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TRANSPORTATION DISADVANTAGED GRANT APPLICATION <br />The Board reviewed memo from the Community Development <br />Director: <br />TO: James Chandler <br />County Administrator <br />FROM: Robert M. Keating, AICP /QI44K <br />Community Development Director <br />DATE: May 2, 1990 <br />SUBJECT: TRANSPORTATION DISADVANTAGED GRANT APPLICATION <br />It is requested that the data herein presented be given formal <br />consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at their regular <br />meeting of May 8, 1990. <br />DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS: <br />Recently, the state substantially changed its transportation <br />disadvantaged program. Through approval of a new state statute <br />during the 1989 session, the legislature created a Transportation <br />Disadvantaged Commission. This commission has taken over <br />responsibilities previously held by the state Department of <br />S.:,. -Transportation. <br />With creation of this. new commission, the funding/ administration <br />of local transportation disadvantaged programs is changing. <br />Pursuant to the commission's administrative rule approved on <br />January 10, 1990, each area must have a designated official <br />planning agency (DOPA) in order to receive transportation <br />disadvantaged funding. In urbanized areas the established <br />metropolitan planning organization serves as the DOPA; however, in <br />non -metropolitan areas such as Indian River County the DOPA can be <br />either a city, the county, or the regional planning Council. <br />In Indian River County, the Council On Aging (COA) has for years <br />been receiving transportation disadvantaged funds and providing <br />transportation disadvantaged services. While the COA is not <br />eligible to be the DOPA, the COA may continue to provide <br />transportation disadvantaged services if it is designated as the <br />coordinator by the DOPA. To ensure that the COA continues in its <br />transportation disadvantaged provider capacity, Indian River County <br />must become the local DOPA. <br />ALTERNATIVES & ANALYSIS: <br />For Indian River County to become the DOPA, the county must submit <br />an application and commit to providing a local match for a.state <br />grant. A copy of the completed application is attached; funding <br />for the local match is $8,520.00 (atleast 1/2 must be in cash; the <br />other 1/2 may be in-kind services), and this would have to come <br />from contingency funds. Subsequently, the board of county <br />commissioners operating as the DOPA will need to do the following: <br />appoint a coordinating board (with an elected official serving as <br />chairman); provide staff support and resources; recommend to the <br />Transportation Disadvantaged Commission a transportation <br />coordinator; and develop a transportation improvement program <br />The costs to the board of becoming the DOPA are uncertain at this <br />time. While staff estimates that required activities will consume <br />approximately one-half of a man year of a planner's time each year, <br />� <br />67 <br />BOOK FADE 70 <br />