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Door County Transportation Consortium
Meeting Minutes 10/11/2010

Members Present: Pete Bosman, Marty Olejniczak, Don Shusta, Roger Tepe,
Kim McClure, Barb Graul, Paul Kok, Pam Busch and Amy Kohnle

Paul called the meeting to order at 2:31 p.m.

Roger motioned to accept the 7/12/10 meeting minutes, second by Don, filed.

Financial Report: Amy provided the Financial Report from the 9/16/10 Board meeting. Door-Tran is -$24,742.98 for cash in the bank. First and second quarter New Freedom reimbursements are expected in the next couple of weeks. Barb motioned to accept the treasurer report, second by Marty, filed.

Phone Tracking: Pam started a second report beginning on 8/2/10 since Door County has an additional service provider. Attendees were provided monthly and cumulative pictures of percentages of met and unmet needs.

Provider Updates:

Door County Transportation Options Program– The DCTOP 2011 WETAP budget was cut 60%, which is less than the current year funds, causing vanpool expansion goals to be on hold. There are currently 18 people on a wait list for more routes needed. Don suggested that a taxi be hired to operate from 6-2 when the van is parked.

Sunshine House, Inc – Pete reported SHI has five fixed routes that run Monday through Friday and also transports some clients to community employers during the day and to appointments as able. In the second quarter, they have provided 5,270 individual rides and 22 rides to individuals who were not regular riders. Peter indicated the loss of one rider to D2D Rides. SHI provides approximately 21,000 rides per year and operates on a deficit which 5311 funds assist with. Pete hopes to have the ARRA vehicles ordered soon that will be leased from the County.

Door County/Green Bay Shuttle –Don received two wheelchair accessible calls which he referred to D2D Rides. Volume of rides hasn’t changed, however revenue is down due to the reduced fares in order to be competitive with D2D.

D2D Rides – Door 2 Door Rides provided 622 rides in August, 959 rides in September, and so far 277 rides for October. As for the 959 rides in September, 680 rides were to individuals with disabilities, 141 rides to elderly, 23 rides to minors, and 115 rides to adult regular fare passengers. Of the 959 total rides, 145 needed wheelchair accessibility = 15%. The high Saturday and Sunday ridership was 27 and 15 respectively. The County of Door is proceeding with the 2011 grant, which is almost ready to submit. Expansion may be possible if ridership warrants it.

Senior Center – Roger indicated that a handful of people were now using D2D Rides instead of the Senior Center bus.

Grant Writing Workgroup: Pending applications are: 2011 New Freedom, Peterson foundations, Gannett Foundation, Packer Foundation, and the Collaboration Award. Total of $12,500 raised in this workgroup.

Church Workgroup: Has raised $1,157.40 to date.

Event Workgroup: Has raised $5,104.59 to date.

Service Club/Individual & Business Contact Workgroup: Has raised $500 to date.

Due to schedule conflicts, Paul motioned to cancel the 10/20/10 Board meeting, second by Marty, approved. The next Board meeting will be 11/18/10 at 3:30 p.m. at the Job Center.

The next Consortium meeting will be on 1/10/11 at 2:30 p.m. in the Community Room at City Hall. Pam will send out a press release the week before to invite the public.

Meeting adjourned at 3:40 p.m.