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June 24 , 2014 ; HRDC Board Room
8:30 to 10:00
Board Members Present: Merle Phipps, Vicky York, EJ Hanson, Seth Ward, Chris Budeski, Suzanne
Winchester, Diann Harding, I-Ho Pomeroy, Patty Gunderson
Board Members with excused absence: David Kack,
Board Members not present: Bill Hoch,
Others Present: Lee Hazelbaker,
Sunshine Ross, Jeff Rupp, Dan Martin, Heather Gremier
Public Comment: Call to order 0830. No public comment
Approval of Previous Minutes: Motion to approve the May 27th minutes
with the addition of Suzanne Winchester under excused absence by Diann H., second by EJ Hanson. Motion passes, approved with addition.
Presentation(s):
None
Discussion Items:
David
K. is working on our membership. Lee had a discussion with Belgrade new city manager. They were made aware of the lack of attendance from Patty G. and they were going to look into this.
Reports:
Directors/Coordinators report- Lee Hazelbaker
Doing well with buses, 601 is out with an issue. 610 has been recalled and will need to go to Whitehall.
We should hear from Levi this
week on updated schedules and maps, Lee will send these out for everyone to review. Please look at these and provide feedback.
Proposed Changes to schedule include: Green line will now
serve the HRDC condominiums on Cottonwood. This will service the condo’s morning, noon and afternoon service (not hourly).
We will be collecting data for 2016. Looking at remapping everything.
We can improve on areas: South side, North east side, some areas in the west. This is the reason Taylor was hired to assess and help remap routes. We are currently unable to serve Legion
Villa and the County Rest home but will be looking at this in the future.
Livingston will be leaving 5 minutes earlier to in order to improve the Belgrade connection.
We are not currently getting Galavan riders from Three Forks. We do have a bus that would be available to them 2x per week. We can apply for a grant that is earmarked for this type of
service. Lee and David are looking into this.
Dan Martin updated the Board on a rider that suffered a broken leg after getting off the bus, or possibly while getting off the bus. This
rider has $65,000 in medical bills and is asking Karst Stage for a settlement of $175,000. They are going to Karst in that they insure the bus. This rider exited the bus before the ramp
could be put down. We did not find out about the injury until 2 to 3 months after the incident.
Treasurer’s report- Sunshine Ross
We are 11 months into the fiscal year,
Galavan: 89%
of the budget spent. We currently have 5 ½ full time drivers. We are looking a little better than anticipated.
Streamline: About 79% of budget spent. We will not see the Transit style
bus funds come out this year but be rolled over in a separate line. There is a new line in budget for routematch software.
Secretary’s report-Merle Phipps
Nothing to report.
Late
Night report – EJ Hanson:
We participated in Rockin R dunk tank fundraiser. Streamline gets $500, we may get an additional $500 if we won.
Interior lights were not working on the bus
last week; we were unable to see the riders.
We have had a lot of riders; the last run has been very crowded.
Late night will run on the 4th of July.
Dan Martin indicated we are looking
for an additional Late Night driver.
Late night has been very full—lots of international students. Longer bus would be great it gets fairly crowded. There have been problems getting
the bus gassed and staying on time. Would be helpful to adjust L.N. schedule to allow fueling.
Subcomitte Reports:
Operations-
No Addition.
Marketing –
Nothing to report.
Paratransit
– Suzanne Winchester
Nothing to report.
Budget –
Update: Galavan has an increase in Trans aide funding, United way not as much as we wanted. We have had some added costs in salaries (increased Saturday driver and insurance costs).
Approx. 32,000 increase from last year, mainly fuel and increased driver costs.
Streamline: MDT grant we have applied for the base amount and then can ask for contingency funds. Some
changes to expenses, Green line changes increased Karst contract a little. We have about $50,000 to put into reserves.
Merle P. made a motion to approve the amended budget, second
by EJ Hanson. Motion passes.
Bylaws – Merle Phipps
Nothing to report
Nominations – Colleen Lindner
Nothing to report
Public Stakeholders – Jeff Rupp
For the Good of the Bus
Patty G.
Belgrade has a new city manager. He would like to run a train from Belgrade to Bozeman.
Next Meeting – July 22