Region 10 Meeting Minutes

Region 10 Meeting
Thursday May 20, 2010 @ 1:00p
Olney Public Library

Olney, Illinois 62450

Meeting minutes

Attendees

Name	Organization
Lindsey Holtz	Region 9 HSTP Coordinator
Elton Trojniar	Region 9 HSTP Coordinator
Dennis Quast	ARC Community Support Systems
Trena Briscoe	Marion County Horizon Center
Carolyn Willenburg	Effingham County Board
Arnold Herman	Lawrence/Crawford Association
Patricia Strong	CILA Corporation
Karen Luchtefeld	Effingham County Board
Nancy Travis	Clay County Rehab
Debra Staggs	RIDES
Bill Jung	RIDES
Tammy Beccue	CIPT
Taja Wheeler	CTF

Call to order @ 1:07 PM

Introductions

HSTC Topics:
1:10p Region 10 Plan Overview

-CVP Update: John Edmondson

Regional Plan Review

1:20p Membership

-Reviewed Region 10 By-laws

· According to By-laws once a agency/establishment has missed consecutive meetings, they will be classified as “inactive members” and their voting rights shall be suspended.

· Committee voted on Charleston Transitional Facility to suspend voting rights until they attend future consecutive meetings.

o Committee decided to let Charleston Transitional Facility keep their voting rights under the condition that this agency will be represented in future meetings.

Regional Plan Review

1:25p Gaps and Strategies

-Went through each Regional Gap and discussed agency changes and progress Region 9 has made to address these Gaps.

· Gap one has been addressed and filled

· New legislation passed and stretcher services will have new regulations released by DPH

· Funding for evening service for public transit is needed

· RIDES routes up to Charleston and Mattoon areas

· A new agency has been hired through IDOT to help advertise and supervise intercity bus services, this may be happening in the next four to six months

· ITS set up may help increase efficiency

Discussion went until 2:00p it was decided to address the Strategies in the next Regional Meeting

2:00p Break

Shared Perspectives/Regional Issues

2:05a How public transportation should be defined and measured: John Edmondson

-It has been found that FTA doesn’t give clear guidelines for public transit service.

-Gave examples of 5307 and 5311 grantees.

-Purpose of rural transit target disabled, low-income, and elderly populations.

· Opened floor for discussion and questions.

· Moved onto Case Studies, the committee gave there opinion on what should be changed and ideas that FTA could use for guidelines to address 5311 funding guidelines.

-Case Study 1

· Believed it wasn’t public transportation service

· Did not meet advertising standard, no ads for the general public/not clearly advertised

· Hours of operation are no good

· Confusing signage

· Should advertise to general public at retail, hotels, chamber or commerce, etc.

-Case Study 2

· 5311 is for unaffiliated trips

· If only 2% of rides are to public transit, then they should only get 5311 for 2%

· Gauging what they don’t do in a community may help evaluate system

· Problem=There is capital coordination, but no funding coordination

· More focus on advertisement, maybe establish minimum guidlines

-Case Study 3

· More stringent oversight needed from the Grantee(the county)

· Didn’t like that there was separate marketing for both disabled and general public

· Grantee should set up a complaint mechanism

· Requiring a 3-5 year planning document would show management capacity

· Consider the use of the “LEAN” projection tool

-General Notes

· “Coordination is a capital issue, i.e. let’s share a bus”

o Federal regulations are vague for a reason, to allow systems to evolve. Defining public rigidly will work against coordination, Problem= There is capital coordination, but no funding coordination.

3:10p Open floor for Questions

3:15p Adjourn