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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-02-08 | 6 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m. Program, our potential other program. We used to have Mobility Matters which is now defunct in Alameda County. So we're looking at what we can do just for the city in terms of maybe it would be a volunteer driver program, maybe it would be some other type of mobility management program. So that's something Victoria is very excited about, analyzing and looking at other key stakeholders to potentially partner with. Group trips, there's Mastick monthly trips, there's the leisure club, there's the Annual Nursing Home Trip. We plan to increase the subsidy for the Annual Nursing Home picnic. For the scholarship program, we'll continue the taxi subsidies and also the Alameda Point Collaborative Discounted Bus Passes for those residents. Gail Payne: We do have a significant reserve because of measure BB that was passed in 2014. So it's challenging to spend it down because then all of a sudden, with these operations, you have to discontinue it once the reserve is complete. We're recommending spending it down with capital programs, such as improve shuttle stops, poll signs when we do the rebranding, that's necessary. We are also looking at other potential infrastructures such as accessible pedestrian signals. You heard Commissioner Tsztoo last time I was here talking about the importance of those. That's something we could speed up the progress in installing that type of infrastructure with this money. With the rebranding of the shuttle service, we are looking at a push on marketing and outreach to get the word out about the rebranding of the shuttle service and the new frequency of every 30 minutes, and it's open to the public. So that, we're also are recommending. Gail Payne: We have a budget of revenues coming in is $672,000 and I recommend expenditures of $608,000 with reserves of $64,000. Keep in mind that we are conservative when doing this budget and so we do place contingencies in here, and yet, we still are showing reserves. For the outreach that is going into this next fiscal year recommendation, we do a survey every winter that we just completed, and we also reached out to the commissions like we're doing tonight. Tomorrow night, will be recreation and park commission, and later this month, transportation commission and SSHRB. And then the application is due next month. Gail Payne: For survey results of the survey that we just completed this past winter, this is the first time that we had a web survey component, so we had a lot more people reply, 115. We had many more attracted non-users and one of the number one reasons they said they don't use the subsidized taxi program and the shuttle is that they didn't know about it. 33% stated they didn't know about the taxi program, and 27% stated they didn't know about the shuttle service. That's another reason why we're excited to have Victoria here because she's really going to do a big push on reaching out to the key stakeholders and the community members, and going directly to them, explaining the program face-to-face. We'll have some marketing pieces, and orientations at Mastick Senior Center. We will be doing quite a bit, thanks to Victoria. Gail Payne: This year, at least we're planning on keeping with our current taxi provider, and not going with Lyft and Uber. It still feels like it's quite in flux right now, what's happening with Lyft and Uber, and the regulations and all that. So this year we're going to let Victoria have time to ease into this position, and then re-evaluate using Lyft and Uber next year. For the survey, when we asked this question about Lyft and Uber, the respondents did say that if they could get a cheaper ride by sharing rides with Lyft Using Lyft and Uber, Uber Pool and Lyft Line, that 61% said that they would prefer this option to just a regular standard taxi. I could see us going in that direction in the future, just not this upcoming fiscal year. Gail Payne: And this is the last slide, it shows Victoria Williams' contact information, and we are here for questions and comments. Thank you for your time. 6 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf |