Building a Coordinated Public Transit

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Building a Coordinated Public Transit Human
Service Transportation PlanAtchison, Brown,
Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson and Nemaha Counties
Welcome!
You have brains in your head, you have feet in
your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction
you choose.
-Dr. Seuss
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Hosts for Todays Summit

• Coordinated Transit District 3
• Kansas Department of Transportation
• Stacey Dove
• John Rosacker
• Facilitators KU Transportation Center
• Pat Weaver
• Christy Lane

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Recalibrating our thinking for the day.

Please mentally take yourself to that tranquil
spot where you do your best thinking.
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Purpose of Todays Summit

• Develop a plan to improve coordination of public
  and human service transportation in our part of
  the state.
• Focus on priorities for the next 1-3 years.

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Summit Objectives

• Learn about transportation services in our area.
• Learn more about our customers and the needs of
  others in our communities from one another
• Local and state agencies, both transportation and
  human service
• Local leadership
• Citizens
• Develop priorities and an action plan for
  transportation.
• Strengthen relationships among all the partners.
• Identify new partners.

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Ground Rules for Summit Participation

1. Balance talking and listening
2. Suspend preconceived ideas about the way things
   have to be
3. Help Summit to stay on schedule/task
4. Fully disclose whats important to you
   especially if its different from that of others
5. No acronyms
6. Ask questions, offer comments, raise issues, etc,
   but pleaseno speeches!

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We will use CONSENSUS

• Consensus is
• any alternative action determined by all members
  to be superior to status quo (pure) OR
• an alternative action that all members can live
  with. (modified)

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Northeast Kansas Summit HEADLINE NEWS

• Along with your name and affiliation, please
  write one current headline
• that informs the partners at your table about
  something thats happening in your
  agency/organizations world.

Remember A good headline is no more than 10
words or so. Heres one 2007 Kansas
Legislature doubles CTD 3 budget for public
transportation!
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Describing Our CommunitiesA Citizen Profile

• What are the significant demographic
  characteristics of our six counties?

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Six Counties of CTD 3Atchison, Brown, Doniphan,
Jackson, Jefferson and Nemaha
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Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Low Income
Persons
Total population 77,943
Elderly 65 12,750 (16.4)
Adults 18 below poverty 5,128 (6.8)
Elderly 65 below poverty 1,339 (10.5)
Persons with a disability 16 4,065 (5.2)
0-car households 1,599 (5.4)
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Density per square mile/census tract
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Minority Populations in Northeast Kansas
Total Population 77,943
African American 1,675 (2.1)
Native American/ Alaska Native 2,066 (2.7)
Asian/Pacific Islander 249 (.3)
Hispanic 1,557 (2.0)
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Density per square mile/census tract
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Density per square mile/census tract
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Density per square mile/census tract
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Citizen Expectations in Northeast Kansas

• What do you think most citizens expect from
  transportation services?

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Meeting community expectations for
transportation How well are we doing?

• 1.What do we generally do well in transportation
  for citizens in our area?
• 2.What do we need to do better for
  transportation for citizens in our area?

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62 Federal Programs fund transportation services
in U.S.

• Funding generally flows from Federal agencies,
  to state agencies to local provider agencies.
• Executive Order 13330 issued in February 2004
  directed Federal departments agencies to work
  together.
• SAFETEA-LU (federal funding for transportation)
  required that agencies receiving funds must have
  a coordinated public transit-human service
  transportation plan.
• Purpose to ensure that transportation services
  are seamless, comprehensive and accessible.

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Why do we need to plan for coordinated services?
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Development Disabilities
Medicaid Program
Children Families
Family Assistance
Faith Based Transit
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Special Ed Transportation
Substance Abuse Mental Health
Health Care
Medicare Medicaid Svcs
HHS
Rural Transit Operators
Family
Health Resources Services
Office of the Secretary
Area Agency on Aging
Assistant Secretary Planning Evaluation
Head Start
Child Care Bureau
Soc. Services Block Grant
Education
Private Paratransit
Aging
Community Services
Centers for Independent Living
State Governors Cabinet Secretaries
Disability Rehab and Research
Rehabilitation Services Administration
Employment
Federal Agencies Grant
Education
Office of Special Education Programs
Shopping
Local Government
Recreation
Medical Transit Provider
Transportation
Office of the Secretary
Private Taxi
Elderly Disability Program
Urbanized Grant Program
Independence
Disability Service Provider
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Federal Transit Administration
Head Start
Rural Grant Program
ADA Paratransit
Local Transportation Authority
Transportation Service Chart
Departmental Office of Civil Rights
Job Access Reverse Commute Program
Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy
Transit Pass
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In Northeast Kansas we have a number of service
and funding networks

• Transportations Coordinated Transit District 3
• Tribal Governments
• Agings Planning and Service Area
• SRS Service Access Points
• Commerces Workforce Development Centers
• Community Developmental Disability Organizations
  (CDDOs)
• Community Mental Health Centers
• Centers for Independent Living
• And many more

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Coordination of transportation services can help
improve mobility.

• United We Ride is a federal, state, and local
  partnership to improve delivery of transportation
  services to all people.

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Towards a coordinated human service
transportation network

• Today we are focusing on how our counties, tribal
  governments and region operate.
• How we can improve access to services through
  better transportation in our area.
• Planning is facilitated by a Framework for
  Action.

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Framework for ActionSix key elements

• Making things happen by leadership and
  partnership
• Taking stock of needs and moving forward
• Putting customers first
• Adapting funding for greater mobility
• Technology moves coordination to next level
• Moving people efficiently

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Northeast Kansas Coordinated Public Transit-Human
Service Transportation Plan

• Step 1 Conduct an Inventory
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• Step 2 Assess Transportation Needs (Gaps)
• Step 3 Identify Strategies to Address Gaps
  (Prioritize)
• Step 4 Develop Coordination Actions
• Final Implement the Plan

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Action Plan

• Transportation Vision for Northeast Kansas.
• Goals identified from the Framework for Action
  and What do we need to do better?
• 12-36 month time frame
• Objectives and Action steps as the key elements
  to carrying out the plan what, how, when, and
  by whom??

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Developing the Action Plan Small group assignment

• Does the Action Plan move us forward toward
  proposed vision?
• What strategies does your group recommend?
• What additional resources, including human
  resources, are needed to effectively implement
  the Action Plan?

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Small group assignment additional directions

• Discuss and seek consensus on your groups
  response to all 3 questions.
• Report back your groups three highest priority
  recommendations to the Action Plan (question 2)
• Record your 3 recommendations (question 2) on
  flip chart paper in large, legible writing.
• Verbally report groups consensus on questions 1
  and 3.

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Before We Adjourn.

• What was accomplished (or not accomplished)
  today?
• What new information do we take away from the
  Summit?
• What follow-up action is required and who is
  responsible?

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For more information

• Kansas United We Ride website
• http//www.ksunitedweride.org
• Contact Pat Weaver
• weaver_at_ku.edu
• 785-864-2595