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Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District
370 Encinal Street, Suite 100
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
At-h-r: General Manager
Dear Mr. White:
The following is a proposal for your consideration regarding multiple funded
rides. The contract provides for this proposal in Exhibit A, Part 3, 6.13.1. In 1979
AB120 passed, requiring local entities to create action plans and designate a
Consolidated Transportation Services Agency to oversee local paratransit
operations. In 1980 community input and planning session were held which
resulted in Food and Nutrition Services (Community Bridges) being designated
as the local CTSA. The Volunteer Center transferred Lift Line to Food and
Nutrition Services and in 1981 Lift Line / CTSA began actual operations.
In 1979 there was a perceived need to consolidate transportation, to stop the
duplication of services and infrastructure. This need has not gone away.
Efficiency and economy is the product of consolidation. In 2002 the Metropolitan
Transit District decided to segregate Metro ParaCruz riders thereby eliminating
multiple funded trips. It is our intention with this proposal to demonstrate actual
dollar savings to the Transit District if the multiple funded trips are allowed. The
District will see savings in billable hours and the CTSA will see savings in
personnel cost as well as vehicle costs. We will also see an improvement in
productivity.
METHODOLOGY
To demonstrate a co-mingled schedule from a not co-mingled schedule our CIS
Manager exported two days schedules from Trapeze to Access. The days were
October 16’h and October 20th. On October 16’h our Scheduling Manager was
able to co-mingle a total of 44 multiple funded trips. On October 20* she was
able to co-mingle 41 multiple funded trips. He exported the data at 9pm the day
before the rides were to happen. At this point the Scheduling Manager re-visited
the days schedules and re-worked them to “mingle” multiple funded rides. For
the purposes of this proposal we will demonstrate two separate trips with before
co-mingled and after co-mingled costs to the district. We have provided the
Access database to Steve Paulson created for this purpose in total. The
allocation is based on a proration of actual on-board time.
236 Santa Cruz Avence. aptos? CA 95003 Phone: 331) 688-8840 Fax: (831) 688-8302