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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-02-14 | 2 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m. 4. NEW BUSINESS 4-A. Alameda Transportation program Plan for Seniors and People with Disabilities (City Staff) Beth Kenny: Then let's move on to 4A, we're excited for this. Alameda Transportation Program Plan for Seniors and People with Disabilities. Welcome. Victoria Williams: Thank you. Hi. Honorable Chair and commissioners, I'm Victoria Williams, I'm the Paratransit Coordinator. My office is at Mastick Senior Center and thank you very much for giving us your time tonight. I'm here to discuss the If I can read in the dark, "The City of Alameda's Transportation Program Plan for Seniors and People with Disabilities for the fiscal year of 2018 and 2019." And with Measure B and BB funding, the county wide sales tax that's set aside for transportation, the city provides supplemental transportation services for Seniors and People who have disabilities. It's beyond the mandated service of East Bay Paratransit. And our funder Alameda County Transportation Commission, Alameda CTC, requires that all cities, all jurisdictions review the plan, the Annual Program Plan. So we come here every year and we bring our plans and we ask for your input and we ask for your buy-in and your support as we go forward for funding. Our funding application is due at the end of March, so we come to four different commissions and boards prior to that to get some of your opinions. Victoria Williams: So thanks for letting us do that. Our agenda for this evening is a service overview, recommended program, a budget, and a planning process overview. And our service overview, you might see one of your commissioners there on the bottom, by our new shuttle there, commissioner Brillinger. We have a great bunch of services. Every city gets to choose the services that would meet the needs of their population since every Alameda County city is different. We don't have the same needs as those living in Fremont might. So the items that we've chosen to fund are the Alameda Loop Shuttle and you'll hear more about that, and the subsidized taxi services. We have two services that are subsidized. Victoria Williams: We've got scholarship programs, several kinds of group trips, capital investments, customer service and outreach and then management of all that. In 2010, there was one shuttle bus put on the road and it's been running well for all that time. However, in 2017, just the end October 31st, we were able to replace that one vehicle with two brand new, as you can see they're brand new, shiny. We were the first people in that vehicle. It's not a used car. And they're beautiful, they're accessible, we've got wheelchair lift and Commissioner Brillinger can tell you that in his wheelchair, he can do 360 degrees in the back of that vehicle. There's room for two wheelchair users in there at a time, so it's a good sized bus, nice big windows and the front has bike racks for two bicycles. Victoria Williams: Adding a second shuttle to the road means that our headways are 30 minutes each. So while the loop takes an hour, if you get on the bus and ride to your destination and come back to where you started, that loop takes one hour, but there's another bus 30 minutes later. So that makes it better for those who are doing their grocery shopping and want to get their frozen food 02/14/18 Page 2 of 24 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf |