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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Jason E. Brown; County Administrator <br />DEPARTMENT HEAD CONCURRENCE: <br />Stan Boling, AIC; ommunity Development Director <br />THROUGH: Phil Matson, AICP; MPO Staff Director 0 l - ' <br />FROM: Brian Freeman, AICP; Senior Transportation Planner (3,r- <br />DATE: <br />3>l <br />DATE: October 20, 2016 <br />SUBJECT: Approval of Agreement for Paratransit In -Person Eligibility Assessments <br />It is requested that the information herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of <br />County Commissioners at its regular meeting of November 1, 2016. <br />DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS <br />Indian River County is the Designated Recipient of state and federal transit funding for the <br />Sebastian -Vero Beach urbanized area. Those funds are passed through to the Senior Resource <br />Association (SRA), Indian River County's designated transit service provider, which operates the <br />GoLine (fixed route) and the Community Coach (paratransit) transit services. <br />Indian River County provides two kinds of door-to-door (paratransit) trips: Americans with <br />Disabilities Act (ADA) and Transportation Disadvantaged (TD). ADA trips are mostly federally <br />funded and provided for clients who are unable to ride the GoLine due to a physical or mental <br />impairment. TD trips are mostly state funded and delivered to those with an impairment as well as <br />seniors, low income persons, and persons with "no other means of transportation." Prior to using <br />Community Coach, federal regulations require that ADA passengers be certified as eligible to use the <br />service. This ADA eligibility certification process includes an individual functional assessment of <br />the client's ability to use public transportation, including the GoLine and Community Coach. <br />At this time, the County and SRA are interested in contracting with a medical professional to <br />perform the individual assessments, as needed. Based on current trends, it is expected that about 15 <br />individual assessments will be performed each month. At a cost of $75 per assessment, it will cost <br />$1,125 in a typical month for this service. It is expected that these costs will be more than offset by a <br />reduction in expenses that will result from transferring some passengers from the more expensive <br />P:\Community Development\Users\MPO\Meetings\BCC\2016\ADA Eligibility Screening.docx 1 <br />75 <br />