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Commission Memorandum
REPORT TO: Honorable Mayor and City Commission
FROM: Chris Kukulski, City Manager
Andy Epple, Director of Planning
SUBJECT: Streamline Bus Shelters
MEETING DATE: December 17,2007
BACKGROUND: Scott Hedglin, AIA, of Dowling Sandholm Architects, and Lisa Ballard, P.E.,
Streamline Coordinator, will update the Commission on the current status of Streamline Bus Shelters.
Topics will include: a summary of the bus shelter design workshop held November 2, 2007; presentation
of preferred shelter design alternatives; policy discussion re: possible sources of funding (advertising or
sponsorship revenues?); possible sources of funding; priority locations; and siting issues (inside or out of
public rights-of-way, etc.). Details on plans for the shelter space in the downtown parking garage may
also be presented.
RECOMMENDATION: That the Commission listen to the presentation and provide the Streamline
Steering Committee and others direction regarding how to proceed with the installation and maintenance
of bus shelters around town.
FISCAL EFFECTS: None at this time, but an undetermined amount of money would need to be
budgeted by the Commission should the City decide to participate in the funding of installing and
maintaining bus shelters around town.
ALTERNATIVES: As suggested by the City Commission.
Respectfully submitted,
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Andrew Epple, Director of Planning Chris A. Kukulski, City Manager
Report compiled: 12/11/07
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CHANDLER COMMUNICATIONS
December 12, 2007
To: Mayor Jeff Krauss Commissioner Sean Becker Commissioner Jeff Rupp
Commissioner Karen Jacobson Commissioner Steve Kirchhoff
You will be making a decision on whether or not to allow bus shelters funded by private business to
be placed in Bozeman. The revenue from the display of commercial posters pays for the program. We, as a private contractor, have worked on this project with Streamline and the City of Bozeman for fifteen
months. Various departments within the City government have helped facilitate the construction of one
trial bus shelter. These are the basic facts of our program:
INVESTMENT Our initial investment is $225,000. The first twenty-years of the program will cost an
estimated $600,000.
SPONSORSHIP POSTERS All the poster designs will be approved in advance by city planning. They are
tasteful designs with no display of address, phone number or white area.
SHELTERS Having nice clean bus shelters is a constant reminder to the public of where, when and why
there is a transit system in Bozeman.
WILLINGNESS We are prepared to invest now. We currently have one shelter in operation in Bozeman
and four in our warehouse ready to install. We are poised to hire people in Bozeman and push forward.
SOLAR POWER The fact that STREAMLINE is the first in the state to provide solar powered bus shelters
will say a lot about Bozeman. The news of our solar powered program will surely get a lot of press around
the State of Montana.
RELATIONSHIPS Our company is used to working with non-profit organizations such as The Humane
Society, Junior League, community centers, Boys and Girls Club, Special Olympics, United Way, American
Cancer Society, The Elks, American Diabetes Assoc. and the Alzheimer’s Fellowship; all to “get the word
out” for fund raising events, celebrations, concerts and parades.
LOCAL BUSINESS Small business benefit by using the reasonably priced shelter displays to compete
with the large box stores. They also find that supporting their transit system is a good investment.
ORDINANCES Nationwide, governments, including the City of Great Falls and the Department of
Transportation, State of Montana believe that mass transit is important enough to have distinctive and
separate code specifically to support mass transit bus shelters with commercial messages.
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS My life’s work has been providing bus benches and shelters. In 1972 I purchased a small business providing bus benches to the City of Great Falls. That expended to shelters. See attached.
COMPANY PROFIT We will make a profit for our efforts. A well-deserved profit after five years of
running a well-managed business will be part of the gratification that running a program that benefits all.
SUMMARY I have had thirty-five years to fine-tune this business. There is a fine line to walk between City
government, Department of Transportation, suppliers, landowners, local business and the transit district
and their passengers. It takes time and diligence to persevere. In order to provide the first class image for
all concerned, all facets must be understood and managed fully everyday. Consider accepting the gift of
bus shelters from the business community administrated by a company with a conscious.
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