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For Board Meeting of December 18, 1997 <br />Agenda Item #G.1. <br />MEMO TO: BOARD OF DIRECTORS - - - - - - -- <br />FROM: DOUG PILANT, SENIOR P R <br />THRU: R. G. ANDERSEN WYCKOFF, GENERAL MANAGER <br />SUBJECT: CHERRYLIFT CONTRACT AMENDMENT <br />Issue <br />Shali the Board approve an extension of the CherryLift Contract befinreen the <br />District and the Oregon Housing and Associated Se~~vices (OHAS) an additional six <br />months, along with modifcations to the ContracYs Scope of Work? <br />Background <br />The Board authorized the General Manager to negotiate and sign a six month <br />contractual agreement between SAMTD and OHAS at the December 1996 Board <br />Meeting. The Board also authorized the General Manager to extend the Contraci <br />an additional six months at the June 1997 Board Meeting. The Contract defines <br />the terms by which OHAS will provide CherryLift service in compliance with the <br />Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). The Contract will expire on <br />December 31, 1997. <br />Facts and Findinqs <br />Through October 1997, 557 Salem-Keizer disabled residents have been <br />certified to use the CherryLift Transportation Program. The CherryLift program <br />provided 2,179 rides in October. <br />2. Staff collects, collates, and monitors CherryLift ridership and program expense <br />statistics on a monthly basis. These statistics have enabled staff to revise the <br />program's ridership and expense estimates for the following six months. At its <br />current growth rate, staff estimates that the CherryLift will provide 680 disabled <br />people with 30,000 trips by June 1998. Staff believes that there is a high <br />probability that the 1997-98 ridership and cost estimates may have a large <br />variance. <br />3. The Board authorized the CherryLift program to spend up to $350,000 through <br />December 1997. The Program's total year-to-date (January through October) <br />expenditures were $251,468. Staff estimates that the fiscal year 1997-98 <br />CherryLift net expenses will not exceed $400,000. <br />4. The number of disabled residents eligible to be served by the CherryLift <br />program continues to increase while the monthly trip volume has fluctuated <br />somewhat. Staff estimates that ridership volume will remain influx while <br />trending upward throughout fiscal year 1997-98. <br />103 <br />