regulation will require
the railroads to certify dispatchers and signal employees starting September 17th, 2025 as
an update that when the original announcement came in May, that goal life date was March
17th of 2025 and this past month that has been pushed up by six months hence the September
17th date now.
This certification requires formal training, verification of requisite knowledge, skills,
safety records, ability to safely perform assigned tasks, and being able to perform
and pass drug and alcohol and medical exams.
Each employee must be recertified no later than every three years.
Next slide, please.
So summary of who must be certified individuals in the following crafts signal employees dispatching
employees PTC employees under the ISO that for a PTC system is a signal system and for
mechanical employees it will be those individuals who are maintaining the PT system on board
of our locomotives and cap cars individuals not certified by September 17 2025 will be
prohibited from performing these duties certified employees who are absent for more than 12
from performing work will need to be recertified before they resume these activities.
Next slide, please.
Examples of new authority responsibilities under this new regulation, the authority must
administer both certification programs for signal employees and dispatchers.
The authority must request and review state and federal driving records in order for us
to approve issuing certificates.
Authority must request and review safety and training records from other railroads who
employed individuals within the past five years prior to certification and recertification.
The authority must track and store all certification records and backup documentation for employees
who are certified and the authority must issue certification certificates.
Next slide please.
There is an impact to third-party signal projects.
Third-party contractors will be prohibited from self-certifying given that only the railroad
can perform these duties.
The authority will be required to provide certified mentors
to all uncertified third-party contractors.
And the certified mentor will be responsible
for all third-party work conducted under their supervision.
The certified mentor must sign off
on all third-party work performed on signal systems.
Next slide, please.
So here is a roadmap for our certification.
So on May 21st, as I mentioned,
the FRA announced these new regulations.
From May through July of 2024, staff assessed the impact
that it would have on the agencies and contractors.
On July 30th, 2024, staff presented assessment
to our authority XLT executive team regarding the impacts
and our path forward for compliance.
On September 5th of 2024, staff launched a working group
composed of all impacted departments,
such as the operations, dispatching, IDTS, safety,
program delivery, human resources, finance, legal,
as well as our impacted contractors.
On January 25th, staff completed
and submitted draft certification programs
to the FRA, labor unions, our legal,
and safety departments for their review and feedback.
Staff continues working with key stakeholders
to identify and secure funding,
staffing, and administrative needs for FY26 and beyond.
And staff intends to meet the submittal deadline
of September 17th, 2025,
as well as issuing, start issuing certificates
in March 17th of 2025.
Next slide, please.
Regarding the budget impact,
the authority has identified key financial investments
that would be required from the authority
to meet these regulations.
Below are examples of funding, staffing,
and administrative needs.
Additional authority FTEs
to administer certification programs
for over 300 individuals.
We are estimating around 270 of those
would be for signal individuals,
both agency and contractors, and around 30 dispatchers.
Compliance tracking software to assist the authority
on storing and ensuring compliance and certification program
across all individuals for the training,
testing, and evaluation elements.
Required physical exams for authority staff
subject to certification programs.
The medical examiner expenses that requires
state and federal DMV driving records and review.
That required additional training
and additional contracted labor for track signal
and rolling stock maintenance contractors.
Next slide, please.
That concludes my presentation,
I'd be happy to answer any questions.
Thanks, Louise.
Questions?
I have some questions, Louise.
First of all, how many of these folks that are covered
work for the authority and how many for contractors?
So for the dispatchers,
it will be all Metrolink employees
and for the 270 that we're estimating for Signal,
around between 10 and 15 would be Metrolink employees,
which will be the PTC onboard
and the PTC back office personnel.
But MetroLink is responsible for making sure
that all employees, whether ours or somebody else's,
are trained correctly, right?
That is correct.
The regulation makes it clear
that it is the responsibility of the railroad
to have that plan and to ensure that it is approving
and it is ensuring that the contractors
that are following the program are abiding by it.
So the responsibility falls on the railroad.
We make sure that future employees coming in
are pre-certified by the contractor,
so we don't have to take that responsibility.
So when this regulation is in effect,
the expectation of the contract will be
for when those employees are onboarded,
that those contractors perform the necessary training
and evaluation for those individuals to then be ready
to perform those duties before they actually perform them.
Thank you.
Other questions or discussion?
Just a quick question.
Very good report, very thorough.
Thank you.
The question I have is, when you mentioned about 12 months,
and if they've not been on for 12 months,
they have to go back and recertify.
Does that mean they've been gone,
or they just done another job?
If they have not performed the job for any reason,
if they've been absent, whether it be medical,
or they're doing other duties outside of this railroad,
then they would need to go through the training elements
before they are allowed to come back on our property
and perform those duties.
Luis, you mentioned some budgetary impacts,
but you didn't give us a number.
Yes, correct.
We are working with our finance department
and key stakeholders on that,
and that is part of our FY26 operating budget.
I don't know if we're prepared to talk on those right now.
Sure, we'll just,
Director Wapner, Mr. Chair,
right now for the budget,
We're budgeting about 2.4 million for FY26.
Part of that is, of course, we're having
to spin the program up, so there may be
an initial big number to start and then may come down.
Yeah, right now, we're looking at about 2.4.
Thank you.
So again, that's an unfunded mandate.
That is a, it is an unfunded mandate
that's come to us from the federal government, yes.
So is this going to be one of the new 10 for ones
that next time they give us regulation?
going to take 10 off the books.
I'm sorry, could you, I said under the President's new guidelines, anytime there's a new regulation
added, that agency has to remove 10 existing regulations.
There is some speculation even still with these two CFRs that are, that Luis just presented
on about what may play out even under the current administration.
So we're tracking this real closely and again, we did just get a six month extension for
for the submittal of some of the elements
of those two CFRs.
So I don't know that we're done yet.
Okay.
I just had one quick question.
In terms of the training for each of the areas of concern,
how long is the training period?
How many hours are involved?
I'm just curious.
So it varies.
So when we talk about signal,
for the signal employees, we have nine different crafts.
So you have your traditional signals,
you have your PTC onboard, your PTC back office.
So for every one of those, our plan outlined those.
So for training of new employees that could range
from a month to six to eight months for signal systems.
So the expectation of the regulations is those individuals
not only need to be trained on the theory,
but also they need to be trained and qualified
on the specific equipment used on the railroad.
So if an individual is working, for example, on BNSF
and they are certified BNSF,
when they come over and work for Metrolink,
they need to be trained and qualified on our equipment
before they go out on the field.
Thank you.
Great.
If there's no other questions or discussion,
can we have a motion, please?
I'll move it.
Allen.
I think it's a receiving file.
Oh, was there a second?
I'm sure, was there a second?
Mr. Chair, it's a receiving file item.
Oh, okay, this is action item.
Got it.
That brings us to six of you, Ben.
Good morning, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee.
Angelos Castricianaki,
Senior Manager of Contrast Compliance.
Item 6C is a quarterly report
of contracts and third-party agreements
awarded in the second quarter of fiscal year 25
at the request of the board.
This is a recipient final report.
The board has previously authorized the CEO,
I'm sorry, thank you,
to execute third-party agreements
with other public agencies and contracts
with third parties up to $500,000.
The board requested, however,
that the CEO provide the quarterly report
for awards between $250,000 and $500,000.
This report is for the agreements awarded
in the period between October and December 2024,
which is the second quarter of fiscal year 25.
Next slide, please.
In the reference period, the CEO awarded
A total of six third party, sorry, six contracts,
but no third party agreements.
You can see them on the screen.
Next slide, please, and that concludes my report.
I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have.
Thanks to Angelos.
Any questions or comments?
Seeing the next receiving file that brings us to six,
let's see, six, yeah, that's Cody again.
Good morning, Chair, members of the committee.
Next slide, please.
So this presentation is over and above
our normal quarterly report.
I was asked to kind of give a 2024 year in review
as well as a 2025 look ahead.
Next slide.
Some of the highlights from the Safety,
Security and Compliance Department for 2024
included the first two bullets kind of go together.
So we have the ZEMU
that we're working to put into revenue service.
And so part of that was doing a preliminary hazard analysis
on that vehicle, and that's required by federal regulation.
and that delivering that vehicle to our system
also triggered an amendment to our system safety program
plan, the SSPP.
The next three bullets kind of go together.
They're all kind of fall under the emergency management
portion of our department.
So we did revise our incident response plan,
kind of some of the changes included implementing
or adding back in the incident levels
to be more in line with FEMA.
We revised our pastor train emergency preparedness plan
and that was also triggered by the XEMU.
And then we did our 49 CFR 239 emergency drill
out in Paris in April of 24.
And we also did a lot of first responder training
throughout the year with 1,060 total first responders trained.
And then from our security standpoint,
we deployed six CCTV units along the right-of-way.
We have them on the Ventura, the Orange,
the San Gabriel sub out on the Arrow line,
and as well as in two facilities.
Next slide, please.
Moving to our stats.
So starting off with our trespasser stats,
so we look back at our three years total from 22 to 24.
So we had 2839 trespassers in 22,
2436 in 23, and 2120 in 2024.
Next slide.
So this is our homeless encampment stats,
and these are our homeless encampments reported,
not necessarily the number of encampments
out on the right of way.
So this number has gone up over the last couple of years.
220 reported in 2022.
253 and 23, and then that 581 in 2024.
And I will say that, just reiterate
that these are numbers reported.
We've really pushed reporting from our train crews,
as well as our maintenance away staff
to report everything you're seeing out on the right of way.
And then we take that data and kind of drill it down,
and that's how we deploy our resources
from our sheriffs, our education standpoint,
and an engineering standpoint.
This is an important metric.
When we look at homeless encampments,
we tend to find other issues along this.
So this is kind of a leading indicator for us.
An example would be we'll have a homeless encampment
reported, we'll have trespassers reported,
and then we'll have a strike in that location,
or we'll have vandalism in that location.
So this really helps us kind of pinpoint
where the issues are on our system.
Next slide.
If I could real quickly interrupt Mr. Nelson.
Why have we seen this increase
in reported homeless encampments.
About a year, year and a half ago,
the Amtrak team, conductors and engineers,
was approved to use iPads for reporting,
and so the ability and the ease
of being able to report encampments
is what's driven good, actually good information for us.
Better information than what was being done
by pen and paper.
In the past, it's now being reported by iPad,
so we have much better real-time data.
It's more thorough.
So that explains part of the fact
that we have that increase in reports,
which then also has shown an increase
in the number of encampments that then we need to address
with local communities.
So just wanted to,
that was a question we wanted to anticipate.
So there you go.
That's the information on that.
And Director Marquez does have his hand up.
So we're not done, Director Marquez,
but if you had a question on that one,
you could please go ahead.
Thank you, sir. Appreciate that. I'm looking at these slides and I'm just trying to understand the San Bernardino line. Is that considered the San Gabriel line?
Correct. The San Gabriel subdivision is the San Bernardino line.
Okay. Thank you.
So this next slide is looking at our system wide strikes and Metrolink specific strikes over the last three years. And so although that we talked about the trespasser numbers and the increase in encampments.
we have had some success with the number of strikes.
So as we said, we want this data to be proactive
and to pinpoint where there could be hazards
or issues on our system.
And so we had a record high of 98 strikes total
on our system in 2022.
That dropped to 94 in 2023.
And then last year we were able to drop that down to 84,
which we're still obviously looking to go lower than that.
But with the additional service
that we started running in October,
and as we talked about the additional numbers,
So those are good data points for us to be able to be more strategic on how we deploy
our resources.
Next slide.
So this was just showing the trend that we were on on our strikes.
As I mentioned, we have reduced over the last two years.
