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Dear Friends,
In the fall of 1996, the District 1 residents of Alameda County gave me the greatest opportunity of my life: the opportunity to represent the most unique and wonderful community in the Bay Area. As an individual who spent most of my life in District 1, I can honestly say that the perseverance, kind-spirited, and hard-working nature of this District was not only the original inspiration for my decision to run for public office, but also the reason why I fought every day in order to improve this community. And after 24 years in office, we truly have accomplished more than anything I could have ever imagined. From developing and constructing the first express lanes in Northern California to bringing the imagination to life with our groundbreaking Valley Link project, the initiatives that we made have brought cleaner air, safer roads, more connected communities, and an overall vastly improved place to live. And while I will deeply miss continually seeking ways to improve our community, I will miss our District 1 residents even more. Critical community-building events such as our Annual District 1 BBQ’s and Holiday Open Houses have gifted me the opportunity to get to know you and your families personally, and these events represent some of the warmest memories I have been able to make during my time in office.
While I understand that change may be difficult, I am certain that Supervisor-elect David Haubert will be as responsive to our District 1 communities as our office has been. And just as when I was first elected, my only request to you moving forward is to maintain your consistent and thorough communication with your elected officials and to never forget the values you have created for our District over the years which have made this County the greatest in California. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for trusting in me the development and representation of our community.
Please take a moment to read through some of the accomplishments we have been able to make over the years, continue being good to one another, and never stop working to make this District great.
Very Sincerely,
 Scott Haggerty
Alameda County Supervisor
District 1
The County
From the moment Supervisor Haggerty was first elected to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors in 1996, one of his top priorities was to work with our communities and transportation agencies in order to bring much-needed traffic congestion relief as well as an overall more connected and robust transportation network. From those efforts, we have been able to work together to deliver some truly groundbreaking projects which have enhanced transportation in our County for all to enjoy. With help from our transit partners and our outstanding communities, Supervisor Haggerty has been able to utilize his membership on the Alameda County Transportation Commission to accomplish the following:
- Secured funding for a second BART parking garage in Dublin.
- Led Alameda CTC in the development and passage of the 30-year Transportation Expenditure Plan (TEP), which provides $8 billion in transportation investments throughout the county – Measure BB – through 2045.
- Advanced multi-modal plans and studies; partnering and collaborating with other agencies to plan, fund and deliver high-priority projects for our communities.
- Oversaw the local and state congestion management agency Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), Transportation Fund for Clean Air Vehicle Registration Fee (VRF) programs and Transportation Expenditure Plan programs and projects to fulfill our promises to the voters of Alameda County.
- Delivered the more than $800 million Proposition 1B Bond-funded Capital Program, meeting all of the state’s deadlines and funding requirements. This capital program included the following major projects: I-580 Carpool Lanes Project, I-880 Southbound Carpool Lane Project, the award-winning I-880 North Safety and Operational Improvements at 23rd and 29th Avenues reconstruction project, and the I-80 Integrated Corridor Mobility Project
- Delivered the 2000 Measure B Capital Program almost 10 years ahead of schedule. This Capital Program includes the BART Warm Springs Extension, the BART Oakland Airport Connector, and the Route 84 Expressway in the Tri-Valley, and many other projects.
- Developed and delivered the first-ever Express Lanes in Northern California.
- Created road improvements on California State Route 84.
- Received the $2.6 million state Active Transportation Program grant for the East Bay Greenway Project, which helps fulfill the community vision to transform 15 miles under BART tracks from Oakland to Hayward into a bicycle and pedestrian path.
- Collaborated with local, regional and state partners to develop policies, advance projects and secure funding for transportation projects and programs.
- Adopted various policies including:
- Alameda CTC’s first consolidated investment policy which formalized the framework for Alameda CTC’s investment activities ensuring effective and prudent fiscal and investment management of Alameda CTC’s funds.
- A general fund balance reserve policy to mitigate risk and ensure sufficient liquidity in all funds.
