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File #: 2016-4964    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Agenda Item Status: Approved
File created: 6/7/2016 In control: Parks and Recreation Commission
On agenda: 6/14/2016 Final action: 6/14/2016
Title: Discuss and consider action to use reserve funds to purchase a replacement bus with lift for senior center use and other city use as needed.
Attachments: 1. Senior Bus Information, 2. Reserve Funds Summary
Title
Discuss and consider action to use reserve funds to purchase a replacement bus with lift for senior center use and other city use as needed.

Summary
Through the Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) budget discussions, public input and public hearings, the City received numerous requests from our senior population for a new bus.

The Parks & Recreation Department has a Senior Program that includes numerous trips (over 50 in FY 2015) that require buses for transportation. A majority of these are day trips and the program uses city owned buses for them. Examples of these trips are twice monthly country music shows in places like Bastrop and Giddings, theater outings to Georgetown, Round Rock and Austin and excursions to San Antonio, Gruene, Fredericksburg and Salado for various activities.

The Parks & Recreation Department has two (2) buses currently in its vehicle inventory. One known as the Senior Bus is a 2003 Ford Goshen GC11 Coach and the other is the Pfun Camp Bus, which is a 2009 Bluebird school-type bus. Neither of these adequately meet the need of the senior program for several reasons. The Senior Bus has a wheelchair lift and seating area for one wheelchair, but only has seating capacity for twenty-four people. The Pfun Camp Bus has seating capacity for fifty-four people, but does not have a wheelchair lift and associated seating area. Many times the demand for individual trips is greater than the capacity of the Senior Bus. We can use the Pfun Camp Bus, when not being used for Camp, as long as we do not have a senior member that requires the wheelchair lift. If we do have a member that wants to go on the trip that needs a lift, we make a reasonable accommodation as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and limit the overall number of participants to the capacity of the Senior Bus. This situation has become more common as the popularity of our senior program has increased in the past year.

The Senior Bus h...

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