Welcome!“You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” -Dr. Seuss

Building a Coordinated Public Transit– Human Service

Transportation PlanCheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan,

Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rawlins, Rooks, Russell, Sheridan, Smith, Thomas, Trego, and Wallace Counties

Hosts for Today’s Summit Coordinated Transit District

8- Northwest Kansas Area Transit Coordinating Council

Kansas Department of Transportation– John Rosacker– Bret Rowe

Recalibrating our thinking for the day….

Please mentally take yourself to

that tranquil spot where you do your

best thinking.

Purpose of Today’s 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.

Summit Objectives

Learn about transportation services in our area.

Learn more about our “customers” and the needs in our communities.

Identify our partners and strengthen relationships among all the partners.

Develop priorities and an action plan for transportation.

“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 what’s important to you – especially if it’s different from that of others

5. No A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.S.

6. Ask questions, offer comments, raise issues, etc, but please…no speeches!

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)

CTD 8 SummitHEADLINE NEWS

Along with your name and affiliation, please write one current “headline” that informs the partners at your table about something that’s happening in your agency/ organization’s “world”.

Remember: A good headline is no more than 10 words or so. Here’s

one:

2007 Kansas Legislature doubles CTD 8

budget for public transportation!

Describing Our Communities:A Citizen Profile

What are the significant demographic characteristics of our 18 counties?

18 Counties of CTD 8:Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan,

Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rawlins, Rooks, Russell, Sheridan, Smith, Thomas, Trego, and Wallace

Density per square mile/census tract

Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Low Income Persons

CTD 8

Total population 96,395 (3.5%)

Elderly 65+ 18,969 (19.7%)

Adults 18+ below poverty 7,905 (8.0%)

Elderly 65+ below poverty 1,519 (8.0%)

Persons with a disability 16+

5,498 (5.7%)

0-car households 1,962 (4.9%)

Density per square mile/census tract

Density per square mile/census tract

Density per square mile/census tract

Minority Populations in CTD 8

Total Population 96,395

African American 913 (0.9%)

Native American/ Alaska Native

262 (0.3%)

Asian/Pacific Islander 575 (0.6%)

Hispanic 2,254 (2.3%)

Citizen Expectations in Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rawlins, Rooks, Russell, Sheridan, Smith, Thomas, Trego, and Wallace Counties

What do you think most citizens expect from transportation services?

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?

Why do we need to plan for coordinated services?

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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.

In our three counties, we have a number of service and funding networks…

Transportation’s Coordinated Transit District 8 Tribal Governments Aging’s Planning and Service Area SRS Service Access Points Commerce’s Workforce Development Centers Community Developmental Disability

Organizations (CDDO’s) Community Mental Health Centers Centers for Independent Living And many more…

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.

The Kansas United We Ride Vision:

“To enhance multi-agency coordination to provide efficient, sufficient and reliable transportation to all Kansans.”

Towards a coordinated human service transportation network

Today we are focusing on how our counties and region operate.

How we can improve access to services through better transportation in our area.

Planning is facilitated by a “Framework for Action.”

Framework for Action:Five key elements

Making things happen by leadership and partnership

Taking stock of needs and moving forward

Putting customers first

Adapting funding for greater mobility

Moving people efficiently

CTD 8 Coordinated Public Transit-Human Service Transportation Plan

Step 1: Conduct an Inventory            Step 2: Assess Transportation

Needs (Gaps)

Step 3: Identify Strategies to Address Gaps

(Prioritize)

Step 4: Develop Coordination Actions

Final: Implement the Plan

Developing the Action Plan:Small Group Assignment

State a “Transportation Vision for CTD 8.”

Write Goal and Objectives for the Plan.– identified from the “Framework for Action” and – From “What do we need to do better?”

Use a 12-36 month time frame

List objectives and action steps to carry out the plan:– What, how, when, and by whom?? – What additional resources are needed/

A quick note on goals and objectives:

The difference between where we are (current status) and where we want to be (vision and goals) is what we do (target objectives and action plans).

Goals are – broad– general intentions– intangible– abstract – can't be validated as is

Objectives are – narrow– precise– Tangible– concrete– can be validated.

Small group assignment: additional directions

Report back your group’s three highest priority objectives for the the Action Plan.

Record your 3 objectives on flip chart paper in large, legible writing.

Verbally report group’s consensus on the three highest priorities.

Before We Adjourn….

1. What was accomplished (or not accomplished) today?

2. What new information do we take away from the Summit?

3. What follow-up action is required and who is responsible?

For more information

Kansas United We Ride website– http://www.ksunitedweride.org

Contacts– Bret Rowe

bret@ksdot.org 785-296-4907

– Pat Weaver weaver@ku.edu 785-864-2595