Sheila Holbrook-White, Executive Director

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Sheila Holbrook-White, Executive Director Texas
Citizen Fund- Just Transportation Alliance
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• Genesis Research and demonstration project
  commissioned by Congress in 1988
• Pre-ADA To improve access to public
  transportation for people with disabilities

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• Expanded post-ADA mission
• Promote cooperation between the disability
• community and the transportation industry
• To increase mobility for people with disabilities
  under the ADA and beyond

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• Objectives Assess Use Patterns Gather Data
  Directly

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• Objective Respond constructively to Citibus
  challenges
• Mayor-City Council appointed a seven-member
  Public Transportation Strategic Task Force to
  prepare a plan to respond
• Public Transportation Strategic Task Force
  accepted and endorsed each recommendation made by
  the Collaborative to the Mayor-City Council
• Mayor-City Council provided Citibus with
  significant Community Development Block Grant
  (CDBG) funds of consumer concern

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Objective To grow the number of those who see
themselves as having ownership/interest in Citibus

• Public Transportation Strategic Task Force Major
  employers opinion leaders
• City Council members met with Texas
  Transportation Commissioners on behalf of Citibus
• Members of the disability community and residents
  urged the MPO to increase the funds allocated to
  Citibus in the long-range 20 year plan (MTP) and
  to prepare strategically for a regional
  transportation system (UPWP)
• Mayor-City Council appoints first person with a
  disability to Citibus Board
• Currently, the South Plains Transportation
  Alliance is pressing the City Council for
  additional funds to Citibus to restore half-hour
  services
• Currently, discussions are ongoing about piloting
  a Medicaid Transit Pass program

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