PORT AUTHORITY TRANSIT CORPORATION BOARD MEETING. One Port Center 2 Riverside Drive Camden, New Jersey. Thursday, May 22, 2014

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1 PORT AUTHORITY TRANSIT CORPORATION BOARD MEETING One Port Center Riverside Drive Camden, New Jersey Thursday, May, D.C. Area 0--0

2 PRESENT PENNSYLVANIA Jim Cawley, Esquire, Chair William Sasso, Esquire Michelle Kichline, Esquire Joann Bell John J. Dougherty (for Auditor General DePasquale) Walter D Alessio Kathryn Cerulli (for Robert McCord) (via telephone) Andrew Reilly, Esquire NEW JERSEY Jeffrey L. Nash, Esquire, Vice Chair Albert Frattali Richard Sweeney Charles Fentress Tamarisk Jones E. Frank DiAntonio (via telephone) Officers and Chiefs John Hanson, CEO Michael Conallen, Deputy CEO Danielle McNichol, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Kristen Mayock, Deputy General Counsel James White, Acting CFO Tim Pulte, COO Toni Brown, CAO Mike Venuto, Chief Engineer John Rink, PATCO General Manager Bennett Cornelius, Assistant General Manager, PATCO Thomas Raftery, Inspector General Jack Stief, Chief, Public Safety D.C. Area 0--0

3 DRPA Staff Amy Ash, Contract Administration Nancy Farthing, Exec. Assistant to CEO Kevin LaMarca, Director, IS Elizabeth McGee, Administrative Coordinator Sheila Milner, Administrative Coordinator Fran O Brien, Manager, Customer & Com. Relations Steve Reiners, Fleet Manager, WWB William Shanahan, Director, Gov. Relations Susan Squillace, Manager, Purchasing Dawn Whiton, Administrative Coordinator Counsel David Rapuano, Esquire, Archer & Greiner, NJ Counsel Stephanie Kosta, Esquire, Duane Morris, PA Counsel Others Kathy Bruder, Esquire, Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of Governor Corbett (via telephone) Joshua Wilson, Chief of Staff, Office of Lt. Gov. Peter Simon, Esquire, NJ Gov. Authorities Unit Christine Wechsler Rayer, Esquire, Deputy General Counsel, Pennsylvania Todd Kowalsky, Office of Lt. Gov. Steve Bedor, Office of Lt. Gov. Victoria Madden (for Auditor General DePasquale) (via telephone) Dave Liszewski (Grant Thornton) Marc Prine (Grant Thornton) Brian Eppig (Grant Thornton) John Boyle (CAC) Anthony DeSantis (CAC) James Thornton Joe Quigley D.C. Area 0--0

4 I N D E X Page Roll Call Report of the General Manager Approval of April, PATCO Board Meeting Minutes Monthly List of Payments Covering Month of April Monthly List of Purchase Orders and Contracts of April Balance Sheet and Equity Statement March, Approval of Finance Minutes of May, Adopt Resolutions Approved by Finance Committee of May, PATCO--0 Proposed Placement of PATCO Rolling Stock Property Coverage for Rehabilitated Passenger Trains Unfinished Business New Business PATCO--0 Consideration of Pending PATCO Contracts (Between $,000 and $0,000) Adjournment D.C. Area 0--0

5 P R O C E E D I N G S (:0 a.m.) CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: I would like to now call to order the monthly meeting of the Board of the Port Authority Transit Corporation, and ask the Corporate Secretary to call the roll. MS. MCNICHOL: Lieutenant Governor Cawley. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Present. MS. MCNICHOL: Vice Chair Nash. VICE CHAIRMAN NASH: Here. MS. MCNICHOL: Commissioner Sasso. COMMISSIONER SASSO: Here. MS. MCNICHOL: Commissioner Bell. COMMISSIONER BELL: Here. MS. MCNICHOL: Commissioner Dougherty. COMMISSIONER DOUGHERTY: Present. MS. MCNICHOL: Commissioner Reilly. COMMISSIONER REILLY: Here. MS. MCNICHOL: Commissioner Jones. COMMISSIONER JONES: Here. MS. MCNICHOL: Commissioner Fentress. COMMISSIONER FENTRESS: Here. D.C. Area 0--0

6 MS. MCNICHOL: Commissioner Kichline. COMMISSION KICHLINE: Here. MS. MCNICHOL: Commissioner Sweeney. COMMISSIONER SWEENEY: Here. MS. MCNICHOL: Commissioner D'Alessio. COMMISSIONER D'ALESSIO: Here. MS. MCNICHOL: Commissioner Frattali. COMMISSIONER FRATTALI: Here. MS. MCNICHOL: Commissioner Cerulli. COMMISSIONER CERULLI: Here. MS. MCNICHOL: You have a quorum, sir. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Thank you. COMMISSIONER DIANTONIO: -- Frank DiAntonio. MS. MCNICHOL: Good morning, Commissioner. Thank you. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Glad you're here, Frank. COMMISSIONER SASSO: Welcome, Frank. COMMISSIONER DIANTONIO: Thank you. Thank you. General Manager. We'll now move to the report from the MR. RINK: Thank you, Governor. Good D.C. Area 0--0

7 morning, Commissioners. No changes to the report as submitted. I'd like to highlight two things. They're not in the report. As Mr. Venuto spoke earlier about the overall program, one component of that also is currently our train operators, our dispatchers at center tower and our supervisors are undergoing a training program. They are being trained on the operation of the cars, how to maintain the cars and put them when -- so we're ready for when the cars go into revenue service in July. So that is continuing with our staff down at Lindenwold. And I'd also like to highlight back on May th, we conducted an emergency drill at Lindenwold shop, mainly with our Transit Unit, our Police Unit, and responders from Camden County Sheriff's Department, and also our Fire Departments and Police Departments of Lindenwold. We did an active shooting drill with our staff and our local departments that surround the Lindenwold shop, and everything went well. It was a really good drill. I believe a lot of good things came from that. That was actually part of our TEEX drill, the grant money we received from the government in order to conduct D.C. Area 0--0

8 these drills. I don't know if the Chief would want to add anything more to that, but it's very successful drill at minimal. CHIEF STIEF: Yes. We conduct these drills every year. This one here took place down at the PATCO. John was actually taken hostage there for a short time. Everything went very well, and we're going to be doing another one in November. MR. RINK: Just let the Commissioners know on that. With that, no further comment, Governor. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Thank you. Questions of the General Manager? Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion to accept the General Manager's report. COMMISSIONER SASSO: So moved. COMMISSIONER FRATTALI: Second. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: It's been moved and seconded. Discussion on the motion. Seeing none, all those in favor will signify by saying aye. Those opposed nay. Opinion of the Chair the ayes have it, and the motion is -- forgive me. And the report is D.C. Area 0--0

9 accepted. We'll now move to the approval of the April,, PATCO Board Minutes. Is there any discussion on those minutes? I believe they were previously provided to all Commissioners. If there are no additions, deletions, corrections -- COMMISSIONER CERULLI: Excuse me. This is Katie Cerulli for -- McCord. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Yes. COMMISSIONER CERULLI: I was present at the PATCO meeting, but I'm not listed in the minutes. MS. MCNICHOL: We can amend that attendance for you, Commissioner. COMMISSIONER CERULLI: Okay. Thank you. MS. MCNICHOL: And we apologize. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Thank you for that. Anything additionally? Additions, deletions, corrections, observations. Seeing none, I will accept a motion to approve those minutes. COMMISSIONER FRATTALI: So moved. COMMISSIONER SASSO: Second. D.C. Area 0--0

10 CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: It's been moved and seconded. Discussion on the motion. Seeing none, all those in favor will signify by saying aye. Those opposed nay. Opinion of the Chair the ayes have it, and the minutes with the amendment have been adopted. Now I'll accept a motion to receive and file the monthly list of payments and monthly list of purchase orders and contracts covering the month of April of. If there is no discussion, I'll accept that motion. COMMISSIONER FRATTALI: So moved. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: It's been moved. Is there a second? COMMISSIONER SASSO: Second. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Moved and seconded. Discussion on the motion itself. Seeing none, all those in favor will signify by saying aye. COMMISSIONERS SASSO AND FENTRESS: Aye. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Those opposed, nay. Opinion of the Chair the ayes have it, and the motion carried. We'll now move to the Balance Sheet and D.C. Area 0--0

