UTFS Financial Management Committee Meeting Minutes

Chung-Chung Tam, Chicago Transit Authority (Chair)

Rick Barrett, Quattran Associates (Vice Chair)

Leisa Moniz, USDOT/Volpe Center

Tim Collins, Cubic Transportation Systems

Greg Garback, Washington Metro Transit Authority

Gary Lington, Parsons

Barney Louie, BART

David McIlwraith, BAH

Craig Maxey, Washington Metro Transit Authority

Bob Murray

Olatunji Nowlin, Chicago Transit Authority

Alex Pi, Scheidt & Bachmann, USA

Darshana Patel, Chicago Transit Authority

Denis Ratier, Thales

Meeting Goals & Objectives:

• Status of UTFS New York Meetings Proposal
• Work Group report-outs
• Update on TCIP
• Revenue Management Committee Update

Status of APTA UTFS New York Meetings Proposal, Leisa Moniz:

• Deadline for comments - Thursday, January 27^th to Martin Schroeder, APTA.

• UTFS Chair to brief Rail executives at the GM Seminar in Sarasota, FL on Saturday, January 29^th.

Since Martin Schroeder was not present on the call, Leisa provided a quick summary of the discussion on Friday’s conference call. APTA held a conference call last Friday, January 21^st to address any questions, issues or comments regarding the materials (UTFS Scope Change) distributed to all UTFS stakeholders and NY meeting attendees.

APTA program manager, Martin Schroeder provided a quick re-cap to the group on the status of the action as well as a process discussion for next steps. Martin also indicated that at the time of the call he had not received any written comments and reminded those on the call that the deadline is January 27^th.

APTA then opened up the call for questions. Much of the discussion focused on the issue of magnetics, the implications of not approving the proposal, and what would actually occur at the Rail meeting scheduled for this Saturday, January 29^th in Sarasota, FL.

Tom Parker, BART, Chair of the UTFS Program indicated that his briefing to the Rail Committee will include a proposal for magnetics.

Work Group Leaders Update:

• Business Process Work Group, Rick Barrett:

• Systems Work Group, Tam:
• Work Package #1:

Work Package #3, Tam:

Work Package #4, David McIlwraith:

TCIP 2.6 Version Update, Tam:

Revenue Management Committee Update, Tam:

The final version of the Business Issues document should be posted on the APTA UTFS website.

Work Package #1: Tam congratulated Alex Pi, S&B on his new position as WP#1 chair. Alex indicated that he will work with the group to address and resolve the comments received on the document. Alex also indicated a desire to form a subcommittee to expedite this process. The group has had only one meeting this year. The next scheduled call is Friday, January 28^th at 11:00 EST. Additionally the Chair has requested nominations for Vice Chair. Nominations should be submitted to Tim Weisenberger, Volpe and are due January 24^th, today. The ballot period will be from Tuesday, January 25 through Thursday, January 27^th.

The Security Guidelines document has been submitted to the Financial Management Committee membership for review and comments. Please submit your comments, using the comment resolution form to Gary Yamamura, by Friday, February 11^th.

David has just returned from annual leave and is organizing items for the next meeting of WP#4. As per the outcome of the January 5^th WP#4 call, a ballot will be distributed along with a notification for the next meeting date.

Tam indicated that TWG#7 met via conference call prior to this call to discuss next steps and comment resolution with the APTA/ARINC team. The issues brought up on the call will be presented to the TCIP Leadership this week by Tam and his co-chair Henry Rosen, PATH for consideration and guidance.

Anyone interested in maintaining their voting rights on the TCIP TWG#7 (Fare Collection Business Area) should respond ASAP to Tonie Hankins at APTA. Thankins@apta.com

• Save the Date -- APTA Fare Collection Workshop, Oakland, CA – March 20-23^rd.
• Web conference on Credit and Debit coming in May, Tam will send out an announcement with a specific date/time.
• RMC Newsletter will be published quarterly.
• White Paper on Limited Use Smart Cards will be completed late February.
• Revision to RMC Bylaws coming this spring

Next meeting of the Full committee will be Monday, February 28th, at 12 noon, EASTERN STANDARD TIME.