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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTransportation Board - Minutes - 04/21/1993d ti r Draft Minutes to be approved by the Board at the May 19, 1993 meeting. TRANSPORTATION BOARD MEETING MINUTES APRIL 21, 1993 5:40 - 7:30 P.M. BOARD LIAISONS: Council Liaison -- Gina Janett Staff Liaison -- Rick Ensdorff BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Mark Egeland, Sara Frazier, Colin Gerety, Elizabeth Hudetz, Dave Lemesany, Sharone Mekelburg, Michael Poppenwimer, and Paul Valentine. BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: James Reidhead STAFF PRESENT: Rick Ensdorff and Cindy Scott GUESTS PRESENT: Tracy Oschner, John Daggett, Tom Frazier - Transfort AGENDA: 1) Call to Order 2) Approval of Minutes 3) Review Status of Transportation Plan Document 4) Regional Transportation/Congestion Management Plan - Scope of Work 5) Review Current Transfort Issues - John Daggett 6) Other Business DISCUSSION TOPIC: 1. CALL TO ORDER Chairman Gerety called the meeting to order at 5:40 p.m. APPROVAL OF MINUTES It was moved, seconded, and unanimously approved that the minutes from the February 3, 1993 and February 17, 1993 Transportation Board meetings be accepted as presented. REVIEW STATUS OF TRANSPORTATION PLAN DOCUMENT Staff Member Ensdorff explained that there hasn't been much progress on the document due to an exceptionally heavy workload and also that the next item for discussion on the agenda will pertain to this item. REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION/CONGESTION MANAGEMENT PLAN - SCOPE OF WORK Ensdorff referred to the hand-outs that were included in the packets. He then described the process for the regional plan and particularly in Fort Collins, how the Congestion Management Plan will fit in. This will be an ideal way for the Transportation Board, the Air Quality Task Force and other boards to get involved in the development of the Transportation Plan. He asked the Board members how much extra time they have over the next 9 months to commit to working on this. The general feedback was positive. Four citizen focus groups have been identified to help staff and the consultant team to develop the following elements of the plan: 1) Regional Bikeway 2) Environmental/Quality of Life 3) Roadway/transit 4) Aviation. There is a description in the hand-outs of what those groups are going to focus on. These are regional groups and will include people from other cities including Loveland, Greeley, and Windsor, as well as Larimer and Weld Counties. It is desirable to have 15 members on each group. These groups will serve as a citizen's committee that will help to develop and define plans for their respective areas of interest. Ensdorff stated that Loveland will staff the Loveland Master Plan themselves. The Fort Collins Congestion Management Plan will likewise be staffed by Fort Collins. It is hopeful that members from the Transportation Board and the Air Quality Task Force make up the majority of that group. This plan will tie the Transportation Plan and the Air Quality Policies and Objectives together to form action plans in the community. The focus groups will work on their specific elements and then they will be coordinated after ensuring that they can function together as a whole. These will then be incorporated in one plan - the Regional Plan. Each group will have a leader that will represent them on the Leadership Committee who will give direction to the process of coordinating the Regional Plan. The groups will make decisions and recommendations to the North Front Range Council who is responsible for making final decisions on the Regional Plan. There will be consultant and staff involvement in the focus groups as well as the task force. The Fort Collins Congestion Management Plan will go through the City's process. Every MPO in the country has to have a Congestion Management Plan, but at this time there aren't set rules and guidelines. The City's Policies and Objectives will be used as guidelines and will then be used to merge with the rules and regulations of the government as they come out. a' Y • 5 Ensdorff explained who the consultant team is and what their roles are in the development of the plan. Ensdorff talked about the Scope of Work, referring to the hand-out. After discussion, the Board Members volunteered for the focus groups as follows: Regional Bikeway Group: Environmental Group: Roadway/Transit Group: Aviation: Congestion Management Plan Mark Egeland and Paul Valentine Elizabeth Hudetz and Colin Gerety Mike Poppenwimer and Dave Lemesany Sharone Mekelburg Colin Gerety, Sara Frazier and Dave Lemesany Ensdorff will contact Board Member Reidhead to determine what his interests are in the focus groups. The consultant will be informed of this list and they will be in contact with everyone to set up meetings in the near future. REVIEW OF CURRENT TRANSFORT ISSUES - JOHN DAGGETT Mr. Daggett explained that he would: 1) Give a brief overview of the Transfort Division; 2) Examine some of the programs within the division; and 3) Examine Transfort/City Transit issues. After his presentation, Mr. Daggett asked the Board for their input on the short term issues that Transfort is dealing with: VANPOOLING - Whether this program will be operated by the City of Fort Collins or be contracted to an outside firm. CARPOOLING - "How a City operated program coordinates its efforts both between other cities in the area and how it will coordinate with other alternative mode programs locally?" PARATRANSIT - What level of service will be funded by the City of Fort Collins? Level A: ADA Eligible only; Level B: ADA Eligible and Non -disabled Seniors; Level C: ADA Eligible, Non -Disabled Seniors, and the Economically Disadvantaged. What action, if any, does the City take to "manage" these impacts? How does the City provide these services? By continuing its contract with Care -A -Van, Inc. for all services or with more emphasis on volunteer programs such as SAINT and/or others. TRANSFORT BUS SERVICES - City Council has requested that Transfort provide a recommended fare policy to them this year. What shall this policy be? Transfort is currently operating under a five-year operating plan called a Transit Development Program 1991-1995 (TDP). The City has implemented most of the first of six levels of service in the plan. With many immediate demands throughout the area for expanded transit services, what expanded services (implemenatation of the current TOP), if any, will be recommended to City Council for their consideration? With the development of new regional transportation and area -wide transportation plans, what new or revised service levels will be a part of the new (1996-2000) TOP? The TOP will need to be completed by March of 1995. Development of the TOP will begin in 1994. Privatization. What portions of Transfort services should be privatized? What relationship will these other issues have with the Fort Collins Area Transportation Plan and what level of transit planning will be required during that effort? MEASUREMENT - How do we measure success in the absence of citywide transportation goals? In summary, REQUEST OF THE BOARD: Transfort is requesting that the Transportation Board make recommendations to City Council on these issues. Staff Member Ensdorff stated that many of the issues that have been presented can be dealt with in the framework of a Congestion Management Plan. The Board will have to figure out the timing of these issues and then integrate them into the process. Paratransit is outside of the Congestion Management Plan and will have to be dealt with separately. It was decided that the Board would like more time to assess the information and to have more discussion on the issues before making a recommendation to Council. Therefore, the majority of the next Board meeting will be devoted to Transfort and these issues. 6. OTHER BUSINESS Ensdorff distributed a memo from Mayor Azari asking for input from boards and commissions in the 1994 City budget process. Chairman Gerety noted that Fort Collins was mentioned in an article in the Economist. The meeting adjourned at 7:30 p.m. "egedo Cindy L. cott, Board Secretary