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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 2 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM Victoria Williams: Thank you for having me honorable chairperson and commission. We're happy to have these paper pieces to look at tonight so that we can go through everything. So we're here tonight to let you know what our plans are for next year and to get your support in that. Each city and county is required to take their plan for the following year to commissions and boards to get some support and to get the input of residents of the community. Well, our funding is Measure B and BB which gives us a supplemental program to East Bay Paratransit, the Adults with Disabilities Act mandated service. So each city gets to choose what programs work best for their city and we've chosen some really good ones, they've been going for some time and we've got more than a lot of cities. So I'd like to tell you a little bit about those. So our agenda is the service overview, then the recommended program, budget and our planning process. So the service overview, like I said, Alameda has a wide variety of transportation services for the residents of Alameda. We have the free Alameda Loop Shuttle. It runs Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM. It's open to the public. Victoria Williams: There are two buses which are accessible and they have bike racks. We've got two-subsidized taxi programs. One is MRTIP - that stands for Medical Return Trip Improvement Program - to help people get home from their doctor's appointments in a smoother fashion. And the other is a premium taxi program, and that's for any purpose whatsoever. We have scholarship programs. One is a scholarship program that helps a resident who is low-income purchase taxi vouchers. And the other one is we've been able to provide some free AC Transit bus passes for people who live at Alameda Point Collaborative and in some of the Alameda Housing Authority properties. That's going really well too. We've got group trips. Mastick Senior Center provides once a month, a trip, a local trip, for people to go to. There's a Leisure Club which is a group of folks who are over 18 and have special needs. So twice a month, they go on outings and we help fund that. And once a year there's a nice, big picnic at Crown Bay. It's for those folks who live in skilled nursing facilities and so we help pay for the transportation to get people out to have fun. We've got capital investments. Victoria Williams: We have some needs. Some of the bus stops are in not great shape and some of the benches at bus stops need to be repaired or replaced. We share some bus stops through the shuttle. With AC Transit, we share some of the same bus stops. So we'll be doing some improvements to those bus stops. And there are a few ADA accommodations we want to make sure are in place so we've got funding to use for that. Customer service and outreach, that would include my talking to anybody who will listen and printing the schedules for the shuttles, and you have those in front of you. And one of the newest things is that we're now at the movie theater. You'll see the shuttle at the movie theater, you may recognize the voice. And let's see what else. Victoria Williams: And just monitoring the service management then is monitoring the service and keeping track of things. And responding to phone calls, and helping people enroll and selling the vouchers, things like that. The next page is a little bit about the Alameda Loop Shuttle. In October, you remember, you've heard me say this before. We changed from a one shuttle service that was several years old to two brand new shuttle buses. Which, like I said, are accessible and have room for two bikes on the front. So we changed that in October. And what used to be a one-hour loop, we still have a one-hour loop, but now that we have two buses, they're a half an hour apart so you can 03/13/19 Page 2 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |