HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-23-13 Galavan / Streamline Advisory Board MinutesStreamline Advisory Board Minutes
April 23 , 2013 ; HRDC Board Room
8:30 to 10:00
Board Members Present: Merle Phipps, Jack Lee, Bill Hoch, David Kack, Suzanne Winchester, Vicky York,
Seth Ward, Lee Hazelbaker, Chris Budeski, Colleen Lindner.
Board Members with excused absence:
Board Members not present: Scott Birkenbuel
Others Present: Sunshine Ross, Jeff Rupp,
Dan Martin, and Melinda Peirce
Call to Order: Chris B. called the meeting to order @ 0832. Vicky York was sworn in.
Public Comment: Melinda Peirce proposed to advocate to Livingston
City Commission
Who is Streamline. Outline Service, statistics.
Staff or Board members should accompany, Lee and Sunshine if on agenda
Angel Line remains an issue
Approval of Previous
Minutes: Motion to approve the minutes as written by David K., Second by Vicky Y. Motion carries.
Presentation(s): Megan Copas was on hand to discuss progress with proposed bus shelters.
10 locations have been approved by the OPS committee. A design has been selected. City and MDT property moving well. Megan reported that the City Commission planning staff is very positive.
The sponsorship display needs approval by CC.
The question was raised; What if the city says no, do we still move ahead with MDT land. David K. mentioned that the University was exempt
from City planning.
Discussion Items:
David K. brought up FT Bill … Flap (federal lands access program) This is funding to get people to public lands. The question is should Streamline
provide lower Madison floating access? The FTB has 22 million for road projects. The BLM is interested in transport to the lower Madison… Suggested 4 trips to and from June – Labor Day.
A fee for use would be collected from riders.
The question came up as to what the cost to HRDC would be? Streamline would pay the difference if insufficient funds were collected from
riders.
Suzanne made a motion to submit application for funds with the option to discuss, seconded by Merle.
Reports:
Directors/Coordinators report
We are planning to add a transit specialist by fall. This will be a contract position, part time seasonal. The question came up as to funding of this position and $20,000 was built
into the grant application for this position. We do not yet know if this position has been funded. The question came up as to why this is a seasonal position. The position is to run
Sept. to May to help the Operations Committee.
Treasurer’s report- David Kack
Galavan: ¾ of the fiscal year over. Forecast to end the year with $313,000 in revenue, and reserves down
from 65,231 to $51,731.
Streamline: We are forecast to finish the year with $80,144. Dan M. cautioned that the months of April and May could be harder than normal in terms of maintenance
expense.
A motion to accept the Financials was made by Merle and Seconded by Suzanne, motion passes.
Secretary’s report-Merle Phipps
Nothing to report
Late Night report –
Subcomitte
Reports:
Operations-
Recommendations: Consolidate stops on Highland from 3 to 2 and on the University from 2 to 1. No longer stopping at Ace Hardware.
Marketing – Colleen Lindner
Waiting
for changes so that Levi can start on the new schedule. Marketing will meet after the changes are presented.
Paratransit – Suzanne Winchester
Nothing to report.
Budget –
Nothing to
report.
Bylaws – Merle Phipps
Nothing to report.
Nominations – Colleen Lindner
We need to replace Scot B.’s position. Scott has not been in attendance.
Public Stakeholders – Jeff
Rupp
Nothing to report
For the Good of the Bus
Saturday Streamline Yellow has been showing up as Red, Lee to look into.
Next Meeting – Tuesday 5/28/13