Transportation Coordination Committee - November 2014

November TCC Minutes (28 KB)

REGULAR MEETING

Attendance:

Members Present: Tut Gramling, Chair, Dan Brattset, Janice Brown, Dwayne Cheers, Walter Darling, Vern Demers, Eileen Klepper, Leah Lennon, David Moore, Jim Pritzkow, Richard Running, Alan Wildman.

Others Present: Loretta Rudolph, RN, St. Clare Hospital Parish Nurse; Karl Schulte, Sauk-Prairie Taxi; Teresa Bidwell, Aging & Disability Resource Center of Sauk County Transportation Program Assistant; Katelynn Diske, Edgewood College Nursing Student and Sauk County Human Services Intern; Lee J. Roundy, Aging & Disability Resource Center of Sauk County/Sauk County Veterans Service Office Fiscal Accounting Technician;

Absent: Paul Bishop, Jim Brown, Cindy Liegel

1. Call to Order and Certify Compliance with Open Meeting Law: The meeting was called to order by T. Gramling at 10:00 a.m. and was certified to be in compliance with the Open Meeting Law.

2. Adopt Agenda: Motion by V. Demers to adopt the Agenda, second by D. Moore. Motion carried.

3. Adopt Minutes of Previous Meeting: Motion by V. Demers to approve the August 26, 2014 Regular Meeting Minutes, second by D. Moore. Motion carried.

4. Public Comment: None.

5. Communications: None.

6. Business Items

A. Consider Recommendation of the Sauk County 2014-2015 Locally Developed Coordinated Specialized Transit Human Services Transportation Plan to the ADRC Committee. Motion by D. Moore to recommend the Sauk County 2014-2015 Locally Developed Coordinated Specialized Transit Human Services Transportation Plan to the ADRC Committee, second by V. Demers. Motion carried.

B. Discussion of the Transportation Program.

C. Transportation Financial Review: Third Quarter 2014.

D. Update from the Communities: Issues Raised, Priorities Expressed: Positive feedback was expressed for the restored taxi punch card subsidy program.  Appreciation was expressed for no longer having ‘empty buses’ on the fixed-route, deviated stop bus system, “The Bus.” It was recommended that existing grant/local county tax levy funds be leveraged to provide taxi service to Madison. ADRC Van Driver Tom Hemberger was commended for the work he did as a fill-in driver escort on recent medical trips. Staff drivers fill in for volunteer driver escorts only as the option of last resort due to the higher cost per trip. It was recommended that taxi punch cards should be advertised more broadly. There was interest expressed to sell taxi punch cards to hospitals in Sauk County. It was requested that the hospitals project the number of taxi transports they purchase for patients and provide that as a guide for the ADRC to use in determining if taxi punch cards could be purchased/sold to the hospitals. Clients should be allowed to purchase more than one taxi punch card per month. Due to the taxi punch card subsidy program popularity, taxi punch cards should be sold on purpose-prioritized criteria so that clients needing transportation for employment or medical trips have first priority. A comment was received that the ADRC could serve more passengers through the taxi subsidy program by reducing the subsidy percentage, currently 50% of the actual cost to passengers, in order to purchase more taxi punch cards to additional passengers.

7. Public Comment: None.

8. Next Meeting: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 10:00 a.m.

9. Consider Adjournment of the Transportation Coordination Committee: Motion by V. Demers to adjourn the Transportation Coordination Committee, second by D. Moore.

Motion carried.

Signed by: C. Liegel, Secretary