- A consolidated contracting and procurement policy designed to streamline contracting efforts and expand local business participation.
- A debt policy that established guidelines for the issuance and management of debt and confirms the commitment of the Commission, management, and staff to adhere to sound financial management practices.
- Created Niles Canyon Stroll and Roll events in an effort to promote an initiative to create a Class 1 Trail through the Niles Canyon.
- Acquired AAA credit ratings from Fitch Ratings and Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services for Measure B sales tax revenue bonds—the highest possible rating, reflecting the rating agencies confidence in Alameda CTC’s leadership and financial strength.
- Sold Measure B’s inaugural bonds in the amount of $137 million for an overall true interest cost of only 1.54 percent.
- Produced Alameda CTC’s first Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) and received the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada for this CAFR and for each subsequent CAFR. The Certificate of Achievement is the highest form of recognition in the area of governmental accounting and financial reporting and reflects the commitment of Alameda CTC’s leadership to transparency and financial integrity.
- Consistently produced sustainable, consolidated budgets, ensuring Alameda CTC operated within these limits throughout each fiscal year.
- Developed the annual legislative program for state and federal legislative matters; participated in general and targeted outreach programs; and monitored advisory committee performance and effectiveness.
- Spearheaded Alameda County’s first Northern California Goods Movement Collaborative effort, which brought together partners and stakeholders to advance economic competitiveness, ensure efficient use of current and future systems, and develop sustainable goods movement to support a clean and healthy environment.
Due to our dedicated work and partnerships we have been able to develop, the following Alameda CTC projects will continue to be advanced in 2021. They include:
Projects in Construction (3 projects; ~$506M)
- Interstate 80/Gilman Street Interchange Improvement Project (Phases 1 and 2) Construction $46.8 Million; Total Project Cost $61.7 Million
- SR-84 from South of Ruby Hill Drive to I-680 and SR-84/I-680 Interchange Improvements (Gap Closure) Construction $200.5 Million; Total Project Cost $244.1 Million
- Interstate 680 Gap (RTL in fall 2021)Construction ~$200.5 Million
Environmental Phase
- Oakland Alameda Access Project
- Interstate 880 Interchange Improvements (Whipple Road/Industrial Parkway Southwest and Industrial Parkway West)
- Interstate 880 Interchange Improvements (Winton Avenue/A Street)
- Interstate 80/Ashby Avenue (SR-13) Interchange Improvements
- Rail Safety Enhancement Program (and design)
- State Route 262 (Mission Boulevard) Cross Connector
Projects in Design
- Rail Safety Enhancement Program
- Dublin Boulevard – North Canyons Parkway Extension
- Valley Link Rail Project
- SR-84 from South of Ruby Hill Drive to I-680 and SR-84/I-680 Interchange Improvements (Gap Closure)
- Global Opportunities at the Port of Oakland Program (GoPort)
- 14th/Mission Boulevard and Fremont Boulevard Multimodal Corridor Project
- San Pablo Avenue Multimodal Project
- Oakland Alameda Access Project (release design contract)
 The Region
LAVTA
When it comes to transit networks, bus service is truly vital to our Region. With more than two decades of service on the Livermore Amador Valley Transportation Authority, Supervisor Haggerty has been deeply grateful for the help of LAVTA staff and our community stakeholders for years of outstanding accomplishments. Together, we have been able to accomplish the following:
- In addition to several improvements to the Wheels bus system, created the Tri-Valley Rapid routes providing 15-minute, all day frequency of bus service for commuters and residents, significantly increasing ridership.
- Improved door-to-door service for seniors and disabled in the Tri-Valley.
- Restored the historical Rideo bus to preserve history for generations to come.
- Transitioned Wheels buses from diesel to hybrid to improve air quality.
- Installed transit signal priority at intersections to improve the on-time performance of Wheels buses.
- Developed Clipper on Wheels, creating an easy way to pay for fares throughout the Bay Area.
- Installed Automatic Vehicle Locations system on Wheels buses to give riders real time arrival information of buses.
- Installed video cameras on all buses to improve security.
- Created a parataxi program for same day paratransit service on Tri-Valley taxicabs
- Created Go Dublin! and Go Tri-Valley! Partnership with Uber and Lyft for enhanced transportation options.
- Secured funding for LAVTA’s shared autonomous vehicle. Project is currently in testing and provides rides for interested residents.
- Partnered with Las Positas College District to secure a student pass program for all students.
- Partnered with school districts in the Tri-Valley to provide Clipper cards for students in middle school and high school to ride Wheels buses.
- Partnered with City of Livermore in the relocation and renovation of the Historic Train Depot.
- Purchase of property in the Oaks Business Park in Livermore for the future home of the Wheels Operation and Maintenance facilities.
- Awards
- Transit Agency of the Year by California Transit Association in 2018
- Transit Agency of the Year by California Association for Coordinated Transportation 2019
- North American Transit Agency of the Year by American Public Transit Association in 2020
 Having served on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission since 2000 including two terms as Chair of the Commission between 2009-2011 and 2019-2021, Supervisor Haggerty channeled the Bay Area's demands for a more connected and efficient Regional transit system. As a result of your advocacy and MTC staff's exceptional work, we have truly transformed the ways in which goods and people are transported throughout the Bay Area. In addition to hundreds of projects and initiatives, we have been able to accomplish the following:
- Staff consolidation of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments.
- Brought the Commission and ABAG Executive Board members into closer alignment through the establishment of a joint Legislation Committee.
- Laid the groundwork for our Region's first Sustainable Communities Strategy required under Senate Bill 375.
- Tackled the Bay Area housing affordability crisis by creating the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority as well as key milestones in development of Plan Bay Area 2050 (set for adoption by MTC and ABAG next fall).
- Galvanized support for major regional improvements including the Caldecott Tunnel Fourth Bore, Presidio Parkway replacement for Doyle Drive, Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco and BART-Oakland Airport Connector.
BART To Silicon Valley Extension
We also accomplished the BART-to-Silicon Valley extension, a truly outstanding feat with a unique history. Supervisor Haggerty recalls that he was listening to City of San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales giving his state of the City address on the radio. He was speaking of the booming economies within the Bay Area and the need to connect them – and he was calling for a Caltrain-type link between BART in Union City and downtown San Jose, said Haggerty. “The crowd he was speaking to broke into long applause. It appeared that they thought that Mayor Gonzales meant that he wanted to extend BART. And so did I,” said Haggerty.
“I called Mayor Gonzalez the very next day and soon the wheels were in motion,” he said. “We convened a meeting of political leaders and crafted a strategy to extend BART to Warm Springs in Fremont and further into Santa Clara County and things just took off from there thanks to the leadership of Carl Guardino and others in Silicon Valley,” he added.
He memorably brought a large boom box into the very first meeting, recalls DeMarcus, and loudly played “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” as a small group of policymakers and staff arrived. “Even in the 1990s he recognized that many of his District constituents did in fact know the way," DeMarcus added, "finding their way through grinding daily commutes across the County line.”
- We constructed the Bay Bridge East Span, including the temporary detour structure just east of the Yerba Buena Island tunnel, and installed most steel deck and tower sections for the self-anchored suspension bridge.
- Secured funds from the 2006 State Proposition 1B infrastructure bond measure for the I-580 Express Lanes and for upgrades along I-880 freight corridor.
- Began investigating improvements to the approaches to the Bay Bridge in order to alleviate congestion and reduce GHG emissions.
 The Mega Region
As our Northern California Mega Region continues to grow and interregional traffic congestion worsens leading to an average 78-minute daily commute each way between Alameda County and San Joaquin County, mega regional solutions such as the Valley Link Project have become vital to our progress. Supervisor Haggerty notes that without Valley Link, single occupancy commuting through the Altamont Pass "Hurts our environment, our economy and more importantly, it translates to the loss of 28 days per year on average for each individual commuter – and this hurts our communities and families." Years of hard work setting up the Tri-Valley San Joaquin Valley Regional Rail Authority (TVSJVRRA), securing hundreds of millions of dollars of funding for the project and securing the project's place within Plan Bay Area 2050 are beginning to pay off. ACTC's recent approval of $400 million toward the project and the release of the Valley Link EIR represent crucial milestones in this essential project.
