Capital District
Transportation Committee
REGIONAL
TRANSPORTATION COORDINATION COMMITTEE
RECORD OF MEETING
DATE/TIME: March 1,
ATTENDANCE:
STUDY DISCUSSION SUMMARY: After introductions, the
agenda items were discussed in sequence:
United We Ride/Albany
a. Maintenance
Sub-Committee—The UWR Maintenance subcommittee contacted the Schenectady County
ARC to schedule a site visit with the ARC.
The ARC maintains their vehicles in-house and also has maintenance
contracts with several area human service agencies. The working group would like to learn more
about the agreements and costs to use as a possible model for
b. Survey
of
Linda Doyle distributed preliminary
data tables that summarize some of the data that was collected from the survey. The data collected from
Access to Jobs:
a. CST
Funding Update—CST funds for the region last year were about $117,000; two of
the counties supplemented these dollars to keep the pass program whole. $2.2
million has been proposed for 2007/08 for the state. CDTA is preparing a request for $185,000 in
CST to continue the pass program for
b. JARC Funding Update—CDTA will submit for additional JARC funds in the 2007 Federal Fiscal Year, once the “coordinated plan” (that the RTCC is working on) is in place. A concern with regard to use of JARC funds involves the match requirement. In the past, CDTA used CST funds as match for JARC activities. This is specifically prohibited under the proposed rules. The proposed regulations suggest a project by project match, not program by program. This means that a source of funds to match (20 percent) the $250,000 allocation to the area will have to be found if the existing JARC programs are to continue.
SARETEA-LU Coordinated Plan
a. Plan
Development—CDTC staff has completed a rough draft of the plan, up to the point
of documenting the survey results.
b. Needs,
Gaps and Barriers Discussion—CDTC and CDTA staffs drafted an outline of Needs,
Gaps and Barriers for discussion. Needs
were grouped into four categories—Organizational. Client services, Capital and Institutional. Gaps were sorted into three
categories—Geographic, trip purpose and training. Barriers were classified into six
categories—Cost/Budget, Travel time, Limitations of Coordination, Client Integration,
Common Carrier issues, and Accounting barriers.
The RTCC discussed each in turn.
Funding was identified as a need, gap and barrier.
An outline of the Action Plan was
also distributed for the RTCC to review.
The Action Plan will identify strategies to address the SAFETEA-LU JARC
requirements, the New Freedom program and the modified Section 5310 requirements.
The Action Plan will be more fully fleshed out by the next RTCC meeting.
Other
The Coordinated Plan must be completed in time for CDTC’s
Planning Committee to review and act upon it.
Consequently, the plan must be distributed to and reviewed by the RTCC
by mid-April. Once approved by the RTCC,
the draft plan will be forwarded to CDTC’s Planning
Committee for their review. The Planning
Committee will formally act upon the plan at its May 2nd meeting.
The next meeting of the Regional Transportation
Coordination Committee is scheduled for