City Council Agenda and Packet 1979 04 17

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V MEMO TO: LEON WURL-CITY ADMINISTRATOR FROM: DAVID C. STAHL - DIREC. PARKS I REC. "r DATE: APRIL 13, 1970 °: r RE: SENIOR CITIZEN TRANSPORTATION BOULDER CNTY CITY OF LOUISVILLE " w In February of 1979, Boulder County decided rattier theb, to be '''': .•r directly involved in Senior Transportation for the entire County, the would subsidize a nonprofit organization that would be re- sponsible for setting up routes to accomodate the seniors and handicapped citizens in Boulder County. On Wednesday of this week, I met with Susan Hartman, Direc. or the nonprofit organizationand discussed the needs for the Louisville Senior Citizens and how those needs could be met by this nonprofit organization. It is her intention at this time, to schedule one trip per week to the Louisville are to Boulder and return. These trips would be made available to any senior citizen or handicapped person In Louisville with first priority given to those needing medical attention, second to grocery shopping. At that time she had two additional request of the City; one was that I request money from Council for their 1980 budget and that the City of Louisville contract with her organization to provide transportation for the elderly. The second request was that the City not submit any grant applications for DRCOG transportation vehicles and or manpower and that the City not become directly involved in any transportation programing but that we contractually agree with her organization to prove the services. It is difficult to say exactly what the needs cre in Louisville inasmuch, as we have not had time to do an indepth study of the actual required trips by seniors and handicapped. It is known that to the opening of Regal Sq. that the 30 units , there are only 5 to 6 vehicles available for transportation to and from Boulder and surrounding areas. In addition to the Regal Square area, the senior citizens currently sponsored by YMCA and our dept. has approximately 50 active members . I assume that if transportation was available for shopping in a variety of shopping areas, the senior citizens would take advantage of those trips. At this time I would like to request from you some direction as to whether or not we should decide to back the County nonprofit organization and their programs by : 1 . budgeting money for 1980 to pay for the contract and service with them; and 2. by not submitting grant requests for transportation vehicles and personnel that they would be requesting or whether at this 1(:::