As necessary as this project may be, the journey has not been easy. We cannot overstate how grateful we are for the support that we have received all along the way. While this project is far from being completed, Supervisor Haggerty is confident that our District 1 communities and the next Supervisor will continue their advocacy until Valley Link trains begin moving through the Altamont.
 In addition to Valley Link, we have also made bold steps toward greater mega regional cooperation in recent years. Through his second term as Chair of the MTC, Supervisor Haggerty has worked alongside elected officials and metropolitan planning organizations from outside the Bay Area not only to better synchronize our Sustainable Communities Strategies, but also to explore ways in which we can bolster the power of the Mega Region in order to create better lives for all Northern Californians. These efforts have led to a more connected Mega Region that seeks to solve interregional issues with interregional solutions.
Since Supervisor Haggerty began serving on the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) Board of Directors in 1997, some of his top priorities have been to deliver projects and programs in order to reduce GHGs, develop effective future planning for growth, and to foster transit-oriented development throughout the region. As a result and with your help, we have been able to further numerous strategic planning and program initiatives which have greatly improved the quality of life and the environment in the nine-county Bay Area region including:
- Our groundbreaking CARE program, which has enabled us to focus resources on reducing toxic exposure in the most impacted of Bay Area communities.
- The most stringent regulation in the Country governing refineries and flare monitoring.
- Our AB 617 work is pioneering new efforts designed to provide big gains in air quality for impacted communities. As part of the AB 617 program, we helped organize an outstanding group of air quality community advocates in the Tri-Valley in order to form the Tri-Valley Air Quality Community Alliance. The group has since taken exhaustive community air quality surveys, presented to various government bodies on their research, and have held community workshops in order to investigate ways in which we can reduce air pollution within the Tri-Valley area.
- Our wood burning regulation, which became a highly successful tool for lowering PM pollution across the Bay Area.
- A ground-breaking Climate Strategy, which will be crucial as we strive to reach the region’s ambitious goals of reducing greenhouse gases to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.
East Bay Community Energy
As average temperatures rise leading to droughts and increasingly severe forest fires, we are becoming more and more aware of the impact that humans have had on our environment. While years of reckless GHG emissions and non-renewable energy consumption have resulted in our current climate crisis, our community leaders have stepped up to the plate to deliver real solutions. One of these groundbreaking answers to our crisis manifested from our initiative to create the East Bay Community Energy in order to provide renewable energy to Alameda County residents while simultaneously reinvesting the earnings back into the community to create local green energy jobs, local programs, and clean power projects. Since Supervisor Haggerty first worked toward developing the agency, having spearheaded the exploration of Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) in Alameda County and serving as the first Chair of EBCE, the Agency has been able to accomplish truly outstanding feats including:
- 550 MW of new wind and solar power contracted;
- 150 MW of new battery storage systems contracted;
- $8 million saved by East Bay electricity customers on their 2019 energy bills;
- $2 million in COVID-19 relief donated to East Bay communities and non-profits;
And at of January 2021, the Scott Haggerty Wind Energy Center near Livermore will produce up to 57.5 MW of renewable energy--enough to power about 30,000 homes per year!
And the work is not yet finished. Some of EBCE's near term priorities include:
- Achieving an EBCE goal of providing 100% clean energy by 2030 (15 years ahead of State requirements)!
- Supporting local renewable energy + battery storage projects (e.g., the Aramis solar farm in Livermore, pending Board of Supervisors approval);
- Expanding building electrification and Electric Vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure throughout Alameda County;
- Accelerating the deployment of residential, commercial and municipal solar + storage projects (e.g., the Resilient Home program).
