MISCC TRANSPORTATION WORKGROUP STATUS REPORT

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MISCC TRANSPORTATION WORKGROUPSTATUS REPORT

• Empire State Plaza
• January 23, 2008

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MISCC Transportation Workgroup

• Agency Representatives
• Ron Epstein, NYSDOT
• Carl Letson, OMRDD
• Sandy Longworth, OFA
• Greg Jones, CQCAPD
• John Allen, OMH
• Lisa Irizarry, DHCR
• Michael Peluso, SED
• Mary Ann Van Alstyne, OCFS
• William Barnette, OASAS
• Nicholas Rose, DDPC

• Advocacy Representatives
• Harvey Rosenthal, NYAPR
• Clifton Perez, ILCHV
• Lewis Dubuque, CDR
• Anne Shearer, ILNY
• Donna Suhor, CDCAT
• Marvin Wasserman, BCID

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MISCC Transportation Workgroup

• Draft Mission Statement
• Draft Goals/Objectives
• 2006 MISCC Annual Report/Accomplishments
• Identification of Barriers
• Next Steps

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MISCC Transportation Workgroup

• DRAFT MISSION STATEMENT
• Promote and Advocate for the Accessibility,
  Reliability and Affordability of transportation
  alternatives for individuals with disabilities

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MISCC Transportation Workgroup

• Preliminary Goals Objectives
• Identify strategies to eliminate barriers/change
  policy practices
• Facilitate the creation and coordination of
  reliable transportation services for elderly
  individuals/individuals with disabilities
• Identify local solutions, and replicate these
  solutions as specific recommendations for
  statewide action
• Frame current issues that face elderly
  individuals/individuals with disabilities with
  regard to transportation in a context that the
  full council can adopt as policy proposals for
  action items and/or demonstration projects

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2006 MISCC Annual Report Transportation
Accomplishments

• Recommendation Encourage coordination in
  administering the federal 5310 program which
  provides buses to not-for-profit agencies
• Accomplishment
• 2008 application requires participation in a
  locally developed coordinated plan
• Provides Metropolitan Planning Organizations
  (MPOs) additional evaluation points to score
  those projects where coordination benefits exists

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2006 MISCC Annual Report Transportation
Accomplishments

• Recommendation Encourage disability sensitivity
  training for transportation authorities
• Accomplishment
• Disability Awareness Training opportunities have
  been provided by NYSDOT/NYPTA

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2006 MISCC Annual Report Transportation
Accomplishments

• Recommendation Encourage pilots which pool
  public transportation paratransit taxi and
  not-for-profit van resources
• Accomplishment
• Partnering with municipalities to develop useful
  practices
• Erie County Office of Senior Services
• Sullivan County Transportation Initiative
• Essex County Coordination Effort

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2006 MISCC Annual Report Transportation
Accomplishments

• Recommendation Enhance efforts in applying for
  the U.S. Department of Transportation Grant
  Programs including United We Ride funding
• Accomplishment
• NYSDOT, with the support of agency partners, was
  successful in receiving funding support from UWR
  for outreach efforts for Round II

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2006 MISCC Annual Report Transportation
Accomplishments

• Recommendation Review ways to encourage faster
  response times by paratransit providers to trip
  requests
• Accomplishment
• NYS has participated with the federal government
  through various state/federal funding mechanisms
  to encourage improvements to software that
  improve/enhance dispatch rates statewide

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Barriers to Coordinated Transportation(Illustrati
ve)

• Department of Health Barriers
• Lack of flexibility within federal regulations
  over Medicaid transportation
• Office for the Aging Barriers
• Statutory requirements that limit the ability to
  share transportation resources
• Department of Transportation Barriers
• Economic/Safety Regulations
• Funding for public services/municipalities only
• Taxi services regulated through local
  municipalities

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MISCC Transportation Workgroup

• Next Steps
• MISCC Transportation Workgroup has aggressive
  meeting schedule, to meet tri-weekly
• Regular meetings will progress discussion/address
  issues with goal of issuing a status report with
  recommendations to the full MISCC by the end of
  the 2008 calendar year
• Quarterly update report at next full MISCC
  meeting in April