HomeMy WebLinkAbout07-26-2011 Galavan/Streamline Advisory Board MinutesStreamline Advisory Board Minutes
July 26th, 2011; HRDC Board Room
8:40-10:00 am
Board members present: Suzanne Winchester, Chris Budeski, Colleen Lindner, Janet Kennedy, David Dunbar, Mike Waldron, Patty Gunderson, Rosie Barndt, David Kack, and Carson Taylor.
Board members absent: Eric Brown, Shelby Rogala, and Carol Shannon.
Others present: Jeff Rupp, Sunshine Ross, Dana Piper, Lee Hazelbaker, Whit Hampton, Lisa Ballard and Dan Martin
Public Comment: None at this time.
Approval of Minutes: Board minutes from June were approved.
Presentations: Suzanne brought to the board that the annual sweet pea festival will be having their parade August 6th, this year’s theme, “Hop on Board’. The following members said they
would be there; David K., Chris, Colleen, Patty, Carson, Janet, Dana, and Sunshine.
Lisa Ballard was introduced and made welcomed. She presented to the board Trillium Transit (Erin Amstrum) which deals with GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) which enables transit
systems to be visible on google maps. The annual charge for the service would be $1200.00, with routing changes the total would be $2000.00. Discussion on presentation: question does
the Linux system provide this information? Answer, no Linux is a membership in the Coop of the Greater Yellowstone transit system, we will need to provide this information ourselves
for us in google trips. The cost would include maintenance and database support as well as updates to the system annually. Question was raised what does Ride Systems provide us? Ride
Systems presentation and contract is for all GPS and GIS information, through their software we will be able to monitor our buses location, via both communication and internet feed.
Another question by the board was saving drivers’ time by using a handheld device instead of using a clipboard to mark ridership numbers.
Action Items:
Last meeting we had a presentation from Rides Systems. David K. made a motion to approve the contract with Rides Systems. An amendment made by Colleen to have handheld device support,
and for the executive board to make final decision on which handheld carrier to go through for service was made and accepted. The motion made by David K. with the amendment passed. David
K. made another motion to accept the contract from Trillium Transit with the stipulation that we find out first if the GTFS is included in the information that Rides Systems is contracted
to provide. Seconded by Carson, motion failed. Carson made the motion for the executive board to work with
Streamline/HRDC staff to work out the best possible solution an expedient time and report back to the board. Motion was seconded by Patty, motion carried.
Carson, David K. and the board thanks Lisa for her time and Erin’s for the hard work they have done on behalf of Streamline.
Director’s Report: Lee welcomed Sunshine to Streamline as a part time dispatcher. The new Sprinter bus should be here by Thursday.
Treasurer’s Report: Rosie provided the board with preliminary report of the fiscal year ending June30th, and proposed budgets for Galavan/Streamline for upcoming year. The budgets are
in good shape, we will be monitoring quarterly the line items of salaries and benefits, as well as repair and maintenance to see where these costs end up.
Coordinator’s Report: latenight still going strong. Rides did not increase for any of the routes as much as last year this time. The rides are still increasing with a count of 6,000
for the month of June. It was asked by the board that the coordinator instead of reporting month to month figures for the different routes to just report, compare month and year to the
number of rides from the previous month and year.
Secretary’s Report: None at this time.
Subcommittee
Operations: None at this time.
Marketing: None at this time.
Paratransit: None at this time.
Budget: Committee had met the previous week. Budget update is included in treasurer’s report.
By-Laws: None at this time.
Nominations: None at this time.
Discussion: It was noticed that Streamlines website has not been updated in over a year, and what is being done to remedy this situation. Answer, no remedy was mentioned as to when this
will be updated, HRDC is in charge of this update, while 45 degrees North retains the legal rights to the Streamline website.
For the Good of the Bus:
Schedules will be printed soon as almost all of the errors have been corrected.
Next meeting August 23rd