File #: 10-00819    Version:
Type: Agenda Item Status: Passed
File created: 9/2/2010 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 9/28/2010 Final action: 9/28/2010
Title: HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding the Agricultural Worker Transportation Program, Third, Fourth and Fifth Districts, as follows: (EST. TIME: 1 HR.) a) Receive and file a progress report from the Public Works Department regarding the County’s Agricultural Worker Transportation Program (AWTP); b) Receive a presentation from Ron Hughes, Executive Director of Kings County Area Public Transit Agency regarding CalVAN, a State-wide Vanpool Agency; c) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a letter requesting that the SBCAG Board of Directors consider participation in CalVAN as the region’s designated ride-share authority; d) Direct staff to return to the Board of Supervisors in the spring of 2011 with a report from Caltrans on procedures for concluding the AWTP in an orderly manner, including directions on how to surplus or transfer assets and vans by June 30, 2011; and e) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute Amendment No. 2 to the Contract with the Santa Maria Orga...
Sponsors: PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Letter to SBCAG Regarding CalVAN, 3. SMOOTH Contract Amendment No. 2, 4. Number of Vans on the Road, 5. AgVAN Ridership, 6. Farebox Recovery, 7. Presentation

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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding the Agricultural Worker Transportation Program, Third, Fourth and Fifth Districts, as follows: (EST. TIME: 1 HR.)

 

a) Receive and file a progress report from the Public Works Department regarding the County’s Agricultural Worker Transportation Program (AWTP);

 

b) Receive a presentation from Ron Hughes, Executive Director of Kings County Area Public Transit Agency regarding CalVAN, a State-wide Vanpool Agency;

 

c) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a letter requesting that the SBCAG Board of Directors consider participation in CalVAN as the region’s designated ride-share authority;

 

d) Direct staff to return to the Board of Supervisors in the spring of 2011 with a report from Caltrans on procedures for concluding the AWTP in an orderly manner, including directions on how to surplus or transfer assets and vans by June 30, 2011; and

 

e) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute Amendment No. 2 to the Contract with the Santa Maria Organization of Transportation Helpers (SMOOTH), extending the contract term to June 30, 2011.

 

COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE