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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 4 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM after your appointment is finished and then they come pick you up. So it's improved from 27 rides per month average to 34 rides. It's still not huge but it's moving in the right direction. Victoria Williams: And then the scholarship programs. Again, we can help with assisting people to buy the taxi vouchers. A family can receive $90 worth of free taxi vouchers. It's a matching program so if someone can buy some, then we can match that SO they have their input as well. And then, as I mentioned before, the free AC Transit bus passes, you can see that one's going up quite well too. It started really well but it's still going well. So we're real happy with those programs and just to be able to get people out of their houses is, it's a huge deal. So we'd like to recommend that the Alameda Loop Shuttle continue doing what it's doing. We need to continue to market all the time and let it be known that the service is more frequent than it was. We're investigating real-time shuttle location technology so that will be a real help when we get to that point. But right now, we're still doing the research on that. Victoria Williams: My phone number's on the bus and on all the schedules and I don't get a huge amount of calls, you would think I would, I don't. So most part, I think it's working pretty well for people but I do hear from people saying, "Where is the bus?" And that happens, sometimes there's a problem. It slows down, it happens but that will help people and it will help me see where the bus is. So when I get the call from someone who can't access that, I can say, "Well, it's just right over on that corner, it'll be there soon." And then the taxi services. Again, we want to continue marketing and outreaching those and then we'll explore working with Uber and Lyft in some kind of a shared service way. And the next page, we'd like to recommend that we continue the scholarship programs as they are with more free bus passes. And we're working on, like I said, that emergency wheelchair breakdown service which is new and exciting. Group trips, we'd like for those to continue as they are now with the Mastick monthly trip, the Leisure Club trips and the Skilled Nursing Facility picnic. Victoria Williams: Next page shows you a picture of our new shuttle stop sign, you'll see some of those posted around town. They're not all up yet but they are orange and blue like the bus and the same color of the last sign. So they're pretty, they're out there. And there are schedules being posted underneath them so people standing at that sign will actually know when the bus is expected. So again, our capital program would be the bus stop improvements, the benches. Oh, I forgot to mention the benches. We've ordered some benches and improving the shelters, replacing some of the benches that are already currently in need of replacement. And then the outreach and marketing will continue. We've got information on the website, we put out press releases and presentations, and orientations. Every other month I do a Transportation 101 at Mastick Senior Center and we talk about all the kinds of transportation options that are available to Alameda residents and it's a lot, it's great. We will continue with, of course, we'll continue printing those shuttle schedules, and brochures, and mailings and program incentives. Victoria Williams: The next page shows our budget. And I need to note that on the Measure B they give us a projection so we don't know exactly but your original packet had a lower number than this. This is a more recent number, $385,144 is what's projected for us to work with next year. We've already got a carry over of $227,128 and we expect to sell about $4000 worth of the East Bay Paratransit tickets, and about $8000 worth of taxi vouchers which will bring us with to total 03/13/19 Page 4 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |