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SAN LUIS OBISPO REGION COORDINATED HUMAN SERVICES-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PLAN Paso Robles Public Meeting, March 8, 2007 Paso Robles City Council Chambers Attendees included representatives from Dept. of Social Services, Caltrans, Achievement House, NCI, Silver Lining/ Senior consultant, Supervisor Harry Ovitt’s office, City of Paso Robles Administrative Services, San Luis Obispo School District, Economic Opportunity Commission, North County Homeless Services, Parent advocate for special needs, Paso Robles Police Dept., Coast Healthy Start/Coast Unified School District. Needs Identified Consumer group needs: • Transportation problems of the oldest-old include difficulty paying for services. RTA doing a good job with GOLD pass, free fare for 80 year-olds. • Concern about oldest old driving. Seniors night vision is impaired and day time vision also weakens. Volunteers in some programs are 86 and 90. • Communication an issue – but difficult for human services personnel to know with whom to communicate about transportation when they are not in the transportation loop. For example, there are new apartments planned in Paso Robles, but not clear that fixed route transit will go near these. Active participation is the challenge. • Ride-On contracted with Tri-Counties Regional Center to bring consumers to NCI so long as they could meet certain criteria (related to numbers of clients and types of trips). Tri-Counties Regional Center is purchasing trips to and from the day program and work activity program but is not funding supported employment trips or IP trips. These trips take place during the day. NCI has considered contracting directly with Ride-On but these would be $12 per trip and that is not affordable as NCI has to take this out of its direct operations budget. NCI has worked to get more consumers onto Paso Robles transit services where possible. Geographic-based needs: • EOC Homeless services requests bus line from Cambria to Paso Robles for medical and urgent care for homeless persons, along Highway 46. Transportation is a huge issue for the case managers. Need transportation to get to appointments; parents with children have problems; have to get to SLO in order to get to Paso Robles. 8 a.m. and mid-day shuttle times suggested, even a few days a week would be of assistance. • Current North County trips require coming down to San Luis Obispo and transferring to get a bus to Paso Robles. • Access from San Simeon to medical facilities in Paso Robles is important. • High need/ remote and un-served areas include: Shandon, Creston, Cambria, San Miguel. • Social services staff members are taking clients at their own expense from these most remote areas; not enough funding in their budgets to sustain. • Bus ride from the main Cuesta College campus in San Luis Obispo to Paso Robles takes 2 ½ hours (shorter trip possible by timed transfer since Aug 2007). 165 OCTOBER 2007
SAN LUIS OBISPO REGION COORDINATED HUMAN SERVICES-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PLAN • No bus service to Barney Schwartz Park in Paso Robles, towards Shandon. Excellent park for families with young children but no way to get them there. • Santa Maria trip needs, for after school YMCA and youth trips. Could involve the Chamber of Commerce; business stakeholders can play a role. • Work trips needed from Atascadero into SLO or from Santa Maria to SLO. Transit operations: • Using public transit – a direct connection along Route 46 of RTA Route 9 in Paso Robles with the Templeton’s service would be a big assistance. • New service -- new 98 unit complex will be served by Templeton/ Shandon Shuttle six days a week (service is undergoing changes) • Operating hours – Paso Robles Police Dept. gets requests for after-hours emergency pick-ups because the transit services have stopped. • Timing -- Dept. of Social Services worker in north county communities finds that 80% of her job is transporting people to services. Would be a big help to get shuttles from San Miguel three times a day, 9 a.m., mid-day and later in the day. Currently limited to 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. runs (RTA Route 9). • Employment related trips very difficult for those living on north of the Grade and needing to be at Cuesta College by 9 a.m. • Takes 1 hour to get from Shoreline to Tank Farm Road (employment training; one stop services center). • Poor connection with RTA Route 9 from Paso to the other SLO routes; need to improve the timing of the connections (new timed connections among regional buses implemented in Aug 2007) • Paso Robles Dial-a-Ride is advance reservation only; would like to see some same-day services. • Paso Robles Dial-a-Ride vehicles – what to do with bus in the summer. • Operating hours – would like to see buses running until 8 p.m. to get people to the Atascadero homeless shelter. • Operating hours – would like to see Dial-a-Ride start earlier. One consumer who needed Dial-a-Ride had to be at work at 5:30 a.m. but couldn’t without transit; lost job. • Operating hours – Earlier Atascadero to Paso Robles North County Shuttle route; shift changes at 5 a.m. • DSS doesn’t use Ride-On as a contractor although it has funding for supporting transportation services; uses these funds mostly for purchase of the Universal transit passes (some subsidized for the Cal Works population). • Consumers paying for monthly pass on SSI or general relief receive about $800 a month and a $50 per month regional bus pass is a hefty amount. Health related trip purposes: • Medical trips out-of-the-area of some concern. People need to get to UCLA Medical Center, UCLA School of Dentistry, and Los Angeles Children’s Hospital. U.C. San Diego Medical Center and Scripps Eye Clinic. Very difficult to arrange these trips from the many rural environments of SLO region. • Health services -- countywide shuttle that is inter-city; limited trips (pilot project) with Community Health Centers. • Medi Cal trips are needed from San Miguel, Shandon, California Valley and Cuesta College. 166 OCTOBER 2007
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