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Members Present: Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) Minutes June 13, 2016 Lexington Community Center, Room 245, 3:30 PM Bill Levison Hank Manz Francine Stieglitz Sara Arnold Elaine Dratch Sally Castleman Craig Weeks Members Absent: None Liaison: Nancy Adler (Council on Aging) Staff: Jeanette Rebecchi (Transportation Manager) The meeting came to order at 3:45 PM 1. Public Comment: None 2. Minutes: On a motion duly made and seconded, the minutes of the meeting of May 9, 2016 were unanimously approved. 3. Transportation Systems Update: Commuter Breakfast went well, around 150 people showed up. There was also a Senior Transportation Panel recently at the Community Center attended by Jeanette, FISH, and Our Pleasure to Help, a private livery company. The Panel talked about providing transportation information to seniors. 4. Brookhaven Stop: There has been a pilot program since last August to stop at Brookhaven once each day at 10:30 AM. Only 2 -3 people per month have made use of the service. There is a plan to change the stop time to the 1:30 PM trip in the hope that more riders will avail themselves of the service. On a motion duly made and seconded, Ms. Rebecchi's suggestion was approved. 5. RFP for new bus contract: There was general discussion of some of the problems of finding providers, a chief one being the limited number of bus models available. TAC will form a group of three members to assist Ms. Rebecchi in writing the RFP for the new contract. 6. FY17 TAC Projects: It was agreed that a major project for the near term will be the writing of the RFP mentioned above. 7. Meeting Times: To attract prospective members, especially younger members who may have ties to the student rider community, we need to explore a return to night meetings. It was noted that one of the reasons for going to afternoon meetings was because there was a