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Home My WebLink About01-22-13 Galavan / Streamline Advisory Board MinutesStreamline Advisory Board Minutes January 22, 2013; HRDC Board Room 8:30 to 10:00 Board Members Present: Colleen Lindner, Chris Budeski, William Hoch, David Kack, Merle Phipps, Susanne Winchester Board Members not present: Scott Birkenbuel, Patty Gunderson, Others Present: Lee Hazelbaker, Sunshine Ross, Jeff Rupp, Dan Martin Public Comment: None Approval of Previous Minutes: Call to order 0833, Motion to approve minutes by Colleen Lindner seconded by David Kack. Motion carried Presentation(s): None Discussion Items: Nominations: Colleen presented William Hoch’s application to the Board. William has served on the Operations committee and was recommended by Carol Shannon. After discussion David K. made a motion to approve William’s application, seconded by Merle P. Motion carried and William Hoch was welcomed to the Board. Business Plan: Final copies of the CTS business plan were sent to some of the board. Jeff R. will pursue final copies for all of the board as well as hard copies if possible. A motion was made by David K. to accept (not necessarily adopt) the plan as presented. Motion was seconded by Colleen L. and discussion followed. Jeff brought up the question as to how dollars would be distributed to the actions recommended in the plan? The operations committee will meet and come up with a wish list in conjunction with the budget committee that will then be presented to the board to vote on. The operations committee is currently without a chair so Chris B. will chair this committee in the interim. Jeff brought up the need for certain skill sets in moving forward with planning, in particular someone with a transit planning background. There was some discussion on the possible need to hire someone to fill this role. David mentioned that Fed bills providing financial support occur in 2 year increments and therefore there is a need to pace changes moving forward. From a budget perspective small tweaks in planning may be favorable. Some discussion on the reliability of yellow line. Operations will begin meeting Wed Jan. 30th noon-1 in SUB 230. No further discussion, the motion to accept the CTS business plan as presented carried. Reports: Directors/Coordinators report- Lee Hazelbaker Please see the attached Directors Report. Lee met with the Belgrade Kiwana’s and mentioned that they were basically unaware of what streamline does/offers. Lee and Dan will be meeting with the Belgrade Chamber, they have expressed an interest in the 5 year plan The warming center is working out well. Streamline has been making a morning and evening stop. There will be some added cost for this service. Sunshine clarifies that the warming center had 138 passengers in 12 days of service, 12 riders/day. GTFS (General Transit Feed Specifications) with google transit has been set up and activated with multiple problems. Justin has indicated that it will be up and running next week. This should among other things allow us to look at on time performance. We still have not been able to hire a dispatcher, Lee reports that pay scale has been somewhat problematic in the process. Treasurer’s report- David Kack Half way through the fiscal year. Galavan: Budget vs. actual for July 1,2012 to December 30, 2012 attached. David is projecting a $26.000 year end deficit with our capital outlay. Susanne had some follow up questions on Galavan. Jeff R. mentioned that New vehicles is in part driving the deficit and expressed confidence to get back to a reserve with matching Fed dollars. Galavan currently operating on 3-4 buses/day but meeting our obligations. Streamline: Expense is at 46% of budget. Streamline started with a surplus but with capital outlay David feels a good outcome at this point would be to end the fiscal year at zero budget. Please see attached fuel prices along with the budget, repair and maintenance and directors reports. Gallatin County will have a round table this coming Friday 1/25, to look at roads and budgets as well as streamline funding. ASMSU and the City need to talk with Gallatin County with a renewed push for streamline funding. We are all part of the County. A motion to approve the Treasurers report by Merle P. seconded by Susanne W. Motion carries. Secretary’s report-Merle Phipps No report Late Night report – No report Subcomitte Reports: Operations- Interim Chris B. Operations will meet Wednesday 1/30 from 12pm to 1pm in Sub room 230 Marketing – Colleen Lindner David is selling advertisements on commission to be placed on bus monitors. Question arose on how to transfer monitors to new buses as this will be an obligation to those purchasing advertisement spots. Commission is 50/50 on new ads, 25/75 on repeats. Colleen to report to Chris revenue $ for ads. Paratransit – Suzanne Winchester Nothing to report Budget – David Kack Some discussion over MDT in-kind matching funds and volunteer hours. Bylaws – Merle Phipps Nothing to report Nominations – Colleen Lindner 2 additional applicants to be present at February meeting. Public Stakeholders – Jeff Rupp Jeff talked about the move to an UTD and do we want to collect signatures for this? Chris asked whether Ted Lange might be an option for the Operations Board? Chris also asked if we could team up with WTI in terms of a transit person? Jeff talked about Nancy Wilson’s bill HB 315 Revise fuel tax revenue to fund local public transportation. Here is a link: http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0210W$BSIV.ActionQuery?P_BILL_NO1=316&P_BLTP_BILL_TYP_CD=HB&Z_ACTION=Find&P_SESS=20131 For the Good of the Bus Dan mentioned they could get the monitors out of the old buses but we would need the services of Soundpro or like to install them. Next Meeting – February 26, 0830 to 1000