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MEETING MINUTES for MAY 31ST Participants :Varda,Sally,Bridger,Joe ,Deepika,Susan,Carolyn Kosnoff,Sharon,Bridger Audience:Todd Rhodes Deepika motion to approve the minutes,Sally seconded Unanimously passed Bridger -Carolyn and I spoke,put together a research plan for ourselves,reached out to Sandhya,also looked into getting a meeting with the 128 Business council,and getting a sense of what they are seeing from TMA from regional employers,especially as they are going into the summer.To find out what 128BC are actually hearing as they are partners with a bunch of other folks. Carolyn and Sandhya are also going to speak with the economic development office,which has been in touch about transportation challenges -all sorts of employer workers needs.Have a series of conversations with other towns,whether a position has been formally taken about the regional transportation -especially in the next three years. Carolyn was going to talk to the school buses and about costs of special education,to find out what special education transportation funding is allocated in case.Or any other modality.Do a much more concrete analysis. Carolyn Kosnoff will look into bus contracts,get into the details of the transportation,go through all the different pieces of the budget.The SPED part is huge,regular bus service,parents pay about 3rd of the budget and 2/3rds is a subsidy. Deepika -Will send the raw notes of the notes from sped program LHS Sally -sent the earlier survey done by Shafali before the pandemic. Susan Barrett -LABBB programs are going to the burlington mall and get a job.For some of our seniors the Lahey Clinic ride is important. Susan -Spoke with Nicole Friedman and Josh of the Newton NewMo program,got the most recent numbers,they pay 1.3 million for the service and the next year is going up to $68 per hour.Newton added staff because seniors weren’t using the app but calling in and requesting the service.Youth use the on demand services a lot.Curb the youth rides to do some things, they are paying for over 2400 service hours per month Logistics discussion for Deepika’s absence in June 2nd and 3rd week. Sally can't make the end of the month meeting June 7th -go ride lexpress service, Sally and Varda take the Lexpress ride,to the 8.30