While regional transportation & housing planning, air quality, and climate protection all represent vital efforts in maintaining a healthy Bay Area and Alameda County, nothing has been more important to Supervisor Haggerty than finding ways in which we can come together to directly improve the quality of life in our communities. From volunteering at the kitchen at Abode Services in Fremont in order to feed our most vulnerable community members, to securing the funding and development of the Marissa Hunt Agricultural Education Center, the District 1 office under Supervisor Haggerty has always held community-building and improving efforts as perhaps the most important aspect of public service.
 In response to the homeless crisis that our communities are currently experiencing, we have begun the development of Goodness Village, a community of 28 independent tiny homes located at the CrossWinds Church property in Livermore, CA. Calling on the expertise of local and regional experts to address the causes of homelessness, the tiny home village is the result of a multi-year effort to create effective permanent solutions that address the specific needs of Livermore residents. The program will offer 24-hour mental and physical health support, crisis management, and full wrap-around services including case management.
 And in response to the massive economic turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we were able to allocate hundreds of thousands of dollars through the District One Small Business Grant Program in order to give one-time $5,000 grants to independently or locally owned businesses in Fremont, Dublin, Livermore and Unincorporated East County. These grants helped our local small businesses continue to pay employees through the stay-at-home order, to pay rent, and to provide overall much-needed relief.
 In addition to these efforts and with your help, we have also been able to accomplish the following for our Community:
- Donated $500,000 to Sun Flower Hill, the Black Box Theatre, and to the Livermore Science and Society Center for Kids in order encourage our youth to get involved with STEM.
- Purchased 2 animal trailers for rescue operations (which were used in recent years to rescue animals during wildfires).
- Donated free N95 masks to Alameda County residents during recent wildfires in order to provide care to those experiencing respiratory illness as a result of poor air quality.
- Held Car Safety Seat events in Fremont and Bicycle Safety events in areas throughout District 1.
- Donated bicycles to children in low-income communities.
- Helped fund the Warming and Cooling Centers in Fremont and Livermore in order to provide safe shelter to unhoused District 1 community members.
- Obtained critical funding for the Bankhead Theatre.
- When we first took office, Alameda County had only $2 million or less in reserves. Today, the County has more than $200 million in reserves and maintains a triple A bond rating.
- Provided years of support for 4-H and FFA programs in Alameda County in order to ensure that students of all ages have the ability to learn essential agricultural skills.
- Constructed a track at the Sunol Glen School.
- Funded the "Youth in Nature" program within the TVC.
- When the Tri-Valley Haven’s water heater flooded the shelter, we came up with the funding to repair water damage so the shelter could stay open.
- We started the Tri-Valley School Initiative, which resulted in counselors being placed in Dublin, Pleasanton and Livermore unified schools.
- Designed, secured funding, and began construction on the Alameda County Fire Department's new Regional Training Center in order to allow our County heroes the best opportunity to prepare for real-world emergency scenarios.
- Helped fund the Indo-Americans for a Better Community Program and donated yearly to the One Child Program in Fremont, Drivers for Survivors, the Fremont Symphony, the Trio-Valley Conservancy, Principal for a Day in Livermore, the Trip-Valley Hackathon, and the Tri-Valley Non-Profit Alliance.
- Donated hundreds of pounds of meat purchased from 4-H students to Open Heart Kitchen and Abode Services every year.
- Spearheaded an initiative to fly the LGBTQ+ Pride Flag in the Alameda County Administration Building courtyard.
While there is no way for us to encompass all that we have been able to accomplish over the 24 years I have been in office, my hope is that this final newsletter will not only remind you of what is possible when we work together, but also inspire you to continue advocating for our community after I leave office this January.
Most importantly, I wanted to say thank you once again. Thank you not only to the voters of District 1, but also to my outstanding staff, without whom our efforts to improve our community would have been futile. Throughout my tenure I have carried this gratitude I felt the morning I moved into our Oakland office in 1997, and I feel even more grateful now in reflection of our amazing journey. From the bottom of my heart, thank you District 1.
 
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