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 PlanSedgwick, Harvey and Butler Counties
Hosts for Today’s Summit Coordinated Transit District 12
Kansas Department of Transportation– John Rosacker– Bret Rowe
Facilitator – KU Transportation Center– Pat Weaver
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 12 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 12
budget for public transportation!
Describing Our Communities:A Citizen Profile
What are the significant demographic characteristics of our three counties?
Three Counties of CTD 12:Sedgwick, Harvey, and Butler
Density per square mile/census tract
Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Low Income Persons
CTD 12
Total population 562,258 (21.1%)
Elderly 65+ 66,596 (11.8 %)
Adults 18+ below poverty 32,035 (6.0 %)
Elderly 65+ below poverty 4,269 (6.4 %)
Persons with a disability 16+
29,232 (5.2 %)
0-car households 13,074 (6.0 %)
Density per square mile/census tract
Density per square mile/census tract
Density per square mile/census tract
Minority Populations in CTD 12
Total Population 562,258
African American 44,959 (8.0%)
Native American/ Alaska Native
6,074 (1.1%)
Asian/Pacific Islander 18,383 (3.3%)
Hispanic 50,472 (9.0%)
Citizen Expectations in Sedgwick, Harvey and Butler 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 3 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 12 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 12.”
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– Pat Weaver
[email protected] 785-864-2595
– Bret Rowe [email protected] 785-296-4907
– Jim Van Sickel [email protected] 785-296-5194