The first half of 2024, it was trending up, and at midpoint through the year, we drilled
the data down, kind of peeled back the layers and saw we were really having issues at the
beginning of the month and the end of the month.
And so we took our sheriff's deputy resources
and saturated the right of way throughout those times.
We also have an FRA grant
that has two additional enforcements per month,
and that's gonna run through this June.
And so with those efforts, along with the reporting
and knowing where to send these efforts,
we were able to really drop those numbers
throughout the year, the second half of the year,
with the exception of October.
Well, we went up to nine in October,
but other than that, we were under,
from where we were in 23.
Next slide, please.
Another safety metric that we track is our rule violations,
and so we've been seeing an increase in rule violations
over the past three years.
We had an increase of 68% from 22 to 23,
and then an increase of 7% from 23 to 24.
You can see the contractors are listed out there
on who has the violations.
Next slide.
Reportable injuries.
These were injuries that would be reportable to the FRA,
so this is a good news story here.
we see a reduction in reportable injuries in 2024
from 22 and 23 were at 22 total,
and we dropped that to 17.
Next slide.
Moving ahead, we wanna look at,
in addition to those metrics that we just discussed,
also look at reducing unruly passengers,
assaults on our transportation workers,
and a few of our goals for the department.
Next slide.
So these are our assaults for fair enforcement,
or our code of conduct violations.
And so total last year we had 83 total assaults on our system.
And so that's not necessarily a physical assault.
The National Transit Database has a couple
of different categories.
They have major and non-major.
And then they have physical and non-physical.
And so as far as the major numbers that we had
was five for last year, the rest of these were non-major,
some were non-physical as well.
So that could be a threat.
and then even spitting on a conductor
or a transportation worker.
So that's where these numbers come from,
but it's important because 50% or 41 of those
came from fare evasion, and then the remaining 42
came from the other 12 items in our current code of conduct.
And so this is important if we go to the next slide, please.
So why is that number important?
Well, if we can reduce the number of fare evaders
from the start of our service,
then that's gonna help us throughout the whole trip.
And so the idea is what you see on the fourth quarter
there in that reduction is we increased
our street car operations.
And so instead of the conductor opening all the doors up
on the train, they would open one door up,
either have security or law enforcement present,
and then we check tickets as everyone boards the train.
So we did this at Union Station.
We did this at Lancaster, San Bernardino, and Covina,
mostly based on our data.
And that really drove the numbers of fare evasion down,
which is, in turn, makes it better for all the riders
on our system.
Next slide, please.
And so again, why is this data important?
We have less fare evaders.
There's gonna be less assaults on our crews,
on our passengers.
And then it's also gonna increase our on-time performance
and make more seats available for some trains
that could be potentially overcrowded.
And then some of our goals or projects for this year.
So we wanna continue to drive the number of strikes down.
We were looking at doing a 15% reduction.
We want a 10% reduction in rule violations
and reportable injuries.
Continue to reduce passenger injuries.
We're gonna work with operations
as well as our contractors
to get the ZEMU into revenue service.
We're doing training throughout the agency,
safety training throughout the agency
for our employees and contractors.
And we also have law enforcement
and private security contracts
that we'll be working towards as well.
Next slide.
And that concludes my presentation
unless there's any questions.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate your analysis of comparing
the authorization to assault.
That really helps quite a bit
when we do our strategic planning, so that's great.
Questions, comments?
Dimitri.
Thank you.
Just a real quick question for the CEO.
I think this would fall under this,
but if not, still gonna ask it either way.
But with one of the things with safety and hazards,
obviously is in South Orange County, next to the tracks.
We've been having movement in the hillsides
threatening the railway.
Is there anything that the board needs to know right now
in reference to the latest rains or any type of movement?
And is Metrolinx monitoring hillside situations
for geological movement now?
Director Dimitriou, so yes, we continue to monitor.
We do still have monitors on the hillsides in San Clemente.
And most recently, as recently as yesterday,
I did check with our chief of operations
about that very question as if we're seeing any movement,
if it's causing any issues for us.
The answer is no.
