December Region 9 HSTP Meeting Minutes.

Below are the minutes from the December 16, 2007 Region 9 HSTP Meeting in Alton, IL

IDOT Region 9 Human Services Transportation Plan (HSTP) JARC New Freedom Meeting
Monday, December 16^th, 2007 @ 2:00PM
Challenge Unlimited Inc., Alton, IL

Meeting minutes

Attendees

Name	Organization
Sean Horn	Region 9 HSTP Coordinator
Seth Gunnerson	Region 9 HSTP Coordinator
Sylvia Mahle	Midland Area Agency on Aging
Laurine Hamm	Challenge Unlimited
Susan Thomas	ACT
Joe Domer	ACT
Anna Oestreich	Bond County Senior Center
Jill Franks	Bond County Board
Chris Genke	Community Link – Clinton County
Barb Nelson	Community Link – Clinton County
Gary Stahlhut	Madison County
Donna Mitchell	Area Agency on Aging for Lincolnland
Kim Taylor	FAYCO Enterprises, Inc.
Kathy Haberer	Lewis and Clark Community College
Crystal Catchings	Area Agency on Aging of Southwestern IL
Paul Joseph	City of Highland
Karen Adams	Senior Services Plus
Susan Cooper	Senior Services Plus
Kent Tarro	Macoupin County Public Health

Call to order @ 2:05 PM

Introductions:
Sean Horn and Seth Gunnerson HSTP regional coordinators for region 9 as well as regions 10 and 11.
Attendees were asked to introduce themselves and who they represent.

New Business:
Due to time constraints, the JARC presentation was moved to the beginning of the meeting and since there were no New Freedom projects for the region, the New Freedom portion of the presentation was skipped.

JARC overview and project scoring guidelines: Sean Horn
Bond County JARC presentation: Anna Oestreich
Challenge Unlimited JARC presentation: Laurine Hamm

The projects were then ranked by members in attendance. The results were as follows:

1 Challenge Unlimited 151.8 out of 180
2 Bond County 143.6 out of 180

Both projects will be submitted to the state oversight committee for further review and ranking.

HSTP Plan Development: Seth Gunnerson

Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat (SWOT) Analysis

Strengths identified:
Madison county has strong services
Macoupin county has 5311 funds available
Longevity
Lots of providers
Coordination
Training available
Interstates

Weaknesses identified:
Geography
Different levels of quality to services
Large number of individual trip generators
population very spread out
lack of information
low county involvement

Threats identified:
Rising costs

The PowerPoint presentation will be emailed to all persons in attendance. All attendees can freely distribute the presentation to any interested parties.

Adjournment @ 4:30 PM