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#18-40 - Supporting the Valdez Senior Center Grant Application
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SUBMITTED BY: Sheri Pierce, MMC, for Deborah Plant, Valdez Senior Center Executive Director
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City Administration supports Resolution #18-40.
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SUMMARY STATEMENT:
On December 15, 2015 the Council approved the 2016 Community Transportation Plan. A copy of the plan is attached for Council reference. This particular transportation plan includes Connecting Ties, Valdez Senior Center and Frontier Services as agency participants. In the past, Connecting Ties had taken the lead as "the" transportation provider in the community.
Through a subsidized program, Connecting Ties dispatched for what is called "purchase of service" rides in the community. Eligible senior citizens and persons with disabilities were able to buy vouchers for $4. The vouchers could be used to purchase transportation services from the local cab company or from Connecting Ties. Connecting Ties was also the recipient of a matching grant to manage these services.
Connecting Ties opted to discontinue managing transportation services in Valdez and focused solely on providing services to their clientele - persons with developmental disabilities. This left a significant gap in the transportation services available to seniors and persons with other than developmental disabilities. The Valdez Senior Center's goal remains that of filling some of this gap; they have worked with the Alaska Department of Transportation (ADOT) to take on some of this responsibility in a manageable fashion.
In 2016, the Valdez Senior Center purchased a new 2016 eight passenger van funded by the City of Valdez and Valdez United Way. The have used the van to provide transportation services to senior citizens and persons with disabilities who do not require the use of...
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