The barrier walls that we've installed
over the course of the last couple years
are doing their job.
So thankfully, no issues on the corridor
through San Clemente at this time.
All right, thank you very much.
Any other questions or comments?
Yes, please.
Does the checking of the tickets, and you said,
was just Union Station?
No, Union Station, Lancaster, San Bernardino, and Covino
were the ones that we've really pushed
to do the streetcar in at.
Does it slow the train as far as leaving?
Does it have an effect on the on-time performance?
No, we would not effect on-time performance with that.
That would, on time performance, would supersede that process.
Okay, so if it's running late, you're not going to do that at that stop?
Correct.
Thank you.
Just a comment, just to compliment you and the staff for the,
dealing with the ferry evaders, because they're the ones that create all the problems.
And I think it was a brilliant strategy to just make them
exit and get on the train at one location.
so really good really good job. Thank you very much sir. Well on Mayor Vargas. Thank you Chair
same thing here I wanted to commence that that was really good smart move and kudos on
on that fair checking because that does most certainly eliminate a lot of problems so thank
you on that. Thank you. Any other questions or comments if not that is received and file
brings us to Darren's report. Thank you Mr. Chair I'll do what I can to keep this brief
As I've shared in the prior two committees,
I would not normally wear a lid to a public meeting.
But today we're celebrating Customer Appreciation Day.
Valentine's Day, it's what we do every Valentine's Day.
That we go throughout our system.
We have people that are at our stations
handing out Valentine's Day candy
and just saying thank you for being a rider.
And part of the uniform this year
was these really cool hats.
So I wanna thank my team for the effort.
We also had several board members that were out at various locations, along with our staff.
So it's just a really, really fun event and we get a lot of great feedback from our customers.
You'll see some more social media activity on how we are trying to share the love of
Metrolink over the course of the day today, so keep an eye out for that in your email
or on your social.
We had a very successful Transit Equity Day.
That was a free ride day on February 4th.
we had over 27,000 boardings.
It's the second highest boarding that we've had
since the pandemic that only second place
only behind the LA Dodger World Series Championship day
when we had the parade here in Los Angeles,
but a very successful day nonetheless.
We've been reporting on OTP.
The good news is is that in about two weeks ago,
we adjusted our schedule on the San Bernardino line
where we were having some real struggles
with on-time performance.
The schedule adjustments are working as intended.
Our reliability on that line has improved significantly
with the number of days being 100% on-time performance.
And we've seen also with that a growth in ridership.
So we're really pleased that OTP is helping
and our riders are coming back
or recognizing that that reliability is back
where it needs to be.
And then just lastly, a very quick introduction
because I've mentioned the name in the past.
We do have a new chief of safety, security, and compliance.
Hilary Consul is here in the room.
He joins us from Chicago Metro.
35 year railroad employee at Chicago,
and he wanted to come to where the weather
was a little better.
So Hilary has joined us in the last,
about the last two weeks,
and we're happy to have him on board.
so thank you Hillary for joining us.
He did not have to do the safety briefing today.
We're giving him a little bit of time to learn the ropes,
but you will get to see him at our board meeting
at the end of the month.
So, Mr. Chair, that concludes my remarks
and unless there are any questions.
I want to see your hat.
Oh, you don't, oh, I thought, am I not on video?
Can the AV team in the back turn on the boardroom camera?
All right, we're gonna see if we can make it to that,
Mr. Chair.
Okay, any other questions that we're seeing you?
Okay, any committee members comments?
I'm waiting for Darren.
If you can't make it, that's fine.
All right, let's see here.
What do we got, Michelle?
I asked them to turn on the camera.
Mr. Chair, I know how you like to run an efficient meeting.
You'll see some photos that include Director O'Connor,
who was here at LA Union Station this morning,
helping me pass out candy in those photos,
you'll see my, you'll see my Shep Ho.
Perfect, appreciate it.
My only comments have a great Valentine's Day,
take care of your significant other
and no other comments, meetings adjourned.
Thank you.
Thank you.