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About the SamTrans Board of Directors

The Board of Directors serve four-year terms and consist of nine members from various leadership positions in the community with the following composition:

  • Two members from the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors
  • One transportation expert appointed by the Board of Supervisors
  • Three city councilmembers appointed by the City Selection Committee. Each councilmember represents a judicial district in San Mateo County
  • Three public members, one of whom must reside on the Coastside, appointed by the above six members

The Board and its committees meets the first Wednesday of the month at 2:00 pm to determine overall policy for the District. Agendas are available approximately one week before the meetings.  

Correspondence to the Board may be emailed to Board@SamTrans.com or mailed to 1250 San Carlos Ave., San Carlos, CA 94070, which will be compiled and posted weekly on Friday (holidays excluded). To be included in the Board's weekly correspondence reading file, it must be received by 2:00 PM the day before. For the week of the Board meeting, it must be received by 2:00 PM the day before the Board meeting. All correspondence, including personal information (i.e. names and email addresses), shall become disclosable public records.

Marie Chuang
Marie Chuang (Chair)

Representing Central Judicial Cities

Brooks Esser
Brooks Esser (Vice Chair)

Public Member

David Canepa
David J. Canepa

Representing Board of Supervisors

Marina Fraser
Marina Fraser

Public Member - Coastside

Jeff Gee
Jeff Gee

Representing Southern Judicial Cities

Rico E. Medina
Rico E. Medina

Representing Northern Judicial Cities

Josh Powell
Josh Powell

Public Member

Peter Ratto
Peter Ratto

Transportation Expert, Appointed by the Board of Supervisors

Jackie Speier photo
Jackie Speier

Representing Board of Supervisors

Agendas and Minutes

Here you can search through all our minutes and agendas past and future. Some older agendas might be only findable here (they will be searchable by past and upcoming and or date range later):

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Board Meetings

Public Comments: Public comments may be emailed to publiccomment@samtrans.com or mailed to 1250 San Carlos Ave., San Carlos, CA 94070, which will be compiled and posted weekly on Friday (holidays excluded). To be included in the Board's weekly correspondence reading file, it must be received by 2:00 PM the day before. For the week of the Board meeting, it must be received by 2:00 PM the day before the Board meeting. Public comments and correspondence, including any personal information such as names and email addresses, submitted to this agency shall become disclosable public records.

2023 onward, all Board meeting agendas are available on our agenda management platform.  Any other public meeting agendas (or for all public meeting agendas prior to 2023 are still located and searchable here or at SamTrans.com/Meetings.