11 Equity Statement, dated March,. Is there discussion? Seeing none, I will accept the motion to receive and file the Balance Sheet and Equity Statement, dated March,. Is there such a motion? COMMISSIONER SASSO: So moved. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Is there a second? COMMISSIONER FRATTALI: Second. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Discussion. Seeing none, all those in favor will signify by saying aye. Those opposed nay. Opinion of the Chair the ayes have it, and the motion carries. We'll now move to the -- well, we are moving -- I have here -- we're moving to the Finance Committee, is that correct? MS. MCNICHOL: That's right. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: All right. We will now consider the Minutes of the Finance Committee, dated May,. Is there any discussion on those Minutes? Seeing none, I will entertain a motion to accept the Minutes of the Finance Committee. COMMISSIONER SASSO: So moved. D.C. Area 0--0

12 COMMISSIONER FRATTALI: Second. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: It's been moved and seconded. Discussion on the motion. Seeing none, all those in favor will signify by saying aye. Those opposed nay. Opinion of the Chair the ayes have it, and those minutes have been accepted. We'll now move to the adoption of Resolutions approved by the Finance Committee on May th. There is one such matter, PATCO--0. Is there discussion on that matter? Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion to adopt that Resolution. COMMISSIONER SASSO: So moved. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Is there a second? COMMISSIONER FRATTALI: Second. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Been moved and seconded. Discussion on the motion. Seeing none, all those in favor will signify by saying aye. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Those opposed nay. Opinion of the Chair the ayes have it, and that resolution has been adopted. I'll now move to Unfinished Business for the PATCO Board. Is there any Unfinished Bsiness to be D.C. Area 0--0

13 considered this morning? Seeing none, we will move to New Business. There is one matter of New Business, PATCO--0. Is there discussion on that item? Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion to adopt that item. COMMISSIONER FENTRESS: Move the motion. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Is there a second? COMMISSIONER SASSO: Second. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Been moved and seconded. Discussion on the motion. Seeing none, all those in favor will signify by saying aye. Those opposed nay. Opinion of the Chair the ayes have it, and that motion has been accepted. At the request of one of the members of the Board, I have exercised my power of including an Executive Session this morning. So at this point I think it would be appropriate for us to move into Executive Session. COMMISSIONER FRATTALI: So moved. VICE CHAIRMAN NASH: Second. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: It's been moved and seconded. Discussion on the motion. Seeing none, all D.C. Area 0--0

14 those in favor will signify by saying aye. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Those opposed nay. Opinion of the Chair the ayes have it. We will now move into executive session. (Executive Session begins at : a.m.) (Open session resumes at : a.m.) CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Discussion. Seeing none. All those in favor signify by saying aye. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Those opposed nay. Opinion of the Chair the ayes have it. MS. MCNICHOL: Yes. And all matters that were discussed in the executive session when they become available for public discussion specifically contracts and personnel matters will be disclosed at that time. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Thank you. Any other matter to come before the Board? Any other matter? Seeing none, I will accept a motion to adjourn this PATCO Board meeting. COMMISSIONER SASSO: Move -- CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: It's been moved. Is there a second? D.C. Area 0--0

15 COMMISSIONER D'ALESSIO: Second. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: All those in favor signify by saying aye. CHAIRMAN CAWLEY: Those opposed nay. Opinion of the Chair the ayes have it. We are adjourned. Thank you. (Whereupon, the meeting ended on May,, at : a.m.) There being no further business, on motion duly made and seconded, the meeting was adjourned. Respectfully submitted, Danielle L. McNichol Corporate Secretary D.C. Area 0--0

16 C E R T I F I C A T E This is to certify that the attached proceedings before the Port Authority Transit Corporation, Board Meeting on May, were held as herein appears, and that this is the original transcript thereof for the file of the Agency. Timothy J. Atkinson, Jr., Reporter D.C. Area 0--0