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03-06-2024 Meeting Minutes TAB Person Area Transportation System 304 S. Morgan St (Mailing) 303 S. Morgan St (Physical/Delivery) Roxboro, NC 27573 Phone: (336) 597-1771 Fax: (336) 330-2311 Transportation Advisory Board (TAB) Minutes March 6, 2024, 4 p.m., PATS Conference Room Members Present: Annette Lawson, Maynell Harper, Kim Nichols, Diane Cox, Cindy Chandler, Lisa Jeffreys, Froncello Bumpass, Tim Chandler, Walter Montgomery Members Absent: Charlie Palmer, Thom Schwalenberg Vacancies: Medical services, Economic Development/Chamber of Commerce Staff Present: PATS director, Mitch Fleig Welcome, Call to Order: Meeting was called to order at 4:01 PM by the TAB Chair, Maynell Harper. I. Approval of December 6, 2023 Regular Meeting Minutes The Chair asked if there were any questions or changes that needed to be made to the minutes. Hearing none, Froncello Bumpass made a motion to approve the minutes as published, and Lisa Jeffreys seconded. All members voted to approve the motion. II. Updates Mitch Fleig provided the following updates to the board a. Staffing The Administrative Staff is fully staffed. Our full-time transit specialist positions are fully staffed. For our Part-Time Transit Specialists; Our driver Andrea Black retired. Our new driver, Travis Haynes, started on December 18, 2023. Ronnie Jeffreys started in a part-time position on January 2, 2024. We had another part-time driver who also started on January 2, 2024 who did not complete training before being dismissed due to not being able to make it to work. We have one part-time shuttle driver out with medical issues. We are considering opening up another part-time position to be filled. b. Uptown Shuttle Most of the new signs with the shuttle schedules on the back have been installed. We continue to have a steady flow of shuttle riders. c. Advertising Possibly one prospect. If anyone knows of any interest please let us know. d. Budget The preliminary budget has been submitted to finance. There will be no extra grant money in next year. We have had extra grants that we were able to use to supplement PATS to keep ride cost down (CARES and ARP). We are proposing a fare and rate increases for overall ridership of about 2.5%. e. Vehicles FY23 vehicles have been ordered. We are expecting for it be at least another 3 months before those vehicles are delivered. FY24 vehicles have also been ordered. There is currently no timeline on completion. We ordered two raised roof vans and one LTV bus. f. Vacant TAB seats The medical representative and Economic Development/Chamber of Commerce seats are still open. III. Old Business a. Updated Drug & Alcohol policy was approved by the Board of Commissioners on January 2, 2024 b. There was a change in the organization of Human Service agency. PATS was not included in this change so there is no change in how we operate as a part of Person County. IV. New Business a. Rate and Fare Increase i. A motion was made to support the rate and fare increase as proposed by Froncello Bumpass and seconded by Walter Montgomery. No further discussion was requested. The proposal passed without opposition. b. Discussion of Customer/Rider survey. Discussion was made on customer / rider surveys. It was discussed that there were many on-line options. Doing online would keep waste printing of paper surveys. c. Nominate and establish chair and vice chair positions for the year. i. After discussion of board members, a motion was made to nominate Maynell Harper to remain as the chair of the board and Froncello Bumpass as vice chair by Tim Chandler and seconded by Walter Montgomery. The motion passed without opposition. V. Comments a. TAB Chair Maynell thanked everyone for their input and suggestions. b. TAB Members. No Comments c. Director Mitch noted that he will be attending a conference April 8-10th and that he may not be available for the June meeting. VI. Adjournment The next TAB meeting is scheduled for June 5, 2024 at 4 p.m. With no further business to discuss, a motion to adjourn was made by Froncello Bumpass and seconded by Annette Lawson. The meeting ended at 4:32 pm.