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Meeting Minutes July 19th Meeting started -at 9.05 Members not present:Joe Pato,Bridger McGaw and Varda Deepika:Send Meeting Minutes for this and previous meeting to get approved in our next meeting.Question on should we send Select Board a Courtesy Invite,will be sending to all the demographic groups in town such as CAAL,IAL etc.Will coordinate with Susan to do a dry run. Most likely in the evening. Susan:Sold many more passes in teh summer this year than in the past.However,not all have been mailed out.The department is getting two volunteers to help with the process,just waiting on their CORIs. Sally:Looking over Bridgers’s outline for the report,she will send her edits to the outline.She will send her spreadsheet of the other transit systems,eventhough its not complete according to her.She is verifying the numbers and finding some discrepancies.Urged by Deepika to share even the draft spreadsheet,just identify those numbers she is not very confident about. Sharon:Still recovering and is on medical leave.Will be back in early august.Will attend the July 26th online forum.Was attending today’s meeting just so that she did not fall too much behind on the materials. Howard:read the on demand emails from Susan twice,just about through the video,Really informative.Also sent a heads up to his groups of senior residents such as -Lexington at Home membership,copied the people at Brookhaven,as well as the Council of Aging.Will be following up with all these groups in a day or two.When asked about his opinion on teh on demand transit solutions from vendors:Based on what he has read -it's doable if the town has the political will to do so. Susan and Howard to connect on the on demand service piece,including costs.Susan has costs data and hopefully the recommendation for any on demand service to the Select Board will have costs information attached,to allow them to make an informed decision. Susan:This summer we are seeing an increase in ridership even though in the summer it usually drops.We are getting usually 184 riders in one day on all three buses. Carolyn:Bridger and she talked about the funding piece.Getting out the details from the budget and will start adding to the report in the next couple of days.Just ticking off some of the items. Did look into the school budget and get some actual details on the actual contract.Looked at the school bus and SPED transportation funding.